Some time ago we featured Jorge Borges’s Library of Babel. This contains an infinite number of books that nobody can understand. In The Book of Sand, a book lover also obtains a book that can’t be understood. It is in a strange language and has an endless number of randomly changing pages. Is there a connection between the two stories? Could this be the “perfect compendium” that will unlock the Library’s secrets? Or is it one of the magical books from the Library’s Crimson Hexagon? Either way, the book lover is so frightened that he hides the book away forever.
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