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A thing I saw just now tangentially reminds me of this, which has been one of the best things on the Internet since the last millennium. “The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary . . . More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books.” — Jorge Luis Borges, FICCIONES http://www.themodernword.com/borges/borges_hexagon.html