the library of babel
The universe (which others call the Library)...
To the left and right...
Men usually infer...
Like all men...
I say that...
There are five shelves...
First:...
Second:...
For a long time...
Five hundred years ago...
The content was also...
When it was proclaimed...
A great deal was said...
It was also hoped...
There are official searchers...
As was natural...
Others, inversey, believed...
We also know of...
For a century...
They speak (I know)...
I cannot combine...
The methodical task...
I have just written...
Before, there was a man...
Translated by...