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♦ “WE WANT THE DEMON, YOU SEE”: Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad, trans. Michael Kandel (London: Secker & Warburg, 1975), 155.

♦ “WHEN IT WAS PROCLAIMED”: Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel,” Labyrinths, 54.

♦ “HE THAT DESIRES TO PRINT A BOOK”: John Donne, “From a Sermon Preached before King Charles I” (April 1627).

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