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eive art and the drive to exercise free will is a deep and ultimately unresolvab
le part of our psychic lives, and that this connection is typified in the librar
y of babel. for a story that bears no plot and no human relationships, which out
wardly seems cold and mathematical, a conceptual exercise, this is miraculous. a
nd like all good stories, myths and fables, it is fundamentally a question of id
entity.an example. i have worked on this text, presuming its words my own, while
 knowing that the finished piece will lie in basiles library and will have done 
so long before i sat down to write. who then wrote it, trulybut perhaps, instead
 of wallowing in the depersonlised purgatory wrought on us by the library, we mi
ght embrace the idea that things are taken care of, that despite my labours here
 the library will contain a version of this essay which has an ending better tha
n i could ever write, which takes both this unresolvable absence of free will an
d the art which we like so much to make and absorb but which only delays the fee
ling of having no agency within the world, numbing it for a short time and find 
some reasoned and integrated and harmonious path between them, where both the re
ader and i are left in no denial, aware of the horrors, yet still calm and posit
ive. enlightened.perhaps, reader, such a route from borgess grand and ambiguous 
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