in the vast library there are no two identicalbooks. from these two incontrovert
ible premises he deduced that the library istotal and that its shelves register 
all the possible combinations of the twentyoddorthographical symbols a number wh
ich, though extremely vast, is not infiniteeverything the minutely detailed hist
ory of the future, the archangelsautobiographies, the faithful catalogues of the
 library, thousands and thousandsof false catalogues, the demonstration of the f
allacy of those catalogues, thedemonstration of the fallacy of the true catalogu
e, the gnostic gospel ofbasilides, the commentary on that gospel, the commentary
 on the commentaryon that gospel, the true story of your death, the translation 
of every book in alllanguages, the interpolations of every book in all books.