The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Shakespeare's Memory, (1983); as translated by Andrew Hurley in Collected Fictions (1998)Jorge Luis Borges
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