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The metaphor of the library is the metaphor of the world. We search for the infinite in the finite, and we find it nowhere but in language itself.

Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)
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An irrational number — a number that cannot be expressed as a fraction, the ratio between two whole numbers — π unmoors our basic intuitions about reality with its disquieting whisper of an infinity beyond the grasp of reason.

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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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