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”[…]The Library extended to all sides, its farthest reaches completely obscured merely by the distance. 

A long table sat in the middle of it, watching the alleys and the floors above, up to the yonder chandelier-lit roof. The table was filled with books and scattered papers and ink and pens. The only living being in The Library stood up.

The man walked by a large bookshelf, letting his fingers take the dust off of the sides of the books sleeping on the century old shelves, leaving a trail of exposed leather covers in the sea of dust. His eyes traveled purposeful yet absent-mindedly through the names long written down and reached for a thin, black covered notebook, flexible in his hands. He leafed through some of the entries of the trivial journal and ripped off a few of the most useless pages as he returned to his chair at the long table, closing his eyes as he did so as if recollecting his thoughts for the task to come.

Dipping the point of the nearest pen in a bottle of pitch black ink he opened the notebook on the first blank page and, after a few minutes contemplating the scenery, he started writing[…]”