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every human being who is born into this universe is like a child who has been given a key to an infinite Library, written in cyphers that are more or less obscure, arranged by a scheme__f which we can at first know nothing, other than that there does appear to be some scheme.
Neal Stephenson The Confusion
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every human being who is born into this universe is like a child who has been given a key to an infinite Library, written in cyphers that are more or less obscure, arranged by a scheme__f which we can at first know nothing, other than that there does appear to be some scheme.
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Neal Stephenson

The Confusion

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