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The House of Asterion

In vain I fatigued myself … Horribly, I became habituated to this doubtful world

To sleep is to turn one’s mind from the world

(You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?)
The methodical task of writing distracts me from the present state of men. The certitude that everything has been written negates us or turns us into phantoms.

Tlön is surely a labyrinth, but it is a labyrinth devised by men, a labyrinth destined to be deciphered by men.
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Enchanted by its rigor, humanity forgets over and again that it is a rigor of chess masters, not of angels.