The windows had been walled up several years before after a determined struggle with his landlord. In this way he had gained in every room a fourth wall-space: accommodation for more books [...]. The temptation to watch what went on in the street - an immoral and time-wasting habit - disappeared with the side windows. Daily [...], he blessed both the idea and its results, since he owed to them the fulfillment of his dearest wish: the possession of a well-stocked library, in perfect order and enclosed on all sides.The search for a name continues, allied with the search for a new universal language, and the library has become the locus of this quest and symbol of its inevitable failure. From the myth of the Fall arises a new myth - that of Library Science.
Inside the walls of the archive, or library, the human nostalgia for a cosmic unity finds its most perfect expression; inside the library the fascination with plurality also manifests itself [...].
