Chapter 2Many Voices: We’re All Publishers

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By Jean Sini

Everything would be in its blind volumes. Everything: the detailed history of the future, Aeschylus’s The Egyptians, … the complete catalog of the Library, the proof of the inaccuracy of that catalog.

Jorge Luis Borges, The Total Library

As I arrived home one evening, I was greeted by an irritating dripping sound. One of the faucets in the house had started leaking and was now insistently reminding me of its need for attention. I ignored the drip until the next morning, hoping it would somehow just go away. No such luck. On closer inspection, the faucet mechanism—one of those sophisticated, one-handled, pressure-balanced ...

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