The Poison Pie Publishing House presents:

The Portable Library of Hong Samud
a novel that grew as a vine grows,
guided by an innate, phototactic sensitivity

Front Matter including Table of Contents

I have squandered and consumed my years in adventures of this type. To me, it does not seem unlikely that on some shelf of the universe there lies a total book. I pray the unknown gods that some man—even if only one man, and though it may have been thousands of years ago!—may have examined and read it. If honour and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. May heaven exist, though my place be in hell. Let me be outraged and annihilated, but may Thy enormous Library be justified, for one instant, in one being.

—Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899-June 14, 1986), from "The Library of Babel" (1941), collected in Fictions, translated by Anthony Kerrigan, John Calder Publishers Ltd, London, 1965, p. 78.

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Final Chapter & A Denouement

September 7, 2015
Crow Faerie in Inverted Starfield
Crow Faerie finger puppet by Ruth Marie Keffer. Digital manipulation by David J. Keffer. Original cosmological photograph courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope through funding provided by the taxpayers of the United States of America.

 

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