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{{quote|''Everything would be in its blind volumes. Everything: the detailed history of the future, Aeschylus''' The Egyptians, ''the exact number of times that the waters of the Ganges have reflected the flight of a falcon, the secret and true nature of Rome, the encyclopedia Novalis would have constructed, my dreams and half-dreams at dawn on August 14, 1934, the proof of Pierre Fermat's theorem, the unwritten chapters of'' Edwin Drood, ''those same chapters translated into the language spoken by the Garamantes, the paradoxes Berkeley invented concerning Time but didn't publish, Urizen's books of iron, the premature epiphanies of Stephen Dedalus, which would be meaningless before a cycle of a thousand years, the Gnostic Gospel of Basilides, the song the sirens sang, the complete catalog of the Library, the proof of the inaccuracy of that catalog.''|[[Jorge Luis Borges]]}}

 

== Comics ==

** [[Word of God]] has it that it has an annex that contains everything that actually was written, too. We just never see it because it's so tiny compared to the rest of the place.

* In ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'', the Library of Time in Shangri-La can magically summon up any book ever printed in all of history.