Jorge Luis Burgess - A Clockwork BABEL

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These pilgrims dratted in the narrow corridors, proferred nochyly curses, gorloed each other on the boggy stairways, flung the deceptive chebookas into the air shafts, met their death cast down in a similar fashion by the inhabitants of remote mestos. Lewdies went bezoomy ... The Firegolds exist (I have viddied dva which refer to vecks of the future, to vecks who are perhaps not imaginary) but the searchers did not remember that the possibility of a moodge's finding his Firegold, or some treacherous variation thereof, can be computed as zero. At that time it was also hoped that a clarification of orange's basic mysteries -- the origin of the Biblio and of raz -- might be found. It is verisimilar that these oozhassny mysteries could be explained in slovos: if the govoreet of mozguys is not sufficient, the multiform Biblio will have proded the unprecedented govoreet required, with its vocabularies and grammars. For four centuries now vecks have exhausted the hexgons ... There are official searchers, millicents. I have viddied them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely fagged from their journeys; they govoreet of a broken stairway which almost oobivated them; they talk with the bibliodeds of galleries and stairs; sometimes they sobirat the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for grazhny slovos. Obviously, no one expects to discover anything. As was natural, this inordinate hope was followed by an excessive depression.


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