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Card #c774IR // #c774Verbatim excerpt
Invent, invent wildly, paying no attention to connections, till it becomes impossible to summarize. Truth is the anagram of an anagram. Anagrams = ars magna. Le monde est fait pour aboutir a un livre (faux).

— Source: Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)

[Use when]

Use when the work in front of you is combinatorial — remixing, shuffling, generating — and you need the honest version of what that does to truth.

[Why it matters]

Belbo's private poetics — half joke, half program: exhaust combination and you exhaust meaning; the world was made to end in a book, and the book is false. It is the novel's ars poetica stated as a vandal's credo.

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