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A library containing every possible book — all combinations of a fixed alphabet — must contain all truths, but this completeness makes it worthless because any true statement is buried among countless plausible falsifications and gibberish that are indistinguishable from it. Infinite information without a method of discrimination produces not knowledge but despair; access to everything is equivalent to access to nothing.
Any representation detailed enough to be perfectly faithful to its object becomes as large and unwieldy as the object itself, and therefore useless as a representation. The value of a model lies precisely in what it omits; a total account collapses back into the thing it was meant to describe.
An invented world described in a fictitious encyclopedia begins overwriting the actual one as people encounter and internalize its objects and laws, because a coherent, rigorous imagined system is more seductive than messy reality. Consensus fiction, once elaborated with enough detail, does not stay confined to the page — it colonizes the world it was meant only to describe.
Rather than choosing one path and eliminating alternatives, every decision spawns all possible outcomes at once, each branching into further parallel series, so that all futures coexist and diverge continuously. Viewing events this way dissolves the notion of a single actual history and treats contradiction — a person both alive and dead, an enemy and an ally — as a structural feature of time itself.