Cornelia FunkeWeren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!
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This quote is attributed to the poet Rumi, although it may be apocryphal. The idea of all books being related is certainly not new. It stems from the Hermetic Principle, which states that all things are made of, or exist as, their opposites. The next step is to see all things as being made of other books, or other opposites. Each book contains all other books within its pages, and each page contains all other pages, and so on.
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