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George Duke wrote on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 04:15 PM UTC:
[German Lasswitz and Argentinian Borges contribute to the The Universal Library: 
http://pavlopoulos.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/lasswitz-and-borges-indexing-the-library-of-everything]

Some comments are harder than others, but this one on topic of
cvs-and-computers, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=23298, 
re-re-rereading now my own ''adeeoooru'' halfway down I did not understand.
Embarrassing.  Okay, okay ''adeeoooru'' out of the sentence ''a quick
brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs'' are the excess letters used twice
beyond the 26 English letters used once.  The comment analogizes
substitutions 'fox', 'dogs', 'ox' and 'frogs' to cv piece-types. 
The object is to exemplify  and ridicule over-proliferation of cv forms.  
Actually ''qbfjotld'' without 'a' in the beginning works even better with minimum 34 letters only (the letter a is already in lazy), and it has to be still the briefest sentence solving the condition whoever the anonymous 19th century author is. If a cv has 34 files and there are 34 different piece-types, there are 34! starting arrays back-ranked. 34! is between 10^38 and 10^39. 

See the end of the article above, over the Borges photo, for fuller quotation
from Borges ''The Library of Babel''(1941): ''How could one locate the venerated and secret Hexagon which housed Him? Someone suggested a regressive method.... In adventures such as these, I have squandered and wasted my years.''

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