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the space saved. The old liebury was bursting. One of the asteroids was converted into an annex, called the Asteroidal Storage Station. In thirteen yukals, all the ASS's were filled in the original Solar System. Other systems selfishly refused to admit the camel's nose into their tent.
Under the stress of need, resistance to abstractionizing broke, and with the aid of the then new process of cospatial nudging, the entire mass of
Now this drawer (D1) itself had to be activated by indexed code numbers. More and more scholars turned away from research in the thinner and thinner stream of discoverable knowledge in order to tackle the far more serious problem: how to thread one's way from the
The inevitable happened in the course of a few yukals: The
Then it was the old familiar story: The liebury filled up, the ASS's filled up. Around 10,000 yukals ago, the first artificial planet was created, therefore, to hold the steadily mounting agglomeration of
This tragic story can be told with some historical detail, thanks to the work of our research teams.
It began with what seemed a routine breakdown in one of the access lines from D57x103 to D42x107. A Bibliothecal Mechanic set out to fix it as usual. It did not fix. He realized that a classification error must have been made by the ariadnologist who had worked on the last pseudosolar system. Tracing the misnudged quanta involved, he ran into:
'See C11F73I15.'
Laboriously tracing through, he found the note:
'This
Tracing this through in turn, he found that they led back to the original C11F73I15!
At this point he called in the district Bibliothecal Technician, who pointed out that the misnudged sequence could be restored only by reference to the original
Without hesitation, His Bibliothecal Excellency pressed the master button on his desk and queried the
To his stunned surprise, the answer came back: 'See also C11F73I15.'
Frantically he turned dials, nudged quanta, etc., but it was no use. Somewhere in the galaxy-size flood of Ix drawers was the one and only drawer of
A desperate physical search was started, but it did not get very far, breaking down when it was found that no communication was possible in the first place without reference to the knowledge stored in the
The final result you know from my first report. Rehabilitation plans will be
sent tomorrow.
Yours,
Yrlh Vvg
Commander
This report received L-43-102. File it under M42A8E39. - T.G.
You must be mistaken; there is no M42A8E39. Replaced by *W-M23A72E30 for duodenomattoid reports. - L.N.
You damfool, you bungled again. Now you've got to refer to the Rx to straighten out the line. Here's the correction number, stupid:
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