The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community. Translated by Michael Kandel and Christine Rose.
A journal excavated some 1200 years in the future reveals the mad logic of a bureaucratic civilization whose downfall coincided with a paper destroying blight.
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The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community. Translated by Michael Kandel and Christine Rose.
A journal excavated some 1200 years in the future reveals the mad logic of a bureaucratic civilization whose downfall coincided with a paper destroying blight.