My imaginary library created in class was one that is completely impossible to make. It contains the books that might have been, the cataloguing of the discarded ideas authors throw away. Each time a book is published, the version or versions of the published books with the ideas that were thrown away appear in the library. The library would be organized by the type of ideas discarded, and the library would be built from writers themselves. It might contain a Frankenstein without Frankenstein, or a Romeo and Juliet without death, or even a Harry Potter with Nevill as the chosen one. All of these are fairly absurd ideas, but they get the point across nicely. The books the library would be filled with would be all of the pieces of writing that authors decided against writing, creating a backwards record of the wrong information.
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