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In one of this author’s stories, a detective’s over-complication of a murder case results in his entrapment and death by the criminal Red Scharlach. In another story, this author used the phrase “upward behind the onstreaming it mooned” (10[1])to illustrate the lack of nouns in an imaginary language. (10[1])This author of Tlön, (10[1])Uqbar, Orbis (10[1])Tertius (“t’LERN UCK-bar OR-biss TER-shuss”) wrote of characters going insane after looking for prophetic works called “Vindications.” In that story, this author described the Purifiers’ frantic search for a Crimson (10[2])Hexagon in a library containing (10[1])all possible (10[1])410-page books. (10[1])For 10 points, The Library of Babel is by what Argentine short-story writer? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Jorge Luis Borges (The first line is from Death and the Compass.)
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