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In one of this author’s stories, a detective’s over-complication of a murder (10[1])case results in his entrapment and death by the criminal Red Scharlach. (10[1])In another story, this author used the phrase “upward behind the onstreaming it mooned” to illustrate the lack of nouns in an imaginary language. This author of Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (“t’LERN UCK-bar OR-biss TER-shuss”) wrote of characters going insane after looking for prophetic works called “Vindications.” (10[1]-5[1])In that story, this author described the Purifiers’ frantic search for a Crimson Hexagon in a library containing all possible (10[1])410-page (10[1])books. (10[1])For 10 points, The Library of Babel (10[1])is by what Argentine short-story (10[1])writer? ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

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