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Two rival imperial archives · the Saïte temple and the Nineveh library · make the same institutional boast in the same voice: OUR shelves hold writing from before the cataclysm; everyone else's memory has been reset to childhood. The claim of pre-flood custody is itself a recurring genre, wherever there is an archive to make it. This is the archive's own mirror: digitization node 3 is the latest institution making the oldest boast.
'I read the cunning tablets of Sumer and the dark Akkadian language which is difficult to rightly use; I took my pleasure in reading stones inscribed before the flood.'
set against Plato, Timaeus 22-23
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