Mallarmé wanted to put all knowledge into a book.... But ...

Mallarmé wanted to put all knowledge into a book.... But in my opinion this book would be very ephemeral, since knowledge in itself is ephemeral. The book that would have a chance to survive, I think, is the book that destroys itself, that destroys itself in favour of another book that will prolong it.

Edmond Jabès, interviewed by Paul Auster