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...texts, “Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote,” and “The Library of Babel,” had last been seen on Nov. 12 at a fair in Hamburg, Germany, and longtime bookstore employee Saúl Roll said he discovered that the manuscripts were missing on Nov. 16 after he returned to Cambridge...
...Roll said the manuscripts, which Lame Duck has owned for four years, are probably the only original copies of the stories. The “Menard” manuscript was listed in the store’s catalogue at $450,000, and the “Babel” script was listed...
...doesn't get more surreal than that. This is like a Borges short story," Roll said about the fact that the manuscript was found on the morning that the Crimson' story was published...
After The Crimson reported today that the manuscripts were missing, Roll said the store was greeted with a host of media requests, including from Fox 25, Reuters, and El Clarín—a major Argentinean newspaper—when he came to work today...
...admit "on camera that we're stupid idiots, but [we're] admitting to that with a great degree of relief and happiness," Roll said...