Others, inversely, believed that it was fundamental to eliminate useless works. They invaded the hexagons, showed credentials which were not always false, leafed through a volume with displeasure and condemned whole shelves: their hygienic, ascetic furor caused the senseless perdition of millions of books. Their name is execrated, but those who deplore the ‘treasures’ destroyed by this frenzy neglect two notable facts. One: the Library is so enormous that any reduction of human origin is infinitesimal. The other: every copy is unique., irreplaceable, but (since the Library is total) there are always several hundred thousand imperfect facsimiles:
Purifiers: some people had logic that good books would be done by throwing out bad books--What if their bad books are someone else's good books?
Response to the Library is rage and destruction, resulting in an endless madness
Those who believe there is some special hexagon that contains all the answers
Imposing the idea of order or answers in chaos