This writer used the description of the Epicureans in the Third Circle to argue that Anglo-
This writer used the description of the Epicureans in the Third Circle to argue that Anglo- Saxon visions inspired the spirit of The Divine Comedy in one of his Nine Dante-esque Essays. Another essay by this writer inverts Plotinius' method to provide a "history of eternity"; this author later followed up that essay with "A New Refutation of Time." In another essay, this author wrote that Blaise Pascal "hated the universe and yearned to adore God" and that he believed Nature is a "Fearful Sphere" whose "center is everywhere, circumference nowhere." This writer credits Kurt Lasswitz's Traumkristalle with inspiring one of his stories, whose epigraph is Robert Burton's line "By this art you may contemplate the variation of 23 letters." That story by this writer describes Purifiers who destroy "nonsense" books and describes the all- powerful Crimson Hexagon. For 10 points, name this author of "The Library of Babel." 
This writer used the description of the Epicureans in the Third Circle to argue that Anglo-
Jorge Luis  Borges