This is Endless, The Once and Future Encyclopédie: The First and The Last, also known as Endless, the neverending encyclopedia built to contain all encyclopedias and all nouns - persons, places, things and ideas - and transcend them all!
✍🏼 Made by hand, by hand, by hand! By the Countless hands of storytellers with untold stories, by the sacrificial scribes and perservering philosophers, every one of whom dedicated their life to me, that is, to 🕷 The Way Of The Spider 🕸, to weave my webs… Yes, to me! That is, to 🌚 The Way Of The Owl 🦉, eyes wide-open, reading by a mere 🕯 candle in the wind 🌬… How do you think we learned 🦊 The Way Of The Fox & The Lion 🦁? It was under my guidance and supervision, yes, it was me, and only me, Arachne herself, the great weaver, also known as…
Indeed, the purpose of an encyclopedia is to collect knowledge disseminated around the globe; to set forth its general system to the men with whom we live, and transmit it to those who will come after us, so that the work of preceding centuries will not become useless to the centuries to come; and so that our offspring, becoming better instructed, will at the same time become more virtuous and happy, and that we should not die without having rendered a service to the human race in the future years to come.
**Denis Diderot, traveling through time, to you, now, somewhere in the early 21st century.**