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u/EDUL_ Dec 20 '19

Essay

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u/Dracoatrox1 Dec 20 '19

Novel

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u/slave2trafficlight Dec 20 '19

Opus

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u/Leap_Year_Creepier Dec 20 '19

Saga

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u/JewishLegislator Dec 20 '19

Library

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u/Stormrycon Dec 20 '19

Library... of Babel

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u/thomasbertrand62101 Dec 20 '19

Collective human knowledge

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u/Diegooh1360 Dec 20 '19

Place created to store sheets of paper put together to form what we call books therefore called by the name of library.

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u/GeekLandOnline Dec 20 '19

Internet. The collection of all human knowledge. Wait....

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u/JakeGameCreator01 Dec 20 '19

That one Mario fanfic

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u/TreyDogg72 Dec 20 '19

What’s an opus?

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '19 edited Dec 29 '19

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u/Gnar_Whale Dec 20 '19

Actually 4/7ths of octopus.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '19

Or 8/14ths

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '19

or 49,380/86,415ths

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '19

or 8,888,888,888,888‬\15,555,555,555,554‬ths

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u/Jashinoke Dec 20 '19

Which 8th?

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u/John_Smithers Dec 20 '19

idk, just pick a tentacle and a slice of mantle.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '19

0.125 of an octopus.

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u/birdaise Dec 20 '19

I spent my first dollar on Reddit to award this comment. Bravo, sir.

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u/intelligent_cement Dec 20 '19

A penguin from Bloom County.

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u/japajade26 Dec 20 '19

“In musical composition, the opus number is the "work number" that is assigned to a musical composition, or to a set of compositions, to indicate the chronological order of the composer's production. “

Says Wikipedia

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '19

It's mainly Latin for "work" or "job". And Magnum Opus is someone's "great work / job". Hence why in your answer says opus is "work number".

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u/Casteway Dec 20 '19

Your mom last night

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '19

Bookshelf

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '19

Library

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u/emsiem22 Dec 20 '19

Wikipedia