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The front cover of The Tower of Babel has a drawing of a tower, albeit one that looks unlike conventional Western representations of the Tower of Babel. The preface is preceded by a citation from the Bible (Genesis 11:7): "The Lord said . . . 'Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other'", and proceeds to dwell on issues of language, identity, mutual intelligibility, etc.
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