Nicolas Allard is a young graduate of a university in Paris, 1941, when the City of Lights has been dimmed down by the war. He bears an impossibly ambitious goal in mind; to come to know all there is to know in the universe. He dreams of being ignorant to nothing, and yet unlike the average dreamer, he has actually discovered a method of achieving that. The method is controversial, dangerous, and morally questionable. Yet even if one were to overlook the moral aspect of the method as well as the possibility of being tossed into prison if caught, the method is a double-edged sword. Will he be capable of pushing away the blade from himself in time?
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