Round 3: Tossup 2

This place is compared to a “mad and hallucinating deity” by people denounced as illustrating “deplorable taste and desperate ignorance.” A work repeatedly listing the letters M, C, and V was found in this place’s (15[1])circuit 15-94. In one story, a footnote citing Letizia Álvarez (-5[1])de Toledo (15[2])asserts that this place is “pointless.” (15[1])Corpses are thrown over railings in this place where people search for (*) “vindications.” (10[2]-5[1])The “purifiers” scramble through this place searching for a “Crimson Hexagon.” Infinite hexagonal rooms comprise, for (10[1])10 points, what place that contains all possible 410-page books in a short story by Jorge Luis Borges? ■END■ (10[1])

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