"The Library at Night - a series of essays on what might call the Platonic …
If a library is a mirror of the universe, then a catalogue is a mirror of that mirror.
— The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel (Page 52)
Can you imagine how clumsy trying to impose order on a large collection of books is?
Earlier in the chapter Manguel points out that the inventor of the Dewey Decimal system was a big fan of 'Anglo-Saxonism.'
This meant that although the system was meant to organize a universe of books, it enshrined his narrow world views.