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Is The Library of Babel in there because that’s one of the best stories I’ve ever read

Sure is. I skipped to that one and started with it because of the rep and it lives up to it. The rest of the collection is just as strong, I can't wrap my head around how Borges pulls off his approach to worldbuilding.

Also the deeper I get into it, the more I realize that this should be a prerequisite for House of Leaves.

“Library” is an absolutely mind blowing premise and the layers and layers of things it gives you to think about like how numbers work, scale, the search for meaning, the finding meaning in coincidence and then like even when you’re finished reading it the story keeps building in your mind. The madness of all the possibilities.

Heavenly Questions: Poems by Gjertrud Schnackenberg

6 extended poems; an elegy to the poet's late husband, philosopher Robert Nozick.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2143565)

Totally, it gives me a feeling almost of being watched or having my mind controlled. I really dug the part where he starts talking about how different languages use the same symbols/words with different meanings and asks "you who read me, are you sure that you understand my language?"

Have you seen the version of the library that someone created and put online? https://libraryofbabel.info/

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2143601)

No. That’s ****ing crazy cool. I found a book.

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That is the absolute coolest idea to try to digitize the whole thing but I don’t think all the computers in the world would have a fraction of the memory.

You know that the universe he describes to accommodate those books would be bigger than our known universe?

I have no idea how the online thing is generated, but I'm sure that there's some computer algorithmic trickery that would allow to pull up any page of the library without having to store it. That algorithm would essentially be the index book of the whole library that's mentioned.

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2143615)

It would have to remember every book or you couldn’t return to it

And the drop down boxes are like 8 or whatever. They’d have to be billions.

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The Library of Babel is a place for scholars to do research, for artists and writers to seek inspiration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of humor to reflect on the weirdness of existence - in short, it’s just like any other library. If completed, it would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period. Thus, it would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be - including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on. At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books.

Since I imagine the question will present itself in some visitors’ minds (a certain amount of distrust of the virtual is inevitable) I’ll head off any doubts: any text you find in any location of the library will be in the same place in perpetuity. We do not simply generate and store books as they are requested - in fact, the storage demands would make that impossible. Every possible permutation of letters is accessible at this very moment in one of the library's books, only awaiting its discovery. We encourage those who find strange concatenations among the variations of letters to write about their discoveries in the forum, so future generations may benefit from their research.

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