Sunday, January 14, 2007

The Library of Babel

The story The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges is extremely confusing. The story is about a universe that consists of endless connecting hexagons. These hexagons contain the necessities for survival as well as four walls of bookshelves. The library contains somewhere, every coherent book ever written and every coherent book that will ever be written. The books are useless to the reader, which makes the librarians want to kill themselves.
I found this story to be confusing and very strange.

Infoport: Library of Babel

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