theparisreview.org/blog/2015/07/23/the-library-of-babel-as-seen-from-within

Reproducing Borges’s imaginary library online.Since I first read it in a high school Spanish class, I’ve been fascinated by the theory of language implicit in Borges’s “The Library of Babel.” The story describes a universal library containing, in 410-page volumes, every possible permutation of twenty-two letters, spaces, commas, and periods—every book that’s ever been written... <a href="Read">http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/07/23/the-library-of-babel-as-seen-from-within/">Read More</a> <span class="link">»</span>


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