[img]http://libraryofbabel.info/img/hex802.png[/img]
[url]http://libraryofbabel.info/[/url]
Remember the old phrase where if you put monkeys on a typewriter for infinity they'll eventually write shakespeare? Well, this website is a [I]library of every combination of characters[/I] possible.
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At the very least mention where the idea came from and why it was made.
[QUOTE]The site is an attempt at a virtual recreation of the world of the [Jorge Luis] Borges’ short story. “The Library of Babel” describes not only a universal library — a library containing all possible combinations of letters, thus all books that ever have and ever could be written — but a universe that is a library, endless hexagonal reading rooms inhabited only by librarians. The library creates a tantalizing promise of reason — somewhere in its pages are all the works lost in the burning of the Library of Alexandria, and every future masterpiece — but drowned out by infinite pages of nonsense."[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/reese/classes/artistsbooks/The Library of Babel.pdf"]Here is the original short story.[/URL]
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