Programmer Jamie Zawinski has created a digital rendering of the infinite, hexagonal library that is the subject and setting of Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Library of Babel." The universe ...
The most awe-inspiring site on the Internet is one of the least glamorous. “https://libraryofbabel.info/” doesn’t boast images of staggering beauty, or even any ...
"The Library of Babel" is a short story by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), that describes a near-infinite library containing all possible 410-page books whose sentences were created ...
Google's Tower of Babel-like goal to capture all the world's information in a searchable database conjures up images of Borges' "Library of Babel" from his masterpiece The Fictions, which contained ...
“There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others,” Jorge Luis Borges wrote; “I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.” The infinite and its ...
Alison C. Rollins manages, in this striking poem, to contain the anxiety of those facing sightlessness, and the urgency they feel to try to preserve in memory, that which is fleeting. For her, the ...
...and so on to the end, to the invisible end, through the tenuous labyrinths of time. —Borges (OI 119). 1 Borges shares this baroque fascination with paradoxes, metaphysical games, and infinite ...
...and so on to the end, to the invisible end, through the tenuous labyrinths of time. —Borges (OI 119). 1 Borges shares this baroque fascination with paradoxes, metaphysical games, and infinite ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results