Jorge Luis Borges’s 1941 tale about a library containing every possible combination of letters – every work that could ever be written
Borges’s seminal 1941 story imagined an almost infinite library containing every possible combination of letters in a vast collection of 410-page books. “The universe (which others call the Library),” it begins, “is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries … The Library is total and ... its shelves contain all the possible combinations of the 20-odd orthographic symbols ... that is, everything which can be expressed, in all languages.”
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I actually wondered about this when I was younger. Would every song be written? Then rap.
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Every think that has been writen and will ever be done is allready done its the matrix
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"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path"- Morpheus
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I have a path that goes from my backdoor to the shed, I occasionally find cat shit on it from the neighbours kitty
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The answer is out there, It's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to
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LmaooNomoli wrote:I have a path that goes from my backdoor to the shed, I occasionally find cat shit on it from the neighbours kitty
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