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Borges-The-Library-of-Babel.pdf

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The Library of Babel , By this art you may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters.... Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. 2, Sec. II, Mem. IV The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. In the center of each gallery is a ventilation shaft, bounded by a low r,ailing.From any hexagon one can see the floors above and below-one after another, endlessly.The arrange­ ment of the galleries is always the same: Twenty bookshelves, five to each side, line four of the hexagon's six sides;…

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