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The Net of Babel by J*rge L**s B*rg*s [MultiFormat]
eBook by David Langford
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: A serious pastiche which imagines in remorseless detail how Borges's famous Library of Babel might be revolutionized by information technology. Selected for The Best of Interzone anthology.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Interzone 92, 1995
Fictionwise Release Date: February 2004
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [40 KB], eReader (PDB) [20 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [6 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [6 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [59 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [76 KB], hiebook (KML) [23 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [32 KB], iSilo (PDB) [5 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [6 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [34 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [12 KB]
Words: 1593
Reading time: 4-6 min.
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J*rge L**s B*rg*s
In the end the old Library was disbanded as being an irrational construct, and new devices were supplied in its stead. A golden age ensued, until like all golden ages it became leaden. Now my withered fingers hesitate over the input keys, searching, searching. Certain commentators had fallen into the easy error of describing the Library as infinite, thus failing to grasp the true enormity of its magnitude. As it has been written, the Library was never infinite but something more dreadful: exhaustive, all-encompassing. Such words as infinity are too often scrawled as a magical charm against thought. Those terrible hierarchies of the finite can break the mind as the bland infinity symbol does not.
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