How bad might this get? Consider Borges’ 1941 short story “The Library of Babel.” Fifty years before computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee created the architecture for the web, Borges had ...
Borges (OI 119). 1 Borges shares this baroque fascination ... which consigns identity to chance, or the Library of Babel, with its indefinite, perhaps infinite, number of books composed of all the ...