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The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges read by A Poetry Channel
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2020
- Read from my copy of the 1962 Grove Press edition of Borges' book, Ficciones. translated by Anthony Kerrigan whose translation I preferred.
I always wished it ended with: “ndjjdidmenbeduisnsbssgh” to show that this was just another book from the library
That’s a brilliant idea. You should have written the book 😂
But it already is. ;P
This is my favourite short story written in any language.
Remember: the precise description of you finding this video is described in the Library of Babel.
The explanation of quantum gravity is contained in the library.
Eh if they could fit it in 3200 letters and they didn't have to prove it with numbers and other equations
@@trenthammer4127 Yes, it would have to be either a worded description of QT (pretty difficult but possible) or the book could be written in binary, hexadecimal or greater (but hex is pretty data dense already). You could do a lot with 22 characters, especially if they are lower & upper case: that's already "44-bit" and you can create a computer to read quickly for you.
Also, each page is about 250 words, and each word is maybe 4 letters? These books are 410 pages long. Multiply all of this and we get about 410,000 characters to play with per book.
""Remember: the precise description of you finding this video is described in the Library of Babel"
Why is that? Can you explain? What is this library of Babel?
This comment is contained in the library.
> The explanation of quantum gravity is contained in the library.
As are a finite, yet innumerable, number of explanations of Quantum Gravity that are incorrect.
My pleasure, darlings! Happy Solstice!
You are too cool
your readings of Borges are beautiful
This is the trippiest cocophony of words ever conceived, already written about before. Sometime through never.
What a treat, and a treasure chest!
So glad to have found your channel.
Searching for Borges I found this video and then saw the library you've uploaded (in this hexagonal gallery with enormous ventilation shafts in the middle).
Wonderful! Thank you so much. Borges deserves a passionate voice like yours.
I really like your voice!....great narration!
As always thank you, and Borges so inspiring for talking about a library, he once said a library could be a form of paradise. I agree, books and art and stories the true essence and soul of humanity
Thank you for this soothing version.
Very good reading! Thank you!
wonderful voice and fascinating story !
Great voice and production, thank you for this
true....and yes the voice is very soothing.
This library actually exists as a website.
Yes, it's an awesome project. I put the link here libraryofbabel.info/
has anyone ever argued dat borges unintentionally illustrates a solution to tha fermi paradox here, in his description of tha library? it feels mad easy to draw hella parallels between coherent text & intelligent life
Well the writing of this story precedes Fermi's casual lunchtime chuntering, but of course, the best writers inspire others to think so maybe Fermi read this story and had an Archimedes-like moment. So you think aliens are floating down the Library's infinite abyss? Or just that there is much life in the ever expanding universe and distances are so great (and growing astronomically) between the various solar systems within the many many galaxies that we simply cannot see or hear from them?
Wonderful reading, beautiful delivery
Thank you as always. oxox
Merci Beaucoup... Thank you very much!...
Thanks!!
Okey, one question. In this hexagonal library, there are 4 sides containing bookshelves, 1 containing entranceway and 2 small room. What about the other side, i mean, the sixth one?
There are five shelves, one entrance way, two small rooms on either side of the entrance way - a room to sleep in and a toilet. Borges reiterates the arrangement of five shelves corresponding to each wall of the hexagon at 4:11
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read "a short stay in hell" if you like this!
I think Borges would have never used the word 'fecal' in Spanish.
Lo hizo.
@@sashafalcon5143 no en este cuento
@@AcP1999 Sí, lo hizo.
Ah yes, Arhentina
From Wikipedia's The Library of Babel article:
In a short essay, W. V. O. Quine noted that the Library of Babel is finite, and that any text that doesn't fit in a single book can be reconstructed by finding a second book with the continuation. The size of the alphabet can be reduced by using, say, Morse code, even though it makes the books more verbose; the size of the books can also be reduced by splitting each into multiple volumes and discarding the duplicates. Writes Quine, "The ultimate absurdity is now staring us in the face: a universal library of two volumes, one containing a single dot and the other a dash. Persistent repetition and alternation of the two are sufficient, we well know, for spelling out any and every truth. The miracle of the finite but universal library is a mere inflation of the miracle of binary notation: everything worth saying, and everything else as well, can be said with two characters."
Could any "infinitely" long text just be the library itself -- and the monotheistic "God" referred to be the Logos" or "continuation" of the text? All of which makes God either "outside" His Word, or somehow restricted by His own divine Presence? Just wondering.
A brilliant story. The use of the hexagon guarantees the most efficient use of plane or volume space, anyway. As others have noted, the introduction of a binary "alphabet" ensures that only two physical books are needed in order to successfully produce any and all possible texts. Personally, I could do without the omniscience of a monotheistic "God" -- and the narrator is third-person omniscient by choice -- but His presence is entirely consonant with the idea of "word", a Logos, considered either culturally or imaginatively.