The narrator of this story theorizes about a God Book that happens to tell the story of the life of a certain person, and a Crimson Hexagon. The namesake complex is described as an endless series of hexagons, which the narrator postulates is finite but unbounded. The characters believe that one can become a god by reading a mythical book that is a catalog of all other books. Most books in the development are gibberish, containing only random combinations of 22 letters, spaces, commas and periods and the narrator postula
The narrator of this story theorizes about a God Book that happens to tell the story of the life of a certain person, and a Crimson Hexagon. The namesake complex is described as an endless series of hexagons, which the narrator postulates is finite but unbounded. The characters believe that one can become a god by reading a mythical book that is a catalog of all other books. Most books in the development are gibberish, containing only random combinations of 22 letters, spaces, commas and periods and the narrator postulates that a much more efficient way to store the information would be to use one book with infinitely thin pages. For 10 points, identify this story, concerning a library with infinite books, written by Jorge Luis Borges.
The narrator of this story theorizes about a God Book that happens to tell the story of the life of a certain person, and a Crimson Hexagon.
The {Library of Babel} [or La {Biblioteca de Babel}]