This work's narrator sleeps standing up in a small closet, and he knows that after he dies his body will be thrown down an infinitely long air shaft.
This work's narrator sleeps standing up in a small closet, and he knows that after he dies his body will be thrown down an infinitely long air shaft. The growing number of suicides troubles the narrator, who has heard about a disagreement over whether some lines were in Yiddish or Portuguese. One group in this story searched for the prophetic Vindications, and another group, the Purifiers, fanatically hunted for the Crimson Hexagon. The narrator's father once encountered the phrase "oh time thy pyramids," while the narrator's best volumes are entitled The Combed Thunderclap and The Plaster Cramp. Those works each have 410 unintelligible pages and are found in one of an infinite series of hexagonal rooms that compose the title structure in, for 10 points, what short story by Jorge Luis Borges?       
This work's narrator sleeps standing up in a small closet, and he knows that after he dies his body will be thrown down an infinitely long air shaft.
"The Library of Babel"