巴別圖書館 = The Library of Babel - 大學圖書館
印象中thesephist.com某篇文章提過這個故事,才感興趣想去看看,現在卻找不回出處了,依稀記得在infinite room的概念附近,引用目的只是簡單的譬喻。
The Library of Babel - Wikipedia
Borges' narrator describes how his universe consists of an enormous expanse of adjacent hexagonal rooms. In each room, there is an entrance on one wall, the bare necessities for human survival on another wall, and four walls of bookshelves. Though the order and content of the books are random and apparently completely meaningless, the inhabitants believe that the books contain every possible ordering of just 25 basic characters (22 letters, the period, the comma, and space). Though the vast majority of the books in this universe are pure gibberish, the library also must contain, somewhere, every coherent book ever written, or that might ever be written, and every possible permutation or slightly erroneous version of every one of those books.
最初對構想的圖書館畫面不太肯定,對於這種描述精準的文字,總是想確認具象化不會偏差太大才開始,還好TedEd提供了參考答案:
Infinity according to Jorge Luis Borges - Ilan Stavans - YouTube
接著開始閱讀,依然不太能確定看了甚麼,我決定不去深究了w就這樣變成散亂的隨想,還有一堆資料陳列,那是我目前有能力從故事提取得到的東西。