LOB 2010 | Craig Mitchell

The library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose substance is inaccessible. The author of the book describes the library as a universe composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries and relates the great chamber to a continuous cyclical book whom the mystics claim to be god. Through the years the library is thought to contain the vindication of man and his mysterious and unexplainable existents that’s passed down. The author describes the library in acts of truths. Firstly that the library has existed from the beginning and of natural circumstances comparing it to the universe that the endowment of shelves and volume of inexhaustible stairways for the traveler and latrines for the seated librarian can only be the work of god. Borges relates that comparing the divine to the human is enough to compare the wavering symbols on the book skin to the organic letters inside. Secondly it’s explained that the finding of the twenty five symbols made it possible to formulate a general theory here hundred years ago to find the inclusive chaotic nature of almost all books. Books were found to have sensible straight forward statements and others to contain verbal jumbles and incoherence. This signifies that the application is accidental but the dictum is not entirely mistaken belief. Many thought the books were of secret codes (cryptography) but generally the understanding of incoherence was accepted as conjecture. These examples made it possible for the Liberian of genius to discover a fundamental law that all the books are made up of the same elements space the period the comma and the twenty-two letters of the alphabet (a number which is not infinite). Also in the vast library there are no identical books and is certain to contain all combinations of the twenty-odd symbols. When the library of Babel was proclaimed to contain every book men felt themselves as masters but in finding ones vindication the library became troubled and many went mad concluding vindication did not exist. The depression of a certain volume condemned whole shelves and blasphemous feebly started to mimic divine disorder. Man hopes god will one day deliver symbols in order of understanding to the library of Babel so the corridors may come to an end and much confusion­­ is fault of the ancient man as the world is hard to imagine as infinite.