Dragaera

Brust interview

Wed May 12 08:24:20 PDT 2004

At 10:21 AM 5/12/2004, John Klein wrote:
>I recall a story about a library in which every possible book existed. And
>it was pretty useless, of course, because most of them looked like
>"1alkh121la43mm4sj4".

Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel." Brilliant stuff, like most of 
Borges.
http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html

>then you'd
>have to dictate your books. And, frankly, I think we'd all get bored
>hearing about the adventures of flat and parsley.

Though I can imagine a touching reunion scene with flat and coffee. :)

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