This metaphor of infinite libraries has been expressed in countless other ways: every possible combination of musical notes; infinite cabinets of things; the set of possible protein sequences; the set of possible mystery-novel plots; tabulations of the secret name of God; the world, nature, and Google as universal libraries; the Bible, the Koran, the First Folio and Finnegans Wake as universal texts; monkeys with typewriters; pan-dimensional cryptographs; automatic writing; continuous narratives; nameless cities; formal depictions of mathematical and quantum indeterminacy; the mare incognitum
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