Suggestions for BOTM (Mar,2017)

[Thall]

Faheem wrote: "great ! I'll join in from tommorrow. I've one question though, I searched the book and found this.

https://libraryofbabel.info/Borges/li...

Is this all of it or this is not the full..."

Apparently it's all of it. If you think it's too short, then you also have a never-ending version lol: https://libraryofbabel.info/

I'm done with the story. It's an excellent allegory for human history. Library is not actually a metaphor for universe as much as it is a metaphor for history. When you put it in that perspective, you can feel the nigh suffocating pull of the vortex of time. On melancholy evenings, with nothing to do but watch the trees in front of my house, this library is what I enjoy thinking about. It truly puts in view our relative insignificance in the course of time.

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An allegory for history, and the future. It's an allegory for eternity, with the library representing the infinite wisdom and knowledge that man will never be able to completely decipher. I think that's what the library is meant to symbolize - not the past alone, not even eternity by itself, but the infinite knowledge that we don't have, and the repercussions of working with limited information.

The library is infinitely orderly, and Borges states that it must have a god. I think Borges is being something like an agnostic pantheist( if that isn't oxymoronic). It's also very clever in its refrences to religion - man's attempt to understand the world from his limited information, which has a variety of consequences. Man's search for meaning in the gibberish of the library is frustrating.

In response to the infinity of knowledge, we can be depressed, or hopeful. Because even though the library will exist after the librarians, there is hope that one day we humans will collectively gather the library's "message". Because the library is periodic. That's a comforting thought, as Borges says. An (excuse the pun) infinitely talented writer. The aleph is a great collection of stories as well, as is collected fictions.

[Aakash]

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[Faheem]

Genio wrote: "Apparently it's all of it. If you think it's too short, then you also have a never-ending version lol: https://libraryofbabel.info/ ."

Good, I'll join in the discussion in three or four days. :)

As for the longer version, well I've been reading that ever since i learned how to read, not in a proper order though :p