Jorge Luis Borges: The Library of Babel

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  • @MajorKoenig156
    @MajorKoenig156 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    it would be like walking on a beach and looking for grains of sand arranged to form letters or pictures.

  • @Lunar.67
    @Lunar.67 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This was so good! It brcomes inconceivable to find any real book with real meaning in a sea of infinity. I feel it is the same in the world, with so many books published.

  • @lindaleh6371
    @lindaleh6371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ah ! Thank You! 🙏🏼

  • @calculator17
    @calculator17 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I understood everything that was said, and nothing that was said

    • @johnbod
      @johnbod ปีที่แล้ว +9

      TLDR: Imagine every random combination of letters in the alphabet. It's something like 215 trillion books, the absolute vast majority of which would be complete nonsense. But practically every so often you may stumble upon one that has a few of those random letters form a coherent word, or even luckier a string of words.
      But really though, because it's every combination of letters, technically at some point you'd find every single book that could ever have existed since at some point those letters are bound to randomly show up in a row.
      It's mostly a fun thought experiment about infinity and how even within randomness every so often you'll find a semblance of order.

    • @chancerichards9176
      @chancerichards9176 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@johnbodreminds me of the infinite monkey theorem. Where a monkey 🐒 hits a type writer an infinte amounts times forever. Eventually, the monkey will write something like, Cormac McCarthy Blood Merdian, word for word or even Jorge Luis Borges' Labyrinths 😅

  • @lukewarm3969
    @lukewarm3969 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    15:51 cool quote

  • @looneycrow7978
    @looneycrow7978 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lovely. GPT-3 brought me here.

  • @samuelluria4744
    @samuelluria4744 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    .WoW.

  • @briggy4359
    @briggy4359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is the best recording. Who is the narrator?

    • @garljoens
      @garljoens  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Henry Strozier! Definitely my favorite recording of Borges' work.

    • @briggy4359
      @briggy4359 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@garljoens how does one find these recordings? Are you able to upload more?

    • @carlodave9
      @carlodave9 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It’s an incredibly good acting exercise. Henry gets it.

  • @ransom.52
    @ransom.52 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How many pages was this book and how long is this video.
    Learning from the books left behind of who truly knows… how do you apply it? Should you?
    After you have perceived this, maybe you’ll realize your number amongst infinity in the shuffle. You’ll be back. 😂
    -Nth+1

  • @tiki_trash
    @tiki_trash ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I hate robot voices, but this book weirdly needs it. It would creep me right the fuck out.

  • @jackofn0trades29
    @jackofn0trades29 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is like reading an SCP

    • @jonathanaarhus224
      @jonathanaarhus224 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Wanderer's Library was directly inspired by this story.

    • @SethHixie
      @SethHixie 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Real Life SCP-001

  • @briggy4359
    @briggy4359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is this about the Joseph Biden Presidential Library?

    • @garljoens
      @garljoens  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      heheh

    • @SethHixie
      @SethHixie 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, this is the library for black women whom were president

  • @kitrichardson2165
    @kitrichardson2165 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    For every sentence of recognizable thought there were leagues of cacophonies.
    That must’ve been Joe Biden‘s autobiography