File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1998/phillitcrit.9801, message 298


Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 08:27:29 -0500
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: sets


Joerg T. Gruel wrote:
>
> 
> BTW, does not Borges have the suggestion that the whole Library of Babel might be contained in a single book, given it had
> infinitely thin pages?
> 

	If my memory serves me correctly, in the Library of Babel, the paradox was that
an absolute library supposedly would have to contain such a volume, but you
couldn't find it in the catalogue and browsing was purgatory.  Sounds like the
Library of Congress to me!

Ciao,
Reg


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