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Old 11-08-2020, 02:15 PM   #6902 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk View Post
“Library” is an absolutely mind blowing premise and the layers and layers of things it gives you to think about like how numbers work, scale, the search for meaning, the finding meaning in coincidence and then like even when you’re finished reading it the story keeps building in your mind. The madness of all the possibilities.
Totally, it gives me a feeling almost of being watched or having my mind controlled. I really dug the part where he starts talking about how different languages use the same symbols/words with different meanings and asks "you who read me, are you sure that you understand my language?"

Have you seen the version of the library that someone created and put online? https://libraryofbabel.info/
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