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Have you ever read the Library Of Babel?

http://libraryofbabel.info/browse.cgi

Hex Name: http://pastebin.com/azkan2RJ
Wall: 1
Shelf: 3
Volume: 14
Page: 333
Look about halfway down the page

>> No.6585593

mods please dont delete this- it is 100% literature-related, being the physical manifestation of a landmark 1900s short story

>> No.6585604

>>6585588
>lmmuhpwjyoqhyvueeycnezypqwy
What am I supposed to look for?

>> No.6585624

>>6585604

Try again. Be careful you click the right volume.

>> No.6585632

All possible knowledge is contained in the pages somewhere

>> No.6585641

>>6585632

Exactly. Absolutely marvellous, isnt it?

Its entirely possible you could visit a random page and be confronted with the exact time, date and location of your death. Or it could just be gibberish. Its all possible!

>> No.6585678

http://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?genesis1

>> No.6585692

This is pretty interesting, thanks for sharing.
But I'm not see anything in the middle of the page.

>> No.6585703
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>>6585692

>> No.6585712

>this is the virtual manifestation of the short story b
y jorge luis borges of the same name. the library of babel contains every single
permutation of the alphabet in its shelves. inside this database are the collec
ted works of shakespeare, a detailed description of you including your address,
age and phone number etc. also in the library are detailed instructions of how t
o build a time machine, next weeks lottery numbers and even the entirety of your
genetic code.

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>>6585703
I have brought shame to the household.

>> No.6585730

>>6585588
>isnt it marvelous
Clearly a reference to page 29 of the ouz,lo.
Nice find!

>> No.6585736

This is neat. That's pretty cool. I found the passage btw.

There's a book titled "op is a fag". Truly remarkable.

>> No.6585744

>>6585588
>this message was not written by anyone, just the random permutation of letters from pure entropy. isnt it marvellous

if no one wrote it, you must have searched for it. But your search must have included the typo

>teh

and so for all intents and purposes, you were the one who "wrote" it. This library has written an infinity of gibberish and you just selected what you want, but language ~already works this way~ so there's nothing crazy about it.

There's an infinity of gibberish sentences we could write into 4chan, all we did was search for what we wanted to write and pressed the keys. Same concept, right?

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>>6585730

you lie!

>> No.6585760

>>6585744

As in, the message as it appears on the database was not written. I was not saying that the words had never been typed before.

There is even a copy somewhere without the typo that no-one has ever seen or written out (yet).

It is the same concept, but the website provides a static architecture - the categorised and ordered nature of it surely justifies some interest, right?

>> No.6585762

look about half way down http://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?wake

also use the bookmark function for ease when sharing

>> No.6585769

>inb4 rickroll

>> No.6585790

>>6585769
http://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?greatest_piece_of_literature_ever_written

>> No.6585825

http://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?an_important_message

>> No.6585857

Can someone tell me what this is?

I don't understand.

>> No.6585859

I will be honest with you /lit/.

I had night-terrors for weeks after reading the original short story a few years ago. It was babby's first existential crisis. Really neat to see an electronic proxy

>> No.6585878

>>6585857
Read Borges' short story, the Library of Babel.

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>>6585857
There are only 26 letters in the alphabet. THere are therefore a limited amount of cimbinations.

This website has EVERY single possible combination of these characters up to a certain length (i think its around a10x10^24 chartacter limit).

Every chance ordering of letters is here. This means that anything that it is possible to write down already exists on the website.

The site itself is structured thus:

You enter a code of up to 3200 characters to choose a room.
Each room has 6 bookshelves you can choose from.
Each bookshelf has 5 shelves to choose from
Each shelf has 30 books
Each book has 421 pages.

Thus you can navigate to whereever you want.

>> No.6585905

>>6585884
is there a ctrl+f option? so i can search what i have written of my novel so far and copypaste it and be done

>> No.6585908

>>6585884
How's it any different than your everyday dictionary ?

>> No.6585914

>>6585641
>Absolutely marvellous, isnt it?
you sound like an absolute faggot

>> No.6585920

>>6585905

Yes. Due to omputational limits, the search engine can only find passages of up to 3200 characters. It will return you:

The location of your search term surrounded by empty spaces

The location of your search term mixed in with the random gibberish that makes up 99.9999999999% of the site

The location of your search term surrounded by random english words

>>6585908

Try navigating to a random page and you'll see what I mean.

>>6585914

This is /lit/ - a certain pretentiousness is expected.

>> No.6585921

ITT: faggots circle jerking over this retarded website

It honestly isn't that impressive. Stop making it a big deal

>> No.6585926

>>6585920
>>6585920
>Try navigating to a random page and you'll see what I mean.
OK. Gimme a sec.

>> No.6585927

>>6585914
you sound like an absolute faggot

>> No.6585928

>>6585914
rude...

>> No.6585929

>>6585920
>certain pretentiousness is expected
not at all, actually.

>> No.6585933

>>6585929

Oh well. People understood what I meant, and thats all that really matters.

>> No.6585935

>>6585921
Then close the thread and go somewhere else, faggot.
Is that too difficult?

>> No.6585965

>>6585624
how do you know which one?

>> No.6585970

http://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?joyce

>> No.6585974

>>6585965

How do you know which volume to click? Its in the OP. You want the volume 14th from the left.

>> No.6585993

>>6585974
Thanks

>> No.6586003

>with teh caveat
>teh
fucking dropped

>> No.6586006

>>6586003

its memespeak ya dip

>> No.6586051

>Oh time thy pyramids
read this, a true kek
http://en.illogicopedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

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6586052

>this contains every copyrighted piece of literature ever written

>> No.6586066

>>6586052

kek

>> No.6586069

http://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?toplel

>> No.6586087

>>6586069
>http://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?toplel

havent seen that copypasta for years

>> No.6586129

>>6586052
anyone wanna try getting it taken down by chilling effects

>> No.6586132

>>6586129
no.

>> No.6586138

>>6586087
If you don't go on /mu/ you will rarely see it.

>> No.6586145

>everything exists
>we only have to find it
>there's a world where LotR happened
>there's a world where Dune happened
>there's a world where holocaust happened
>there's a world where God exists
>there's a world where God doesn't exist
>there's a world where human beings don't exist and evolution went in a completely different direction
>there's a world where dinosaurs survived the extinction and colonized theuniverse
>there's everything that you can imagine and more

...

>there's a world where I have a bf

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>>6586145

you and me both anon, you and me both

>> No.6586175

That's pretty neat, thanks for sharing OP.

>> No.6586185

>>6586145
>>there's a world where human beings don't exist and evolution went in a completely different direction
>there's a world where NGE exists

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>>6586185
But Anon, NGE does exist in this world.

>> No.6586217

Do you think this should be added to Goodreads?

>> No.6586249

http://libraryofbabel.info/theory4.html

>> No.6586253

>>6585760
I think you're missing his point.

>> No.6586327

>>6586145
not if there is a 0% chance of that world existing.

>> No.6586335

>>6586138
it was posted on here like a couple days to a week ago.

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>>6586145
>>there's a world where holocaust happened