Precise Writing for Bor Ges's Library of Babel

The universe composed as a library, consist of infinite number of hexagonal galleries with a ventilation shaft in the centre and extending in horizontal and vertical rows endlessly. Each of four sides has five bookshelves of normal human height; the other two sides are passages to the adjacent hexagon. These passages have two compartments for sleeping and physical needs, and spiral staircases winding up and down. Each vestibule has a mirror. Two light-bulbs provide insufficient light to each hexagon.

Author has traveled in his youth in quest of a book but now that he has grown old he is preparing to die. After death, he will be thrown over the railing, the unfathomable air will be his tomb and his body will fall infinitely. Idealists suspect that the hexagons are just our perception of space but the author feels that the library is endless, like a sphere whose center can be any hexagon and whose circumference is unattainable.

Four sides of the hexagon contain 5 bookshelves holding 32 books each. Each book contains 410 pages; each page 40 lines, each line 80 letters. The title of the book doesn't indicate the content of the book.

Library has existed since eternity. Man, the imperfect librarian can be created by chance or by evil but the library with bookshelves, books, staircases and water-closets can only be God’s creation. Author scrawls symbols on the book cover.

Author’s father saw a book consisting of letters M C V repeated from first line to last with the phrase “O Time thy pyramids” on the penultimate page. Every rational line has leagues of verbal nonsense. Librarians trying to find sense in the books acknowledge that the 25 orthographic symbols were adapted for writing by chance and the books have no meaning.

It was believed for many years that the books were in ancient languages but the author believes that 410 pages of MVC’s cannot belong to any language. Some have suggested that each letter influences the next letter but majority of people don’t accept this thesis. There is a possibility of codes.

A chief showed a jumbled book containing 2 pages of homogeneous line to decipherer who told that the lines were written in Portuguese but others thought it was Yiddish. After a century experts determined it was a dialect of Guarani with Arabic inflections. The Philosopher observed that even if the books were different from each other they consisted of identical elements like space, period, comma etc. There are no two identical books in the library and the library is perfect and complete. All bookshelves contain all possible combinations of the 22 orthographic combinations expressed in every language. It contains history, autobiographies, catalogs translation of every book into every language and interpolations of every book into all books.

The announcement that Library contained all books bought unbounded joy. All men felt they were possessors of intact and secret treasure. There was a solution to all the problems. Universe was justified. Many individuals abandoned their hexagons in vain desire to find their vindication. Some squabbled in corridors muttering imprecations, strangled each other, or hurled themselves to death. Others went insane. The author believes that the vindications do exist but those who went in quest failed to recall.

There was a hope that the fundamental mysteries of mankind and the origin of the Universe will be revealed. Inquisitors arrive at some hexagon, talk about the staircases with missing steps, speak to the librarian about galleries and sometimes take nearest book and leaf through it not expecting to discover anything.

The unrestrained hopefulness was succeeded by disproportionate depression. It was unbearable that some bookshelf contained precious books which were forever out of reach. One irrelevant sect proposed that the searches should be discontinued.

Others thought that the worthless books should be eliminated so they invaded the hexagons. The library is so huge that reduction by human hands is infinitesimal. Each book is unique and irreplaceable but there are several imperfect replications of books deferring by single letter. The attacks by the purifiers were exaggerated by horrors inspired by the fanatics. The wanted to reach the omnipotent, illustrated and magical books and those smaller than the natural books.

There are vestiges of the sect who worship the distant librarian and have gone in search for him by beating every possible path in vain. It was argued that there must exist a book which cipher and perfect compendium of all other book located by the Book man analogous to God. Author thinks it’s unlikely that there is such a total book but he prays that someone finds it.

Infidels claim that rule in the library is not “sense” but “non-sense”. They speak that random volumes of library threaten to transmogrify into others affirming, denying and confusing things like a mad and hallucinating deity. The words proclaim disorder and ignorance. Library contains all variations of 25 orthographic symbols. Finest volumes of many hexagons have titles with incoherent phrases and there is not combination of characters one can make. Library hasn't foreseen that in its secret tongue it does not hide a terrible significance. All the syllables are filled with tenderness and terror. To speak is to commit tautologies. N number of possible languages employ same vocabulary and in some the symbol library possesses the correct definition that library is a pyramid.

Young people kiss the pages of books but can’t even read a letter. The suicides are getting frequent. Human species teeter at the verge of extinction but still the library isn't willing to disclose its secrets.

It is not illogical to think that the worlds is infinite.  The library is unlimited but periodic. If an eternal traveler journey’s in any direction then he would find after untold centuries that same volumes are repeated in same disorder which on repetition becomes the order.