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May 12, 2004
A ubiquitous and lasting system of hexagonal galleries
I need to read more stuff by Jorge Luis Borges. I'm recommending right now the very short The Library of Babel, which is a very interesting sketch of a world that it would be nice to think actually exists somewhere.
Here is a quick math problem — given the fixed number of lines, characters per line and pages per book, the nature of the content of each book, and the known number of books per hexagon ... how many hexagons are in the library?
Posted by David at May 12, 2004 06:52 PM
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Thanks for the pointers, I'll have to try them out.
You may also really enjoy 100 years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or House f Spirits by Isabel Allende. They're two of my faves, and in the same genre as Borges, sort of.
Posted by: Saskia | May 24, 2004 04:49 PM