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pynchonoid
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Thu Sep 7 17:31:10 CDT 2006
Lenny, my old Berkeley neighbor who used to preach the
Marxist gospel up on Sproul Plaza (mid-70s), a real
barn-burner, said you only need to read the Bible,
Marx's Capital, the Communist Manifesto, and Freud's
General Introduction to Psychoanalysis.
--- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
> Letizia Alverez de Toledo has observed that the vast
> Library is pointless; strictly speaking, all that is
> required is a single volume, of the common size,
> printed in nine or ten point type, that would
> consist of an infinite number of infinitely thin
> pages. (In the early seventeenth century, Cavlieri
> stated that every solid body is the superposition of
> an infinite number of planes.) Using that silken
> vademecum would not be easy: each apperent page
> would open into similar pages; the inconceivable
> middle page would have no "back."
>
> Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel"
>
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