Babel
I found Library of Bable really interesting. The title stems from the Book of Genesis and the story of the Tower of Babel. while trying to build a tower so tall that the top would reach to Heaven, God sent different languages among the workers so that it could never be completed. This theme of many languages can also be seen in the Library of Babel. There are an infinite amount of books in all different languages, someone even just being "mvc" repeated over and over for 410 pages.
This idea of infinity: infinite languages, books, hexogonal rooms. All with the purpose of finding this circular book, the perfect example of infinity. Even the idea of multiple world or universes reminded me of the Mandela Effect. The Mandela Effect is when a large portion of any population remembers an event incorrectly or one that didn't happen. Many cite this as an example of a multiverse, in which two nearly identical universes merge creating different memories. Library of Babel shows a similar idea with no two books being identical, one off placed comma counts as enough of a reason for two books to not be considered identical.
If you want some examples of the Mandela Effect (like you already haven't heard of some) here you go.
That Buzzfeed quiz was pretty fun and mindblowing. The idea of people selectively remembering things or interpreting them falsely with the Mandela effect could relate to how the librarians desperately try to create the meaning they want out of everything they read. The narrator says he cannot write down any string of random letters that does not hold a powerful significance in some language
ReplyDeleteWow I am a sucker for the Mandela effect; I had no idea Curious George didn't have a tail! Although I like your idea of memories, I feel that this phenomenon of a circular book can better be explained with a religious connotation. In other words, everyone so obsessed with finding the answers of God (like they did when searching for heaven), they forget to live their life and end up dying without ever leaving their first library.
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