Destroying a book in the Library of Babel

In the Library of Babel, Borges describes an infinite library where the books contain all possible permutations of 25 orthographic symbols. According to Borges, in such a library, every part of the books will contain meaning, even if they look like gibberish, will have meaning because there must exist another book which deciphers that part of the book. It seems to me that with this explanation every single book in this library is connected to another in some way. If the library represents the universe, does this mean that everything in the universe is connected, and that every event that happens is connected to another? This reminds me a lot of the “butterfly effect” theory, where one seemingly insignificant event could cause a chain reaction and eventually lead to great consequences.

The story’s narrator mentions that at one point, people destroyed books that they deemed useless in their search for knowledge from the books. The narrator then claims that it has no effect on the library and the knowledge that it contains, because it’s “so enormous that any reduction undertaken by humans is infinitesimal” (pg 85) and also because there will always be many other books that are complete replicas of the books destroyed expect for a single character, so in a way the books haven’t really been destroyed. However, if the meanings of all the books in the library are connected, surely destroying just one book, let alone entire bookshelves, would trigger the butterfly effect, and will cause many other books in the library to lose their significance too. In the worst-case scenario, the book could be linked to all other books in the library, and the destruction of a single book could mean the destruction of the whole library. However, intuitively we know that this wouldn’t happen since there will always be books that are already written in English (or Spanish for Borges) and already have meaning, but I think that the theory and its possibilities are still worth a thought.