>giant library of babel larger than the entire universe by an absurd amount>furnished with beds, a bathroom, and a food kiosk that let's you order anything that can be considered food>have to find your life's history in written form and submit it to leave>no one in this story finds the obvious loopholeIf you can order anything that is remotely considered food why nit just order and edible duplicate of the book you need to leave? The pages made from edible rice paper and food safe dye as ink. If somehow that doesn't count and it needs to be *the* book and not a duplicate then you would still be able to get information on where the book is in the library as the shelf location should accompany the duplicate.
>>25553710Maybe they tried and it didn’t work. Maybe they tried and one of those devil-angels things intervened. Upps there goes your carefully crafted theory. Now it’s just another useless thread.
>>25553710it took them too long to figure out how large the library was, and how long they'd been thereit would take only a few days at most
>>25553710okay so after seeing this thread I went and finished this bookwhat the hell, it's not even close to finished. none of the cool parts I was anticipating ever happened. I thought there would be timeskips across vast spans and distances, it could have been epic. It barely even delved into the interesting conceptual stuff that borges put in the original story, like how languages diverged on different floors after a certain amount of time, and how the symbols in the books themselves could mean anything in any language. This could have had interesting implications for what the book of his life's story would end up being. I love the part in borges story where it says man could have been the work of some malevolent demiurges, but the perfect library could only be the work of God. I hoped it would finally culminate in some cathartic moment where he places the book in the slot, but it didn't even elaborate on why everyone in the library was english speaking and white.I was hoping for a sequence where there's a realization that given the vast scale of the library and the time spent within it, they all the humans would inevitably lose each other. Eventually so much time would pass that the initial group would disperse and they would never find each other again. But the author never thought of this.Honestly I think the author just didn't understand the story that deeply. They are a coward with an incomplete story. https://youtu.be/RbCerMBxUFMHere is a cool short that does the "deep time" stuff, I was hoping the author would do something like this but better.I'm sad.
It's crap. There. Brevity.
/lit/ takes retard to a level that seems like it should be incompatible with life, and yet it thrives in its own retarded way.
>>25554683Oh noes, it ruins whole book and everything else happened in it. Why they didnt figure it out sooner? Whyyyyy?!
>>25554823this stuff >>25554739 ruins the book. the book didn't deliver on its own premise
