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Borges & the Labyrinth of Mirrors w/ Aldous Asterion

Art of Darkness

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The Unimaginable Mathematics of Bortais Library of Babel

The story is essentially the working out of a mathematical idea. There are descriptions of various kinds of cults that have emerged around searching for meaningful books. The library consists of every possible book that can exist with those parameters. It makes me unsettle just to think of it.

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