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Borgesian library
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English
Etymology
After Jorge Luis Borges, who wrote about such a library in his short story The Library of Babel (1941).
Noun
Borgesian library (plural Borgesian libraries)
- A fictitious vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format, including books resulting from random concatenation of letters, spaces and punctuation marks.
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