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kingmudsy  ·  1870 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Library of Babel - Why Hexagons?

Oh, they're totally overanalyzing. I think it's interesting as a justification for building the library of Babel, and I love the thought that went into this weird, useless thing that they've created for no purpose other than the reasons they claim (And as a tribute to Borges, obviously).

The explanations feel as intrinsically useless as the tool itself to me. But they exist nevertheless - someone created them as a weird epistemological exercise of computational "Because I can" and a defiant "What if we did?" I love that.

Anyway. Here's your comment, dug up lovingly from the library:

https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?johnnyfive

Here's mine, for the hell of it:

https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?kingmudsy