Comment by ryuzakieru
10 years ago
Is this actually valuable in some fashion to humanity? (not hating, serious question). It seems more efficient to store every book than to predict every book ever by holding GB's of nonsensical sequences. Or is this just a for fun thing?
"Others, inversely, believed that it was fundamental to eliminate useless works. They invaded the hexagons, showed credentials which were not always false, leafed through a volume with displeasure and condemned whole shelves: their hygienic, ascetic furor caused the senseless perdition of millions of books."
The whole site takes up a few MB! It doesn't store any books at all.
As to your other question, I'd say 1)The library undermines the integrity of rational thought or endeavor, and thus teaches us to reconfigure our thought to do without purpose. 2)On the other hand, when decontextualized pieces of language can take on new, unforeseen meanings - they can become more meaningful, not less.
The library is a paradoxical place. It's up to us to do what we will with it.