Borgesian library

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)

  1. 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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