The Library of Babel

The Library of Babel is a piece of fiction by Jorge Luis Borges. In the story, the narrator talks about a mysterious and endless library consisting of galleries in a hexagonal shape. In these galleries, there are bookshelves, each containing 32 books, all of them of the same size. Each book has 410 pages, each page has 40 lines, and each line has approximately 80 black letters. Every single book that can be made from this combination of words and letters is contained in the library, thus making its contents nearly infinite.

Every book in this almost unfathomable library has an uncertain chaotic nature. The narrator mentions one book specifically: it was one found by his father in a hexagon in section 1594, and only contained the letters 'm c v'. The letters were pathologically repeated throughout its entire contents from the first until the last line. It is from this particular book that the project began its first response:-

As every possible book exists in the Library, it occurs to the inhabitants that it also contains an exact four hundred and ten page history of their lives and an index describing who wrote the books and why. Further responses follow: -

A final element the project focused on were the main protagonists, whom have no identity. The final book was thus comprised of a series of collages in reference to these unidentified people.