{"id":30898,"date":"2016-11-07T16:38:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T15:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/?p=30898"},"modified":"2016-11-07T16:38:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T15:38:51","slug":"an-online-version-of-borges-dream-or-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/?p=30898","title":{"rendered":"\u201e\u2026an online version of Borges\u2019 dream or nightmare\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Of course, Borges smiled to himself as he denied authorship of his story, because \u201cThe Library of Babel\u201d is a demonstration of the impossibility of originality. For the librarians who inhabit his creation, the difference between invention and discovery has been effaced; the value of novelty that drives our art markets is unintelligible to them, as they live in a world where everything has been written, and they hope only to find, catalogue, or perhaps repeat those divinely ordained texts. The very act of writing appears absurd to them: \u201cA blasphemous sect suggested that the searches should cease and that all men should juggle letters and symbols until they constructed, by an improbable gift of chance, these canonical books.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/putting-borges-infinite-library-on-the-internet-1e26c286c5a#.8p9s4of15\"><strong>Jonathan Basile<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n\u201ePutting Borges\u2019 Infinite Library On the Internet<br \/>\nThe Creation of <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryofbabel.info\/\">libraryofbabel.info<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, Borges smiled to himself as he denied authorship of his story, because \u201cThe Library of Babel\u201d is a demonstration of the impossibility of originality. For the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[602,2732,4916,4915],"class_list":["post-30898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poglady","tag-biblioteka","tag-j-l-borges","tag-jonathan-basile","tag-wieza-babel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30900,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30898\/revisions\/30900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}