LIBRARY OF BABYLON

‘The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an in- definite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries...The ar- rangement of the galleries is always the same: Twenty bookshelves, five to each side, line four of the hexagon‘s six sides...each book- shelf holds thirty-two books identical in format; each book contains four hundred ten pages; each page, forty lines; each line, approx- imately eighty black letters.‘