gallery 0, 0

facing North

Navigating the library

W S
walk forward / back
A D
step sideways
← →
turn (or move the mouse)
E
read the volume you face
Esc
shelve the book

Open doorways lead to the next gallery; shelved walls hold the books. Each volume is generated deterministically from its catalogue position, so the same shelf always yields the same text.

after Jorge Luis Borges

The Library of Babel

An endless lattice of hexagonal galleries. Four walls of every gallery hold five shelves; every shelf holds books, and every book is one of the exhaustive permutations of twenty-five symbols. Most are nonsense. A few are not.

  • WASD walk
  • ←→ or mouse · look
  • E read a volume

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gallery 0,0 · wall 0 · shelf 1 · vol 1