ABSTRACT
In one of his rich, profound stories, Jorge Luis Borges described the infinite library of Babel, which contained every text ever written in any of the world’s languages, indeed every sequence of words and thoughts a human mind could possibly conceive. Borges recorded a myth about the Man of the Book, an unknown librarian who had found the book that was “the perfect compendium of all the rest” and who thereby had acquired the powers of a god (Borges 1962: 85).
