Babel

Michael Romano, Milton Läufer & all the contributors to BAR

Library of Babel as visualized by Erik Desmazieres.

(Each of the following sentences comes from the texts of the Review.
Hover over one to see its title or click to read the whole text.)

This thing about the names makes me sad, people coming up with ten pesos in their hand and telling the woodworker what names to carve. “It’s hard to know what to say,” Gordon said, wondering how he had managed to put the words together. Guthries, Dumas, Murphys, Schneidewinds, Christophersens, De Bruyns, Bunges, not to mention bearers of the historic patronymics of Brown and O'Higgins, are now among the landed aristocracy of Argentina; though, still, the crème de la crème consists of the descendants of the Spanish families of Colonial days. Aber nach dem Kuchenrande zu wurden die Bäume immer kleiner, so dass der ganze Stern aus der Ferne gesehen doch den Eindruck eines Kugelsterns machte. My self-imposed task of learning to read it began with a strange discovery.