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I rather enjoyed the short essay: https://web.archive.org/web/19970614230544/jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/universal_library.html https://web.archive.org/web

by kongin 5y ago

I rather enjoyed the short essay: https://web.archive.org/web/19970614230544/jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/universal_library.html https://web.archive.org/web/19970614230544/jubal.westnet.com... In my Lovecraftian phase I imagined an infinite winding black pagoda with brail inscriptions on its walls. If you're very lucky you would wander up or down until you died of thirst reading nothing but nonsense. If you weren't you'd find the necronomicon or worse. Unlike the library the text would not be finite and there would be no limit to the eldritch horrors you could find within.

Loughla 5y ago
I think there's real possibility for a good creeping horror story in that premise.
zuminator 5y ago
Nice find. That was written by Willard van Orman Quine, the noted logician/philosopher whose surname was adopted to refer to computer programs that are designed to output their own source code. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)