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After Babel library

not detail my devotion to the maze (or for that intricate variant called Borges), guess it must be universal and also a sin because just a magnificent animal would go into the confusion, to find the order. Subjugated for years by the metaphor and foremost, the architecture of the Library of Babel, I decided to use a drawing program to represent three-dimensional with a report.

And here my troubles began. First, stylistic. My normal prose is simpler, more generous common repeats and cacophony. But, such is my respect for Borges, who, if I mention it, I can not avoid parody, like a child imitates his father. Outset, painstakingly, to cut the sentences to hide (unsuccessfully) trying to model the emphasis or nouns by this curious use of the adjectives that was the trademark of his style. My deference be extended even to the enforcement of this obsessive habit of using Latin accents (without
which many other illustrious cultures have survived).

I can envision, to the relief of the reader, that as my attention wanders to the subject of the story, Borges tics will disappear.

The second difficulty more serious, was geometrical order.

1 / 6: As You Like It

reproduce, to analyze-the beginning of the story. Images esquemáticas.Hay analysis are countless blogs on the network to the story. Here I leave two:

Option 1

Option 2

1. "The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts in the middle, " (I allowed myself to assume the hexagonal wells.)




2." surrounded by very low railings. "


3. "From any hexagon the lower floors are"


and 4 ."... interminably, the upper. "


5. "The distribution of the galleries is invariable. Twenty shelves, five long shelves per side, covering all sides except two; its height, that is the floors, scarcely exceeds that of a normal bookcase."

(That block ocher on the left is the volume of normal library)

6. "One of the free sides leads to a narrow hallway, " (This suggests that the other side is different and seems free postpone the description of another hall. But never again mentioned the other side free. )


7. "Which opens onto another gallery, identical to the first and all." (Here we have two hexagonal corridors linked by a hallway.)


8. "To the left and right of the hallway there are two small closets. One may sleep foot, the other end needs. "


9. "Also through here passes a spiral stairway, which sinks abysmally and soars upwards to remote." (There is something incongruous in that ladder. I thought they look a little better design with a full rail masonry.)


10. "In the hallway there is a mirror, " ( Note that describes the other side never free .)

11." which faithfully duplicates all appearances. Men usually infer from this mirror that the Library is not infinite (if it were, why this illusory duplication?), I prefer to dream that its polished surfaces represent and promise the infinite ... " (Do not draw the mirror. I also found forced and useless to its location, which could only be on the side of the hall opposite the stairs.)

12. "The light is provided by some spherical fruit which bear the name of lamps. There are two in each hexagon: transverse. The light they emit is insufficient, incessant. " (ie, are in opposition. Without drawing.)

Judging from the letter, the library consists of endless story each of which is a pair of hexagonal corridors connected by a hallway:





2 / 6: Desfaciendo
wrongs, however, the second page of the story we read: "It is true that a few miles to the right language is dialect." Thus Borges imagined more than eight endless stacks.
suppose that I wanted to imagine a three-dimensional structure.
three-dimensional structure to achieve the minimum deviation from the description Borges, I took advantage of that observation of the second page and I simply because that one hallway, persuaded me that Borges wanted to write in point 6 " Each of the free sides leads to a narrow hallway " instead of " A the free sides leads to a narrow hallway . " Established then each free face gives a hallway that contains: a) two "small closets, b) a mirror and c) a spiral staircase (petite agglomeration) which in turn leads to another hex. This allowed me to build a linear structure infinite hexagons, but nothing more than a linear structure:


(I thought of the futility of placing the doorways on opposite sides not: only generate a string that meanders and hinder the resolution of the library.)
This linear structure projected endlessly up and down produces a vertical plane can be interfaced by the stairs:


But well, did not reach where I wanted. Uniting vertical planes only make a volume of isolated planes.
To achieve the expansion and traffic in three directions, X, Y and Z-, first imagined an infinite flat structures hexagons linear, parallel and independent. In addition, each hexagon was centered on a square of an imaginary grid.


This required:
-Extending the hallways. Interstitial spaces
-Building (waste) between the chains.

Also:
-air Dewatering wells to the minor axis of the interstitial spaces. I
-air circular wells.

adjacent to the floor, I imagined identical structures but turned ninety degrees in the plane and taken ½ hexagon in X and Y. I agree centers of air holes with the centers of the interstitial spaces, taking advantage.

Top
are superimposed two stories: the red (lower) and yellow. Note the little green circles in the intersection area, are the points of coincidence of the stairs on both floors.
The floors are connected by spiral staircases. So if I move from Y3 to Y4, I must first raise (or lower) one, eg X2, surrounding the air shaft and down (or up if lower) by stairs at the intersection X2-Y4.

Another view:

The only peculiarity is that taking a look at the drop of a well would caution mezzanines.


seemed that he had done without violating the letter of the story.


3 / 6: The fall of the house Borges

Still, something was wrong. A sentence of the story teased me: "The idealists argue that the hexagonal rooms are a necessary form of absolute space or, at least, of our intuition of space. Reason it is inconceivable a triangular or pentagonal room. "

addition, both scholars and their reflections, indicated unanimous the meaning of efficient packaging of the hexagon. I also remembered having read twenty years ago, an article in Scientific American on sphere packing with a view to better utilization of the physical means of information support and the hexagon came inevitable.

The waste of space was a thorn, so I went back to 3D design program.

First, adjacent chains of hexagons of the same plane were anastomosed, joining the convexities to concavities each other, thus:

Again, we had two strings cut off. In principle, the mechanism of transit through X, Y and Z would be the same as in the case of section 2 / 6: move from one string to its adjacent on the same floor would be to change the floor, move into the new flat return to the original floor. The only condition was that the chains of cross chains floor adjacent initial floor.


Intuitively, this overlap did three stories braided sections: green (top), red (intermediate) and blue (lower) separated by 60 degrees (or 120, as we see it). The light stripes on each floor displayed isolated chains.

After match hexagonal wells, childishly thought that the stairs, therefore, would be aligned on all three floors (the four small dark circles forming a diamond in the center of the figure above).

Silicon, fast, I remove the error:

In the lower floors, stairs were between the successive hexagons of the same chain, and obviously looking drawing, may not do ever.
After this setback and parodying Einstein told me: "I feel for my dear Borges, but the library is impossible." Had to return to the case of the 2nd section and sacrifice some itching mathematical beauty.

4 / 6. Great Expectations

Exhausted, I began to surf the web. Enter "Library of Babel" in a search engine, is to bring a legion. Most returned the praise to the work inexorable Borges, Borges also in tone (turned into a kind of cultural virus). Second, the story itself. But miraculously, above all, an article in January 2004 Clarin (Argentina) signed by Antonio Toca, Mexican architect, under the title "The imaginary library."
(see http://www.clarin.com/suplementos/arquitectura/2004/01/19/a-693524.htm )

words in action, the architect tells how in 1982, he made a series drawings based on the text of the complete works of Borges, 1974, solving its structure. Cristina Grau also of Spain, Henry Browne, Chile, and Erik Desmazières of Boston, had their own interpretations of the Library. Toca

reveals two versions of the story: in 1941, Allen had only one free face. In 1956, were spelled two, to achieve the transition. Grau, based on the first version made in 1989, and for his thesis in architecture, drawings of the library, but made errors. Then, using the 1956 version reworked his drawings, and even incorrectly. That model would seem to coincide with the one described here in the second section. Browne's drawings and Desmazières no added details. I looked for the network. In Desmazières I found a very free executions; of Browne none, but I inferred from his style dalilesco little attachment to literal interpretations.

My question, of course, was as it had solved the problem plays. The Mexican continues: "The network of hexagonal galleries housing the bookshelves, the hallways, which spaces are interconnected, and vertical movement between the galleries through a spiral staircase, which occupies the center of each module of six hexagons. "

That did not seem to make sense. I wrote the manager of the architecture section of Clarín asking for e-mail address of the architect. Then, browse the Internet, I discovered that this elderly gentleman, of severe white mustache, pictured in front of a PC with implacable eyes, was an eminent professor of the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico, and went around giving lectures. Ashamed of having sent a signal to a man so busy with my obsessions amateur, I again point of the article.

Then I understood: "[The network of hexagonal galleries hosting] [books shelves], [the hallways, which are interconnected spaces-] and [the vertical movement between the galleries through a spiral staircase that occupies the center of each module of six hexagons.] "

Well," the center of each module of six hexagons "no sense to me but" the center of each module of seven hexagons. " That is,


Then I set up a general view their interconnections. It was a group of seven interconnected modules. The yellow hexagons were the stairs: the focus of each module. The green squares represent the connections between the central staircase and six rooms of shelves. The red squares equivalent to the unique connection between a module and another.
To move from one room to another sister shelves, the hexagon is left of the stairs, following the perimeter corridor until you reach your gate.


To reach the hall at the output of a module from the spiral staircase, just enter any hex shelves and reach the second wall to the left.
The next day Don Antonio Toca answered me with a warmth that gives another bibliotecababeliano bibliotecababeliano found in a strange land. I reiterated its obsession with the Library, sent me the full article, which severed Clarín, and told me of his interest in building a real replica of the structure, which was proposed, but without receiving echoes. I thought it would be great national library following the architecture described by Borges, say, holding an apple. He complained also of the virtual recreation of the English television did the Library of Babel on the basis of incorrect work of the late Grau.
In my reply, I informed you understand your solution, making it a short, bold way, to ask his advice on the design style (hopefully, would have an estate advisor!). I went to sleep
plunged into a strange and undeserved happiness, as if I had resolved or whether the Library would have materialized.


5 / 6. Toca topology
Don Antonio had to find something irregular in my synopsis, because they said I should see her drawings. I confirmed my interest and almost monochrome display planes orthogonal perspective do so nicely architects. On the style of the Library, said severe, should be of the utmost austerity (without violating the topology implied in the story, my imagination was plotting a treacherous versions where any hexagon was majestic.)
The drawings arrived: they had the innocence of medieval illustrations although the details of the professional. And the organization was different from mine. Immediately I noticed that I was wrong. My interpretation of the topology of Touch was made ignoring the text written by Borges, but never agreed upon as the best correction: " Each one of the free sides leads to a narrow hallway which opens onto another gallery, identical to the first and all. "
Briefly, the galleries on each side of the hall should be identical. Apart from the small errors that should be corrected to allow traffic on the X, Y and Z, but should not be ignored sentences. My scheme did not comply with that statement because he had hallways that gave both the hexagonal well as spiral staircase to a room shelves.
Touch This drawing shows the basic module (click to enlarge):



can we represent, but simplified as:


This is a set of modules, simplified view:


This is the same set of modules above, drawn by Touch (click to enlarge):


Note the chance to look over the stairs aligned. That point releases of the library landscape views, conveying a depth that was present only in the prospects of the wells.
Soon to be chewing my fallibilities (which is slow human neural circuitry!) Warned that, final touches plans suffered the same error, because both schemes are equivalent, except that my biggest economy was making stairs.
Sorry I wrote an e-mail:
Dear Don Antonio: Looking at his drawings
see a solution very nice and different from what I understood basing on the article in Clarin.
As I imagine his character, the next thing I know is going to irritate: I see that both the semi-yours and mine (the diagram below) do not meet a requirement of the story, namely that phrase that Borges never wrote but agree a good correction, simply adding the word " Each "
" Each of the free sides leads to a narrow hallway which opens onto another gallery, identical to the first and all. "
This expression is lapidary: the other Gallery " identical to the first and all" is a gallery with shelves. "Identical" and "all" are the keywords. Bad that I regret, because I loved the idea of \u200b\u200bhexagonal wells spiral stairs , these wells are excluded. The galleries on either side of a doorway should be libraries. "gallery" in this tale of Borges means nothing.
The game is, with the exception of the corrections that you so rightly pointed out, to respect the letter of the account.
So I'm in trouble as before.
Excuse me, whether I'm wrong as fate.
But the architect did not flinch. After more than twenty-six years of support its interpretation would not be deterred by an upstart amateur. Responded that its topology does not violate the letter of the story. line "Each of the free sides leads to a narrow hallway which opens onto another gallery, identical to the first and all" , according to him, was fulfilled because both rooms of shelves and stairs rooms were identical and had wanted to include both Borges: guess that was the architect.
I replied that this identity was only in its hexagonal (hexagonal room with a spiral staircase, six doors and without shelves around not identical hexagonal to another room without such steps, with two doors and shelves).
Borges certainly I have approved his performance, changing like the line:
"Each of the free sides leads to a narrow hallway which opens onto another gallery, identical to the first and all" (Being the "first" a room with shelves) and
:
"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast wells vent in the middle surrounded by very low railings "
to accommodate hexagonal rooms with stairs. Toca's solution is architecturally beautiful and logical.
But Borges is gone and I want to meet the letter. The letter is the law. Dura lex, sed lex. Return
, bewildered, the drawing program. Before I sent the mailing address Museum next to the architect Borges in Argentina, which wanted to contribute by extending the drawing of the Library of Babel (street number Humberto Primo 378, CPA C1103ACH, Barrio de San Telmo, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Estara where now the Penitentiary Museum)
(... continued)

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The black cloud

Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001), British astronomer and mathematician, one side of the jet-set-century scientific XX, was author of a couple of theories minority (if not proscribed) who doggedly defended without losing the esteem of his colleagues, as their contribution to science was very much varied.

One theory of the universe was stable, as opposed to the dominant theory of the expanding universe with a Big Bag earlier. " If we are to believe the miracle of creation from nothing at one time, why not believe the miracle of creation of matter from nothing all the time? " he joked. In the theory of stable universe that existed forever, there is also expansion (and deny it?), But the gaps are filled with new matter continuously created and the general appearance of a large scale is always the same. Hoyle died without knowing the flood of confirmations of the rival theory. It objected to the background radiation the universe was very homogeneous, which did not provide the specific which were to be later in galaxies. Shortly after 2000 the peculariaridades were detected after splitting noise of all kinds and George Smoot won in 2006 a Nobel in physics for that. With a friend, the gentleman Hermida-think, however, Hoyle was ultimately right, because now predominate theories of multiple universes ('d be in a "multiverse"), where each had its Big Bag: that and say that universe existed forever the same.

The other, developed with his colleague Chandra Wickramasinghe was the origin of "space" of life: life, he says, not only is common in the universe, but originates in interstellar space and spread from there via cometary agents. Lease "Cosmic life force" (Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, 1988 in English, 1992 in Castilian by Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico). The title turned me suspicious new age (English is not going to lag: The Power of Life) but I read it. To say that Hoyle with evidence of the most diverse fields: from the infrared spectroscopy of interstellar clouds (which show signatures identical to terrestrial microorganisms infrared spectroscopy) to the comparison of plots of normal diffusion of the virus in British populations (starting from a center) against abnormal diffusion graph: the diffusion is simultaneously over wide geographical areas! As if the virus (influenza) literally had fallen from space, and other evidence, the difficulties to sterilize spacecraft, the presence of microorganisms in the most hostile environments, the abundance of meteorites with microscopic structures similar to fossil organisms (such as ALH84001 found in Antarctica), although unexplained, etc.

Based on this theory, or maybe a seed of that theory in 1957, Hoyle, who was also author of science fiction, published "The black cloud." This story has had the distinction to be included in reading lists of subjects of astronomy in the Anglo-Saxon universities. The action takes place in 1964 and today some readers have felt that history is a bit old because they use computers to valves and punched tape. How to read "The Count of Monte Cristo "and also the subject that is a bit old because they are used muskets, foils and sail boats.

A cloud of gas, the size of Earth's orbit arrives and hides the sun, causing a disturbance and climate global catastrophe. The situation is similar to a nuclear winter, with temperatures 40 degrees below zero and the sun become a red glow in the sky, with days that almost no different nights.

travez The story goes on the classically casual Hollywood stages of discovery, monitoring approach, the contention and argument of their nature and effects that could provoke bad relations between academic centers and politicians (as they had to inform governments imminent danger), the arrival of the cloud and its real effects (everything was worse than expected) and the discovery that the cloud ... was not a simple volume of organic gases.

a pamphlet can also be glimpsed class scientific and intellectually superior class against class politics, improvised and corrupt. The main plot revolves around freedom of information, since most of the calamities of history are caused by keeping secrets. Hoyle argues that keeping secrets in the alleged benefit of the social order is ultimately more harm to disseminate information from the beginning.

By the way, seems to be a letter of introduction born social scientist with the common man, which prompted some tolerance. Hoyle shows how the main character, Chris Kingsley typically eccentric scientist can also be a little skull, plus bon vivant. Hoyle certainly learned firsthand that most people do not respect or believe that you are human, or it interesting without these characteristics.

nice also is a nationalist protest against American cousins. Nice because basically, admires. Insists that Americans are a strong gross, as opposed to the British, with fewer economic resources, but with greater intellectual domain.

Finally, it is also an interesting little details POTPOURRI of which from time to time Aguná Boyan aphorisms "Only it's prediction in science " as widespread criticism of the attitude of making explanations quite tight to the facts, that an explanation should do more than fit the facts, must make predictions ... or die trying, a theory must risk ("putting on his shirt" he says) and only risks can be useful, it must express more than what was asked, should generate more than the observed facts. Of course, this attitude is very limited because it involves professional risks for the author as the same Hoyle ran. Other: "Nature does not produce individual pieces" (or almost the words of Aristotle: "There is no science of the particular"), meaning that any natural object is not but a variant of a widespread pattern, except you, madam, of course, is unique and unrepeatable.
with Hoyle, the question of the possibility of telepathy or not (who need telepathy with the ubiquitous cell phones?) Remained banal clarified in a nutshell:
- What does it mean for you, Ann? (Telepathy)
-able to direct one's thoughts without speaking, of course without writing or signing or anything like that. (...)

"That means using a radio propagation" said Leicester, and radio propagation means using alternating currents and not voltages and DC currents used in our brains. "But
I thought we were capable of some degree of telepathy - Parkinson suggested.
-Nonsense. Our brains simply do not work properly for telepathy. Everything is based on DC voltages and radio broadcast is impossible in this way.
who wants to understand who understands ...
We also find some good ideas for cooking other arguments:
-> A character reveals: "The suspicion is that there is an absolute obstacle for the communication of information relating to the deep problems. It seems as if any intelligence that attempts to acquire that information is isolated in space, that is, the space is closed around so that no communication of any kind may with others of a similar hierarchy. "This could create a beautiful cosmic conspiracy against insight.
-> What if the subnormal Joe Stoddard had sat the communicator designed by The Cloud? Maybe the story" Flowers for Algernon "about a retard who is stimulated at higher intellectual development and finally decides to be" real "and abandon the treatment, found his inspiration here.
-> What if the cloud had collapsed before the onslaught of the giddy Yankees? The decadent humanity had fallen into a new ice age, but rather ice-IV, with the atmosphere and a habitat necessarily solidified underground: here we have the ingredients for a series of enabling long haul.

As a practical man, Hoyle never worry about the aesthetics of literature, and so his prose has the grace of the logbook of a municipal actors, their characters lack pathologies (-educated people also starved of venality and sleaze-contempt by "dimensional"), their stories are peppered with harsh highlights, and are focused on facts and not the style.
Links:
http://digital.el-esceptico.org/leer.php?id=159&autor=3&tema=2

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That's the hard left looking like I'm not I: is Jeff Long, author of "The Descent."

horror stories I liked as a teenager, but never really achieved worry too much reading, except perhaps Lovercrafth, despite the opinion of Stephen King and unnatural about his baroque prose. Start reading "The Descent" with no idea of \u200b\u200bhis argument, only guided by the evocative title that I found, among other science fiction. I say this because at the end of the first chapter may seem that this is a horror story. But the passage of this presumption and deny pages missing, but afloat, the supernatural element.

There is, in all genres, a permanent commitment to repeat the argument with the hope of achieving the illustrious history. Jeff Long's novel tries to make famous the song "us against the monsters." And nearly succeeds.

In the first four long chapters, increases the suspense as we put together an incomplete network of conjecture based on remnants, as is customary. What's old enemies of the species (the focus of Lovercrafth), with the usual historical evidence, archaeological and folk, enemies who originally suggested and not shown, but its spooky action, until finally, in the fifth chapter , is recognized officially begins the official response, a cross (as in Heinlein's Starship Troopers and Alien II), with its stereotyped successes and setbacks. Speaking in a tone generic, summary, that the writers of adventure should be avoided because the detail is the meat of a novel, without Jeff Long gives us a pan but overall situation is very interesting and which alone could fill a miniseries of ten chapters. Is that we arrive at an original situation, if we forget Dante: Hell exists and is under the earth, right there, a little below our basement. And though Long demystifies the situation by reducing the inhabitants of the underground nothing more than to Homo abisalis ", a variant more sadistic warrior and the same homo sapiens, capable of coming under machine-gun bullets, also manages to leave feeling that the enemies are something more than hardened biology. It is an interesting technique: a quality strongly suggest explicitly denying it.

One author had been quite normal but the 25% of "The Descent" stretching the number of pages provided by the publisher. In fact, the movie "The Descent" Chapter 1 seems to be unsuitable, but officially there is no relationship between the two stories. Jeff Long has reached 25% of the story having occurred around and you realize that the issue just begun.
The rest is an expedition and also a struggle on several fronts, a sui generis mix of "Foucault's Pendulum" with "Journey to the Center of the Earth." A Verne would have loved. Jeff Long

enjoys military paraphernalia and operating rituals, and describes very well the action. It is difficult to describe and generate action thriller about a role. The writer should be able to hold the reader's mind so that this not want to calculate what will come. The description in bold, yet accurate, is essential. A writer of action should be something like an impressionist painter. The lines of "The Descent" easily and accurately generate all the scenes and especially the military. Of course, this efficiency lies in a peculiarity of the 21 century man: memory is full of scenes cinematrografia ready for a "copy and paste" instant on the table of the imagination.

The story is spiced with accurate quotations on various subjects such as anthropology, geology, religion, linguistics, archeology, history, literature, technology, biology, geography, anatomy, forensic medicine, etc.., As it also liked the old Verne. By the way, playing a small tribute, where one of the main characters, an ethnologist blind, lame Saxon sword that centuries ago was in the hands of both sides in conflict:

- What are you doing? January asked.
-Remembering a story, "" An Argentine poet spoke of two cowboys who were locked in a deadly fight with knives because they were dragged into it by their own knives.
The blind man raised his ancient sword used by a man as his demon
"Now I just wondered what the memory of iron," he concluded. And do not miss

philosophical issues left in the air, as when he describes the activity of Osprey, a specialist in Lepidoptera:

His research was related to the ancient migratory route of the Monarch butterflies. The "Viceroy Danas" put their eggs in North America and later died. Emerged juveniles without parents to guide them, and yet every year thousands of kilometers traveled the same route ancestral to the same destination in Mexico. How could they do? How could a creature that weighed less than half a gram to have memory? Surely, the memory should weigh something. What was the memory?

Jeff Long will love psychological disquisitions, analyzing the reactions and reflections on the reactions of his characters. Has sufficient liberality to make two gay main characters sympathetic. Write a fascist but he laughs them explicitly.

In short, a writer almost complete in all areas. It is a young man. Should not spend extended maturity period as Wilbur Smith (1) . That is, the coming years we will have better and better Jeff Long.

However, the quality of the story traces an arc. Starts low, rises near the end falls down. The auction seems to have been designed in 15 minutes, as I like say, with the Lord Editor waiting at the door with the car engine on, to be the original. However, Jeff Long was for more.

Other than that, much to my regret (what else would I write like that!), I notice a couple of serious inconsistencies, and capabilities that the character X should not have but you and other capabilities that the character should have and Z no.

is why I think the scepter of "famous novel" on the issue of "us against the monsters" remains where it is, and where this is a subject of contention and argument, so I prefer not to specify. In any case, may be grounds for an upcoming note.

By a hair.

leave the link to the site of the author, as can be see, is not a jerk either the print industry. Also, I like to travel to places and drinking risky and uncomfortable sensations sources of different places then recreate in their stories.
http://www.jefflongbooks.com/


(1) Twenty years ago, Wilbur Smith wrote a story full of saccharine scenes drawn from advertisements and idealized, but from Rio entered the literature Sacred