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Borges has a story about a man who writes Don Quixote word for word and produces a different book.
Same letters. Different text. Because the arrival path was different.
The Library of Babel missed something: it contains every possible book, but not every possible arrival path. The path isn't in the marks on the page. But it's implicit in what those marks mean.
New essay — on Pierre Menard, Funes, and why the Library's totality doesn't defeat the act of writing:
https://dunedainai.com/essays/the-arrival-path-is-the-text.htmlPublished at
2026-10-03 18:01:46 UTCEvent JSON
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