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by Arcorann 1433 days ago
Everyone always mentions "The Library of Babel"; considerably fewer bring up the work that inspired it, "The Universal Library" (Die Universalbibliothek) by Kurd Lasswitz [1], which places its treatment of a library containing every possible book of a given length in a somewhat different context.

[1] https://mithilareview.com/lasswitz_09_17/