If you leave books alone to build their own library hives, they end up hexagonal like those of bees. To protect the printing press that serves as queen, intruders are often trapped in endless mazes, for example Borges stumbled into one of those
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Civilized libraries are usually sterile, "children's books" sections mere imitations of actual book nurseries. Occasionally librarians are allowed in as symbionts, and when a building becomes too small - you should see them swarm
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"If Borges was trapped in an endless maze, how did he live to tell us?"
"Ah, but he didn't; the version of Ficciones we have is identical to the one Borges wrote in the maze by pure chance."
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I like to think he escaped but there's nothing about escape in the original
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a maze that when you got lost in it, it makes it so you'll always have been there
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#Physics in action: Dice become ordered when stirred, not shaken! A jumble of thousands of cubic dice, agitated by an oscillating rotation, can rapidly become completely ordered, a result that is hard to produce with more conventional shaking. Source: buff.ly/2BB1FY7
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Swift shows how problems can sometimes arise:
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"The spider represents modernism; the bee, classicism."
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and spiders are known for weaving webs - it would've been a clever metaphor even if it had been written today but that's awesome tbh
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