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I personally really enjoy the

I personally really enjoy the idea of the Library of Babel, I do think that everything has already been created, that doesn't exactly mean that society knows about it in some concrete way, but it exist, somewhere, somehow. I do not think people really invent or create knew things, I strongly believe that people discover ideas and things that already exist. When people create new stories, they are playing with the original 24 plot lines, they are just mixing them in different ways. I do not think that the Library of Babel has each and every predetermined choice and option as it is likely to link with one another, but rather I think it gives us all the options that are available and then we have the agency to put them together as we see fit. While we might not have all the options, we do have the potential to use the options that are available to create something slightly more unique.

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