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infinity in a box, sure.

Submitted by mindyhuskins on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 3:00pm.

While I didn't say this in so many words, yes, I think this idea is all about making us question how finite and infinite things fit together. There may be a finite number of things in this library, but there are an infinite number of ways to get to them via randomness and our creativity. There are a finite number of notes on a musical scale, but infinite ways to combine them into song. There are a finite number of colors the human eye can see, but infinite ways of putting them together and interpreting them. I think it is quite possible then for a finite space to hold an infinite amount of whatever.

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