The blog for SUNY Binghamton's Spring'09 COLI 214B 02 Literature and Society Class. Chapter summaries, analyses and discussion of prescribed texts written by students.

Monday, May 11, 2009

The Library of Babel

What started off as a something positive in the story, the Library in Babel became something horrific. People who admired the library found that the library has every single information that was accessible to mankind, knowing this people started searching for the book that defined the destiny of their own lives. I couldn't believe how people were killing each other to get their hands on a book that would help teach them how to govern their lives. The message that I get from reading this story is that we shouldn't be worrying too much on govern our lives through what outside sources are telling us but instead what we ourselves internally are telling us.

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