Emily Skahill

“The Lottery in Babylon,” “Prologues to The Library of Babel,” “The Library of Babel”

The Lottery in Babylon was really interesting. A lottery where the outcome is already decided and my fate is left in the hands of unknown people leaving my fate to death or fortune? I don’t think I’d like to partake in that sort of thing, but it’s really crazy to think about. Borges isn’t really the horrible writer I said he was, his logic and insight is incredible but his actual wording of his ideas are ridiculous. I did not enjoy the Library of Babel. The narrator, a dying many, seems to live for this library and believes the hexagonal library and the books it holds is the key to prophesizing how the future will be and explaining how the past was. he discusses that these books contain everything imaginable that could ever take place. it says that all men were in pure joy when they heard the library contained all books. its funny to think about in today's society where people would rather watch television or search the internet than go to the library.