Babel

Michael Romano, Milton Läufer & all the contributors to BAR

Library of Babel as visualized by Erik Desmazieres.

(Each of the following sentences comes from the texts of the Review.
Hover over one to see its title or click to read the whole text.)

And I’ve come to notice that these opportunities to surreptitiously straighten are rare, because the shelves tend to be immaculate, resonating with the loving attention paid to them. The same sequence of events repeats itself when the narrative opening, “Suddenly, there is a knock on the door,” summons a Moroccan pollster with a gun, then a pizza delivery man with a cleaver. The thinking organs were set in the roots of the tree-giants, and with these thinking organs—which processed indescribably complex tactile impressions—the Junoians constantly reflected on their past. ” What is so threatening about a woman falling apart? First of all, a woman on the street is much more vulnerable to physical harm than her male counterpart.

The offices of the great railway companies are enormous.