1. Jorge Luis Borges’ Limitless Library of Babel
A few visual interpretations & parallels

5. Ikwanter. Ansicht des Turmhelmes der Elisabethenkirche Basel von unten, 2007. Photograph.

8. Yiddish: a High German language spoken throughout the world
“He showed his find to a wandering decoder who told him the lines were written in Portuguese; others said they were Yiddish” (Borges 54).
Yiddish: a High German language spoken throughout the world
Developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages
Written in the Hebrew alphabet

9. “Within a century, the language was established: a Samoyedic Lithuanian dialect of Guarani, with classical Arab inflections” (Borges 54).