Library of Babel
I thought the Library of Babel story was interesting, definitely something to make one think. I wondered about the hexagonal construction of the library rooms. Was the choice of this shape related somehow, to the choice in nature by bees to optimize their room space by building hives in hexagons? Or maybe it was because they can be arranged side by side to form a grid (as often used in war games...). Such a layout is more appropriate for wandering about randomally and possibly gettting lost, than a simple grid of squares would have been.