Jorge Luis Borges’, “The Library of Babel”, took me a couple reads to grasp. In the “indefinite and perhaps infinite” Library, what stood out to me was the importance, and vastness, of language. The Librarians struggle with the “formless and chaotic nature of almost all the books… for every sensible line of straightforward statement, there are leagues of senseless cacophonies, verbal jumbles and incoherences” (Borges, 2). When all possible combinations exist, the incoherent outnumbers the coherent. Borges’ Librarians specifically struggle with deciphering books that may use recognizable words, but form illogical sentences with seemingly no meaning. While some Librarian’s believe the majority of the books to be nonsense, the narrator argues that there is not a “single example of absolute nonsense”, instead, “in some of them, the symbol library allows the correct definition a ubiquitous and last system of hexagonal galleries, but library is bread or pyramid or anything else, and these seven words which define it have another value” (Borges, 8). In an indefinite library, and here on Earth, language and etymologies are constantly evolving, and just because you can read the words, does not equal comprehension: “You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?” (Borges, 8). While some Librarians write off books they deem as nonsense, Borges recognizes that language is not static, but constantly evolving.