[HN Gopher] Tour of the Sacred Library
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       Tour of the Sacred Library
        
       Author : apsec112
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2021-07-25 16:25 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | Bradlinc wrote:
       | I wish this library existed! I have been thinking about something
       | like this for the past few years and how it could be
       | accomplished.
        
         | xkeysc0re wrote:
         | Semi-related: https://libraryofbabel.info/
        
       | nbardy wrote:
       | A sense of awe throughout the whole series. Really captured the
       | sense of wonder that comes from stumbling into a latent space and
       | the story telling is just fantastic. It carries me through a
       | world I don't understand, introduces characters and places.
       | 
       | What a wonderful journey this art piece is.
        
       | skytreader wrote:
       | Man, what an uncanny trip! I don't mean to say it's any less
       | impressive, but it was uncanny.
       | 
       | The surrealist nature of the piece notwithstanding, I was
       | bothered by some of the artistic decisions made in the pictures.
       | Maybe the lack of (traditional) perspective; but even that I can
       | chalk up to a conscious Escherian aesthetic. I was also slightly
       | bothered that the images were not available in higher resolution.
       | Surely that should go without asking, in a piece going for this
       | kind of artistic subject matter?
       | 
       | My suspicions peaked at
       | https://moultano.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/1626575570_the_...
       | because it really does not look like a cafeteria to me.
       | 
       | And when I got to the coda, it all made sense.
       | 
       | Long-ish PS:
       | 
       | > We believe that every book contains a world. But more than just
       | believe, we know this, because we know that our world is made out
       | of words. The person who created our world thought of words to
       | describe just one of the rooms in our library, then saw it, and
       | was so amazed at its beauty that he described more and more, and
       | saw more and more.
       | 
       | I got chills when I first read this because it's so meta. Then I
       | got to the behind-the-scenes explainer of the methodology and
       | this quote (which, to be clear, I'm aware R. Moulton himself
       | wrote) just reached another level of meta, if that's possible.
       | 
       | Thanks for the tour. I enjoyed it!
        
       | fxtentacle wrote:
       | I really like the author's conclusion after exploring this.
        
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