WHISTLING IN THE LIBRARY OF BABEL: META-PRINCIPLES AND SECOND-ORDER RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE ABOUT DIVINE REVELATION IN TPOJ

 Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them…well, I have others.” Groucho Marx We also know of another superstition of that time: that of the Man of the Book. On some shelf in some hexagon (men reasoned) there must exist a book which is the formula and perfect compendium of all the rest: some librarian has gone through it and he is analogous to a god. … How could one locate the venerated and secret hexagon which housed Him? Someone proposed a regressive method: To locate book A, consult first book B which indicates A’s position; to locate book B, consult first a book C, and so on to infinity ... In adventures such as these, I have squandered and wasted my years.