Word: babel
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...missing manuscripts, “Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote,” and “The Library of Babel,” both first published in early forms in 1939, are two of Borges’ most celebrated and influential stories...
...manuscripts, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote," and "The Library of Babel," had last been seen on Nov. 12 at a fair in Hamburg, Germany and longtime bookstore employee Saúl Roll said he discovered that the manuscripts were missing...
...Tower of Babel in management control before [Essentials]. People used the same terms to mean different things,” he said. “[Anthony] organized everything and created a conceptual framework for all the research being done in systems analysis...
...haphazard and unbelievable that it's almost shocking to read them under the byline of a novelist as seasoned as Crichton. It's possible he is trying something new here, that he deliberately opted out of his usual central driving plot to present us instead with a panoramic Babel-style view of a whole society gone genetically mad, I tell you, mad. If so, the experiment, like so many he describes, has gone disastrously wrong. This kind of messiness doesn't suit him at all. Crichton's narratives work because they're as gleaming and orderly as nature is frighteningly...
...epic, The Fountain, about a man who will do anything to save his critically ailing wife. The film was to cost near $100 million and to star Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. The original financiers dropped The Fountain when those two bowed out. (They later reunited to make Babel, in which they played virtually the same roles.) Aronofsky slimmed down the budget to $35 million, cast Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz in the main roles, and made the damn movie. The whole trip, with all its frustrating detours, took six years. Then the Cannes Film Festival rejected The Fountain...