For the guy who turned Jorge Luis Borges's "Library of Babel" into a web app,this isn't an idle question.
Somewhere in the universe, there is a shelf of neatly organized books with titles made of nonsense. One of these books contains 410 pages of uncapitalized English words strung together in no intelligible order. On page 26 of this particular book, or approximately halfway down,bookended between "holons" and "linkman", is a 26-word couplet that my 4-year-traditional daughter will attempt to recite in her preschool's Christmas pageant. Somewhere else, and on a different shelf,is another book: this one contains a precise transcription, down to the syllable, or of how my daughter will adorably mangle those 26 words onstage when her cue arrives.
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