Pet King

The cocker spaniel brought by Meng Li was trained very well. After entering the shop, he did not run around and bark quietly. He lay on the floor quietly, sniffed, and suddenly looked at the snack bar chef with his eyes blinking. The aroma of frying.

Zhang Zi'an took two sips of orange juice and stared silently at the letters on the napkin.

Since he talked about science fiction, he thought of a novel he had read before, so he said, "Mr. Meng, have you ever read a short fantasy novel called" Book of Sand "?"

"The Book of Sand?"

It's Meng Li's turn this time. He is bending over to comb the cocker spaniel's hair. Cocker Spaniel hair is too long, and it is naturally easy to curl. If it doesn't agree, it will clump. It needs to be combed frequently, otherwise it will look very shy. In addition to studying the daily tasks of the graduate students he took, the other job was to comb the dog's hair, often mocking himself for playing cotton ...

After a brief memory of Xun Mengli, it was determined that the name was strange and he should have never seen it.

"Like I said, I rarely read science fiction, and I usually read books related to mathematics. After all, if I have to live to learn this year, I will be eliminated by the times without paying attention." He laughed. "Is this Book of Sands interesting?"

"No, although it is called the Book of Sand, it is not a 'book'. It is an ultra-short fantasy novel with only 2,000 words. The author is the Argentine writer Borges. This is one of his masterpieces. Zhang Zi'an explained that this was a science fiction novel he had read a long time ago, because it was short, incisive and shocking, and he still remembers it so far.

"Oh?" Meng Li developed some interest. "In mathematics, simplicity is always beauty. This novel has only 2,000 words, but can become a masterpiece of a writer? Then it must be a very thoughtful and artistic story. . What does it say? "

Zhang Zi'an recalled this fantasy novel to him.

开头 At the beginning of the Book of Sand, the ordinary protagonist lives in an ordinary house. One day, a stranger with a small suitcase visited. The stranger sells the Bible, but the protagonist has several Bibles and is not interested in it. The stranger then came up with another book, which was not the Bible, with the Holy Book on the cover.

After opening the holy book, the protagonist finds that the page numbers of the holy book are strange, not in order, but randomly and randomly. The most important thing is that the page number of this holy book is endless. At the beginning, but not at the end, there will always be new pages created out of thin air, and illustrations will be attached like a dictionary.

The stranger said that the book was bought by him from a village, and the seller called it "Book of Sand" because it has no beginning and no end like sand.

The book is obviously very weird, but the stranger is willing to sell it to the protagonist at a relatively low price, because he already wanted to get rid of it.

After the protagonist got this book, he also became its captive, because he cherished it so much that he couldn't stay away from it, and almost never went out; because he had an extremely strong interest in it, he studied it day and night. I fell asleep and dreamed of it.

Like the stranger, the protagonist felt that he would be finished if he went on like this, so he decided to get rid of this nightmare.

Speaking of this, Zhang Zi'an Xuemeng sold off Guanzi and asked, "Mr. Meng, can you guess how the protagonist can get rid of this book?"

Xi Mengli has been completely attracted by this bizarre story. He stopped grooming the cocker spaniel and tried to guess, "Did he sell it to others like a stranger?"

Zhang Zi'an smiled. "He used a smarter method—hidden wood in the forest. He secretly put the book on one of the shelves of the National Library with 900,000 books, and ignored it. I try not to remember which bookshelf, and I do n’t even go to the street where the library is. "

Meng Li patted the table lightly in admiration, "It really is a good idea! If that is the case, then the Book of Sand will be difficult to see, unless it is a bad luck who happens to take it at a rate of 1 in 900,000. Get it up! "

子 Zhang Zi'an smiled bitterly-unlucky eggs are sitting in front of you and asked you to drink a glass of orange juice.

He remembered that when π first came to the pet store, he once made a gesture of grabbing sand. At that time, he guessed that this meant the sand of the Ganges. Was he actually wrong?

"The story is over here?" Meng Liyi asked endlessly.

Zhang Zi'an nodded, "It's over, leaving an intriguing end. Teacher Meng, is this Book of Sands very similar to the Super Webster's Dictionary?"

Meng Li said: "It's really similar, but the Super Webster's Dictionary is more rigorous and has a beginning."

子 Zhang Zi'an also admits this, after all, "Super Webster's Dictionary" is a scientific hypothesis, and "Book of Sand" is a writer's fantasy, but it coincides in some aspects.

"Whether it's the Super Webster's Dictionary or the Book of Sands, if they exist, they should be very precious, can they be regarded as the most powerful books on earth? If there are other civilizations in the universe, will they come up with dreams Better books? "He asked.

He remembers Xinghai saying that the unknown book is the most powerful book on earth, but not the most powerful book in the universe.

Meng Li smiled: "Great? Of course it is. But both books have limitations. The limitation is that they are written in English, limited by 26 English letters. Some things may be in 26 English. The letters cannot be expressed. If a civilization in the universe has a more complete language system, the "Super Webster's Dictionary" they dreamed up must be even stronger. "

Zhang Zi'an nodded, which confirmed Xinghai's words.

"Mr. Meng, what would you do if you got this Book of Sand, or the Super Webster's Dictionary?" He asked tentatively again.

Xi Mengli was drinking orange juice, and when he heard that, he stopped immediately.

"Get? No matter which of these two books should not exist in reality, how to get it?" He asked back against the rigidity of science students.

"What if you got it?" Zhang Zi'an emphasized.

"Well ..." Meng Li thought for a while, "If I got the Book of Sand, I should also look through it. As for the protagonist of the story, I'm not sure ... Maybe, after all, the thirst for knowledge is shared by many people; but if you get the "Super Webster's Dictionary" ... this is hard to say, and the words in it may be out of order. I also do n’t understand. It may be handed over to the country. "

He said half-jokingly.

"This is my other question." Zhang Zi'an ignored his joke, but grabbed his head and asked further: "If the words in the Super Webster's Dictionary are out of order, how do you assert Which contains all the knowledge and splendid articles? "

Shen Mengli groaned: "This is only theoretical, but after all, this hypothesis is just an imaginary, without considering the difficulty of reading ..."

Zhang Zi'an also said, "Ms. Meng, have you heard this sentence-I have no limits in my life, but know no boundaries?"

"I know, although I am a mathematician, I still know such famous words." Meng Li smiled. "This sentence means that life is limited, but knowledge is unlimited. But this sentence is related to Does the Super Webster Dictionary we talk about have anything to do with the Book of Sand? "

"Yes, and there is a great relationship." Zhang Zi'an said affirmatively, "Ms. Meng, do you know what is the second half of this sentence?"

"This ..." Meng Li was asked.

The first half of this sentence is too famous, but the second half of it is often ignored. Many famous sayings are like this. People take out of context according to their own needs and forcibly distort their original meanings. For example, "parents are not far away" is often used to educate filial piety. You have to be good. "

"The second half is-you have no limits, you are already there!" Zhang Zi'an asked and answered.

Meng Li chewed the second half of the sentence carefully, then compared it with the first half, and said with uncertainty: "I'm not very good at ancient texts. The last half of the sentence is to pursue infinite with finite, Will it fail? "

"Yes."

"The words of the ancestors still have their philosophy to this day." Meng Li lamented.

"I think so too." Zhang Zi'an echoed casually. This is actually his introspection, and he has understood something.

That unnamed book, whether it is the "Super Webster's Dictionary" or the "Book of Sand", or an utopian book belonging to other civilizations in the universe, it is infinite, and man is finite, and infinite is infinite. It is bound to fail, so any single human cannot read the unknown book ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ When he opened the unknown book and tried to read it, he made the mistake of "finding the infinite with finite".

的 The protagonist of The Book of Sand, due to his extreme thirst for knowledge, also made the same mistake. He did not understand that knowledge is infinite and his time is limited.

Is exactly: my life has no boundaries, and knows no boundaries;

Unless ...

Meng Li also thought of this. "Limited people ca n’t read infinite books unless they are also infinite. There are countless people who go to the Super Webster Dictionary at the same time. Meaning words, concatenating them into terms and articles ... "

不过 "How can there be infinite people? Still meaningless." He shook his head and sighed.

No, actually it makes sense, Zhang Zi'an said quietly in his heart.

He knows why Xinghai can read the unnamed book, because Xinghai has experienced countless cycles of life and death and has the attribute of "infinite".

Fei Feimas has experienced the cycle of life and death together with Xinghai for a long time in the mind-like world, and it also touches the side of "infinity", so it can see fuzzy handwriting.

Π can understand, it must be because it also has the property of "infinity".

Understanding the infinity can only be understood by the infinite. ...

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