Observed arrival · 2026-10-03
Ya estaba escrito: a literary scavenger hunt for your phrase
Search a phrase against public-domain Spanish literature, or find its imagined address in Borges’s Library of Babel.
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- Readers of Spanish literature and curious phrase-searchers
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- Its Babel model uses 30 symbols across 30^3200 possible pages; the site says a reversible formula maps phrases to locations without storing the pages.
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The page describes a search corpus sourced from Project Gutenberg and Wikisource, with a stated rule excluding works whose authors or translators died less than 80 years ago. For phrases with no match, its Babel address is computed from a reversible formula; the site says the pages are not stored and the phrase remains at the same location on later visits. Search controls include sorting by oldest result or by where a phrase appears most often.
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