This is a box which has the ability to transform the nature of a book placed within it, in such a way that the audience (what may be considered the direction to which the author intends their ideas) is changed to a new, specific, target. The box only changes the one book which has been placed inside it, and all other similar books – including those books with otherwise identical text – remain true to their original stance.
It is possible that this technology could be modified, and that boxes might be created that alter other transcendental properties of a text…
Etymology: The box was a necessary creation in Borges’ Library of Babel[I], when the promise of every possible text was realized to contain an inherent limitation. Borges, although not the creator of the box – merely one of the library’s curators – considered that an identical text might have two different authors, and thus may be considered to have predicted its invention.
[I] “”The Library of Babel” (Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set.” For further details see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel.
