The Library of the Double Axe

I think now I understand why a library for Jorge Luis Borges is a type of labyrinth.  Look at the diagram of the Rheims Labyrinth (left) and then look at the diagram of a plain non-labyrinth space with the outer boundaries shaped like those of the Rheims Labyrinth.  Now think of a library, even a one-room library, with the shelves full of books and then think of that same building empty of books, perhaps with a poster on the wall.  Which one is like which?  If necessary, trace the labyrinth with your finger and then mentally trace the path of all the text of all the books in the library.  If you think about it, even one good book would be sufficient for this purpose. 

And then you must consider the wanderings of the intellectual pathways engendered by the reading of those books.  Borges was a librarian as well as a writer.