Both the combinations that our imagination devises and those that the letters of the alphabet allow, although they are incalculable, are not infinite. And he concluded: “Instead of asking ‘what book will I write’ an author will ask ‘which of the books I will write.” This prediction implies that the collection of our libraries is not endless. After arguing that “everything written in books must have once existed in some brain,” Lewis Carroll made the following prediction in Sylvie and Bruno: “There will come a day, if the world lives long enough, when all possible melodies will have been composed, all possible puns will have been made and, what is worse, all possible books will have been written! The number of words is limited.
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