Babel
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“In the illusory babels of language, an artist might advance specifically to get lost, and to intoxicate himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd intersections of meaning, strange corridors of history, unexpected echoes, unknown humors, or voids of knowledge… but this quest is risky, full of bottomless fictions and endless architectures and counter-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only meaningless reverberations.” --Robert Smithson
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- The city and tower in the land of Shinar where the confusion of languages took place, according to the Bible.
- A place or scene of noise and confusion.
- A confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
- Quotations
- That babel of strange heathen languages. - Hammond.
- The grinding babel of the street - R. L. Stevenson.
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