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ssue #4, Fall 2008
COLUMN: Causal Domain Shear, by Matt Carey What does Neal Stephenson's Anathem have to do with the stories in this issue of Labyrinth Inhabitant Magazine?Issue #3, Summer 2008
COLUMN: Failure and Success in Biosphere 2, by Matt Carey Much like Biosphere 2, Labyrinth Inhabitant Magazine was conceived as a hermetic environment where stories could attempt to survive in isolation, uncontaminated by readers or ad revenue.Issue #2, Spring 2008
COLUMN: The Library in the Labyrinth, by Matt Carey Remember that scene in the Da Vinci Code when Tom Hanks really had to get to a library? This is gonna be just like that.LINK: Programmer Xin Gao, also known as Jerric, reveals his method for creating a "maze walker" that can find its way out of two-dimensional mazes with right angles. His maze walker spends about 35-50% of its time retracing its steps, and you can watch its Sisyphean labors in a Java applet on Jerric's page.
[T]he algorithm here is not a random one. The key here is that, I'll record each step (walk) on each cell it arrives at. and when I want to leave a cell, first check its accessable neighbours and pick one with the smallest step number. that one either can be never accessed before if step number equals 0, or the oldest one that has been accessed.LINK: John Young of Bellflower, California has posted a guide to getting published in Labyrinth Inhabitant Magazine on his personal web site. I was happy to answer his questions, but because I was feeling like even more of a wanker that day than usual, I insisted on referring to this site only as "LabInhab".
Issue #1, Winter 2007-2008
COLUMN: How Are You Going to Get Out of This One?, by Matt Carey A welcome to the first issue of Labyrinth Inhabitant Magazine.
LINK: The Labyrinth and the Stairway
This work in particular represents "a vast fictional topography that exists within the walls of a mythological Roman city." Within that city, according to the Borges story, "a lone figure traverses its magnificent, eternal architecture in search of immortality."
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LINK: Knossos: The Palace of Minos
...the only actual cult room that Evans found is the Shrine of the Double Axes. The room is tiny, barely a metre-and-a-half square, with a plastered clay bench at the back. It was installed, according to Evans, by squatters who reoccupied the site of the palace shortly after its final destruction.
LINK: Information Policy for the Library of Babel
...Censorship is usually irrelevant.
Some of the books in the Library are dangerous in themselves: “There is no combination of characters one can make—dhcmrlchtdj, for example—that the divine Library has not foreseen and that in one or more of its secret tongues does not hide a terrible significance.” Others are dangerous because they divert us from the books we seek: “thousands and thousands of false catalogs … the proof of the falsity of the true catalog … some perfidious version of his own [Vindication].” In the face of these dangers, some “Purifiers” have turned to censorship...