Mind bending memes and analysis (if you're willing).
The 'Library of Babel' is an interesting meme similar to many I've thought of but more accessible than most.
I'll have to think about it some more, but it occurs to me that the infinity of possible symbolic constructions (eg present and future books) is not something "of this world." If it exists enough to make this meaningful, the Library of Babel is immortal, and therefore every book in it as well. And then if every book, then every author, every reader, etc, as well, I pondered in a previous essay.
However we do have present books, and they are something of this world. As long as there are writers, more will be created, and some will be lost.
There's a huge gap between what we understand as 'material world' and structuring principles, numbers, memes, books, and so on, which appear as though they could be immortal.
Following the above essay, that immortality seems to arise precisely from their reducibility, which things in the material world (including us) don't seem to have.
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