I am looking for help in trying to locate a short story or essay that describes what happens to books, letters, and other written words once they vanish from this world. I kind of recall that the author might be Jorge Borges, but a superficial search of his work doesn’t show anything. And I might be barking up the wrong tree entirely.
Have you tried the works of Stanislaw Lem? It sounds like something he might have written.
I remember this story. I have it on my shelves somewhere. I thought it was called Exodus of Letters, but this gives no hits anywhere. I’ll keep looking.