 Clute notes that the Kalpa is not , as the title suggests , the last city ; they believe they are , but the last city is Nataraja , " the city beyond the city at the end of time " . Clute says that the Typhon is " a kind of god and a kind of quasi @-@ animate principle of destruction " that is attempting to destroy the universe because it " cannot tolerate being told " or " observed " . The creation and evolution of the universe is observed and recorded , and the Typhon will not tolerate this telling . In the Kalpa , Polybiblios creates Babel fragments ( " Borgesian libraries that do not end " ) that , when brought together , will form a " backstory " that retells the history of the universe and overwhelms the Typhon . 
