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Shvoong Home>Books>Classic Literature>The world''s longest book is "A hundred billion poems" Review

The world''s longest book is "A hundred billion poems"

Article Review   by:VICTORJIME     Original Author: VJQP
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UNESCO, recently created a "History of Mankind", consists of six themed collections with seven volumes each. In this blockbuster, if we talk about books, while 1600 worked in topics of all kinds. The work began in 1952. Of course, we are talking about a collection and what we look for in a single book. Impacientéis will not, I think we gave him. The French author Raymond Queneau in 1960 published a series of ten sonnets entitled "Cent Mille Milliards of Poems", which translated into Christian meaning "hundred billion poems." The book in question, oddly enough by the subject at hand, consists of only ten pages with the same number of sonnets. But the extraordinary thing about the work, which can be combined in all ways shapes and verses, so every time we form a sonnet. The total number of possible combinations is 10 to 14, that is, a hundred trillion sonnets different. Spending of our precious time just 45 seconds to read a poem, it would take about two hundred million years to read the last page of this curious, surprising and wonderful book. In fact, while reading one of the combinations, we quite likely to be the first person to have read the sonnet in question.

UNESCO, recently created a "History of Mankind", consists of six themed collections with seven volumes each. In this blockbuster, if we talk about books, while 1600 worked in topics of all kinds.
The work began in 1952. Of course, we are talking about a collection and what we look for in a single book. Impacientéis will not, I think we gave him. The French author Raymond Queneau in 1960 published a series of ten sonnets entitled "Cent Mille Milliards of Poems", which translated into Christian meaning "hundred billion poems." The book in question, oddly enough by the subject at hand, consists of only ten pages with the same number of sonnets. But the extraordinary thing about the work, which can be combined in all ways shapes and verses, so every time we form a sonnet. The total number of possible combinations is 10 to 14, that is, a hundred trillion sonnets different. Spending of our precious time just 45 seconds to read a poem, it would take about two hundred million years to read the last page of this curious, surprising and wonderful book. In fact, while reading one of the combinations, we quite likely to be the first person to have read the sonnet in question.
Published: June 14, 2012   
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