June 7th, 2009
librarianpirate: nerdgasms: dailymeh: Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, by Raymond Queneau, reminds me of Borges’s Library of Babel: [Hundred Thousand Billion Poems] is a set of ten sonnets. They are printed on card with each line on a separated strip, like a heads-bodies-and-legs book. As all ten sonnets have not just the same rhyme scheme but the same rhyme sounds, any lines from a sonnet can be combined with any from the nine others, so that there are 1014 (= 100,000,000,000,000) different poems. Potential literature indeed. What a great idea. If by any chance this was available from the NYPL (I’m assuming it’s far too delicate for a lending library) I’d check it out, despite my ambivalence to poetry.

librarianpirate:

nerdgasms:

dailymeh:

Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, by Raymond Queneau, reminds me of Borges’s Library of Babel:

[Hundred Thousand Billion Poems] is a set of ten sonnets. They are printed on card with each line on a separated strip, like a heads-bodies-and-legs book. As all ten sonnets have not just the same rhyme scheme but the same rhyme sounds, any lines from a sonnet can be combined with any from the nine others, so that there are 1014 (= 100,000,000,000,000) different poems.

Potential literature indeed.

What a great idea. If by any chance this was available from the NYPL (I’m assuming it’s far too delicate for a lending library) I’d check it out, despite my ambivalence to poetry.

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