In the 1960’s French writer and poet Raymond Queneau became the most prolific writers of our time by writing over one hundred thousand billion poems. If you wanted to read all of these poems it would only take you 200 million years of reading 24 hours a day at a rate of about one poem per minute.
So how could Queneau write so many poems in far less time than it would take to read them all?
The truth is he didn’t actually write that many individual poems. What he did was write ten 14-line
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