Cybernetics and Ghosts

One Thousand Billion Poems

One Thousand Billion poems is a set of 10 sonnets published in 1961 by Raymond Queneau. Each sonnet has the same rhyme scheme and each scheme is grammatically correct, any line can be combined with any from the 9 others. So that makes; 10¹⁴ which equals to a hundred thousand billion different poems. It could take roughly a hundred and forty million years to read, if read 24 hours a day consecutively.