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Re: Is there a List of All Novels somewhere?
Posted:
Jun 6, 2012 1:26 AM
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On 06/02/2012 10:24 AM, Jim Burns wrote:
> On 6/1/2012 6:38 PM, Graham Cooper wrote:
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>> OK same question to JIM BURNS as JESSE J HUGHES answered!
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>> Each of the infinitude of authors, standing in line are given a
>> Lobachaveskian sheet of paper to write their novel, ala Escher Cows
>> and Birds. You can fit 10 lines in the top half of the paper, another
>> 10 in the next 1/2 - 3/4, another 10 in the next 3/4-7/8, and so
>> on...
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>> Despite how many authors submit a novel, despite every poss. word
>> sequence for all lengths being submitted, Virgil just goes through
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>> stack of papers and writes something completely new! ??
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>> The Diagonal Novel =<In were Countrymen raced...>
>> Virgil's Novel =<Over where Cityfolk slept...>
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> You have been over this territory enough that
> you can answer this question yourself.
>
> An endless string of decimal digits is (represents)
> a real number.
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> Is an endless string of English words a novel? Ever?
>
In a fiction work of Jorge Luis Borges, there's a special book ...
I don't know if it's a novel, though ...
Wikipedia says:
"This Book of Sand has no beginning or end: its pages are infinite. Each
page is numbered, apparently uniquely but in no discernible pattern."
From:
< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Sand >
[D, B] =/= h_bar
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