👆🏼There is a book that no one can finish reading in their lifetime, and it has only 10 pages. In 1960, French writer Raymond Queneau introduced what is probably the longest book in the world. It's called *Cent mille milliards de poèmes* (One hundred billion poems) and consists of only ten pages, each containing a sonnet. All the verses share the same rhyme pattern and are printed on strips, allowing readers to match lines from different sonnets. This configuration results in a total of 1014 possible combinations, which means that the book contains one hundred trillion unique poems. The implication is that no one will ever be able to read the entire book, even with the greatest effort, because it would take millions of years to match all possible combinations of poems, without taking breaks to eat, sleep or read anything else. And all of this is just ten pages! Every mix you create will result in a consistent sonnet with proper stanzas, rhythm and rhyme. Also, it's quite likely that any random poem is one no one has read before. Queneau himself claimed that taking about 45 seconds to read a sonnet and another 15 seconds to prepare the next one, it would take about 200 million years to read all possible combinations. Credits: Curiosamente alucinante