Friday, July 15, 2005

Earn $16,900 for your adoption! :-)

A novel without a word telling a love story?: A writer from Shanxi Province is waiting for someone to decode his novel, a novel without a single word but a set of 14 punctuations, with a reward of 140,000 yuan (US$16,900).

It might be the shortest novel ever, and it might be the only novel without a word. But Hu Wenliang, the author the novel entitled <<.>>, claimed that he spent one year to write a novel with five sections as follows:


:?

:!

"'... ...'"

(.) <<,>>

;-

(via BoingBoing)

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