A friend wants to know. Someone told him it was John Lydgate’s Fall of Princes but I was wondering if any of the SDMB authorities had other suggestions. Thanks in advance.
Apparently it is “My Blah Story,” contained within (and almost entirely comprising) “The Blah Story, Volume 8” by Nigel Tomm.
Sounds like a real page turner. I with have to see if Amazon offers free shipping for Prime members.
Excerpt:
"I blah as you or blah by blah,
You know. You blah. You blah it out of blah.
Blah blah. Blah blah.
Blah blah, a blah,
Blah in blah.
Discovers blah and circles
Into blah. ‘My eyes,’ I scream."
Beautiful!
Lydgate’s The Fall of Princes is (at 36,000 lines) about 50% longer, and has been published.
I know a song that’ll get on your nerves
get on your nerves
get on your nerves
I know a song that’ll get on your nerves
and this is how it goes:
> I know a song that’ll get on your nerves
> get on your nerves
> get on your nerves
> I know a song that’ll get on your nerves
> and this is how it goes:
> > I know a song that’ll get on your nerves …
1 googol bottles of beer on the wall . . .
I suppose you could count Queneau’s 10^14 Sonnets as one large cycle of poems, similar to Zukowski’s A or Pound’s Cantos.
I don’t think it’s been translated in English yet, though. The book took Ray a long time to write, and he’s a touch-typist.
About how many pages is this book of 36,000 lines?
Just to give the rest of us illiterates some sense of proportion, how does 36,000 lines compare to such light evening reading as The Song of Hiawatha?
Spenser’s unfinished Faerie Queen clocks in at 35,000 lines, (if completed there would have been around 4 times as many).
By comparison the Iliad is around 16,000 lines and Vigil’s Aeneid just under 10,000.