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TIL it would take 190 million years to read every possible permutation of Raymond Queneau's book "A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems" The book consists of 10 sonnets of 14 lines each, all sharing the same rhyme scheme and pentameter & cut to be able to mix and match poems 10x14th power different ways

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