In 1960, French writer Raymond Queneau introduced what is probably the longest book in the world. It is called Cent mille milliards de poèmes (One Hundred Billion Poems) and consists of just ten pages, each containing a sonnet. All of the verses share the same rhyming pattern and are printed in strips, allowing readers to combine 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 of the possible combinations of poems, without taking breaks to eat, sleep, or read anything else. And all of this comes from just ten pages!

Each combination you create will result in a consistent sonnet with proper stanzas, rhythm, and rhyme. Furthermore, it is very likely that any random poem is one that no one has ever read before. Queneau himself stated that if it took him about 45 seconds to read one sonnet and another 15 seconds to prepare the next, it would take him about 200 million years to read all the possible combinations.