7600 *verses* I believe Jon, not lines.
those queneau sonnets are a blast
KS
On 31/10/2007, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hmm .. 7,500 lines isn't particularly long. The Iliad, which surely
> counts as a single poem, is about three times that long. And surely
> there are plenty of more examples.
>
> I suppose that like so many things it depends on the definition.
> Maybe this is the longest poem written on a single uninterrupted roll.
> But then it should be advertised as that.
>
> If we accept it as a single work, the record of another Frenchman
> still stands: 100,000,000,000,000 sonnets in single slim book. For
> more information, try googling:
>
> queneau sonnets
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