Thursday, July 14, 2005
Decrypt this book, says Chinese code-novelistHu Wenliang, a writer from China's Shanxi province, is offering a $17,000 reward for whomever can decode his latest novel -- which consists entirely of a set of 14 punctuations, and not a single word.
Link to China Daily story (Thanks, Susannah Breslin)He claimed those 14 marks represent a touching love story, reported by the Beijing Daily Messenger on Wednesday.
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 < º >, claimed that he spent one year to write a novel with five sections as follows:
：？
：！
“‘……’”
（、）·《，》
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