Longest poem in literature – “The Blah Story, Volume 8″

The eighth volume of The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm was published in 2008. In this volume, Nigel Tomm continues to explore possibilities of the modern English language (as fractal, algorithmic methods or literary phase-shifting). Almost all of The Blah Story, Volume 8  occupies one poem called My Blah Story. The most interesting fact about the poem - this is the [...]

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The Blah Story, Volume 7

The seventh volume of The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm was published in 2008. In The Blah Story, Volume 7 Nigel Tomm continues to explore the possibilities of fractal and algorithmic literature (which was used in volume 5 and volume 6). I think the best sentence which describes volume 7 is:  “The Blah Story is based mostly in steady pulse, stasis and slow [...]

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The Blah Story, Volume 6 {longest novel continues}

The sixth volume of The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm was published in 2008. In The Blah Story, Volume 6 Nigel Tomm continues to explore the possibilities of fractal and algorithmic literature (which was used in volume 5). “Nigel Tomm introduces literary phase-shifting, i.e., allowing nearly identical phrases at slightly differing lengths to repeat and slowly go out of [...]

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The Blah Story, Volume 5 {fractal literature; algorithmic literature}

The fifth volume of The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm was published in 2008. In The Blah Story, Volume 5 Nigel Tomm continues to explore the possibilities of a text. He uses the methods of fractal literature (it enables the text to be self-similar) and algorithmic literature (it allows the text to be self-developing).
Book statistics: The Blah Story, Volume 5 contains [...]

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Longest sentence in literature – “The Blah Story, Volume 4″

The fourth volume of The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm was published in 2007. Probably it is the most famous volume of The Blah Story, yet. The reason is clear – it contains the second longest sentence in English, the longest one is contained in four volumes (i.e. Volume 16, 17, 18 and 19) of Nigel Tomm’s The Blah Story (read [...]

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The Blah Story, Volume 3

The third volume of The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm was published in 2007. The Blah Story, Volume 3 continues The Blah Story, Volume 2, but in the third volume the body of the text (a carcass) has more structure and sometimes it feels that the text is evolving by itself.
Book statistics: The Blah Story, Volume 3 contains 430,804 words; [...]

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The Blah Story, Volume 2 {literary haute couture continues}

The second volume of The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm was published in 2007. In The Blah Story, Volume 2 Nigel Tomm introduces more different words (other than blah), dialogs between characters are becoming clearer and we can observe something like a storyline.
Book statistics: The Blah Story, Volume 2 contains 353,924 words; 1,756,514 characters (with spaces); 732 pages.

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The Blah Story, Volume 1 {literary haute couture begins}

The first volume of The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm was published in 2007. In the book the author demolishes the barrier of words and meaning, giving vitality and expressive strength to the pattern of his most exclusive novel – The Blah Story. It is a new way of conceiving text that frees the imagination, allowing [...]

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