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Favorite authorsJorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Jean Ferry, Claes Hylinger, Daniil Kharms, Flann O'Brien, Raymond Queneau (Shared favorites)

About meI am a private scientist. I study mainly the absence of the human mind within living human bodies and the correspondences between the curves of the female body and common statistical patterns (e g Zipf's law and related Bradford distributions). My findings will be published in a manuscript of special magnificence, written in exquisite hand on the finest vellum (by myself) and illuminated (by myself) in gold and silver and a manyfold splendid colours. Upon completion two copies will be produced by monks belonging to a forgotten sect with no knowledge of western languages whatsoever (this will ensure that the copies will not distort the original but will be faithful facsimiles). The original manuscript will be displayed at randomly chosen and undisclosed locations around the world, resting exactly one day in one place before travelling for exactly twelve days by twelve different means of transportation to a new undisclosed location where it will rest exactly one day etc.* The two copies will be displayed at the British Library and the Museum of Mechanical Instruments in Prague, respectively.

Apart from that I'm a fairly common guy.

*(There are 28 thirteen-day periods within one year. That leaves a rest of 1 day per year (28x13=364), which means that for each new year (excepting leap years) the cycle will begin anew on the calendar day before the start of the previous years' cycle. This would mean that - leap years excepting - it would take 365 years for a cycle to once again start on the same calendar day as the first cycle. Each leap year would add one day to that number, and if we assume starting on a leap year, there will be 92 leap years within a 365 year period. Thus, if we start on New Year's Day on a leap year, the cycle will begin anew on New Year's Day after 457 years. By that time my findings would probably be obsolete and I would have to make a new study.)

About my libraryNice, isn't it? I like it, anyway.

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Member sinceJan 24, 2008

Currently readingDressinen : roman by Carl-Henning Wijkmark
Bräsch : texter i urval by Henri Michaux
8 variationer : prosa ; Om godheten by Willy Kyrklund