Some odd facts about The Boomer Bible...
Considering that at least one reviewer called this book "impressively empty-headed"
and that the Vatican of American literature (a.k.a. The New York Times)
refused to review it at all, the fact that the answer to all of the following
questions is "The Boomer Bible" seems odd indeed...
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What work of fiction is so diverse in its content that it includes songs,
anapestic verse, hymns, slide presentations, commercials, prayers, limericks,
mathematical equations, word and number games, treasure hunts, and
computer programs?
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Given that chapter-and-verse is a poetic form, what work is demonstrably
the longest poem ever written in English?
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What work of fiction is written in first- second-, and third-person
points of view?
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What work of fiction contains, or makes significant use of, references
to more than 200 works from the canon of English literature?
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What work besides the Holy Bible contains more than 12,000 internal references?
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What work of any kind other than the Holy Bible is so comprehensive in
its subject matter that quotes from its text can be used to comment on
virtually any news or feature story in the headlines, from pop culture
to hard science to highbrow art to everyday politics?
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What work of any kind anticipates and satirizes in its text every
single criticism leveled against it by unwitting reviewers?
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What work of any kind can be read linearly, concentrically, in random order,
or in infinite variations of all of these without either losing coherence
or requiring any retroactive reconstruction of linearity to divine its
meaning?
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What work of any kind has so confused bookstore clerks as to wind up being
shelved, variously, in Humor, Fiction, Sociology, Philosophy, Religion,
and Bible sections?
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