... mas que, no entanto, só possui nove palavras.
a idéia pertence ao artista conceitual e jornalista jonathon keats e visa
to rejuvenate literature in the age of hyperspeed media by writing a story that will take a millennium to tell.
(...)"something essential is lost when ingesting words is all about speed. my thousand-year story is an antidote. given the printing process i've used, you can't take in more than one word per century. that's even slower than reading proust."
para isso ele se associou à opium magazine, que trouxe, na capa de sua sua infinity issue, a história toda - escondida sob artifícios de impressão que levarão mil anos para revelar as nove palavras.
the cover is printed in a double layer of standard black ink, with an incrementally screened overlay masking the nine words. exposed over time to ultraviolet light, the words will be appear at different rates, supposedly one per century.
"the precise quantity of ink covering each word is different, so that the words will appear one at a time," keats said. "provided that your copy of opium is kept out in the open, and regularly exposed to sunlight over 1,000 years to be read progressively by the next dozen or so generations.
a wired questiona se o papel da capa conseguirá durar tanto tempo assim:
"the high-quality acid-free paper on which opium is printed will certainly last that long," keats answered. "whether humankind will, of course, remains an open question."
