If you, like me, is lazy and stubborn, you will enjoy reading the style exercises (Chair, 1989) by Raymond Queneau (which, as everyone knows, is pronounced May -no). This book is a simple story: One (the narrator) sees the bus to a boy about 26 years with hat and long neck, who scolds an older man telling him that every time the passengers board or get off the bus will pisa feet. Then the boy dives into a seat that has been cleared. A while later the narrator returns to see the boy in the Saint-Lazare station talking to a friend advised to add a button to your coat.
Leisure and stubbornness displayed when this story is repeated 99 (ninety-nine) times, each with a different style. This book is one of the most concentrated of Queneau, and is an example of what a few years later, would write the members of the famous Oulipo, founded by Queneau himself.
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