If the question is, Can they meet the challenge?, I'd bet there's enough in the history of imprisonment to answer it. Some go nuts, some write great literature.

If the question is, Can they meet the challenge?, I'd bet there's enough in the history of imprisonment to answer it. Some go nuts, some write great literature. I think they're trying to stack the odds in favor of the latter. An interesting literary experiment, and the first collaborative novel, they say, using Google Docs (woohoo! hopefully not also the first to use Google Translate).