See http://books.google.ca/books/about/Day.html?id=kKOefRuY954C http://books.google.ca/books/about/Day.html?id=kKOefRuY954C The book, "Day," by Kenneth Goldsmi

See http://books.google.ca/books/about/Day.html?id=kKOefRuY954C http://books.google.ca/books/about/Day.html?id=kKOefRuY954C The book, "Day," by Kenneth Goldsmith was created by typing out, word for word, an issue of the New York Times. It's considered a book of poetry. Typing out a novel word-for-word doesn't seem all that insane to me. And it likely isn't a useless exercise either: artists learning to draw and paint have often tried to reproduce the works of the masters in painstaking detail in order to try and internalize the techniques and effects used. I suspect the mechanical motions of typing out a piece of writing you admire will illicit much the same response in your brain as it likely shares the same mechanism of reinforcement.