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The idea was born in a split second, "All one needs to do is to create nothing and insert it into
book "Kaif", that is to make a book’s plaster cast or a notebook, to write on cover page a pen-name - Homo sapiens, title Kaif and to sell it for one million dollars".
What is value of this book? Its value is that a purchaser buys not a book or a notebook but his own pleasure obtained by his own intellect from idea, i.e. his own Kaif or Nothing. Due to this very reason author of idea does not have any right to introduce his content, because no one but a buyer can know what his Kaifis.
Thus a buyer turns into latest genius, because he becomes a genius not only with help of his own intellect but also for money, and this gives appearance of a genius. Also this book can be perceived as whatever one wishes and to see in it any content in any language and one copy only.
But they won’t understand, will they?
Then it is necessary to create one more book "Oblom", which will be author’s idea book, Amiran's one, under pseudonym Ubralo Adamiani, which in Georgian language stands for a Simple Man. The author of this book has an exclusive right to introduce his content and to present it to purchaser of book Kaif as a frustrated Oblom of author’s idea, if such a purchase takes place.
If purchase doesn’t occur, idea’s author at any time can write his Oblom in book Oblom, publish it in 100,000 copies and get his million.
I was delighted with Amiran's idea and instantly understood how many-sided it is in its seeming simplicity and infinitely substantial. I agreed to make it at once.
On 15 th November 1996 at 4 p.m. local time Amiran and I were sitting in unassuming cafe. Before us on table there was first in world absolutely empty and totally simple object of luxury or "Immaterialized Nothing", resume of XX century; last book of XX century and simultaneously first book of XXI century; last book of 2nd millennium and simultaneously first book of 3d millennium; first in world dilogy in which nothing is written; first in world object which reads spectator wishing to read content of books where nothing is written; first in world object assigned for multi-millionaires valued at $ 1 000 000 000 ( book photos at http://www.donvalerigrig.com/kaif_and_oblom.html ).
On it there were lying keys to Amiran's old car. We were drinking champagne silently. I felt warm, nice and unbearably sad.
Valeri Dobrynin - Ukranian born artist, who also paints under the pseudonym Don Valeri Grig de Kalaveras. For more info visit his official website at http://www.donvalerigrig.com
