nasin Lanpan
nasin Lanpan is a novella-length fiction story written by kapesi Pake for utala musi pi ma pona 2024.[1] With a word count of 66,372 words, it holds the record for the largest piece of Toki Pona literature ever written as of August 2024.
Content[edit | edit source]
nasin Lanpan is written in the first person perspective of a narrator attempting to write a story. In the course of this effort, they distract themself with long tangents about their personal life and their cynical views of the world, making deprecating comments about the reader, people they know, and themself. They end up writing multiple attempts at conveying the story they want, including a run-on sentence of around 4,000 words. They conclude with a 100-line poem affixed with 123 footnotes scattered throughout the text.
The narrator's writing style makes very limited use of paragraph breaks, and it frequently engages in repetition of concepts and pleonastic phrases. Post-pu words are capitalized and serve exclusively as modifiers for either people or concepts. The text makes references to online Toki Pona culture, mentioning figures such as George Orwell, jan Misali, and Nardi.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ kapesi Pake. "nasin Lanpan". utala musi pi ma pona. Retrieved 23 August 2024.