Similar to the guy who makes poetry by blacking out most of the words on a page of the New York Times, Jonathan Safran Foer created his "Tree of Codes" by starting with a copy of "The Street of Crocodiles" by Bruno Schultz, and cutting out all the words he didn't need. And that's what your copy of the book will look like. How'd they do that? This video shows you the last three months of a year of work compressed into three minutes (nice music, too):
