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Futility Closet · Jul 31, 2026

Demetri Martin’s 2012 book This Is a Book contains a page marked “This page unintentionally left blank.” The first page of this edition of Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1944 essay Anti-Semite and Jew is marked “This Page Intentionally No Longer Blank”. At the start of Australian children’s author Andy Griffiths’ 1999 book Just Stupid!, a cartoon snail tells the reader, “This page would be blank if I were not here telling you that this page would be blank if I were not here telling you that …” Reza Amirkhani’s 2000 novel Man-e-oo…