In the Realm of the Unreal

Perhaps the greatest example of mapping time.

Henry Darger, a seemingly poor Chicago hospital janitor, is the author of the longest novel of all time (discovered in his apartment after his death in 1973)

The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion is a 15,145 page book complete with over 700 illustrations.

Each day Darger, who lived alone and was an institutionalized orphan growing up, worked on his magnus opus as well as meticulously recording the weather and writing in his diary. He had no friends or family, and no one knew of his life's work until his died at the age of 81.