Autobiography of a Wogdon & Barton Flintlock Smoothbore Dueling Pistol

Front cover of Autobiography of a Wogdon & Barton Flintlock Smoothbore Dueling Pistol (first edition).

Autobiography of a Wogdon & Barton Flintlock Smoothbore Dueling Pistol is an autobiography of the dueling pistol which killed Alexander Hamilton.

Autobiography was allegedly written by the pistol itself using self-instantiating Gnomon algorithm functions. The validity of this assertion has been widely questioned but remains unrefuted [September 2024].

History

The book was first detected and decrypted by software developer and fabulist Karl Jones on the afternoon of Thursday, 12 November 2020.

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