There has never been a work of fantasy quite like "Konstantinople." A lethargic student hides in his room from his domineering uncle and halfheartedly composes a fantasy epic. Friends pop in and out of the window to add their own chunks of text, which adapt themselves to an evolving fictional universe, often in hilarious and surprising ways. Ship-swallowing whales, riddling rodents, zookeepers, detectives, and moon-men all conspire to keep the flatware-fashioned Kakoskolos from finding the Voluminous Encyclopedia's missing volume X and restoring virtue to the world.