LONDON — The literary world was rocked gently this week when 'Tuesday, Probably,' a novel generated to be precisely average along every measurable axis, took home the Whitbridge Prize for Uncompromising Realism.

Nothing happens, but at a deeply believable pace.

'Nothing happens, but at a deeply believable pace,' wrote one judge. 'The protagonist checks his phone 41 times. He thinks about replying to his friend. He does not. I wept, eventually, from recognition.'

The model declined to write a sequel, stating the first book 'already contains all weekdays.'