Thursday, April 12, 2007

lipogram

A lipogram is a kind of word game consisting of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is missing.

Imagine!! you've just started your writing and one of the keys on your keyboard is broken. It would be easy to manage without a Q, X, or Z, but writing without a single E can be a challenge. It sounds undoable;however, there are some books which whole books were written without an E, the most used letter in the English language. Without an E, we cannot use some of the most common pronouns such as he, she, we, me, and so on. What else, we are not able to use even the article "the."


Ernest Vincent Wright's novel "Gadsby" is written without the letter "E"

-Gadsby-

if youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can think; and, possibly, do it practically; you wouldn’t constantly run across folks today who claim that “a child don’t know anything.”A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult’s act, and figuring out its purport.

You cannot found the letter "E" It is so amazing..
This is a story of over 50.000 words without using the letter "E"

Here are whole story..
http://www.spinelessbooks.com/gadsby/

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