Thursday, February 26, 2009

Gadsby

This was news to me:

A writer by the name of Ernest Vincent Wright penned Gadsby. Not newsworthy? How about the fact that he wrote this book with no words that contain the letter "E"?

Try to write a paragraph without the letter "E", and you will see how decidedly difficult the task is. Yet, Mr. Wright managed to write an entire novel devoid of our most ubiquitous vowel. It's really a fascinating concept.

If you need to see how this is possible (I just used five "E"s in that one clause!), you can read the book at http://www.spinelessbooks.com/gadsby/.

'Njoy!

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