no "e"

 

OTIS said this LIPOGRAM even HURTS to think about, let alone read:

 

"...The line-length constraint brings to mind lipograms, “writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is avoided”.  Ernest Vincent Wright published an entire novel in 1939, Gadsby, without using the letter e.   The Wikipedia page for lipograms lists more examples.   That’s a hell of a trick, but there’s a reason why Gadsby is almost unheard-of, and Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby remains famous.  Gadsby is miserable to read.  Wright was obviously a fine writer.  Gadsby’s “Introduction” is written without the no-e’s constraint — and largely about the no-e’s constraint — and it reads just fine.  But the text of the novel is a goddamn laborious slog.  I couldn’t get through more than two paragraphs before deciding that my point was proven.  It’s a fun challenge to compose lipograms but it’s no way to actually write.  The gimmick necessarily becomes the highest priority of your word choices, not clarity or meaning." - VIA

fyi:

history

Lasus of Hermione, who lived during the second half of the sixth century BCE, is the most ancient author of a lipogram.  This makes the lipogram, according to Quintus Curtius Rufus, "the most ancient systematic artifice of Western literature".^[5]

 

 

Lippy PUCK DROPS LETTERS all the time!👇👅

 

Dropping letters

Another type of lipogram, which omits every instance of a letter from words that would otherwise contain it, as opposed to finding other words that do not contain the letter, was recorded by Willard R. Espy in 181 Missing O's,^[25] based on C. C. Bombaugh's univocalic 'Incontrovertible Facts'.^[26]

N mnk t gd t rb r cg r plt.
N fl s grss t blt Sctch cllps ht.
Frm Dnjn's tps n rnc rlls.
Lgwd, nt Lts, flds prt's bwls.
Bx tps, nt bttms, schl-bys flg fr sprt.
Trps f ld tsspts, ft, t st, cnsrt.
N cl mnsns blw sft n xfrd dns,
rthdx, dg-trt, bk-wrm Slmns. via