Frank tells a tale of three books, each with 50,000 words and none of those words use the letter e. Ernest Wright’s book “Gadsby” in 1939 was the first, followed by Georges Perec’s 1969 “La Disparition” in French and its English translation “The Void” translated by Gilbert Adair. Try writing a sentence without the letter e. It’s not easy. (Obviously the authors’ names didn’t count.)
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By Gordon Pritchard on Sep 24, 2022
The author's names of the books all contain the letter "e"...FAIL!
LOL!
Still, very interesting.
By David Taglieri on Sep 26, 2022
Outstanding!
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