An entire story written without the letter 'E'

Catullus

Yes... somehow this guy managed it!!

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=16534

LundiMardi

can you cut and paste pweese?:o

Can't access that site from work.

gerire

Gadsby
A Story of Over 50,000 Words
Without Using the Letter “E”
by Ernest Vincent Wright

But look at his 1st and 2nd names he didn't even get past the first page without 3 e's appearing pfffttt!!!

Also as its a 50,000 word story it aint going to be cut and pasted

Earthhorse

There's a whole book written without using the letter 'e'.

It's called 'A Void' and was originally written in French.

Merrick

Earthhorse wrote:

There's a whole book written without using the letter 'e'.

It's called 'A Void' and was originally written in French.

It's called La Disparition and was written by George Perec in the 60's, then it was translated into English ie. A Void, again without the letter e.

Lola123

LundiMardi wrote:

can you cut and paste pweese?:o

Can't access that site from work.

I second that request! Pretty please, cut n paste!

puffmullett

Why

kjt

What a waste of time.

Merrick

puffmullett wrote:

Why

?

Dont be at yourself

Somebody, possibly George Perec, also wrote a book without using any vowel other then 'E'. An interesting exercise!

Aard

puffmullett wrote:

Why

Because "e" is the most common orthographic vowel in English, and it's quite an excercise to write without using one.

Earthhorse

NekkidBibleMan wrote:

Somebody, possibly George Perec, also wrote a book without using any vowel other then 'E'. An interesting exercise!

Yes, I believe it was called La Disparition. He wrote it in the 60s and it was later translated into English using the title 'A Void' and again without using the letter 'e'.

/wipes Merrick from the internet

Tobias Greeshman

Well I think its fairly cool, considering it's a right challenge to write a sentence without an 'e' in it.

Catullus

ok for those who crave a sample here are the first few paragraphs :

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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.

Up to about its primary school days a child thinks, naturally, only of play. But many a form of play contains disciplinary factors. “You can’t do this,” or “that puts you out,” shows a child that it must think, practically or fail. Now, if, throughout childhood, a brain has no opposition, it is plain that it will attain a position of “status quo,” as with our ordinary animals. Man knows not why a cow, dog or lion was not born with a brain on a par with ours; why such animals cannot add, subtract, or obtain from books and schooling, that paramount position which Man holds today.

But a human brain is not in that class. Constantly throbbing and pulsating, it rapidly forms opinions; attaining an ability of its own; a fact which is startlingly shown by an occasional child “prodigy” in music or school work. And as, with our dumb animals, a child’s inability convincingly to impart its thoughts to us, should not class it as ignorant.

Upon this basis I am going to show you how a bunch of bright young folks did find a champion; a man with boys and girls of his own; a man of so dominating and happy individuality that Youth is drawn to him as is a fly to a sugar bowl. It is a story about a small town. It is not a gossipy yarn; nor is it a dry, monotonous account, full of such customary “fill-ins” as “romantic moonlight casting murky shadows down a long, winding country road.” Nor will it say anything about tinklings lulling distant folds; robins carolling at twilight, nor any “warm glow of lamplight” from a cabin window. No. It is an account of up-and-doing activity; a vivid portrayal of Youth as it is today; and a practical discarding of that worn-out notion that “a child don’t know anything.”

Now, any author, from history’s dawn, always had that most important aid to writing: an ability to call upon any word in his dictionary in building up his story. That is, our strict laws as to word construction did not block his path. But in my story that mighty obstruction will constantly stand in my path; for many an important, common word I cannot adopt, owing to its orthography.

I shall act as a sort of historian for this small town; associating with its inhabitants, and striving to acquaint you with its youths, in such a way that you can look, knowingly, upon any child, rich or poor; forward or “backward;” your own, or John Smith’s, in your community. You will find many young minds aspiring to know how, and why such a thing is so. And, if a child shows curiosity in that way, how ridiculous it is for you to snap out:— “Oh! Don’t ask about things too old for you!”

Such a jolt to a young child’s mind, craving instruction, is apt so to dull its avidity, as to hold it back in its school work. Try to look upon a child as a small, soft young body and a rapidly growing, constantly inquiring brain. It must grow to maturity slowly. Forcing a child through school by constant night study during hours in which it should run and play, can bring on insomnia; handicapping both brain and body.

Lump

Pity his name has 3 E's in it.

Dont be at yourself

Earthhorse wrote:

Yes, I believe it was called La Disparition. He wrote it in the 60s and it was later translated into English using the title 'A Void' and again without using the letter 'e'.

/wipes Merrick from the internet

No, no, no!

A Void = without E
other book = only E and no other vowels

Earthhorse

Ahhh!

/wipes egg from face