Tuesday, May 08, 2007

no 'e'

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

Can't help thinking "why would you bother?" Apparently, it was written to prove that it could be done. I did a search for copies of the book - they start at $103. But, the whole thing's available on the 'net for nix.

Gadsby

2 comments:

Janet said...

wonder what the name is for the fear of the letter E?

Julie said...

Don't know if there is one, but I did find this which I thought was kinda funny...
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.