Aye, it reminded me of those (if I can remember correctly) tedious passages in books like "Fear and Loathing ..." and "The Naked Lunch", works praised as literary genious but, imho, a load of "pony and trap" (rhyming slang).

PS What the hell is a "tocsin"?

>Terry;
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>I also read a great deal. The run on sentence and avoidance of use of the letter “e” made reading, understand, and enjoying the work difficult for me. I did feel there was an attempt at a bit of humor behind the work but did not enjoy it.
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>Tom
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>>[SNIP]
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>>Hi Martin
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>>I've never come across the concept of a lipogram before but I can't, for the life of me, see the point.
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>>Neither, I'm afraid, can I see the point of the cited passage. If I were to open a book, and the first page presented to me was as below, I'd quickly close it and never pick it up again.
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>>Now you may think I'm a literary philostine but, believe me, I devour books by the shelf-load, and this is a load of waffle to me.
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>>Just my POV :-)
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>>Terry
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>>>In any case, it is a matter of resources, will and skill. Georges Perec wrote a whole novel which is a lipogram, La Disparition. without using the letter "e".
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>>>Here is a fragment of the excelent translation of Gilber Adair (the title became "A void") which managed to keep the lipogram:
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>>>Noon rings out. A wasp, making an ominous sound, a sound akin to a klaxon or a tocsin,