Hi, Terry.

>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.

Well, some people like to read John Grisham's novels, believe it or not. 8-)

Seriously, I liked Perec's novel. Besides from the experimental approach, the story is very good, and semantics are preserved all along!

Regards,