The Wiki's plot summary for "A Void", a book that (usually) omits a symbol vital to our vocabulary, also avoids that symbol
The Wiki's plot summary for "A Void", a book that (usually) omits a symbol vital to our vocabulary, also avoids that symbol
I do not support just calling that wiki "wiki" without including a crucial part of it.
TLDR The whole book doesn’t have the letter e so the plot in the wiki doesn’t either
Did you just ruin it to tldr an info that's just a Bing away?
Hol up! Do NOT instill Bing into this discussion. Bing sucks, and, inb4, Duck Duck Go is just Bing strutting different pants. I'm singing about my glowing utilization of Kagi for about a month or so. You should try it out for a bit. It's good to stick it to giants on occasion, regardless of how much it cost.
I see what you did there 😉
May I submit a formulation akin to "I got what you did thusly"?
You don't say? But you said it. Why, you don't find it - approaching mortality for saying it, as in A Void - intimidating? I admit though, not using it is limiting. A book writ without that symbol... Wow. But I must stop now, I can't think of any words without it.
A Void's plot follows a group of individuals looking for a missing companion, Anton Vowl. It is in part a parody of noir and horror fiction, with many stylistic tricks, gags, plot twists, and a grim conclusion. On many occasions it implicitly talks about its own lipogrammatic limitation, highlighting its unusual syntax. A Void's protagonists finally work out which symbol is missing, but find it a hazardous topic to discuss, as any who try to bypass this story's constraint risk fatal injury. Philip Howard, writing a lipogrammatic appraisal of A Void in his column Lost Words, said "This is a story chock-full of plots and sub-plots, of loops within loops, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of which allow its author an opportunity to display his customary virtuosity as an avant-gardist magician, acrobat and clown."
I also find it funny that this paragraph from OP's link also avoids using an individual symbol. I'm also trying to do it in my post, but it's hard to form any thought without it. I don't think that I could draft a full book using this constraint, and notably a book that's so cognizant of it's own imposing limitation and of it's protagonists habit of fourth wall smashing.
How surprising! I thought that symbol most popular in "La disparition"'s original localism, but this wiki says this translation's vocabulary has a similar proportion and thus - probably - a similar difficulty.
My mood was spoilt by looking up this author and what folk call him. Oh, I wouldn't want to construct a book of this kind. It hurts.
andin basnoda?
An individual should start an avoid5 community
Why do most subposts in this post look kinda off?
It's a running gag that avoids using a glyph (fifth), which a plurality of us want to copy. But, you could possibly know this.
subposts
Fascinating! I may find looking at this book in my todo list.
(This is hard!)
Oulipo is chock full of amazing linguistic training propositions isn't it?
Don't know why, but I find this absolutely eerie.
How about "most famous and trustworthy virtual information vault"? Or is that too much?
Thanks! Fascinating, I will look it up!
LovecraftHoward Philip called the author a clown. I don't know if that's an insult or a compliment, given the time period that would have had to be in. Clowns were cool at some point, right?That's an intriguing way to look at it. I can't find an origin for that quotation, though. Would you kindly link it?
It was literally in the wiki you linked to lol. Though I was mistaken, it wasn't Howard Philip Lovecraft, but "Philip Howard."
Philip Howard, writing a lipogrammatic appraisal of A Void in his column Lost Words, said "This is a story chock-full of plots and sub-plots, of loops within loops, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of which allow its author an opportunity to display his customary virtuosity as an avant-gardist magician, acrobat and clown."