You have no doubt heard of Georges Perec and his experimentations, most notably his novel "A Void" which omits the letter "e":

http://tinyurl.com/4sdvc

Each page has a different topic stuff, I can write that. It's not like the enitre 20 odd pages were one continous story. I just call it stupid after reading a few pages.

Yeah, and you could paint a Picasso too. Any five year old could, right? From the writing sample you've provided, Joe, it seems obvious you haven't enough grasp of language to understand.

Each page has 20 odd pages, after I stuff a few pages. I note one stupid continous reading like the story were just nitre. It's a call that topic can write it different.

Yeah, Perec's A VOID was what sprung to my mind, too. Particularly when I looked at the example, which was centered on the letter E - after writing A VOID, Perec also wrote a book in which the only vowel used was E.

Thereby directly inspiring Moby's "Next is the E".

No. I joke.

Seriously, just joking.

Oh! Wait!

I've not seen A VOID in French; I don't know what is the greater success, writing a book in French without the letter E or doing an English translation of such a book, sticking to the original stricture.

Of course, they're both winners!

Writing just one meaningful sentence in this form is not trivial. Try it yourself and see what I mean. I wonder if there's a sort of rhyming dictionary for these words, or if, more likely, Bok created one himself.

Thanks for the tip Clive, I'm passing this on to a writer friend of mine for some inspiration.

Glad you liked it, Karl! Yes, Jonathan and Alfred, I'd heard of A Void before too -- I think I might have read part of it in high school. I actually find Bok did some really neat things with this concept.