This link was passed along from A.M. via a contributor, about Christian Bök's new book which uses only one (orthographic) vowel per chapter. Of course, much like on this blog, the comments are often better than the story. The exercise calls to mind Gadsby, the novel written without using the letter 'e' Much more interesting would be prose restricted to single vowel sounds over long stretches. There's plenty of that in poetry, but is there prose like that?
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Cool blog! So good. Lots of good posts. No poor words. Blog tomorrow. Do lots of posts. Don't stop! Lots of joy.
Thanks to both of you.
Enoch, right, reading aloud is key. If he'd used the same vowel sounds instead of the same vowel symbols, it'd be very cool.
VL, you exemplify something I thought about trying this morning, namely how many vowel sounds you can wring out of one symbol. You've go /u:/, /o:/, /a/, /ʌ/, and more, with orthographic 'o'. Nicely done!
"the novel written without using the letter and other efforts."
I don't get this...
Oops. Without the letter 'e'. I used the symbol for spelling (<>) and that got interpreted as html code.
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