Amazingly, the author burns "I", "a", and "the" in the first sentence!
Yeah, the first sentence is great. "Get these all out of the way." This is a mightily impressive undertaking.
Among serious wackos, ordinary sober eccentrics hardly rate peremptory heave-ho.
Fetish peculiarities assignating peculiarized delectability reformulate unworn Bible-era lingerie: Jerusalem bratichokes, Galilace pantiocs, etslutera.
"etslutera" has got to be a word for the ages.
Very curious as to how the author enforced the restriction on himself, actually.
Also, yes, now I will be endlessly looking for uses for "etslutera".
I know it breaks form with the book, but perhaps the usage of "etslutera" should invoke a nod to `The King and I'; etslutera, etslutera, etslutera...
Umm, yeah.... Seeing the artistic side of spam is so 1998.
If you want the "artistic side of spam", Wisse, you want this, not Nufer's effort, which was anyway completed in … 1997.
Well, no, so you were doubly wrong.
Very curious as to how the author enforced the restriction on himself, actually.
Perhaps something like this:
<novel.txt tr -cs "a-zA-Z'-" "\n" | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
yay! eliminate all a and the's and i'm like a true fan
though have to read it with the webster
That looks really unreadable. I liked Perec's "A Void" (no e's) and the one with all the e's, although I didn't know whether to be more impressed with Perec, or Adair's mad translation skillz.
What asilon said. I was thinking the same thing, but feared that maybe hours of finals-grading had just sucked all the humor and appreciation out of me.
Seconding 17 and 18. It looks unreadable to me, too.
Writing a book without repeating a single word isn't terribly impressive; a sophisticated enough program could do it for you. Writing a good book without repeating a single word? That I'll tip my hat to.
The book is surprisingly readable; the constraints make for some very clever sentences, occasionally. I got through 15 pages and I may try to finish it. It's a matter of getting into a proper reader's rhythm.
Inspired by this book I've written a first person adventure story using only one word (aside from the title), and no punctuation. I call it "Sledding Everest".
Seeing the artistic side of spam is so 1998.
Hey! Some of my best friends are 1998!
22: I like how it rhymes, but the characters seem a little flat.
great!
may i propose ow OW oW Ow etc
now it's not flat though don't know how to pronounce the capital W :)
Uh re-uploading a version of 22 with potential personal information stripped: fuck you, Word!
Elegant in its simplicity and powerful in its subtle complexity.
complexity? i've checked urban dictionary, please disregard my previous comment,
and i pictured only the snow white mountain and sledding
when i will learn :(
when i will learn :(
That's what we're all asking.
Sledding Everest means something gross? Damn.
Anybody know a free pdf converter that actually works and doesn't grab author information from your system?
Okay! Finally! My masterpiece can be shown again. In case the link in 22 doesn't work: "Sledding Everest".
Anybody know a free pdf converter that actually works and doesn't grab author information from your system?
ps2pdf.
34 isn't exactly a converter. Good idea, but not a converter.
36: It converts LaTeX source to PDF, so in a sense....
I've been conditioned to not read anything that looks like it originated in MS Word. Sifu's story, for instance; I only read the first page.
Would that work on an unfogged thread?
$ <unfogged.txt tr -cs "a-zA-Z'-" "\n" | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
820 the
716 to
685 i
596 a
564 and
472 of
390 it
385 is
369 that
341 cock
322 you
37: Well, in that sense it's a compiler.
I've converted documents from word to tex, it's not so bad unless you have a lot of figures. Too much pain in the ass to suggest as a conversion of final version though. With a big document it can be worthwhile just to get around problems in Word.
Well, in that sense it's a compiler.
Or, in that sense, a compiler is a converter.
Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken?