Lipograms

Matt Duffy introduced me today to the fact that there is such a thing as a lipogram. The most famous is Gadsby, "A Story of Over 50,000 Words", written by Ernest Vincent Wright, which, except for the introduction and a note at the end, did not use the letter e. Every word was properly spelled and all narration was grammatically correct. However, the stress of writing such a novel was apparently too much for Wright, who died at the age of 66 on the day Gadsby was published.

In order to avoid Wright's fate, I plan to limit my lipogram constructs to ones which avoid the use of the letter Z or X or maybe even a Q. However, this blog is a lipogram of some note since I avoided the use of my middle initial.