A Post Without The Letter "E"
🎯 A Bold Plan
This is a bold act. I am writing a full post without that common glyph. You know. That tiny villain. That smug, popular symbol.
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Mar 03 · 2 months ago
11 Comments ↓
Reminds me of Gadsby, an entire novel written without the letter E.
🚀 SavaRocks [OP] · Mar 03 at 15:26:
@jprjr Gadsby has over 50.000 words without using the letter "E". I'm not even close to that number
A valiant effort. However, you are not even close to a much harder task - a poem with each word starting with O. Albeit in Russian:
See separate post. Too long.
👻 darkghost · Mar 03 at 16:07:
Yeah but who is the author of Gadsby? Earnest Vincent Wright. Check mate
🚀 SavaRocks [OP] · Mar 03 at 18:57:
@darkghost your knight was taken by my bishop. Gotta look better at the board :-)
👻 darkghost · Mar 03 at 19:00:
I see my error now. This isn't chess, it's pachisi.
👻 nightliife · Mar 04 at 02:40:
ok oulipo :)
true.
I love writing challenges like this. I put a response on my capsule:
— jsreed5.org/log/2026/202603/20260304-about-a-missing-symbol.gmi
There was a tradition among folk singers that avoided using bilabial stop consonants like p, b, m… They challenged each other by singing with a needle between their lips.
🚀 SavaRocks [OP] · Mar 05 at 04:47:
@jsreed5 well done 👏