How unusual it is! What fun! An amazingly long story, a concoction from a taboo, a constraint, as its author did not, could not, would not allow a particular unit of normal vocabulary (or syllabary, you might say) to go into its composition:
I ought to admit right away that its origin was totally haphazard, touch and go, a flip of a coin. It all got out of hand with a companion calling my bluff (I said I could do it, this companion said I could not); and I should admit, too, that [...] I had no inkling at all that, as an acorn contains an oak, anything solid would grow out of it [...] but I stuck to my guns.His yarn and its translation––indubitably a fairly arduous pursuit!––has a highly significant omission. From start to finish, as in this, my dubious blogpost of today, you'll find not a solitary ...
Can you work out what it is?
Hint: La Disparition's protagonist is a M. Voyl (Mr. Vowl).
2 comments:
Chris wanted me to figure it out so I'll CTRL-V what I emailed him. I really hope I'm correct!
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More than 30 years ago when the House of Speculative Fiction was still alive
on Fourth Avenue I was making little jokes with Roger (the boss) about being
called Chuck Clark-no-e. As in Cordwainer Smith's Mr. Grey-no-more character
in "The Lady Who Sailed the *Soul*".
AW also gave it away, even though I had to look up SYLLABARY.
I'll be impressed if you tell me you know where Meeya Meefla is.
CWC
No way *I* could do what you did in your post, BTW.
But, to add difficulty for *you* - how many forms of your post could carry similar gist?
CWC
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