Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Whn you'r bord, what ls can you do?

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 10:15 PM, Craig wrote:

> > BTW, I'm inclined to vote against this.  Even with the one-syllable
> restriction I
> > managed to write a prose prop.  This is just duuuuuuuuumb.
>
> And yet, Georges Perec wrote an entire novel with no e. It was 
> translated to
> English, with the constraint retained.

Yes, that's what gave me the idea. "A void", I believe it's called in 
english.

> Though I think the hardest constraint I've seen is the one in the Mike 
> Keith
> rewrite of "The Raven." It's long, but if I don't post it here, 
> someone's
> going to ask, so here goes:
> <snip>
>                         -- Original: E. Poe
>                         -- Redone by measuring circles.

This might be more impressive if I knew what you meant by "measuring 
circles"...

--
Wonko

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