05.14.04
Lipogrammatron
Announcing our stunning lipogrammatron.
For too long, any author licking at nib of a quill and poising it on a blank folio to scratch its mark lipogrammatically has fought against an unusual limit. In combination a human brain, its optic organ and linguistic flair usually do. But in tumbling up such a concoction of words as Tryphiodorus hard won, common skills will not always carry all. Our cunning author of such tricksy things must show also constant vigilant rigour. This taboo must not slip.
Now, lipogrammatron allows authors of a formalist colour to banish doubt by making any occult consonant vanish from sight - and from touch. This occurs by disabling that block on your touch-pad as out of bounds.
Lipogrammatron: as writing such a toy is not a work of E’s.
[Links:
Hairy Oulipan
Lipogrammatic fictions
A book without words of action
Thoughts from this in Mr Hamm’s blog]