{"id":3994,"date":"2021-07-10T09:33:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T09:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2021-06-09T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:25:25","slug":"tales-from-the-town-13-an-alphabet-of-absences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2021\/07\/10\/tales-from-the-town-13-an-alphabet-of-absences\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Town #13: An Alphabet Of Absences"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A<\/strong><\/p>\n

They decided to write this story without specific letters.<\/p>\n

B<\/strong><\/p>\n

So each sentence would have a different one missing (in order).<\/p>\n

C<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was harder than it looked at first.<\/p>\n

D\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n

Especially without cheating.<\/p>\n

E<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Tina had a plan.<\/p>\n

F<\/strong><\/p>\n

So what they did was write each sentence out however they liked.<\/p>\n

G<\/strong><\/p>\n

And then they would use the thesaurus to find alternatives to any words that didn\u2019t fit.<\/p>\n

H<\/strong><\/p>\n

Claire said it still sounded like deviousness.<\/p>\n

I<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ethel expressed an opposed theory.<\/p>\n

J<\/strong><\/p>\n

While Daniel didn\u2019t even know how the thesaurus worked.<\/p>\n

K<\/strong><\/p>\n

So he just inspected up words in the dictionary that he loved the sound of.<\/p>\n

L<\/strong><\/p>\n

His favourite was \u2018phantasm\u2019.<\/p>\n

M<\/strong><\/p>\n

Or perhaps \u2018pennyweight\u2019.<\/p>\n

N<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Periwig\u2019 was also a good word.<\/p>\n

O<\/strong><\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t get passed P.<\/p>\n

P<\/strong><\/p>\n

Claire wanted to know what the book was actually going to be about.<\/p>\n

Q<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tina said that it didn\u2019t have to be about anything.<\/p>\n

R<\/strong><\/p>\n

Except itself.<\/p>\n

S<\/strong><\/p>\n

Claire pronounced that that verbalized like a load of old garbage.<\/p>\n

T<\/strong><\/p>\n

Which was probably verifiable.<\/p>\n

U<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe deserved to have chosen something simpler,\u201d Ethel said.<\/p>\n

V<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLike an acrostic!\u201d<\/p>\n

W<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAcrostics are the most terrible of all things!\u201d Claire said.<\/p>\n

X<\/strong><\/p>\n

By now Daniel was playing on his glockenspiel.<\/p>\n

Y<\/strong><\/p>\n

And Tina had gone off sailing on her large boat that is used for the most part for pleasure cruising.<\/p>\n

Z<\/strong><\/p>\n

So Claire and Ethel abandoned the story and went outside to feed the hippotigris.<\/p>\n

__________<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

1. Written on May 5th, 2021<\/em>
\n2. The actual name for books written without specific letters is a lipogram<\/em>
\n3. Which is a strangely rubbish word<\/em>
\n4. For a quite pleasing concept<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br>

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