Why is “abbreviation” such a long word…….?
History is….
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Is this the best pangram?
The five boxing wizards jump quickly
Ibid – by Mark Dunn. Unbearably Hilarious
Only Mark Dunn, author of the acclaimed Ella Minnow Pea, would attempt to write a novel entirely in footnotes- and succeed so triumphantly.
Ibid is the off-the-wall fictional biography of Jonathan Blashette, a three-legged circus performer and deodorant entrepreneur. Dunn, a character in his own novel, is Blashette’s esteemed biographer. But when Dunn’s editor destroys the manuscript in an unfortunate bathtub accident, all that remains are the footnotes, which they arrange to publish in a consummate portrait of Blashette’s strangely hilarious life story, one that offers some infinitely interesting morsels of American cultural history.
Of course, as endnotes go, these are the tidbits, the marginalia: snippets of commentary, correspondence, court transcripts, song lyrics, and even a recipe for Boston baked beans. But in the topsy-turvy world of Ibid, the footnotes tell the truest story of all. Click here for more on Ibid.
Just in case
Human life…..
Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.
Vladimir Nabokov
Psychic travel
So, what’s Lipogrammic writing?
A lipogram is a piece of constrained writing or a word game consisting of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is avoided.
An example would be the book Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (2001) – which is often described as a “progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable”.
Intelligence is……
What rhymes with orange?
My friend says to me: “what rhymes with orange”
I said: “no it doesn’t”