So I mentioned in one of my earliest posts the book written entirely without the letter “e”…there is also a French book that is over 500 pages long –– but only one sentence. Now I’ve come across an ad in Harper’s Magazine for Eunoia, a new book by Christian Bok that, as the tagline implies (?), has five chapters, and only uses one vowel per chapter.
“Seven years in the making. Five chapters. One vowel.
Awkward grammar appals a craftsman. A Dada bard as daft as Tzara damns stagnant art and scrawls an alpha (a slapdash arc and a backward zag) that mars all stanzas and jams all ballads (what a scandal.) A madcap vandal crafts a small black ankh –– a handstamp that can stamp a wax pad and at last plant a mark that sparks an ars magna (an abstract art that charts a phrasal anagram.) A pagan skald chants a dark saga (a Mahabaharata), as a papal cabal blackballs all annals and tracts, all dramas and psalms: Kant and Kafka, Marx and Marat. A law as harsh as a fatwa bans all paragraphs that lack an A as a standard hallmark.”
What do we think, children? Mockumentary?
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