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Gadsby
(an E-less novel)
This nOde last updated December 3rd, 2001 and is permanently morphing...
(11 K'an (Corn) / 2 Mak - 12.19.8.14.4)

• _The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun_ (1896),
• _The Fairies That Run the World_
• _How They Do It_ (1903)
• _Thoughts and Reveries of an American Bluejacket_ (1918).

• The only novel to not contain the letter "E".
• written in 1937
• contains 50,110 words
• Wright tied down the "E" key on his typewriter which made it useless
• he finished the novel in 165 days
• Wright died the day _Gadsby_ was published, aged 66

Youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting  world that a child can think; and, possibly, do it  practically; you would constantly run across folks today who claim that 'a child don't know anything'.

Gadsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hills' manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a Mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming brass drum and sounds of singing told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night  shopping crowds. Gadsby, walking toward that group, saw a young girl, back toward him, just  finishing a long soulful oration, saying '...and I can say this to you, for I know what I am talking about; for I was brought up in a pool of liquor!"

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