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Some authors might adopt this as a [[Signature Style]]. [[Unconventional Formatting]] can be related. When this is used within an otherwise normal piece of writing to show something specific then it is [[Painting the Fourth Wall]].
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== Web Comics ==
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': ▼
** When Homer becomes a food critic, he writes a review without using the letter E. That's because the E key on his typewriter is broken.▼
** Mr Burns tells Lenny that he will be fired unless he is able to explain why he shouldn't be without using the letter E.▼
'''Lenny''' ''[falling]'': '''EEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeee!''' }}▼
== Real Life ==
* ''[[A Void]]'' (and ''[[La Disparition]]'', the French novel it's a translation of) was written without using the letter E.
* ''[[Gadsby]]: A Story of Over 50000 Words Without Using the Letter "E"'' by Ernest Vincent Wright.
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* ''Le Train De Nulle Part'' is a French novel with no verbs.
* In her first ''[[Thieves' World]]'' short story, "The Secret of the Blue Star", [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] carefully tried to {{spoiler|avoid referring to the gender of the magician Lythande to conceal the [[Twist Ending]] that [[Samus Is a Girl|Lythande is a woman]].}} She did slip up at one point, however.
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* [[David Langford]]'s "[http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/drabbles.html A Surprisingly Common Omission]" is a drabble written without using the letter E.
* [[Harlan Ellison]] once sat in a department store window for five hours, with the challenge being that he write a 500+ page novel in that time-frame. And pulled it off. In addition, he's written several short stories in this manner, with other people providing written prompts just before he starts.
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* [[Dr. Seuss]] wrote ''[[The Cat in the Hat]]'' as a challenge to write an interesting story using a very small vocabulary of words which a 6 year-old should know.
** Speaking of [[Dr. Seuss]], reportedly ''[[Green Eggs and Ham]]'' was a challenge to create an interesting children's story using no more than 50 different words.
* [[Isaac Asimov]] wrote [[wikipedia:Insert Knob A In Hole B|Insert Knob A In Hole B]] live on television.
* [[Jim Butcher]] wrote the ''[[Codex Alera]]'' on a bet that he could write a story using what he thought were two terrible ideas: The [[Lost Roman Legion]] and ''[[Pokémon]]''.
* [[Poul Anderson]] wrote the essay "Uncleftish Beholding" in which he described basic atomic theory and the periodic table in a manner as if English had never adopted any French, Latin, or Greek vocabulary but instead only used its Germanic roots:
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* ''[[wikipedia:Alphabetical Africa|Alphabetical Africa]]'' is a novel in 52 chapters, beginning with only words that start with 'a', and then 'a' and 'b', up to chapter 26, where all the alphabet can be used. From chapter 27 to 52, the letters words can start with recede back to 'a'.
▲* ''[[Xkcd]]'' has [http://xkcd.com/1045/ a comic] about this.
▲* ''[[The Simpsons]]'':
▲** When Homer becomes a food critic, he writes a review without using the letter E. That's because the E key on his typewriter is broken.
▲** Mr Burns tells Lenny that he will be fired unless he is able to explain why he shouldn't be without using the letter E.
▲{{quote| '''Lenny''': Uh, I'm a... good... work... guy... <br />
▲'''Burns''': You're fired. <br />
▲'''Lenny''': But I didn't say... <br />
▲'''Burns''': You will. ''[pushes trapdoor button]'' <br />
▲'''Lenny''' ''[falling]'': '''EEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeee!''' }}
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