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    Never Again: a 163-page novel with no repeated words

    http://www.ubu.com/contemp/nufer/nufer.pdf

    No repeating "a", "an", "the", "he", "she", "I" or names in the whole thing.

    I got about 3 pages.
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    Kind of amazing how quickly it turns into complete gibberish.

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    Instead of looking at the beginning, I went to the end, and some of the paragraphs at the end make no sense at all.

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    Maybe the next time he should make a 163 page novel where it's nothing but a single word repeated the whole time.

    It'll probably make more sense.
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    it amuses me how easily a writer can be deluded into thinking he's james joyce. anyway, if you guys are into this kinda thing, alphabetical african is a more successful experiment, i think.
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    Here is a novel I've been working on for the past few weeks. It uses no repeated letters:

    The quick brown fxjmpdvlazydg.

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    what a fucking pointless project

    also, words can be repeated if they're pluralized? lame (and why?)?

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    Quote Quoting trotchky (view post)
    also, words can be repeated if they're pluralized? lame (and why?)?
    Linguistically, the pluralized suffix makes the word a portmanteau and changes what it signifies, and it's different from a compound. It's like you can have the word "spork." You could also use the word "spoon" and the word "fork." Different words. But if you have the word "play," you could also arguably use the words "plays" twice because it could be a third person singular progressive verb or it could be referring to a multiple number of plays (planned maneuvers or theatrical pieces). The "-s" suffix changes the entire function of the word by giving it the characteristics that come with it as a suffix.

    I want a hamburger.
    I want hamburgers.

    The "s" at least doubles the object. Hence, new function entirely.

    Having not read this novel or even really anything about it beyond what has been said in this thread, I wouldn't doubt that it also allows itself to use contractions such as "isn't" if it has already used "is" and "not." Or that it could use the word "light" if it has already used the word "flashlight."

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    O Sven, you and your morphemes.

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    Quote Quoting Sven (view post)
    Here is a novel I've been working on for the past few weeks. It uses no repeated letters:

    The quick brown fxjmpdvlazydg.
    Where the hell is the Pulitzer committee when you need them?
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    Quote Quoting Sven (view post)
    Here is a novel I've been working on for the past few weeks. It uses no repeated letters:

    The quick brown fxjmpdvlazydg.
    You used the letter "d" twice. I'm ashamed to call you my friend right now.

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    Quote Quoting Kurosawa Fan (view post)
    You used the letter "d" twice. I'm ashamed to call you my friend right now.
    Don't you see. Using lazy in that last word is his metaphor. You've been duped.

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    Quote Quoting Kurosawa Fan (view post)
    You used the letter "d" twice. I'm ashamed to call you my friend right now.
    That you didn't see the missing "s" makes me ashamed to even KNOW you.

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    Quote Quoting Sven (view post)
    That you didn't see the missing "s" makes me ashamed to even KNOW you.

    Damn you, you sexy devil.

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