Leo Fender, the inventor of the Stratocaster guitar that still looks futuristic after 70 or so years, never learned to play guitar.
Ernest Vincent Wright’s Gadsby is a 50,000 word novel which is notable for one thing primarily: nowhere in the text does the most common letter in the English language, “e,” ever appear.
Sample: As Gadsby sat thinking thus, his plan was rapidly growing: and, in a month, was actually starting to work. How? You’ll know shortly; but first, you should know this John Gadsby; a man of “around fifty;” a family man, and known throughout Branton Hills for his high standard of honor and altruism on any kind of an occasion for public good. A loyal churchman, Gadsby was a man who, though admitting that an occasional fault in our daily acts is bound to occur, had taught his two boys and a pair of girls that, though folks do slip from what Scriptural authors call that “straight and narrow path,” it will not pay to risk your own Soul by slipping, just so that you can laugh at your ability in staying out of prison; for Gadsby, having grown up in Branton Hills, could point to many such man or woman.
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