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This passage from Gatsby is unusal, can you figure out why?
Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's 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 bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby, walking towards that group, saw a young girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "
The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent Wright in the late 1930's
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Well, since you suggested it . . . Google reveals that there is no known solution to the second puzzle.
Kronos's passage is nifty because it doesn't use the letter E - quite hard to do, and adds a certain flavor to the writing. I've read another such book: "A Void," the English translation of "La Disparition" by Georges Perec.
Kronos's passage is nifty because it doesn't use the letter E - quite hard to do, and adds a certain flavor to the writing. I've read another such book: "A Void," the English translation of "La Disparition" by Georges Perec.
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