[tjr]

Also of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)

[tyingq]

Now I remember where I'd heard of that Gadsby book before.

It's referenced in one of the exercises in the Think Python book:

Write a function called has_no_e that returns True if the given word doesn’t have the letter “e” in it.

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/thinkpython010...