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by DennisP 520 days ago
Also, periods are just a small percentage of the characters. Maybe we should skip them.
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And spaces! They don't even have any content, just the wasted space! Let's drop those too.
>'The Art of Asking Your Boss For A Raise' by French experimental author Georges Perec is best read aloud. It’s a theatrical piece with dazzling, recursive language that evokes laughter and pity at 'your' plight as you tackle the practical and emotional burden of asking for a much needed (if not deserved) pay increase while in the employ of one of France’s largest companies.

>The entirety of the book's 80 pages are one sentence, without punctuation, capitalization or spatial breaks.

https://www.michael-maiello.com/logical-loops-with-georges-p...

It speaks volumes that this is the first and probably last time I'll hear this.