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I added this to my wishlist based on a GR review quite a while back so I don't recall any details. Which is interesting now because the book has no blurb whatsoever about author or novel.
I decided going in blind might be best
— Feb 29, 2024 07:49AM
I decided going in blind might be best
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Feb 29, 2024 08:05AM
It's a lipogram, see if you can spot the device lol
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I didn't spot it, I had to Google it:Christine Brooke-Rose’s Amalgamemnon is a “pragmatic lipogram” — all its verbs are conditional, future, subjunctive, etc., so that nothing is actually happening in the present: “I shall soon be quite redundant at last despite of all, as redundant as you after queue and as totally predictable, information-content zero.”

