What?

[Mikko Keskinen]

On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Jeffrey Meikle wrote:

>
> Who among us hasn't said "What?"?!  If Nixon never did, then he's a better
> man than Georges Perec, who wrote that shaggy dog of a novel that
> completely excludes the letter E (translated into English by someone who
> also successfully avoided any use of E).

That someone is Gilbert Adair, whose e-avoiding translation of Perec's _La
Disparition_ is wittily titled as _A Void_ (Harvill, 1994).

Mikko