Originally Posted by AJLynn

There's a true story at MIT, about an alum who decides to write a novel. Deciding that simply writing a novel is too easy, he ties back the lever for the E key on his typewriter (as this story predates the personal computer) and then proceeds to write a book without using the letter E.

It's a challenge, but he succeeds, and perhaps at times gains from the lack of a letter. How else would he have come up with such sentences as "It is an odd kink of humanity which cannot find any valuation in spots of natural glory"?

Doing this model, I now understand how he must have felt.