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There’s something adrenalizing about works made under creative constraints: haikus, black-and-white photography, Brompton bikes and Georges Perec’s lipogrammatic novels.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

The Greeks composed lipogrammatic works; works in which one letter of the alphabet is omitted.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac

This Odyssey was an imitation of the lipogrammatic Iliad of Nestor.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac