…prompting Geoffry Stokes of the Village Voice to opine…
…which spurred humorist Veronica Geng to write a brief story for the New Yorker in which those phrases appear in every sentence. I’ve found a brief passage online…
And discovered that Geng’s work, including the story, has been collected in a book called Love Trouble
Is there a word for this kind of composition? A lipogram is “a composition that does not contain a certain letter or letters”, but is there an assigned term for this?
[QUOTE=robardin]
In the English translation of Stanislaw Lem’s The Cyberiad, a computer is created that is designed to be the best writer ever, and is asked (as an intended stumper) to come up with a poem “…about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism and in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!!”.
Even before its creator can finish protesting that this is an absurd request, it produces:
I’ve always wondered what the poem/problem was in the original Polish!
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Heh, it is with “c” in Polish. It’s a cyberotic story about love and treachery, music, blacks, nobles, bad luck and incest. It goes along this lines:
[QUOTE=Stanislaw Lem]
Cyprian cyberotoman, cynik, ceniąc czule
Czarnej córy cesarskiej cud ciemnego ciała,
Ciągle cytrą czarował. Czerwieniała cała,
Cicha, co dzień czekała, cierpiała, czuwała…
…Cyprian ciotkę całuje, cisnąwszy czarnulę!!