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Liponym

Text conspicuously omitting a particular word. It is hard to make this interesting. Every Lipogram is a Liponym - sometimes a Lipogram is devised to exclude a key word or words, for example a love poem that is a Lipogram on E, or a Lipogram on A about censorship of art

According to the Writhing Society:

The Filigrane, a form invented by the Oulipian Michèle Métail, is a text featuring a word in absentia. Think of a watermark on a dollar bill or a sheet of stationery. To create a filigrane: First, think up a word found in many expressions. Find a word that appears in a number of compound words and common expressions. This word is your "watermark" word. It can be a stem of a compound word. It can be both a noun and a verb. Then, make a list of those expressions. Write out those words and expressions. Maintain the word as-is. If the word is "cry," then "crybaby" may appear on your list but "crying" may not. A sample list using the word "light" yields "light at the end of the tunnel"; "light on your feet"; "daylight"; "you are the light of the world"; "many hands make light work"; and "lightsaber." Finally, strike the "watermark" word from the list, and compose a text / texts using the remaining words. Assemble a text using all the words except the "watermark" word. Use whatever punctuation and capitalization you'd like. A potential text using the "light" list from above reads like so: "On The Feet Day, you are at The Many Tunnel, the end of your make-work saber world of the hands." 

Source

Dominique Fitzpatrick-O'Dinn

Examples

  • The novel Steal Stuff From Work does not use the words "labor" or "class"

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