Line #1 SelfDemonstrating/Gadsby


1	''Gadsby'' is a fictional 1939 book that could stop a door by Wright.
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3	John Gadsby transforms his tiny town, Branton Hills, with it starting off as a small town, not doing much, but a bunch of youths try to stand up for it and show adults that youths can aid a town in growing into a thriving city. Gadsby, Champion of Youth, assists in this, shaking down rich widows for cash to furnish a library, hospital, night school and so on. This flip-flops, from "why, our town ought to build a..." to scrambling for funds to build it. Kids go off to war, but show up again without injury. Gadsby winds up as mayor of Branton Hills, watching his kids marry off and grow his family with grandkids; Mrs. Gadsby also plays a part in Branton Hills' growth.
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5	Oh, and also, it omits a particular symbol that is usually found in books. You can probably find out which symbol it omits by [[SelfDemonstratingArticle looking at this lump of paragraphs]].[[labelnote:it is...]]Symbol prior to "f".[[/labelnote]]
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7	This is not [[Literature/TheGreatGatsby that book about Jay Gatsby]].
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9	[[Website/{{Wikipedia}} A third-party Wiki]] has [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel) additional information on this book]].
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12	!!Gadsby contains:
13	* [[LemonyNarrator Citrusy Narrator]]: Mocks his circumlocutions now and again.
14	* DyingTown: This is how ''Gadsby'' starts, but John Gadsby assists in Branton Hills's growth.
15	* [[CharacterTitle Individual Nomination]]: ''Gadsby'' paints John Gadsby's activity.
16	* [[SuddenlySignificantCity Now-Important City]]: Branton Hills winds up with city status.
17	* [[OneWordTitle Solo-Word Branding]]: John Gadsby's last alias brands this book singularly, without "John".
18	* VanityPublishing: Owing to [[ConstrainedWriting Writing with Constraints]]. Possibly only book put out in that fashion [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools that was actually good]].
19	* [[ConstrainedWriting Writing with Constraints]]: It's a lipogram, avoiding that glyph which follows "D" in Latin writing distribution. Wright brings strain upon his writing, as ''Gadsby'' is only in past actions; only a minority of actions do not apply that 'post-D' symbol (unusual conjugations, such as 'saw' or 'built', assist in that); thus, Wright jots phrasings with 'ing' and portrays accounts with many 'did <action word>' or 'had <action word>'. So as not to bilk anybody, Wright also omits all contractions; thus, "can't" is always said as "cannot". In this way Wright avoids words that ''might'' contain that taboo symbol but which cloak it with a '. All this withstanding, a printing of Gadsby had four of that contraband symbol. Half of six of which in a highly common tri-symbol word starting with "th", and a fourth fifth glyph in a synonym for "patrolman", but in plural.
20	* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Which County Is Bart Simpson's City in?]]: It is unknown which of fifty subdivisions of Washington's "land of opportunity" contains Branton Hills. Thirty subdivisions lack that symbol to avoid including, so Wright had options.

Context SelfDemonstrating / Gadsby