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Originally Posted by G. M. Palmer
Is nothing not done by Joyce or Stein. The problem with the avant-garde (unlike, say, a sonnet) is that once it's been done then it's instantly boring; everything is derivative. A sonnet you can come back to and make it your own--you can make it new.
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But neither Stein nor Joyce wrote lipograms. Anyway,
Eunoia is much more comprehensible than
Finnegans Wake and Stein's skittering syntactical experiments. I'm not even sure why you're lumping them together.
There are plenty of undiscovered, novel ways to use lipograms. Compare Perec's
A Void to
Eunoia -- totally different in tone, style, and scope. Telling me that it can't be done just shows your lack of imagination.