As the weather turns damp and drizzly I often find myself turning indoors for comfort, namely from friends, hot toddies, and books. That being said, I have been trying my hand at writing a few things here and there to get myself back into the wintery literary mindset.
After reading about the finalists for the Governor General's Literay awards, I became curious about the literary style used by one of the finalists, Paul Glennon.
Apparently, Oulipo is a form of writing created in 1960 as part of the Collège de ‘Pataphysique. Among other constraints, it limits the way poems, stories and novels are written using syntax patterning.
This is my favorite: "The prisoner's constraint (a.k.a the "macao" constraint) is a type of lipogram that omits letters with "legs" (b, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, p, q, t, and y)."
Sounds like a great hyperintellectual game of balderdash to me...
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