an appalling book but with highlights

i am labouriously working my way through Douglas Hofstadtr's book about translating Marot stanzas, i should quit, it's shit, but occasionally it has fantastic paragraphs, or i find it can pack an odd small fact that smacks my crack.. how about this start to a lipogrammatic book that lacks a particular commonly occuring part of our ABC's...

Gadsby by Wright. 1932

bravo!