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The Quick Brown Fox…

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

October 29, 2025 by Fiat.Luxury Leave a Comment

Ella is a young women living on the island of Nollop, off the coast of the Southern United States. The island is named after the man who came up with the famous line, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” a pangram that up uses every letter in the alphabet once. Nollop is revered as the founder and preeminent intellectual, really second only to God in Nollopian society. One day, the letter ‘z’ comes unglued from the statue of Nollop in the middle […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a book for language nerds, ella minnow pea, Mark Dunn

Fiat.Luxury's CBR17 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a book for language nerds, ella minnow pea, Mark Dunn ·
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The *uick Brown Fox

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

January 11, 2021 by chelz.hawk 2 Comments

“I am so fearful, Ella, as to where this all may lead. A silly little letter, to be sure, but I believe its theft represents something quite large and oh so frighteningly ominous.” There is small island called Nollop off the east coast of the United States named after Nevin Nollop, the author of the pangram “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. In Nollop’s honor they have erected a statue of Nollop’s likeness with his famed sentence hung underneath. One morning, the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: epistolary, epistolary fiction, letters, Mark Dunn, pangram, Totalitarianism

chelz.hawk's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: epistolary, epistolary fiction, letters, Mark Dunn, pangram, Totalitarianism ·
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