George Perec, a rather eccentric French author, was not exactly traditional in his prose. Let us try to explain by borrowing from his writing style...

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An uncanny wordsmith from Paris authors a book, "La disparition". It's a curious opus that is missing an important part. It has "a", "b", "c", "d"... a stop follows. "F", "g", "h", all through "z"... but for a solitary thing that is not found!

This is so confusing... How to clarify? Not too many options at our disposal. How to point out without using what is taboo?

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See, we've been trying to write the above without using the letter "e", which is precisely what Perec did in his 300-page novel. We have no idea how he pulled it off; even our much-smaller-scale exercise was beyond maddening.

Well, we gave it a good try, even knowing in advance we couldn't succeed for the entire profile. You see, an "e" is definitely needed for the verdict below...