conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Nollop, Nollop\'s, Ella entitled Ella Minnow Pea?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Ella Minnow Pea: The plot is conveyed through mail or notes sent between various characters.\nThe book is "progressively lipogrammatic"—as the story proceeds, more and more letters of the alphabet are excluded from the characters\' writing.\nAs letters disappear, the novel becomes more and more phonetically or creatively spelled, and requires more effort to interpret.\nThe novel is set on the fictitious island of Nollop, off the coast of South Carolina, which is home to Nevin Nollop, the supposed creator of the well-known pangram "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog".\nThis sentence is preserved on a memorial statue to its creator on the island and is taken very seriously by the government of the island.\nThroughout the book, tiles containing the letters fall from the inscription beneath the statue, and as each one does, the island\'s government bans the contained letter\'s use from written or spoken communication.\nA penalty system is enforced for using the forbidden characters, with public censure for a first offense, lashing or stocks (violator\'s choice) upon a second offense and banishment from the island nation upon the third.\nBy the end of the novel, most of the island\'s inhabitants have either been banished or have left of their own accord.\nThe island\'s high council becomes more and more nonsensical as time progresses and the alphabet diminishes, promoting Nollop to divine status.\nUncompromising in their enforcement of Nollop\'s "divine will", they offer only one hope to the frustrated islanders: to disprove Nollop\'s omniscience by finding a pangram of 32\xa0letters (in contrast to Nollop\'s 35, or just 33 in the version "A quick brown.\n".\n).\nWith this goal in mind "Enterprise\xa032" is started, a project involving many of the novel\'s main characters.\nWith but five characters left (L, M, N, O, and P), the elusive phrase is eventually discovered by Ella in one of her father\'s earlier letters: "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs," which has only 32\xa0letters.\nThe council accepts this and restores the right to all 26\xa0letters to the populace.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know the first five paragraphs for this book?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Ella Minnow Pea
  I do respect Mr. Kleeman for his protest, yet am disappointed by the cowardly exit. He has left this town with a yawning communicational chasm—a great lacuna which I see no one stepping forward to fill.
  I just may take you up on that invitation! You know how I feel living up here—so removed from things.
  I look forward to visiting with Aunt Gwenette and Uncle Amos as well. I cannot wait to see your father's burgeoning collection of petite vases and jugs!
  Did I mention—I have become a volunteer teaching assistant, and am helping Mother at the school. I miss the library, though, and the opportunity to read whatever I wish—whenever I so desire. I compensate for this loss by reading your letters over and over again; and Mother and I have taken to writing one another—if you can believe it—from one room to the next! She tells wonderful stories of our mothers' childhoods—all their little adventures—beachcombing for shells and driftwood, chasing sand crabs about (How cruel the two of them were as children!) and building majestic sand palaces at low tide.
  I know it was necessary when I was a toddler and Father had gone away, for Mother to move us to the Village to take the teaching job, but I have never warmed to this dismal and dreary place, and I will be happy (Do not tell Mother.) to leave it and never return.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know another paragraph?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: I myself, in spite of the flu, have spent the better part of two nights coming up with a sentence containing all twenty-six letters of the alphabet of a length of less than fifty letters—forty-nine to be exact. I was hoping to surprise you with one of far more impressive brevity, but shall be happy with my initial effort. Still, though, it will not fit the ultimate bill; therefore, in concert with so many other villagers whose lamps burn late into the night, I will push on, whittling my count away.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know the last three paragraphs?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: It's after the fact, obviously, but we're all still curious to know what you and your fellow cybergeeks might have been able to come up with. Care to give it a shot? By way of reminder, your mission, should you choose to accept it:
  Shortest possible sentence containing all twenty-six letters of the alphabet. Words in English, and in current usage, please. I'll accept proper names in a pinch, if they don't seem Martian.
  I hope this has been of some help to you. What, by the way, was the sentence that brought the High Council to its senses (or shall we say, to its knees)? We're all quite curious to know.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Reverse the sentences.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: What, by the way, was the sentence that brought the High Council to its senses (or shall we say, to its knees)? We're all quite curious to know..
  I hope this has been of some help to you. I'll accept proper names in a pinch, if they don't seem Martian. Words in English, and in current usage, please. Care to give it a shot? By way of reminder, your mission, should you choose to accept it:
  Shortest possible sentence containing all twenty-six letters of the alphabet.It's after the fact, obviously, but we're all still curious to know what you and your fellow cybergeeks might have been able to come up with