Very cool. Thanks!

Re #1: Gadsby is an example of "constrained-writing," a practice advocated by a french group called Oulipo. My favorite bit of constrained writing is "Poe E., Near A Raven," which is a retelling of Poe's famous poem "The Raven". It keeps nearly the same meter and number of verses, tells the same story, and encodes Pi as the number of digits of each word: Poe (3) E. (1), Near (4) A (1) Raven (5) -> 3.1415. The entire poem represents pi to 740 digits.

Re #8: Friends of mine and I have played a game for years we call "Spline" (though I can't say why it's called that). We take a movie/tv quote and replace the words with similar sounding words, so that it sounds the same (or as close to the same as we can make it), when read aloud. We challenge each other to figure out the quote, then name the speaker and the show. A few years after we started doing this, they came out with the game "Mad Gab", which does the same thing for common phrases and names. Here are a few of our splines:

LIE FIZZ LYE CAB OX OFF CHALK LITS

AISLE BIDE AT FOE RAID ALL OUR

DUE WAR DUNE OUGHT THEY'RE HIS NOTE RYE

WARN AWE TIN CANS SASS AN KNEE MOWER TOTE OWE

WATT TIS SURE MAY GERM AL FUNK SHIN

LOOSE HE JEW COTS OHMS PLAIN INTO DUE

SAIL LOW TOMB MILE IT HILL FRAN

HI MA DOCKED TORN AUGHT TAB RICK LAY HER

WEED OWN HE'D NOSE TEEN KEEN BAT JAZZ

GAY MOE FIRM ANNE