On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter "Z" constitutes the terrestrial manifestation of an empyrean Nollopian desire, that desire most surely being that the letter "Z" should be utterly excised—fully extirpated—absolutively heave-ho'ed from our communal vocabulary!

Ella Minnow Pea: (ed. MP Publishing, 2010) - ISBN: 9781596929999