Story written using only Cat in the Hat words

J Robert Lennon has composed a passable short story using only words found in Dr Seuss's The Cat in the Hat:

My mother was gone. It was a bump on her head, a big bump. I did not know; mother did not tell me. When she did, I fell. "No," I said. "No, not you! Do not go!" But there was no way. She sank fast, that was good. I let her go.

Then one day I saw Sally. We went out for fish. I had cat fish; Sally had something funny, with a big tail.

"What is that thing?" I said.

"This?" A bite. "Fish!"

"Good?"

A shake of the head. "No."

Link (via Kottke)

See also:
Cat in the Hat meets Sputnik
Dr Seuss/Bob Dylan mashup: Dylan Hears a Who

[#1 posted by Matt Deckard , October 25, 2007 4:41 AM]

Interesting. As far as I know nobody has been up to the challenge to write a story using only the 49 words in Green Eggs and Ham (compared to the whopping 236 words in The Cat in the Hat.

Ted Geisel was an amazing man.

[#2 posted by RugerRedhawk , October 25, 2007 6:23 AM]

Matt Deckard: There are 50 words used in Green Eggs and Ham.

The fifty words used are: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.

[#3 posted by CC , October 25, 2007 8:15 AM]

Here I am.

May I thank you, may I thank me
May I thank the good, dark rain
That I will *not* try and do like them
There

Not let that house eat my will
Train me to see
Me, a mouse, with no will

I could say a tree
Do green
See anywhere
Or let Sam box me in

Will I?
Would you?

Do your green eggs and ham
If you will

I would fox them with my rain
My good, dark rain

[#4 posted by the Other michael , October 25, 2007 9:21 AM]

This is a cool example of constrained writing, from yet another piece of constrained writing:

TCITH was the first of the Beginner Books, which (across the series) use only 379 words, "considered the basic vocabulary for young readers".

[#5 posted by mc , October 25, 2007 6:32 PM]

I see a dark green train. If I let that train be, I am good. The fox and the rain and the goat and the train are there if I let them be or not. Anywhere you are, anywhere I am, that will be if you let that or not. So, I say, would you not thank that train or that rain, that good, good rain or would you try and box that thank you. A thank you in a box, would that be good? So, see the train and see the rain, see the dark green and say thank you, or not. Would you try?