Who is the author who left pages blank intentionally?

Question

There was an author who wrote "A love poem to my ex-wife". He was using an older idea when he left the page completely blank except for the title.

Who was the author who came up with this idea, or what other authors used this idea? The author I'm looking for is from the 18th or 19th century.

Answer 1

Laurence Sterne included a blank page in Tristram Shandy (c. 1767) for the reader to write his own description of the narrator's uncle's lady love.

"To conceive this right,--call for pen and ink--here's paper ready to your hand.--Sit down, Sir, paint her to your own mind--as like your mistress as you can--as unlike your wife as your conscience will let you--'tis all one to me--please but your own fancy in it.

(blank page)

--Was ever any thing in Nature so sweet!--so exquisite!

--Then, dear Sir, how could my uncle Toby resist it?

Thrice happy book! thou wilt have one page, at least, within thy covers, which Malice will not blacken, and which Ignorance cannot misrepresent."

Answer 2

No, moms and dads might want to no longer signal their baby's passport. The signature block above the photo for the passport of a baby below 11 might want to be left sparkling and could no longer be signed by technique of both ensure. children who're 11 years of age or over are required to signal their passport provided that their signature looks on web page 2 of the passport. otherwise, the signature block might want to be left sparkling on web page

Answer 3

"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) a novel by Laurence Sterne, published [volumes 1 and 2] in 1759.

Answer 4

Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) is credited with publishing the first scrapbook. A book with all of the pages entirely blank. B.

Answer 5

Harold Hughes

Answer 6

Jonathan Fors did this recently (this year) with his latest novel.

Answer 7

I know students use this technique to see if their teachers are carefully reading their term papers. lol