In 2004, an author wrote a 233-page novel without using any verbs

In 2004, a French author pulled off what many would consider impossible: writing an entire novel without using a single verb. Michel Dansel wrote a 233-page work called Le Train de Nulle Part (The Train from Nowhere) that eliminates what most consider an essential part of language.

Writing under the pen name Michel Thaler, this doctor of letters didn't j…