Wall of text with subtle picture
From Valucard International <i1...@netcom.com>
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· 21 Nov 1996 00:00 · View full thread
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Subject: Wall of text with subtle picture
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Organization: NOTCIA nOn-linea Communication Services (x147)
Summary: ascii art disguised as screenful of mumblejumble
Keywords: oh my god
Etaoin Shridlu opened the book to where his thumbnail had randomly parted
the pages and began reading from the center of the page but noticed something
strange about the pattern of the rivulets of space around the words and soon
had lost all comprehension of the literal meaning of the passage when a picture
clearly asserted itself in the apparently meticulously intricate typing which
was simultaneously a long unpunctuated nonsensical run on sentence and yet a
photograph perfectly halftoned into dots shaped as letters of the alphabet
no doubt generated by a cybernetic system that creates fractal branched
sentences which never end but instead sort of parenthesize and go for a ways
and then change course usually by going into detail in a tangential sort of
stackpush that never pops but instead keeps zooming in yet another level
each line or so like an infinite inwards motion that doesn't even need
punctuation and takes the reader on a one-way trip forwards into
progressively refined images much like the incredible shrinking man or
Fantastic Voyage except that it just keeps on going so actually the effect
is more like the colored oilslick breakdowns in 2001 and if you could get
the wave action of the text into just the right peristaltic contractions in
sync with the eye and mind of the audience it could get pretty awesome like
nanotech cities living on the bark of redwood trees in undulating valleys of
forests on nonspherical fiberspace membranes extruded by femtopicotek
nested-space 3.2-dimensional manifolds "bigger at the small end of the
scale" provided you have senses which don't peter out when things get subtle
thus allowing you to encode information in the very borderlines of its very
existence thus relying on the viewer's idiosyncrasies more than on his
common-ness because things which are on the edge of not being there at all
are going to probably excite a set of simultaneous responses which don't
triangulate or intersect or agree or synergize in an unambiguated crisp
singleness and are also somewhat partial and even flickering or dynamic or
changing rapidly with time which requires their mind(s) to choose from a
bifurcating multiplexing divergence of (mildly) resonant rapidly-evolving
attractors forming a ghostly community of evaporatory cooperative "temporary
friends" sharing fleeting memories because a localized continuity of thought
is maintained on more than one level
hAIry 14:41 tue21nov96 "fractal fuzzybushes of worlds: godhead datastructor"
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May the best hallucination win.
I want a God who takes responsibility for His mistakes.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,718235b6119346a1,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: i1...@netcom.com (Valucard International) Subject: Wall of text with subtle picture Date: 1996/11/21 Message-ID: <i17...@netcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 198005169 sender: i1...@netcom10.netcom.com organization: NOTCIA nOn-linea Communication Services (x147) keywords: oh my god newsgroups: alt.ascii-art summary: ascii art disguised as screenful of mumblejumble
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