Re: Ascii art from 1865
From David Palmer <dav...@ntlworld.comNOSPAM>
· alt.ascii-art
· 1 Feb 2002 08:59 · View full thread
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"Sam Blanning" <enq...@nationalcoursingclub.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:a3dgh1$5k$1...@news6.svr.pol.co.uk... > > "palmer666" <pal...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message > news:Yor68.6427$sU....@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com... > > Whilst flipping the pages of a very, very old copy of Alice in Wonderland > > by Lewis Caroll (first published in 1865), I came upon a very example of > > early of ascii art. I have tried to reproduce it below as accurately as I > > can although it cannot be an exact copy because the printed version used > > font size that decreased gradually down the page. > > > 8<-----poetry snipped------>8 > > Technically, that's not ASCII art. That's some form of poetry. I can't > remember what it's called, but someone else will surely know. There are many > other examples of poetry written in the form of a picture. Unfortunately I > can't remember any that I could put a title or a theme to. > > I disagree Sam. I say it is ascii art. It is a caligram. I choose to ignore distinctions between various type of text art such as line, solid etc. I spent all that time carefully re-typing Lewis Caroll's work and then when looking for examples of caligrams to make my point I found that it had already been done http://www.geocities.com/joan_stark/textasciihistory.txt Joan Stark was there first.
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