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Original Usenet thread from rec.arts.ascii, started 7 Mar 1996.
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INFO: Nabokov on ascii art, pre-1923

INFO: Nabokov on ascii art, pre-1923

rec.arts.ascii · 1 message · 7 Mar 1996
Jorn Barger <jor...@mcs.com> 7 Mar 1996 00:00 · raw headers · report 
In the New Yorker magazine last year (Aug 14 p75) there's a story by
Vladimir Nabokov that mentions an early instance of text-art...

The story is called "Sounds" and is very nice (surely it's in his
Complete Stories, published last year as well), written around 1923.

It says:

  "...On another wall hung a framed chapter from "Anna Karenin"
   set in such a way that the interplay of dark and light type
   together with the clever placement of the lines formed
   Tolstoy's face."

I wonder if it was really a full chapter-- that suggests a pretty tiny
font!


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