X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,ae6117b73aec9a35 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-01 00:57:59 PST From: "David Palmer" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art References: Subject: Re: Ascii art from 1865 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 08:59:45 -0000 Lines: 33 Organization: Sarcastic-bastards-R-Us X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.97.193.222 Message-ID: <3c5a588b@runswick.octacon.co.uk> X-Trace: 1 Feb 2002 08:57:47 GMT, 195.97.193.222 X-Complaints-To: abuse@onyx.net X-NNTP-Service: nntp.onyx.net Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feeder.qis.net!btnet-peer!btnet!runswick.octacon.co.uk Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:14320 "Sam Blanning" wrote in message news:a3dgh1$5k$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk... > > "palmer666" wrote in message > news:Yor68.6427$sU.1045191@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.