[HN Gopher] A Font Book of Squiggles in Tristram Shandy
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A Font Book of Squiggles in Tristram Shandy
Author : lordleft
Score : 10 points
Date : 2024-10-31 21:15 UTC (7 days ago)
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| ggm wrote:
| A fellow Sterne fan! Also, Mike Lesk, who wrote uucp at Bell
| Labs, is a committed Tristram Shandy aficionado with a first
| edition. The funereal page is great. Back in the 80s Mike talked
| about font emulating for old letterpress and how one could
| introduce pleasing asymmetries into the output.
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| Is there also a printed in "damn the cat ran over my page"
| moment?
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| McDowell & Sterne booksellers in York were I believe
| descendants/related. As was a lecturer of English at York
| University.
| quuxplusone wrote:
| For those like me who didn't know the reference, see [1] Aaron
| Schuster, "Bachelors, Snakes, and Squiggles: The brief history of
| a famous literary doodle" (2009). Not only is the squiggle part
| of [2] _Tristram Shandy_ (1759), it -- the squiggle -- was also
| quoted by Balzac as the epigraph to [3] his novel _The Wild Ass's
| Skin_ (1832). Wikipedia [4] says: "Balzac never explained his
| purpose behind the use of the symbol, and its significance to _La
| Peau de chagrin_ is the subject of debate."
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| [1] https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/36/schuster.php
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| [2] https://archive.org/details/lifeopinionsoft00ster/page/554/
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| [3] https://archive.org/details/tudesphilosoph01balz/page/n12
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| [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Peau_de_chagrin
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