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Previously:Know Your Typefaces: ITC Benguiat Know Your Typefaces: Optima Type either comes with a history or it makes its own. Some typefaces, such as Garamond or Baskerville, are modern interpretations of alphabets by historic designers of metal type (e.g. 16th century Parisian Claude Garamond (c. 1510–1561), and 18th century Brummie, John Baskerville (1707–1775)). But other Continue reading…
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.* *obviously not by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Note from John: I originally wrote this parody during my ill-spent grad school days while I was reading Melville for a 19th Century American Lit class, I think it was in 1993. I have revised it for this blog now in 2026. It s probably only Continue reading "Moby-Dick; or Children Crusading after the Whale"