Humument
by Tom Phillips
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by Tom Phillips
33% recommend67% neutral
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Sweet! I love erasure (aka blackout) poetry. If anyone want to see some high quality examples of the form, check out: - O Mission Repo, by Travis McDonald, an erasure of the 9/11 Comission Report - A Humument, by Tom Phillips, an erasure of A Human Document, a victorian novel of manners; A Humument is unusual in that each page is beautifully and thematically hand painted over by Philips, not just blacked out…
on “Show HN: A tool for creating blackout poetry” ↗…dopamine rush. I liked this piece for the interesting historical miscellany that it pulled together, and for the narrative and visualization on scales of complexity. It got bonus points for including A Humument, which I bought back when I was going through a Douglas Hofstadter phase. (He mentioned it in Metamagical Themas.)
on “A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles” ↗…deliberately told his printer to put some things into the text, such as a black page, and some other printer marks. If they get elided out, or magnified up, thats dicking with the text. How about "A Humument" ?