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Originally Posted by Alisa
Actually I think legibility is a bit of a requirement for the content. Trying to overstate his position to the point it's ludicrous doesn't make yours any better. It's a cheap tactic.
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Odd that there are published works that have exactly those characteristics, intentionally.
It's not a cheap tactic. It's your own predjudices.
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Originally Posted by Alisa
I don't think you can equate a mass-produced printed copy of a book to an original hand-written document or a painting. They have the hand of the artist on them. The vast majority of smudgy old books, don't. They were designed by a print house to carry the content. That's like worshiping a shipping crate someone packaged the precious Van Gogh in. It doesn't get you any closer to the painting.
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It's helluva a lot closer to the hand of the artist than the reader is. Having just completed a stint in editting of a mass-produced printed book, I hate to inform you that the author does have say in the book itself. Sometimes limited by standardized templates, and perhaps sometimes the author doesn't care, or perhaps the particular printing house doesn't let the author meddle in things.
But you are indeed mistaken.