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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Thank you, both of you.
Jeez, I was thinking someone was throwing a curse out there!
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An old friend of mine did something similar to lorem ipsum a years back. A mutual friend was publishing a volume of The Necronomicon mentioned in H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulu mythos stories. (Reading the volume was reported to drive the reader mad.)
He actually intended to print two copies, because he wanted to get a card for it into the card catalog of the Library of Congress, which required a fee and two copies of the book to add it. When he found out what it would cost to do two, he decided to do enough to sell and recoup his costs.
My friend was a designer. He used a letter frequency table to come up with phrases of nonsense words, then set the text in a Syriac alphabet. The result was something that, if you translated the Syriac characters to the Roman alphabet, could be read and would sound like an invocation of Cthulu.
L. Sprague de Camp contributed a scholarly introduction, and the result was sold as a hard bound facsimile edition of the original Necronomicon. IIRC, the edition sold out.
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Dennis