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Typographic

The Raw Shark Texts

Steven Hall, 2007

A conceptual shark made of words swims through the text; the reader watches it form out of typography and flips a long sequence of pages to see it move toward them.

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How it’s read

Typographic
Layout, rotation, color, or spacing is part of the traversal.

Details

First published
2007
Original language
English
Medium
Print
Needs the physical object
Yes. An ebook or audiobook would lose the effect.

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