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Looking at the example page they provided (slight NSFW warning, there's crudely drawn nudes present): http://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/duffy_2
by strictnein 10y ago
Looking at the example page they provided (slight NSFW warning, there's crudely drawn nudes present):
http://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/duffy_2-042017.jpg http://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/duffy_2-04...
That's the first time I've ever looked at the pages closely, and man does that just look like a couple of nonsense words repeated fairly frequently, with slight variations.
- ballenf 10y agoLooks like a lorem ipsum web mockup to me. Maybe was an early equivalent of a sales pitch for the author's skills. Just seems like odd features like the fold-out pages, sketches of plants and nudes to combine in one unless the sole purpose was basically marketing. Can't wait for 100 years from now people trying to read meaning into all the various lorem variations combined with kitten placeholder images out there. "This culture revolved around mysterious repeated verses praising the juvenile feline in all its forms."
- tribune 10y agoThis would be a completely impractical way of "marketing", though. Surely an author could use real words (or at least real characters like Lorem Ipsum) for that. And why would he fill a whole manuscript?