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This reminds me of something I've seen online where a short piece of writing is initially shown in an extremely abridged form, like "I made tea". Many of the wo
by re 4y ago
This reminds me of something I've seen online where a short piece of writing is initially shown in an extremely abridged form, like "I made tea". Many of the words are clickable and are recursively expandable, repeated replacing individual words with phrases or inserting dependent clauses for more color, until you end up with a whole paragraph of a short of prose poetry.
Edit: found it: Telescopic Text. The website is down right now but the web archive works: https://web.archive.org/web/20220316001859/http://www.telescopictext.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220316001859/http://www.telesc...
Discussed here 11 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2551120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2551120
- georgestrakhov 4y agoThe website is not down. It's moved https://www.telescopictext.org/texts/ https://www.telescopictext.org/texts/