Wow!

What I would do is: draw the outline for your teapot in a vector program. Then, import it into InDesign. From there I would use the text wrap feature.

good luck.

I did say I had gone completely mad, didn’t I? Thanks for the hint!

What realy strange, is the site I was visiting prior to reading your post was this:

http://home.att.net/~tleary/second_cryptographic_shakespeare.htm

As my madness slowly subsides, I realize that the hardest part is taking all the white space out of Shakespeare in order to flow nicely into my teapot. 17000 words is a lot of text, especially when set metrically!

maybe you need a tall narrow - almost rectagular teapot.

17 teapots (250 words in each spout–handle area, 200 on the corresponding inside areas, 25 words on the lid outside and inside, 25 on the base outside and inside) leather bound, deep spine. Software – clay, hardware – hands.

Tim

Tim—but that sounds almost like work. I’m a very, very lazy man, and I’m doing this for my own sake, really. I like the idea though.

Russell: Ha! I’d considered that, but I want it to look like a teapot, not a coffeepot.

So you are saying that an infinite number of monkeys, typing on an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time will produce a Tempest in a Teapot?

Interesting.

Quite possibly!

Well, here’s what it looks like as of now. Not the prettiest teapot, I suppose, but it gets the job done. Big props to Willy Rattle-Stick for providing the storm.

Tempest in a Teapot

But you left out Scene IV in Act two? Was this the abridged version?

Did I? Hmmm... I thought I used the entire play. If I left anything out, you can blame the Gutenberg Project... But as far as I know, there’s no Scene 4 in act 2.