Prospero’s Books anyone?

I think I need to start cultivating my eyebrows.

It could at least be unhealthy around this time of year - Stores are carrying chocolate letters as part of their seasonal stock. I imagine there’s more than a few people that have bought enough to spell out words, and then ate them all.

Ah, the young Erik :-)

ChrisL

If my eyebrows start to look anything like that I may never leave the house...

Bec.

>Ah, the young Erik :-)

Better than Young Frankenfont!

“Stay away from Castle Frankenfont” say locals.

There he be! The wizzawd of Martha’s Vinyawd replete with ancient Apple techno tablet!

Where is Sir Isaac when you need him?

ChrisL

So it is ok to think of it as the “dark arts” and the practitioners and wizards and warlocks, but I can’t think of all of us as geeks or nerds?

...but I can’t think of all of us as geeks or nerds?

:D

R

Hmmm, looking at word origins a wizard is a wize-ard, a wise person—or perhaps wise-acre :) I like it!

A warlock comes from ’covenant-breaker’ or ’traitor’ and is applied to male witches. Not so good.

Geeks and Nerds is good with me, Tiff.

ChrisL

It’s all Geek to me, Chris. ;-)

Hey, Si — Young Frankenfont looks a lot like Eric Clapton, wouldn’t you say? (If Clapton played a Newton rather than a blues guitar.)

Speaking of Lovecraft, I wonder if any type designers have gone crazy. Is there a Louis Wain of typography? A series of faces getting more dramatically malicious and interesting?

Speaking of Lovecraft, I wonder if any type designers have gone crazy.

I’m not sure a sane person would get into the font business to begin with.

Really James?
I find font people to be generally pretty well adjusted.
Working in advertising or graphic design, with the constant pressure of deadlines, all-nighters and satisfying clients and bosses is rather more stressful—although it’s possible to thrive in that environment, of course.

typomaniac - I posted this to the wiki a week or so ago - needs to be filled out. ;-)

Cheers, Si

“A series of faces getting more dramatically malicious and interesting?”

Frantisek Storm? Not implying he’s crazy, but his work fits the description:

Serapion -> Mramor -> Mediaeval -> Negro -> Cobra -> Aichel -> Libcziowes -> Alcoholica....

;)

I find font people to be generally pretty well adjusted.

It was a joke, Nick.

A geek joke?

I’m pretty sure that this entire thread falls under that category.

I I might bring in a couple of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges I recently read:

- The Book of Sand (El libro de arena) 1975

- The Library of Babel (La biblioteca de Babel) 1941

- The Total Library (La biblioteca total) 1938

In the firts two insanity by books is part of the subject.

Well back to Peter Greenaway, wasn’t there a scene in The Cook, The Thief His Wife and Her Lover where someone is killed by having pages of his own books stuffed down his throat?

Ahh, a story fed from PageMaker.

ChrisL

Only the pointy letters are dangerous. If you can’t help yourself, try to stay near the o’s, 8’s and you could probably get friendly with a section mark, but don’t fool around with the daggers or v’s.

;)

Well back to Peter Greenaway, wasn’t there a scene in The Cook, The Thief His Wife and Her Lover where someone is killed by having pages of his own books stuffed down his throat?

Patty, I can’t remember if that is from The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, or from The Pillow Book... It might even be from The Name of the Rose, but that is by another film director. :-)