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<Insert Joke about Academia Here> #68

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Reconcyl opened this issue Nov 6, 2019 · 3 comments
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<Insert Joke about Academia Here> #68

Reconcyl opened this issue Nov 6, 2019 · 3 comments

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@Reconcyl
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Reconcyl commented Nov 6, 2019

A very silly idea: start with a single, handwritten chapter, and then extend it with forewords, tables of contents, glossaries, and the like until it reaches 50,000 words.

This is the finished version, provided I don't see fit to further update it. The final novel text is here.

Interestingly, the resulting novel does not contain the letter Q (this was entirely an accident). It is also nigh unreadable due to the recursive glossaries and indices.

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hugovk commented Nov 6, 2019

<Insert Joke about Academia Here>

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It is also nigh unreadable due to the recursive glossaries and indices.

:)

Hope you don't mind, I converted the Markdown to PDF to see all the formatting:

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Reconcyl commented Nov 6, 2019

That PDF seems a little bit broken - there are a few places where <...> is used and the first bracket is escaped to prevent the text from being treated as a link, but the renderer you used treats them as invalid links and omits them.

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This is great, I laughed.

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