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blgarver:
Another use for white space is to make the piece less intimidating to the reader.  I think the reason I'm still only half way through LOTR is because of the daunting solid bricks of text. 

Now I'm gonna run and hide lest I be lynched for my incompletion of LOTR.

Zing! *vanishes into the shadows*

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: blgarver on January 09, 2007, 01:52:28 AM ---Another use for white space is to make the piece less intimidating to the reader.  I think the reason I'm still only half way through LOTR is because of the daunting solid bricks of text. 

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To each their own, and all, but. seeing solid briocks of text as daunting rather than inviting is a new one to me.

Sometimes Alexandre Dumas was paid by the page, and you can really identify those ones because you get lots and lots of dialogue with really short sentences, so some pages have really astoundingly much whitespace.

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