Typography At Its Best Is A Visual

To Design Things Means To Interfere With Things: To Think Of How They Might Be And To Alter How They Are. Design Is To Making As Writing Is To Speech: It Is An Ordinary Physical Activity Pushed To A Conscious Edge. That Interference With The Given World Can Still Be Founded On Admiration. Where It Is Not, What Is The Point Of Designing At All?

I Think Of Something Quite Different From A Snapshot. I Know Of A Lot Of Poems, Some Very Fine Ones, That Are Like Snapshots, But I'm More Interested In Poetry That Is Like An Endless Film, Long Stories, Things That Weave Together Many Different Strands, Like A Big Piece Of Cloth, Not Like A Photograph.

Literature In The Written Sense Represents The Triumph Of Language Over Writing: The Subversion Of Writing For Purposes That Have Little Or Nothing To Do With Social And Economic Control.

Stories Are The Reproductive Organs Of Language.

In The Nineteenth Century, Which Was A Dark And Inflationary Age In Typography, Man Compositors Were Encouraged To Stuff Extra Space Between Sentences. Generations Of Twentieth-century Typists Were Then Taught To Do The Same, By Hitting The Spacebar Twice After Every Period. Your Typing As Well As Your Typesetting Will Benefit From Unlearning This Quaint Victorian Habit.