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10 July 2005: I may be sinking to my all-time low as a blogger today. Once again, I'm doing little more than introduce a new word . . . but this time it isn't even mine! It's Geof Huth's "calliglyph." As I understand it, it is his name for calligraphic designs that look textual, but aren't. The following, "His Holiness of Rags," would be an example:
I haven't connected the title to the piece, nor found any letters, much less words or near-words in it, but I like it--and find it . . . textoidal. "Calliglyph" seems to me a good name for it, too.
Actually, I can read it as "JET"--but it looks too sailboatish and/or woodsy for that.
11 July 2005: This just in (at around 7:30 P.M. E.S.T.): El Konde reads Geof's calliglyph as "sex." I see the E and the X but not the es--except the way anyone can find any letter in the thing, if predisposed to.
9 July 2006: Just happened by while going over my entries and gave Geof's piece another look. It now says, "TEXT," to me. Ed's guess helped me to that, plus my remembering how much Geof likes the word, "text."
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