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Lauren Ipsum
« on: October 10, 2011, 11:22 AM »
"A story about computer science and other improbable things"

This first chapter made me chuckle a couple of times (via Hacker News). :)
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Re: Lauren Ipsum
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2011, 12:35 PM »
Reads something like Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth or Nilsson's The Point.

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Now banished, Oblio and Arrow enter the Pointless Forest

Clever illustrations too.

Love it! :)
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Re: Lauren Ipsum
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2011, 02:08 PM »
Quote from: Jibz on October 10, 2011, 11:22 AM
"A story about computer science and other improbable things"

This first chapter made me chuckle a couple of times (via Hacker News). :)

Initial impresson...

HAHAHAHAHAH~!

It sounds like a mix of Lewis Caroll meets Dr. Seuss meets Jacob Two-Two meets the Hooded Fang. :)

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Re: Lauren Ipsum
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2011, 02:17 PM »
@40Hz, thanks for listing these illustration. Off to find them.  :up:

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Re: Lauren Ipsum
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2011, 07:45 PM »
Heh, that first chapter was an amusing read :)
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