echo shore/john/justifiedtext.txt | nc nightfall.city 1900 | less
Learning how to write like this is strangely demanding to
be honest. I don't even know how people made this in days
past. It feels like writing just to have the length align
just right. It is strange that this affects me insofar as
I cannot have myself simply have a brazen imperfect line.
It is as if every single word imprinted down has needs be
neatly placed insomuch that I am bloating the word count,
even as these words reflect my emotions about this topic.
What I mean by getting it right is not adding tiny spaces
between letters or words, but emphasizing the word chosen
This might have played a crucial role in people's diction
back then. I mean, you can discern immediately whether it
was automatically made to mimic justified text vs. in the
case someone actually wrote the whole text in "justified"
style. (It is a style now, not an inherent restraint with
which we have to deal begrudgingly any longer.) Even PDFs
made through LaTeX, if you look hard enough, can often be
distinguishable in the longer spaces between the word and
the letters-an automatic process. But this handicraft, or
art, creates its own niche through perfection. Perhaps, I
am exaggerating, but we live on good-enoughs. This is not
"good enough." This is someone burning a hole in the page
so that it is lineal along the edges. That is like making
sure you get the Minecraft field of view at a multiple of
ten. In conclusion, while this was unintuitive initially,
this has now transformed into a smart creative constraint
to draw out words and syntax that I have never discovered
myself casually using before, even if it means restarting
and learning to do everything again, pushing myself midst
pressures to become even more accessible with the penalty
of forgetting what it means to produce only for a limited
audience not on immediate lookout for the next big thing.