★ Writing With Unnatural Constraints

Marcin Wichary, writing at Unsung , regarding a rather subtly astonishing FAQ for the game Super Metroid , written in the late 1990s by “rs1n”. It’s over 17,000 words long, and the whole thing is full-justified when viewed with a monospaced font, using no trickery with extra spaces or hyphenation to achieve the layout: The author lightly covers in the FAQ at the bottom: What program did you use to justify the text? None. I just chose words carefully so that everything lined up on the right hand