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Re:Stackoverflow, HTML by Regex, topmost answer by ilkhd2 on Monday July 05, 2010 @05:19AM (#1487781)
Anybody can suggests fiction authors who write in this style - sane text morphing into gibberish and probably back to sanity?
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Re:Stackoverflow, HTML by Regex, topmost answer by friism on Monday July 05, 2010 @06:07AM (#1487853)
The prose is almost certainly inspired by H. P. Lovecraft. "At the Mountains of Madness" may be a good start, if you like this sort of stuff: http://www.dustylibrary.com/horror/5-at-the-mountains-of-mad...
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Re:Stackoverflow, HTML by Regex, topmost answer by steveklabnik on Monday July 05, 2010 @08:07AM (#1488023)
Yes, the entire Zalgo meme is vaguely inspired by Lovecraft.
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Re:Stackoverflow, HTML by Regex, topmost answer by bigiain on Monday July 05, 2010 @08:09AM (#1488027)
Try a book called "Random Acts of Senseless Violence" by Jack Womack. The text doesn't morph into gibberish, but the lead character transforms from entitled middle class to borderline psychopath street kid, and the way the language changes as the story progresses is _wonderful!_
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Re:Stackoverflow, HTML by Regex, topmost answer by ivank on Monday July 05, 2010 @06:06AM (#1487849)
Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves
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Re:Stackoverflow, HTML by Regex, topmost answer by djacobs on Monday July 05, 2010 @11:37AM (#1488422)
I definitely got HoL vibes reading the post.
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Re:Stackoverflow, HTML by Regex, topmost answer by Russelldb on Monday July 05, 2010 @05:51AM (#1487828)
William S. Burroughs
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Re:Stackoverflow, HTML by Regex, topmost answer by wlievens on Monday July 05, 2010 @09:07AM (#1488117)
It reminded me mostly of the gibberish from the Cylon hybrids in Battlestar Galatica.
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Re:Stackoverflow, HTML by Regex, topmost answer by kurumo on Monday July 05, 2010 @11:13AM (#1488355)
Robert Anton Wilson

Schrödinger's Cat trilogy especially

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Re:Stackoverflow, HTML by Regex, topmost answer by nuxi on Monday July 05, 2010 @12:30PM (#1488550)
Hmm, Joyce's Finnegans Wake? You did say "probably back".
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Re:Stackoverflow, HTML by Regex, topmost answer by arethuza on Monday July 05, 2010 @08:29AM (#1488054)
Thomas Pynchon?
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