VMs: Re. VMS: Daniel Joseph Min: very strange ... obsessive writing?

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Hello

Jacques offered us

>Here is a sample:

>One of the most frequently asked questions I've
>ever encountered is what books do you recommend?
>Typically this is asked in the context of tarot
>or astrology, since that is what I practice and
>teach. Naturally, the first book I recommend is
>the Holy Bible, since without a good foundation
>in spiritual common sense, no other learning is
>likely to help the student but is apt rather to
>become dangerous in the mind of the uninitiated.

and commented

>As you can see, it is right-justified (except
>for line-final punctuation) but what amazed me
>is that there are no double spaces. That cannot
>be a mere coincidence: the words must have been 
>selected so that every line is the same length 
>exactly. It must dreadfully time-consuming. I did 
>a dejanews search, and found lots of similar stuff 
>by apparently the same fellow.


I seem to remember once having read of some software
which semi-automated this process using its built-in
thesaurus, which might speed things up a bit. It was
a couple of years ago (in print) and I cannot recall
much except that at the time I did wonder why anyone
would want to bother. One might try Googling perhaps?
But on experimenting, I find it is quite quick to do.

Regards

Anthony


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