A River Runs Through It: An American Tragedy

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Coinciding eerily with the plotting of a criminal mind, a river
cuts like a knife into the first full paragraph on page 507 of Theodore
Dreiser’s An American Tragedy,  The World Publishing Company, 1948 edition.
    (A river runs through it. Don’t you get it?
Its a typographic river. A white column of gaps in the text. This marks
the third in a continuing series of typographic rivers in literature.
The other two are here and here.)

3 thoughts on “A River Runs Through It: An American Tragedy

  1. Craig Conley

    Yay! I absolutely love these rivers of white space! Did you notice that this river has an em-dash bridge right in the middle of it? Marvelous!

  2. jimmy

    This looks like the He He River.
    Very straight in its path.
    Formed by a glacier, like the Hudson.

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