Dissertation proposal

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I’ve finally managed to put into words what it is I want to write about this year; before I could only manage it with much waving of arms and obscure references to Jacques Cousteau.

The world-wide-web remains largely unexplored because — much like the London Underground before the introduction of Harry Beck’s diagram — we can’t comprehend the entirety of the network as it is currently presented to us.

On another note, I used Avenir as the typeface for the PDF of my proposal. It’s nice, but the capital R isn’t anywhere near as filthy as the one from Helvetica.