The illustrator, Serge Bloch, has taken Randy Siegel's silly, slim text and served it up as a dish straight out of 1960.
But what makes this slim text memorable is his sheer passion for books – not digital texts but physical objects, in which every part is designed to enhance the experience of reading.
This slim text is a meditation on the interrelationship of scientific research and technological innovation, on the threats that societal influences pose to their successful continuation, and on the problem of reconciling the innovator's need for freedom to follow where inquiry leads with society's interest in defining the acceptable limits of such enquiry.
The second of a pair of slim, mutative texts released by Troyan this year, Kill Manual maximizes the internet-influenced confession-mania archetype that kind of became a thing this year, and bends it over and fills it full of blood and cum.
GOSlimViewer accepts a text-based file created from the above pipeline as input and, using a user-specified GO Slim, returns a text simple text file.
In "Catching Fire" he has delivered a rare thing: a slim book — the text itself is a mere 207 pages — that contains serious science yet is related in direct, no-nonsense prose.
It's split into 52 sections (on themes such as dirt, gentrification and advertising), frequently alludes to photographer Robert Mapplethorpe who Goldsmith believes "embodied New York in the 1970s" in the way Baudelaire did mid-19th-century Paris, and ends with a slim but resonant selection of texts about "apocalypse".
The first generation of chips stores up to 512,000 bytes of information, roughly the amount of text in a slim novel.
(5) Smaller hair, right in photo (6) David Beckham, Jay Z and Ricky Gervais eat for free, apparently (7) Fatboy Slim thought the boys were texting their mates when they were writing lyrics on their phones.
True, the chances are pretty slim that Weiner will ever again text pictures of his private parts to complete strangers of the female persuasion.
