Article: Black Magic.(Excerpt)

Seen with fresher eyes,...typography still evokes the wonder and fear with which it startled the medieval world. It is a black art that borders on artificial insemination....Type is writing that is edited, shaped, doctored, and made to reproduce itself through artificial means; and writing itself is a kind of gene-bank for ideas.... ...

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