Artist Nicholas Rougeux , whopreviously visualizedfamous novels through just punctuation mark , has a raw way to count at the literary canon . This time , it ’s through the lens of astronomy . His latest full treatment are bill that project the first line of novel chapters as constellations . ( This one above is a cut - out from the constellation map for James Joyce’sDubliners . )
In the constellation , the first Book of a sentence is a starburst . From there , every subsequent Son juts off at an slant from the previous one , with the angle square up by the part of speech . The length of the line that connects one word to the next is determined by how many letter the initial word has , as is the size of the circle that represents the word . So “ matter ” is a prominent round than “ to , ” and the distance between “ matter ” and “ to ” is much long than the space between “ to ” and “ us . ” The sentences from each chapter , marked with R.C. number , are laid out in a vaguely clockwise pattern . The condemnation themselves are write out at the bottom of the post-horse .
Rougeux write on his internet site : “ I did n’t intend to make constellations . I just wanted an interesting visual way of looking at schoolbook but apace found that what I was creating resembled constellation maps … " His posters span classical lit , mapping out sentences fromPeter Pan , The Picture of Dorian Gray , Alice ’s Adventures in Wonderland , and more .
The postersstart at $ 28 for a 24 - in by 36 - inch photographic print . you’re able to mark off out his other work onhis site .
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All epitome courtesy Nicholas Rougeux
