I wasn't particularly enthusiastic about this task until I saw the examples of Nina Katchadourian's work. Awesome stuff, and great inspiration for a task.

What I came up with doesn't come close to the examples, and probably isn't nearly as much fun to read as it was to assemble - but it was still an interesting experience.

Here are three attempts - a sentence (or something that becomes a clumsy sentence with some additional punctuation), something that looks like the introductory viewgraph from a 1950s anthropology lecture, and a story.

And yes, for the pedants among you, I realize that people who grow up in medieval London don't have guns. But, "stab and kids" and "behead the kids" aren't books that I own, and it needed a closing.