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It wasn't any one [New Yorker] writer or article he was worried about, but the font. The meaning embedded, at a preconscious level, by the look of the magazine; the seal, as he described it, that the typography and layout put on dialectical thought.... [T]o read The New Yorker was to find that you always already agreed, not with The New Yorker but, much more dismayingly, with yourself.

The New Yorker's font was controlling, perhaps assailing, Perkus Tooth's mind. To defend himself he frequently retyped their articles and printed them out in simple Courier, an attempt to dissolve the magazine's oppressive context.
-- Jonathan Lethem. Chronic City [novel, 2009], Chapter One.
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