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Now I want to have written a book that utilised this to set the scenery. Let's see the translators deal with that!
House of Leaves uses a bunch of gimmicks like this... Kind of forget if he used "rivers" specifically, but I'd be kind of surprised if he hadn't.
Let me take you back to punched card days, when people would design patterns and shapes using different characters, a single line at a time (one card, one line of 80 characters).
When the cards were just printed (to a nice, noisy, dot-matrix), you'd see the image they designed.