Can anybody think of an example of a hack in the sense of programming, but in a piece of writing? (Ie not hack as in bad writing, but clever expedient use of words possibly with subversive intent)
Only one I can think of is DFW’s Consider the Lobster om.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/magazine/2000s
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surprised nobody mentioned puns, which strike me as the classic way to trojan horse one meaning through another. this isn't *writing* per se but it's fun to consider: twitter.com/nick_kapur/sta
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