The delights of OCR

I’m re-reading John McPhee’s 1987 Atchafalaya article in the New Yorker (as are many other people, just now) and encountered this technological easter egg:

The sun, just above the horizon, was large and ruddy in the mist, rising slowly, like a hot-air baboon.

So you see there IS hope.

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