The
programs cat, less, and micro (text editor) all work to render a
certain .txt file I have. But busybox less doesn't. It mangles the text.
I've tried removing all non-printable characters from the text, but the
problem remains.
I'm using wayland and sway. And I have tried reading the file while using the
terminals alacritty and foot.
The first three paragraphs of the text is attached.
Thank you
Abandon All Hope
Hieronymus Bosch comes home
by Nat Segnit
A naked man grabs me by the lapels and bares his teeth in frustration. I say
naked, when I mean clad in a skintight nude suit that delineates his six-pack
and decorously abstracts his genitals in the manner of a kids’ action figure. I
have been assaulted by the personification of Anger. I’m probably being
paranoid, but the unshakable sense of foreboding this gives me derives, as far
as I can tell, from the suspicion that his little coup de théâtre is so
effective because the guy playing Anger has actually taken against me, can
discern in me something weak or sinful that he could exploit as grist for his
performance. Earlier, a jester wearing a boat around his midriff had sniggered
at the way I was holding my press folder. Maybe I’m not being paranoid, and the
bad feeling I’ve had since I walked onstage at the Theater aan de Parade —
which will increase over the course of my stay — is only an appropriate
response.
Hieronymus B., Nanine Linning’s immersive “dance triptych,” is one of more than
ninety “fascinating cultural experiences” to be staged in and around the small
Dutch city of ’s Hertogenbosch to mark 500 years since the death of its most
famous son. No one knows exactly when Jeroen van Aken was born, but the date of
his funeral mass at St. John’s Cathedral — August 9, 1516 — is recorded in the
archives of the Brotherhood of Our Lady, the then-Catholic confraternity that
counted him among its members and in its ecumenical incarnation survives to
this day. (“Hieronymus,” incidentally, is a Latinization of “Jeroen,” or
“Jerome,” Bosch’s patron saint and later a favorite subject; in adopting the
name of his hometown, Bosch was swapping one toponym for another — Aachen, in
Germany, being the birthplace of his ancestors.) From a contract dated to 1475,
which mentions Bosch working with his father on a carved altar for the
brotherhood, it’s assumed he was born around 1450.
’S Hertogenbosch lies roughly fifty miles from Amsterdam, in the southerly
province of North Brabant. It’s a quiet, attractive, prosperous-seeming place,
with a well-preserved medieval center inside the remains of its
fourteenth-century ramparts. On the train from Schiphol Airport the announcer
placed heavy emphasis on the first syllables, ’S-HER-to-gen-bosch, as if to gee
himself up for the syllables to come. The locals give themselves a break and
call it Den Bosch. The focus of the celebrations is Visions of Genius, an
exhibition of Bosch’s work at the Noordbrabants Museum (which ended on May 8);
Charles de Mooij, the director, has secured seventeen of the surviving
twenty-four paintings attributed (with varying degrees of certainty) to Bosch,
and nineteen of the surviving twenty works on paper. Never before — conceivably
not even in his lifetime — have so many of Bosch’s works been assembled in one
place, all the more impressive an achievement given that the Noordbrabants is a
small, provincial museum, numbering precisely zero Bosches in its permanent
collection.
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