Flatland idea Layout tester

Ok I did this the other week but I have not been sure what I feel about this direction so I havent blogged this until now. The idea behind this is a giant poster (90cm by 180cm) with the entire text of the book on one side in 8pt Caslon. This was a tester I did just on two sheets of A3 to get the feel of how it would look

In many ways this would work and answer the brief but something was nagging me about it. I have now read most of the book and have a better feel for the text, and this is making me question the need to have this readable in my outcome. The ideas in the book (and this little rough illustrations) are far more interesting than reading the text as a whole. Doing this tester made me realise how interesting this tiny text could look, amazingly you could (just) still read it. I am now wondering if I should explore this, and use this small dense text in layouts as a sort of illustration on the themes in the book...