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               Outbreak Magazine Issue #9 - Article 3 of 14
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Words
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by: kleptic <outbreak@fwaggle.net>

Words are amazing.  More specifically, writing is amazing.  The way we can just 
look at a little combination of symbols and gain information from them is 
astounding to me.  You look at some combinations of symbols, and you might laugh.  
You look at another combination, and you might get really pissed off.  You could 
even look at an arrangement of symbols and get sexually aroused by them.  Isn't 
that insane!?

You can gain skills from those symbols.  Say you didn't know how to fix a blown 
out radiator hose/tube/whatever.  You could look at a certain combination of 
symbols and suddenly gain the skills you needed to fix it.  If you had looked at 
a slightly rearranged combination of symbols you would not know what to do.

There are people who get paid to arrange symbols.  They know all the rules to 
follow when arranging the symbols, and they can make combinations of symbols 
that nobody else would ever think to produce.  I really like the way the great 
Douglas Adams arranged his symbols.  His symbol arrangements make me happy, but, 
on the other hand,  Adolf Hitler's symbol combinations make me violently angry 
at the sick way he combined the same symbols.

I think I analyze things way  too much.