Re: virus: Re: meme pairs (formerly compassion and justice) (formerly AIDS meme)

zaimoni@ksu.edu
Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:35:37 -0500 (CDT)


On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, David Leeper wrote:

> Santo Domingo,
>
> For fun/experimentation, I removed one character per line.
>
> Crime = Justice
> War = Peace
> Poverty = Wealth
> Evil = Good
> Follower = Pagan
>
> --
> David Leeper
> Homo Deus
> http://home1.gte.net/dleeper/index.htm

Fun?!

Actually, Follower and Pagan are symmetric [almost]. Try doing a text
substitution in an appropriate document. I doubt you will lose that much
meaning. [Except you're reading the inverse of the document you
processed. Insignificant.]

The above exercise doesn't work easily with the other four pairs.

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