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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

--The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(trans. Edward Fitzgerald, 1st ed.)

I think that Word is one of these strange softwares that can do anything except what you think it can do. It's not possible to write with this thing, but you can spend your day goofing with toolbars or including all types of spreadsheets or multimedia or even use it as the worst HTML-Editor ever.

I prefer ASCII, really.

Spaces define which letters go together to make up a word.

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There it was, word for word,
The poem that took the place of a mountain.


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 – Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
 – The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain [1952], st. I

What I feel for you,
I can't put in words,
language won't hold
my desire.

Words beginning with the »sn« sound in English are often unpleasant: snide, snob, snigger, sneer, snicker, snub, snert, snotty, snippy, snit, snarl, snore, sneak, snag. »Snow« is a word over which there is debate and even an annual change of heart. The first snowfall is almost always welcomed. Christmas snow is considered magical. But too much of a good thing for too long and March blizzards push »snow« into line with the rest of the »sn« words.

In the beginning was the word, and the word was 32 bits.

'Right again, quite right,' said Mr Swiveller, 'caution is the word, and caution is the act.'

A word has the power to define, to bind, to create, to destroy. Truely, a poet has power undreamt of by kings.

Without another word spoken on either side, the lodger took from his great trunk, a kind of temple, shining as of polished silver, and placed it carefully on the table.

Rotor is a fine palindrome, thought Frank Leigh Dearie as he ambled down the Lost Highway.

... words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe...

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

(Mark Twain)

The word on my mind right now is >>weekend<<. It's only a few hours away!

I can't wait to get away from this office!!