| Monday, June 07, 2004 |
 | Oh you fuckers. You fucking, fucking fuckers. Once again, you give me reason to hurt you.
What precisely does Microsoft seek to achieve with this? A Microsoft spokesthing might say that it aims to show the universal method of communication that is the text message. To demonstrate that even the Iliad can be expressed through brief, abbreviated sentences? In doing so, the Microsoft spokesthing would show itself as mean in thought and limited in conception as the mean and limited interests it represents. Any cretin can tell you what happened in the Iliad, which varying levels of detail. Is that reading the Iliad? It is not. It is knowing, to some degree, what happened in the Iliad. One could do the same by watching Troy. You'd be wrong in a comical variety of respects, but perhaps no more wrong in some ways than somebody who had received a factually accurate statement of perhaps one thousandth part of the action and not one part of the poetry of the Iliad. In both cases you have not even come within bowshot of the Iliad, and if you are being led to think that you have, somebody is lying to you.
Fuckers. Now I have to go and kill. See what they made me do.
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