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Did you post this link for Gosho?

I'm nowhere nearer the solution, I must admit.

It's probably because I often go digging around odd corners of the site (ask azahar), that I dislike conversations which occur in parallel in different parts of the site: it confuses lurkers. (In my next rejig of my personal space, I must install one of those lurker badges.)

So I've developed a passion for cross-references. It's not for anyone's sake in particular.

TRiG.

It confuses ers
I think it's great fun to confuse ers, I have a conversation with lil - she posted me a message and there was a glitch, so the message appeared twice in my message center. Now she's talking in one thread only, and I'm only answering in the other thread - it's a hell of a lot of fun.

As an official lurker, I must go read that. It sounds brilliant.

TRiG.

It is brilliant, and you're welcome to read it - if you really can be bothered, I imagine it to be quite difficult. We always imagine how confused people must be when it pops up on the info page.

The <./>info</.> page is a place I very rarely go. When I do visit it, I always get jettisoned into wierd and wonderful places far from my usual haunts.

TRiG.

Yes. Strange would be one word. And, even reading the two together on a split screen, it's not fully comprehensible, because you refer in vague terms to things happening in other parts of the site and, if I'm reading you right, in personal e-mails. Horribly confusing. Great fun, though.

TRiG.

I never go to the info page, I hate it with a passion (for reasons I won't explain here). I've only just realised the changed subject title - I know the value of a grain of sand in the oyster, but in the pearl

(You did notice post eleven, yes?)

Yes, I did, but I had no idea what you meant with 'the above'

Ahem: Quick clue. I'd be slightly surprised if echo didn't know what it meant.

Changing on Saturday.

TRiG.

My h2g2 personal space is currently Google's best link for this word. But you also find http://valhalla.k12.ny.us/kensico/ar/books/sw.html.

I'm not expecting anyone to decipher my current name tag.

TRiG.

Most religions claim to teach love as a basic maxim. A high percentage of terrorists have a religious affiliation—professed Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, or other. But how far does their religion influence their actions? In his book The Ultimate Weapon—Terrorists and World Order, Jan Schreiber quotes IRA leader Ruairi O’Bradaigh: “I was with a very hard man once. We’d set up a mine together, to go off under a party of British soldiers. . . . Sure enough, they were right on target. And what did this hard fellow do? Just before making the connection, to explode the mine and blow them all to smithereens, he closed his eyes. Then he crossed himself and whispered devoutly: ‘May the Lord, now, have mercy on their souls!’”

Awake!, 8th January, 1987. Article: "Terrorism—What Is the Answer?" (pp. 11, 12).

(I wanted to have that paragraph as a name tag, but 'twas too long. So instead I used the publication code reference, with which very few people would be familiar. The three asterisks at each end imply that it was taken from the Watchtower Library CD-ROM.)

TRiG.

Aha!
Interesting story, I must say.
What is i now, half a binary code?

Now? Nothing. It just looks pretty. No harm in being meaningless occasionally.

TRiG.

Tsk - it just looks pretty - and there's me, having spent hours and hours oggoling for the solution -





































































no

It's pretty, but is it Art?

http://www.everypoet.com/Archive/Poetry/Rudyard_Kipling/kipling_the_conundrum_of_the_workshops.htm

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:H92pzzeTZyIJ:www.kipling.org.uk/poems_conundrum.htm+kipling+%22the+devil+whoops%22&hl=en&gl=ie&ct=clnk&cd=6

Great poem - but why the two links?

For no particular reason.