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That is to
say, the important words are more likely to appear in the |
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In fact,
there is very little of importance in this note outside the right |
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Following
this rather inane and boring introduction, I must now try |
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to fit
everything unimportant I have to say on the main page with the |
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reserved
only for the important bits. |
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This may
sound like an easy task but I can tell you now that the right |
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has become
a major constraint on my writing style. For
instance the |
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word must
not be used anywhere else in the text, outside the right |
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The
frequent and obsessive use of the dreaded word only within the |
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completely
destroys the prospect of any clever writing outside the |
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When I
started this note, I thought that something significant and not |
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would come
out of it. The intention was not to be
constrained by the |
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In fact, I
intended to ignore such physical limitations and feel free to |
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write on
whatever came into my mind; e.g. science or art, within the |
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of decency. But quickly I discovered that the mere
presence of a |
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on my writing paper was enough to frustrate my liberal approach and |
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me as a
prose writer; confining me to what some people call literary |
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