Pity the monstrous character (*), not
Posted in Panama, Reflections on Jun 10th, 2008
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An Innocent Character – Smacking wee balls – The Quetzal! – The asterisk
In the guise of an innocent character there lurks a fiend. Now we all know that 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, but how many are aware that in ASCII it is the mark of the devil? For it is the code for the asterisk (*), a character that throws in doubt everything that precedes it. It is the uninvited person from Porlock that ruins a good theme, the movie that ends by revealing that the last two hours were a dream sequence.