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On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:46:34 +1000, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> rantingrick wrote:
> 
> > Turned my otherwise beautiful code into an Orwellian nightmare.
> 
> Your code was spying on you, having your friends and family disappear during
> the night to be tortured, and having history re-written so that there was
> no longer any evidence that they ever existed?
> 
> You have my sympathy.

<snicker>

	Well... "1984" at least is feasible/understandable... I fear to
think what influence "Animal Farm" would have on the response... (I
recall reading "1984", but have only encountered parts of "Animal Farm")

	OTOH... Code turning into a Lovecraftian nightmare is another level
of unease...
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