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Old 10-17-2019, 07:01 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
Reason® got a snerk from me, and it was nicely set up, too, with the earlier reference. It was a bit meta, though, shades of 42, and I tend to wish authors wouldn't do that kind of thing. Dorothy Parker, in reference to Sinclair Lewis, said something along the lines of, "No one has a better right, but sometimes I wish authors would stop just this side of what no one has a better right to do."
I'd forgotten it was called Reason tbh. And totally missed the connection to 42. So I wasn't worried it about it being too meta because I didn't notice!

But I just like the idea of reversing the logic of the software.
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