This is the first stanza of "America A Prophecy" by William Blake -- favorite poet of replicant and vampire alike.
$blake = <<END_BLAKE; The shadowy daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc. When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode; His food she brought in iron baskets, his drink in cups of iron; Crown'd with a helmet & dark hair the nameless female stood; A quiver with its burning stores, a bow like that of night, When pestilence is shot from heaven; no other arms she need: Invulnerable tho' naked, save where clouds roll round her loins, Their awful folds in the dark air; silent she stood as night; For never from her iron tongue could voice or sound arise; But dumb till that dread day when Orc assay'd his fierce embrace. END_BLAKE $_="0550570660870880920A10AC0BF0C00C50CF0D113313414716F17717917E18F1C8 +1D21EC"; while(m/(.{3})/go){print substr($blake,hex($+),1);}

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Re: America A Prophecy
by feanor_269 (Beadle) on Apr 22, 2003 at 13:47 UTC
    Very cool, ++! I'll wait for Mr. Muskrat's spoiller :)
    UPDATE: I should know by now not to post when semi-asleep. dur, simple, me get now!

    feanor_269
      Yes... sleeping is not the best time to post / write email to (insert opposite sex here), type commands such as rm -rf after doing a sudo su - on a production box... yada yada... :)

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      Zak
      Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate - mysql's philosphy