Argh! I'm getting some negative rep on this.

Is this for lack of elegance (fair enough), insuffient obscurity (fair enough) or because it doesn't work for you? jynx complained that it printed garbage.

On my MacPerl, it produces the following output. I did wonder whether whether there might be some cross-platform issues regarding the line endings.

                 r      J      u
            e                        s

        k                     __          t
                               /|
     c                        /
                             /
                            /
   a                       /                   A
                          /
                         /
  H                     *                       n
                        |
                        |
                        |                      o
                       \|/

    L                                        t


       R                                  h

             E                        e
                    P          r

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