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Archives for 2015

Dashes and dots served to make Morse code work, an old system of sending urgent messages using long or short beeps or if not available, long or short flashes of light. Look it up!

It takes very little to upgrade a simple code like that into an elaborate language.

You just add one more “layer” to what is essentially, a language.

To put it simply, a few words can convey quite a lot, but when you want to express feelings, impressions and emotions, you will need the ability to combine words in a clever way or even additional words.

And you can!

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To the rogues and rascals. You won’t get away, not for long.

Well who knows? It’s like asking… is there really karma?

The good, the bad and the undecided.

Decisiveness is the key to every locked door.

The bold soup of choice awaits.

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As the sun crept in I lay down my pen to sleep.

The door, creaking like an old reminder, opened to reveal nothing.

A cat was not stepping gingerly. A tiger was loping towards the hills.

Over the trees a mist spread like soft butter.

A golf club lay on the driveway and a small golden bird looked alert.

The milk had been delivered as if a history book had been opened.

It was not a weekday. Life was brewing toward a memorable episode.

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Leaning slightly, the building was a work of art. So they said.

After the Leaning Tower of Pisa there had been few copyists. After all, that building was not designed to lean, it just listed over time and due to a lack of footing for the foundations.

It is a curious idea that there might be many more great sites of interest, if some other mistakes had not been corrected.

I think it is better to plan towards the result you want to achieve.

But it may be an idea to review the pie that does not rise in the oven, the design that slips sideways, the overexposed picture and the painting with dripping paint.

Delicious, accidental masterpieces.

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Is describing a sunset more difficult than creating an instruction manual?

How hard something is to do is not that important.

The easy things can be hard, the hard easy.

Why? Because a big task demands focus, a small task can seem piffling and irrelevant, hard to focus upon.

Poetry is no easier than linear fiction.

Describing principles of economics should be hard because the principles are only relevant if they can be applied!

It is easier to explain something that fits somewhere rather than that same thing in isolation.

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