"and in the fourteenth iteration of the Parser, Alphonse the Server, there began the dark time when message traffic saturation exceeded avogodro's number; then came the preacher out of hiding, and being blind, he saw all; and he said, 'there is nothing more to say, and everywhere to say it; and were we to say it, it would go everywhere and arrive nowhere.' " -from the Worm's Progress - Princess Irulan. [log in to unmask] God Emperor of VM