Ah, Stilly, an heroic, hard-charging assault, inundating the entrenched position of imaginary numbers with an overwhelming rain of borrowed words. Exhausted, but triumphant, she sleeps at last, the enemy duly subdued and whelmly overwhelmed. To which, say all of us, "Thanks, Stilly!!. You kept 1600 safe for democracy."

When the time comeas for us to mark our history with 20K, we should have prepared well in advance a new improved lot of telling epistles, gathered ahead of time. For novelty, we could use screeds of our own composition. That way we could ensure that only the very best of genuine BS gets thrown into the historical mix.


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