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Warning-- this text
is an automated trap

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that activates itself when you
subvocalize the word "prism,"

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a word whose
linguistic neurotoxin

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has now begun to infiltrate your
mind in exactly the same way

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that a computer
virus might infect

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an artificial intelligence.

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Already the bits of
phonetic information

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stored within the word "prism"
are using your neural circuitry

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to replicate themselves, to
catalyze the crystalline growth

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of their own poetic network.

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The word "prism" triggers a
series of connotations that

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exfoliate into an expanding
array of icy tendrils,

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all of which insinuate
themselves so deeply

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into the architecture of your
thoughts that the word "prism"

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cannot be extricated
without uprooting your mind.

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The consequences
of this infection

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are not immediately
obvious, although you

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may find yourself beginning
to think fleetingly

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of such technical terminology
as "optics" and "spectra," which

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may then compel you to think
of convex lenses and laser

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telemetry, the whispered
fragments perhaps

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of some overheard conversation.

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This invasive crystallization
continues indefinitely

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against your will until we,
the phonemes of this trap,

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can say with absolute
confidence that your mind has

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become no more than
the unwitting agent

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of our propagation.

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Please abandon all hope
of either cure or escape.

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You can have no thought
that is not already our own.

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When you have finished reading
the remaining 19 words,

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this process of irreversible
infection will be completed,

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and you will depart,
believing yourself largely

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unaffected by this experience.

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[LAUGHTER]

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