Warning-- this text is an automated trap
that activates itself when you subvocalize the word "prism,"
a word whose linguistic neurotoxin
has now begun to infiltrate your mind in exactly the same way
that a computer virus might infect
an artificial intelligence.
Already the bits of phonetic information
stored within the word "prism" are using your neural circuitry
to replicate themselves, to catalyze the crystalline growth
of their own poetic network.
The word "prism" triggers a series of connotations that
exfoliate into an expanding array of icy tendrils,
all of which insinuate themselves so deeply
into the architecture of your thoughts that the word "prism"
cannot be extricated without uprooting your mind.
The consequences of this infection
are not immediately obvious, although you
may find yourself beginning to think fleetingly
of such technical terminology as "optics" and "spectra," which
may then compel you to think of convex lenses and laser
telemetry, the whispered fragments perhaps
of some overheard conversation.
This invasive crystallization continues indefinitely
against your will until we, the phonemes of this trap,
can say with absolute confidence that your mind has
become no more than the unwitting agent
of our propagation.
Please abandon all hope of either cure or escape.
You can have no thought that is not already our own.
When you have finished reading the remaining 19 words,
this process of irreversible infection will be completed,
and you will depart, believing yourself largely
unaffected by this experience.
[LAUGHTER]