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- TITLE:EDITORIAL by MACNO
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- WORLD OF WORDS
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- Words are bombing us since our birth.
- They have built our way of thinking, our knowledge and probably also our
- intelligence.
- Words are always around us, they chase us everywhere, as sadistic predators seek
- for their foes.
- That's the function of words, they are said and written to be listened and read.
- The amount of written words in this world must be impressive.
- Just think about all the new books published every day, or all the magazines, or
- any kind of booklet, pamphlet, opuscule.
- Think about all the dailies that are miraculously filled every day, one after
- one. An immense flood of words, from everywhere, in every language.
- A huge, immense, totally chaotic babilonia, where every written word seeks for a
- pair of reading eyes.
- Sometimes I wonder how is it possible to find a reader for every word.
- Sometimes it seems that there are more writers than readers.
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- Think about what you can read during a day: the school notes of a mate, the
- school book, a novel, the newspaper, some magazines, an essay about an
- interesting topic, some comics, the advertising sheet handled you along the
- street, the teletext on your TV, a manual, the instructions to use a camera, a
- letter and maybe also the scroll-text of a demo and the articles of a diskmag.
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- I'm feeling almost embarrassed to tell you that what you are looking at now is
- another thing to read.
- To read.
- Reading is a strange activity. It fills most of your "CPU time" but it fills
- also your memory. What you read could also not be remembered, but it enters,
- it's interpreted, it grazes your neurons.
- You can read something interesting, entertaining, incomprehensible, exciting,
- appealing, boring,
- Whatever it is, however it is, it has built something inside you, it has
- inserted a new brick in the building of your thoughts, opinions, knowledge,
- mental schemes.
- It could be a grain of dust or a powerful foundation, but it IS, it exists, it
- could do something.
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- Reading this disk magazine you won't change your life, you won't rebuild your
- system of thoughts and probably you won't read something particularly different
- from what you can read somewhere else.
- But it would be different, here and only here some thousands of words are linked
- together in this particular, unique, way.
- There is only an Abnormalia issue 3 in the world and it is here.
- It has meditation and humour, information and narration, it has for sure some
- grains of sand willing to enter in your mind.
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- Miss them and you will lose something forever.
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- Macno
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- P.S. I forgot to remind you that in this same moment you are missing millions
- of other writings and publications and you are missing them forever too.
- That's not a good reason anyway to keep on losing, isn't it?
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