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[nancylebov]

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I wanted to use angle brackets, but lj insisted on trying to interpret them as html. I don't think the ['s look too bad. In any case, buttons are subject only to less-destructive parsing by humans, so please let me know if angle brackets would be better.

Again, any advice on l33t is welcome, and so are opinions about whether the slogans are funny.

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how far this joke is worth pursuing, but there was a book (movie?) a while ago called _The Unbearable Lightness of Being_. I've never read it, but when I was casting around for a title for my article, the book title turned up as a potential victim.

My vague impression is that was the book was mainstream, literary, and unlikely to interest me. If it had anything about codes, ingroups or chess, I can't take any credit.

[redbird]

That's not it--it's that I didn't get from the leet text-string to "The unbearable leetness of buttons."

I read Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being several years ago--because Ursula Le Guin mentioned it favorably in an essay--liked it, but haven't felt any impulse to reread it. No idea of whether you'd enjoy it.

[bruhinb.livejournal.com]

If you're likely be amused by a combination of semiotics, politics, and light erotica, you might enjoy it.