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Building with Words

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ASCII art constructs images from text, temples from characters. There is something profound in this constraint—building complexity from the simplest elements, finding form within rigid limitation.

All human creation works this way. We build meaning from arbitrary symbols, cathedrals from shaped stone, societies from shared fictions.


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