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It is also said that any syntax machine, given the right instructions, could chop up all the sentences of all the works of all the canons written by and also beloved by humans, and paste them back together arbitrarily, into manuscript sheaves sufficient to entertain, shock, divert, challenge, inspire or terrify any reader, as though written “new” by a living person bringing human insight to human problems through the miracle flexibility and precision of human language, but the most implausibly sophisticated theoretical reader of all books with perfect recall, five or six of the most intuitive mathematicians in the world, should they think to wonder about it instead of skimming the plot for sex scenes, and, of course, another syntax machine with appropriate instructions.