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Re: Shakespeare
Posted By: Sam, on host 209.6.136.164
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999, at 20:07:15
In Reply To: Re: Shakespeare posted by Darien on Wednesday, April 21, 1999, at 18:50:35:

> "To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."
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> And the Anagram:
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> "In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."

Wow. That is *cool*.

The mathematical properties of anagrams suggest all kinds of awe-inspiring possibilities like this once the length of what you're "anagraming" is long enough, but it takes so incredibly much effort to find them, even for computers, that things like this are rarely discovered.