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Submitted to Contest #303
It's what everyone always says. What everyone believes, or at least, wants to believe. I didn't have a choice. The phrase that drives men to do horrible things. Like a warrant, signed and notarized by the universe. Justifying anything and everything under the guise of self preservation, or some twisted sense of duty. Only, most of the time, it’s the devil who’s signing. On a night like this, you better believe he's roaming the streets. Ready and willing to take your bargain. Take your soul, and drag you straight to hell. Well, I hope he's ri...
As human societies emerged, collective motivations for the development of writing were driven by pragmatic exigencies like keeping track of produce and other wealth, recording history, maintaining culture, codifying knowledge through curricula and lists of texts deemed to contain foundational knowledge (e.g., The Canon of Medicine) or to be artistically exceptional (e.g., a literary canon), organizing and governing societies through the formation of legal systems, census records, co...
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