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           would    you    consider    code    golf           
           to    be     a    kind    of     prayer?           
           as   in,    you   make   a   convoluted,           
           intricate,   beautiful,   and    useless           
           artifact.  as  in,  you're  using   your           
           skills    to    ask    for    something,           
                                                              
           ...i'd  ask   for  a  handful  of  bugs?           
                                                              
           code   has    bugs,    lots    of    it.