Friday, February 08, 2008

Does the English language really need the letter X?

In the midst of the burning issues of politics and religion in our time, only a publication as bold as The Christian Science Monitor has the conviction to wade through the flotsam in the mainstream media, and challenge us to ponder the things that impact upon all of us:

When pirates unfurled their treasure maps, it was X and not Q that marked the spot. And when a phenomenon exists, or is postulated to exist, which defies the imagination or is, at first, poorly grasped, we use an X to denote the limits of our understanding: X-rays, planet X, The X-Files.

There are those things that affect our daily lives, in ways we cannot imagine. Especially when there's nothing better to think about.
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