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Re: Oh, literally dozens
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There used to be a guy who wrote books years ago who insisted that the word "SEX" appeared subliminally in hundreds of ads. I don't feel like looking him up right now. He spent a long time carefully finding the shapes of the letters and tracing them out.

He was one of many people years ago who wrote books on how our helpless minds were being manipulated by the evil advertising industry, and only the author's vast intellect allowed him to see through these subtle things and remain totally unaffected by them.

At some point you have to wonder, as with Lowell's canals on Mars, which end of the telescope the intelligence is on.

"Visual literalism" might just be another way of saying you see things that are there, not things you want to be there. The other end of that curve is "hallucination."

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