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* The text comes from the poem ''[https://blakearchive.org/copy/mhh.h?descId=mhh.h.illbk.03 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]'' by English poet William Blake.
* The text comes from the poem ''[https://blakearchive.org/copy/mhh.h?descId=mhh.h.illbk.03 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]'' by English poet William Blake.
* The translated hex string comes from the poem "[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Auguries_of_Innocence Auguries of Innocence ]" also by Blake.

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contraries.dat
Source: temp
Date: 0000/00/00
Area: Tower

contraries.dat is a text document stored in terminal Floor 3 in Tower.

Contents

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Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence.

From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason

Evil is the active springing from Energy.

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