hope.eml

hope.eml
Source:	EP_arch
Date:	0000/12/01
Area:	C1

hope.eml is a text document stored in terminal C01 in C1.

From: 686.5.6176@656.E20.696E
To: 68.65.6C@6C2.01.973
Subject: #6465 #7370 #6169 #72&

Hi,

I hope you get this, the internet's been disappearing unpredictably. I want you to know that I'm going to try and get to you. I know it's far and there's not a lot of time, but I think I can manage. I want to be with you, and fra%&$%/ on the road trying to get to you seems better than just staying here, so far away from you. At least I'll be as close as I can get. Remember $§&%$&

But hey, don't be sad. I might make it. I've thought about it and the distance should be crossable on time, assuming the s&$46474 don't kick in before $§%§%.

Notes

The encrypted text ("heaven in hell's despair" when assembled and corrected) is taken from the poem The Clod and the Pebble by English poet William Blake. It comes from the first stanza of the poem, which reads:
"Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."
- Strangely, the encrypted text on the "To:" line is instead transliterated as "hell �␙s". It is unclear if this is on purpose or an issue with regard to how it was typed up.
- It is unclear if the additional numerical text in the passage ("46474", which is only decrypted as "FG" in hexadecimal) is meant to stand for anything or is simple gibberish.

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