Wednesday, February 20, 2013

[mlqvidrn] Lorem ipsum

You're not supposed to read the Lorem Ipsum text; it is simply a placeholder to demonstrate the typography or page layout.  The text is supposed to be devoid of meaning so as not to distract.  This is ironic because the text's meaning is profoundly philosophically deep.  It is a mangled excerpt from Roman philosopher Cicero's treatise on ethics, "De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum"  "Concerning the End Goals of Good and Evil".  The world might be a very different place if more people read and understood it.  This bit is about dolor, pain and sorrow:

... qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor sit, amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt, ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem.

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/fin1.shtml#32

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