I porbably ought to start a new thread just for this "Culture" stuff, but, oh well...

from Iain Banks description of Marain:
...enables the Culture Minds fully to indulge their seemingly congenital predilection of unnecessary obfuscation, wilful contrariness and the fluent generation of utter and profound confusion in others.
http://homepages.compuserve.de/Mostral/artikel/marain.html



formerly known as etaoin...