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                                "HOW DOES HE DO IT?"
              (in other words, "HOW TO READ RIK-E MARTEEN'S ASCII")


In this text, I will show you how I write, say, the word "MORON". I hope this
will help the people who want to read my ascii, but fail.

Now, let's first of all draw the letter "M". This is how it looks like:

                                   ____
                              /---///  \
                             /___/ /   /
                                  /---/

See, that's so simple that a baby with no reading skills whatsoever could read
it. On to the letter "O"...

Instead of just drawing an "O" somewhere near the "M", I *connect* the letters,
like this:


                            connecting part
                                   |
                              ____ |
                         /---///  \    ______
                        /___/ /    `--/ /   /
                             /---)___/ /   /
                                     \/---/
                                 |
                                 |
                          connecting part


Let's add an "R" and an "O".


                      ____
                 /---///  \    ______
                /___/ /    `--/ /   /   ____      ______
                     /---)___/ /    `--/\  _\/---/ /   /
                             \/---(___/-/  \/___/ /   /
                                       /---/    \/---/
                                            |
                                            |
                                         NOTICE!

Yes, I *DID NOT CONNECT* the "R" and the latter "O"! Now comes the TRICKY PART.
In other words, I will add the last letter ("N") and *FINISHING TOUCHES!*


                                                           "N"
                     ____                                   |
        /    / //---///  \    ______ _   _       _          |
               /___/ /    `--/ /   /   ____      ______    ____
                    /---)___/ /    `--/\  _\/---/ /   `---/\   \
                           \\/---(___/-/  \/___/ /   ____/ /   //  /
                                      /---/   \\/---/ rm  /---/


The logo is now FINISHED, with nice finishing touches and all. And after this,
if you can't read my ascii, you are the above logo.

//rm (johan@mircnet.org)
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