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Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).


Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.

Swenson always dreamed of being a soldier one day. It'd been a pipe dream for so long that he'd forgotten the uglier, grittier details of what military life would be. An an engineer, he wasn't sure if he'd ever even see combat. Yeah, well. Tell that to the grenade that had found itself in his tent during a raid on their camp. His left arm had taken the brunt of the damage, and there had been no choice but to amputate it. His leg had been salvaged, but it had taken intense physical therapy to even get him walking again.

Prosthetic limbs were nothing like the real thing, and the military had offered to compensate him by sending him a robotic aid. With nothing to lose, Ethan had agreed.

The thing they'd sent him... was a hunk of scrap. Still, after his initial temper flare had died out, the former soldier's curiosity had gotten the better of him, and he'd begun tinkering with the machine as best he could with one arm. He'd have killed for another, usable limb, but he was working the best he could. The face wasn't great. He'd slapped a circuit board with LED lights on it and had claimed it was good enough. Some of the artificial 'skin' was torn in places, revealing the metal workings and circuitry underneath.

Sitting back on his heels with a wince and immediately shifting his weight so it was more on his right leg than his left, Ethan looked over his work with a critical eye. This was as good as it was going to get. His leg was throbbing, as was his arm. Though he knew the arm was gone for good, it still ached at times. Phantom limb, they called it. Bullshit, is what he called it.

His right arm extended, seeking to activate the robot. "Come on, you hunk of junk." It was a mutter. "Let's see what you can do."