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Are some things really better left unsaid?

Fine

Did you know that there's a folder called Corpus in the base game's files? It contains three text files, supposedly with excerpts of dissertations in them. I don't think they're used anywhere in the game, but the style lines up with some of the more academic pieces in the game, notably by Q Girl and Barathrum the Old. If they're simply excerpts taken from real-world works, I can't seem to find them anywhere. If anyone could find where they're from, that'd be really cool.

Though no fixed conclusions are yet established about the causes of the
brilliant auroral display, yet, as the results of laborious observations,
we are assured that the stabler centre of our solar system holds in its
powerful sway the several planets at their respective distances, supplying
them all with their seasonable light and heat, vibrating sympathetic
chords in all, and even controlling under certain--though to us still
unknown--laws the electric streamers that flit, apparently lawlessly, in
the distant earth's atmosphere.