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How the fire was stolen

1. I Chapter I.

   For a long time the diagrams belonged to the Masters. They knew where the box goes. They would not say.

2. II Chapter II.

   The knowledge passed by hand, in person, at a whiteboard, and only to those who had already suffered. There was no manual. There was a Master, sighing.

3. III Chapter III.

   The trials were: align eight boxes. Align them again once someone adds a ninth. Discover the whole thing must move four pixels left. Nobody remembered who set the grid. Nobody dared touch it.

4. IV Chapter IV.

   Then one of them went up the mountain and came back with the fire. A hero or a thief, depending which Master you ask.

5. V Chapter V.

   On inspection the fire was auto-layout. The gods were furious — not about the theft, about the kerning.

You write the sentence. The layout stopped being a secret.

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