8.1. Government Health Warning
The previous chapters have introduced the fundamentals of the language
and have covered nearly all of the language that the Standard defines.
There are a number of murky and convoluted backwaters left unexplored on
grounds of sympathy and compassion for the sufferer, and some without any
better home. This chapter gathers them together—it's the toxic waste
dump for the nasty bits of C.
Pull on your rubber gloves, read the following sections and make notes
where you think the material is important to you; re-read them from time
to time as well. What seemed uninteresting and painful the first time
round may change as your experience grows, or your natural immunity
improves.
What we cover here is not an exhumation of all the pathogenic
elements—we leave that for another book—but it does serve to
round up most of the commonly encountered difficult or extraordinary
material.
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