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The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:
> If Black is the absence of all color.... is White the sum of all color?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
} Yes.
}
} However, Black is not "the absence of all color" as you so ignorantly
} assume. You have obviously confused the proper noun "Black"
} (capitalized) with the simple adjective "black" (all lower case). The
} former appears in names such as the "Black Sea", which has nothing to do
} with an absence of light.
}
} To prevent you, the supplicant, from making similar mistakes, I have
} prepared a list of other confusing pairs of words. Study this list, and
} you'll never make the capitalization mistake again!
}
} ray -- a beam of illumination
} Ray -- your beer-bellied neighbor who forgot to return your lawn mower
}
} apple -- a delicious piece of fruit
} Apple -- a flavorless heap of plastic and silicon
}
} macintosh -- a variety of apple
} Macintosh -- a variety of Apple
}
} oracle -- a fountain of wisdom
} Oracle -- Yours Truly
} (Actually, these two aren't that different.)
}
} windows -- things that break when you throw baseballs at them
} Windows -- things that break when you click on them
}
} gore -- blood and guts
} Gore -- a politician
}
} Ms. -- an unmarried female
} MS -- a tyrannical empire
}
} gates -- things that prevent you from going where you want to go today
} Gates -- someone responsible for software that prevents you from going
} where you want to go today
}
} You owe The Oracle a date with Vanna White.
}
} <ouch> Lisa, cut that out!

Internet Oracle - Digest #856