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Letter: The Matrix choice

Published 8 March 2006

From Jim Ribar

You got the message of the pills wrong on your cover of the 18 February issue if you meant to conjure up The Matrix. You have a red pill with “sleep” written on it. But when Morpheus offers the pills to Neo, the blue pill is the one that puts you back to sleep, so you may awaken in the Matrix “believing whatever it is you want to believe”. The red pill is the one that keeps you awake, so you can be shown “just how deep the rabbit hole goes”.

The art editor writes:

• Nice idea, but it was simply a case of red for stop and green for go. The Matrix never crossed our minds when setting up the image.

Somers, Wisconsin, US

Issue no. 2542 published 11 March 2006

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