On a whim I opened a spam today. The text caught my eye. I cut and pasted
a sentences of it into Google, "the members of the family and household
of the Oblonskys.". It turned out to be Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. Now I am on chapter
9; it is a riveting book. Great read. I've had it on my bookshelf for years;
funny how a single page of it could catch my attention. Maybe a person has to
be at a certain stage in life to appreciate it. It is about family, and love.
It shows how twisted up our natural emotions become when we bind ourselves to
a harsh and limiting moral system.
Many spams are now dropping in chunks of text from various books and novels. Sometimes they mangle random sentences from various sources, other times they drop in whole cloth from the classics. I don't know if that tactic is getting their spams through the filters, but if I discover a great new work of classic literature once a year through such spamming tactics, then maybe spam isn't so bad after all.