The Pen and the Sword
The pen is mightier than the sword, but a picture is worth a thousand words.
So is a picture of a sword mightier than the pen?
But that doesn't make sense: couldn't I just poke a hole through the picture with the pen? But with the actual sword, I would be able to chop the pen up into little bits, whereas no harm could be done to the sword. I was hoping the sword could at least get vicarious satisfaction by at least having its picture be mightier, but now I'm confused. What is the resolution to this conundrum?
So is a picture of a sword mightier than the pen?
But that doesn't make sense: couldn't I just poke a hole through the picture with the pen? But with the actual sword, I would be able to chop the pen up into little bits, whereas no harm could be done to the sword. I was hoping the sword could at least get vicarious satisfaction by at least having its picture be mightier, but now I'm confused. What is the resolution to this conundrum?
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I behead you with my sword and use your blood in a pen to draw a picture with a thousand words.
This sums it up.
This sums it up.
You seem to have covered most of the salient points.
With your blood...
My blood is like acid. Tastes like it too.It better be Sodium Hydroxide or Hydrofluoric Acid that is all I drink.
Ascorbic acid and distilled water. Perfect for mixing heroin with.
I prefer dissolving bodies in bathtubs. Usually hookers or rival mobsters.
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A pen can out write any image that would mean a thousand words. Like this image here: [link]
![[link]](https://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?https://images.encyclopediadramatica.se/9/98/Jingletits.jpg){kind=link}
That image only needs one word.
Put it all in a box with a grenade... whatever survives is the winner. Nothing survives they're all inferior
I wouldn't want that job.
Then ya gotta stop mixing metaphors
what about a sword with a pen at the bottom of the handle and a roll of paper inside the handle that is replaced when it runs out?
What kind of witchery is this?
But you're forgetting the picture of a sword can unleash the "death of a thousand paper cuts."
And what a horrible death that is.
Paper cuts sure do suck.
I've never been that unfortunate in actually getting one. 
-The pen is mightier than the sword- Death Note told me this. 
Now the answer:
With a sword you can kill a lot of people, but if you have got a pen you can save, bring to life a lot of people, even those who never existed.
Now the answer:
With a sword you can kill a lot of people, but if you have got a pen you can save, bring to life a lot of people, even those who never existed.
So is the picture of a sword mightier than the pen?
No.
How is it possible: I can hold my pen and transform it in a sweet and innocent flower u.ù and be the winner.
How is it possible: I can hold my pen and transform it in a sweet and innocent flower u.ù and be the winner.
But the sword can behead that flower...
Well... not if the sword is only a photo.
I bet if you chucked the photo straight ahead, like a shuriken, you could take out the flower.
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