ANSWER: The characters go to different places, depending
on whom you ask:

* The Catholic Church’s approach to characters: The
nice characters go to Heaven, where they are bathed in the light
of happiness. The naughty characters are punished for their sins.
Naughty characters are those involved in the creation of naughty
words, such as "breast," "sex" and "contraception."

* The Buddhist explanation: If a character has lived
rightly, and its karma is good, then after it has been deleted
it will be reincarnated as a different, higher character. Those
funny characters above the numbers on your keyboard will become
numbers, numbers will become letters, and lower-case letters will
become upper-case.

* The 20th-century bitter cynical nihilist explanation:
Who cares? It doesn’t really matter if they’re on the page, deleted,
undeleted, underlined, etc. It’s all the same.

* The Mac user’s explanation: All the characters
written on a PC and then deleted go to straight to PC hell. If
you’re using a PC, you can probably see the deleted characters,
because you’re in PC hell also.

* Stephen King’s explanation: Every time you hit
the (Del) key you unleash a tiny monster inside the cursor, who
tears the poor unsuspecting characters to shreds, drinks their
blood, then eats them, bones and all. Hah, hah, hah!

* Dave Barry’s explanation: The deleted characters
are shipped to Battle Creek, Michigan, where they’re made into
Pop-Tart filling; this explains why Pop-Tarts are so flammable,
while cheap imitations are not flammable. I’m not making this
up.

* IBM’s explanation: The characters are not real.
They exist only on the screen when they are needed, as concepts,
so to delete them is merely to de-conceptualize them. Get a life.

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