Add author comments to 2018/endoh2/README.md
These were found on Yusuke Endoh's analysis of all the IOCCC winning entries. I kept the ASCII art he had for the comments but his comments for the entry seem like a good idea to include especially as he wrote them himself and they add to the entry itself.
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## Author's comments:
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A high-context work that combines parrots that new hackers like and parrots that
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old hackers like. One is an internet meme called [Party
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Parrot](https://cultofthepartyparrot.com). The other is a
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sketch (comte) called ["Dead
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Parrot"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Parrot_sketch) from the British
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comedy TV show ["Monty Python's Flying Circus"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus)
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The "_Python_" in the award name refers to Monty Python, **not** the
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[programming language Python (the name of the programming language Python is
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derived from Monty
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Python)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language).
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The shape of prog.c is "Undead Parrot" based on "dead parrot". The message that
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appears in the bottom line of the output source code is the subject of the
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dialogue that appears in "Dead Parrot" and explains in various expressions that
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the parrot died. Also, the second **__<-_Source_of_Parrots__** line from the bottom
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<http://cultofthepartyparrot.com/> has a hidden URL (hidden by the parrot's body).
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Although it is a boring Quine story, it is quite difficult to have 10 parrot
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pictures and 10 lines of data. Only the outline data of the parrot picture is
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saved, and the body is filled in at runtime. These data are probably compressed
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with [byte pair encoding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_pair_encoding).
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The parrot ASCII art below is the opening line of the Monty Python show. The judge's
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comment ["And now for something completely
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different"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Now_for_Something_Completely_Different) is also used in the
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opening.
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```
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