I don't see how this analogy applies at all. We are not viewing the universe from the outside looking in at the "words," but rather make up the universe ourselves. In some sense, we are the aforementioned pixels.

If we're the pixels, then things like your relationship with your parents are the words johnmarius are referring to. The relationships we have with other people cannot be seen coherently through the "atoms and the void" view.

(But they can be seen through the "we're here to play" view espoused by the author of this article.)