diff --git a/reagent-reitit-demo/resources/public/documents/clojure-basics.org b/reagent-reitit-demo/resources/public/documents/clojure-basics.org
index 2acfe48..25ea3f7 100644
--- a/reagent-reitit-demo/resources/public/documents/clojure-basics.org
+++ b/reagent-reitit-demo/resources/public/documents/clojure-basics.org
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ Basic data
 ;;characters are backslash escaped
 \a \b \c \e \t \c
 ;;Symbols (named things like function & variable) are just text
-my-var-name my-fn-name my-second-var-etc my-second-fn-etc
+;;these are quoted with a ' to stop evaluation, we have not actually defined them yet
+;;this stops evaluation 
+'my-var-name 'my-fn-name 'my-second-var-etc 'my-second-fn-etc
 ;;hash map or dictonary keys are prefixed with a colon, no need to quote
 :key1 :key2 :key3 
 ;;booleans