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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 20:58:06 PDT
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From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (v cebtenz zl bja pbzchgre)
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
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Subject: [surfpunk-0083] INBOX: ICS; Fiction; Heffter; BUY 0 DAY; Unhistory
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! If you are writing to offer large sums of money, chocolate,
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! fast cars, or other trinkets and amusements, you can try
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! leaving Spaf voice mail for more immediate attention:
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! 317-494-7825.
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! If you are seeking to serve a subpoena or overdue bill,
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! you've got the wrong address, wrong guy, wrong network,
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! wrong planet. So sorry.
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! X-Responding: Spaf's trusty mail software
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I kept the cypherania together in the issue 0082 -- this issue is a
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grab bag, mostly material from surfpunkers (thanks!). I'm including only
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the banners and table of contents from the brand new ICSzine -- but they say
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> To aid us in creating the summer issues we cannot stress
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> how important it is for people to send us submissions. If
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> we do not receive enough submissions it will take us longer
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> to compile summer issues. So, send us polished articles,
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> poems, stories, et cetera that you feel other ICS readers
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> (worldwide) would like to read.
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so subscribe, and help'em out! [Trailer from aNaRcKy (X-)BBS.] strick
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 18:31:30 -0600 (MDT)
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From: ORG_ZINE@WSC.COLORADO.EDU
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(ICS ELectrozine: Information, Communication, Supply.)
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Subject: Information, Communication, Supply Electrozine Document
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To: SURFPUNK@osc.versant.com, STRICK@osc.versant.com, ...
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Information Communication Supply 04/20/93 Vol.1:Issue.4
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Email To: ORG_ZINE@WSC.COLORADO.EDU
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E D I T O R S: Local Alias: Email: ICS Positions:
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Daniel Frederick N/A N/A Corrections, Role Playing
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Russell Hutchison -BurnouT STU524636420 Subscriptions, Editor
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Benjamin Price -Beelzebub/B'bub STU406889075 Submissions, Final Opinion,
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Letters Section
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Luke Miller -Aminohead/DUB STU521532642 Subscriptions, Role Playing
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Donald Sanders -Zorro ORG_ZINE Contributor
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George Sibley -MACFAC FAC_SIBLEY Faculty Supervisor
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Matthew Thyer -O O T L O STU523086351 Chief Editor
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Deva Winblood -Metal Master ADP_DEVA Technical Director,WorldNet
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Tour Guide, Tales of The
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Unknown, Critical Editor
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| ICS is an Electrozine distributed by students of Western State |
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| College in Gunnison, Colorado. We are here to gather information about |
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| topics that are important to us all as human beings. If you would like |
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| to send in a submission please type it into an ASCII format and mail it |
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| to us. We operate on the assumption that if you mail us something you |
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| want it to be published. We will do our best to make sure it is |
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| distributed and will always inform you when or if it is used. |
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| See the end of this issue for submission information. |
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REDISTRIBUTION: If any part of this issue is copied or used elsewhere
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you must give credit to the author and indicate that the information
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came from ICS Electrozine ORG_ZINE@WSC.COLORADO.EDU.
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BACK ISSUES: Back issues can be FTPed from UGLYMOUSE.CSS.ITD.UMICH.EDU
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in the directory /pub/Zines/ICS. (check /pub/Politics/ICS also)
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DISCLAIMER: The views represented herein do not necessarily represent the
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views of the editors of ICS. Contributors to ICS assume all
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responsibilities for ensuring that articles/submissions are not violating
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copyright laws and protections.
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| \ T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S / |
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| Included in the table of contents you will see some|
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| generic symbols to help you in making your |
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| decisions on whether an article is something that |
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| may use ideas, and/or language that could be |
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| offensive to some. S = Sexual Content |
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| AL = Adult Language V = Violence O = Opinions |
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|____________________________________________________|
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I. FIRST OPINION: SEASONS CHANGE: The Past and Future of ICS.
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By Deva Winblood. This will answer some questions and also
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inform our readers of some activities and plans for the future
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of ICS.
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II. CHALLENGE/INVITATION: For Creative And/Or Institutional Thinkers.
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By George Sibley.
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III. WORLDNET TOUR GUIDE: Obtaining Free Electronic Music.
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By Deva Winblood. Talks about MODs, where they can be found,
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what you need to play them, and who writes them.
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IV. TALES OF THE UNKNOWN #4: By George Sibley.
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No one ever thought a calendar could be so mystical.
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V. MY GOD, WHY HATH THOU FORSAKEN ME?: Part I of a story to be
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continued in Issue #5 by Ted Sanders. (AL,V)
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VI. THE RIGHT DECISION: A story by Catherine Murray.
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This story deals with... Well, you'll see. It is a very good
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story. Ben Price says so.
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VII. IMPURE MATH: Submitted by Rodrigo de Almeida Siqueira. This
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humorous tale was submitted by a man of vast interests.
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VIII.MARTIANS ARE COMING pt. 2: A story continuation of the first
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part featured in ICS Issue #3. By Russell Hutchison.
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IX. RUSH: A story by Daniel Frederick. This story is definitely not
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intended for Arachnophobes. (V)
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X. CHAOTICON II Announcement: A public service announcement.
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XI. TOME OF VAST KNOWLEDGE Announcement: A public service announcement.
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XII. FINAL OPINION: By Benjamin Price. In this episode Ben is complaining
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about the weather and possibly saying farewell.
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 14:53:07 -0600
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To: <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>
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From: amerika@spot.colorado.edu
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Subject: Re: [surfpunk-0073] REVIEW: _Black Ice_
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Strick-
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I don't know if this kind of NEWS RELEASE is of interest to you and your
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readers but it was suggested to me by Don Webb that I send this to you.
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There's also an electronic review someone just sent me and I can send that
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along if you'd like.
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Wigging In The Warp of A New World Genderware,
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Mark Amerika
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___________________
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*****WHAT IS AVANT-POP?*****
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April 1, 1993 is the official publication date for Black Ice Books.
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Black Ice Books is a new alternative trade paperback series that
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will introduce readers to the latest wave of dissident American
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writers. Breaking out of the bonds of mainstream writing, the
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voices published here are subversive, challenging and provocative.
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The first four books include:
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"Avant-Pop: Fiction For A Daydream Nation"
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Edited by Larry McCaffery, this book is an assemblage of innovative
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fiction, comic book art, unique graphics and various other
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unclassifiable texts by writers like Samuel Delany, Mark Leyner,
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William Vollmann, Kathy Acker, Eurudice, Stephen Wright, Derek Pell,
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Harold Jaffe, Tim Ferret, Ricardo Cortez Cruz and many others.
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One of the least cautious, nerviest editors going, Larry McCaffery
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is the No-Care Bear of American Letters. --- William Gibson
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A clusterbomb of crazy fiction, from a generation too sane to repeat
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yesterday's lies. --- Tom Robbins
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"New Noir"
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Stories by John Shirley
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John Shirley bases his stories on his personal experience of extreme
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people and extreme mental states, and on his struggle with the
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seductions of drugs, crime, prostitution and violence.
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"John Shirley is an adventurer, returning from dark and troubled regions
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with visionary tales to tell." --- Clive Barker
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"The Kafka Chronicles"
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a novel by Mark Amerika
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The Kafka Chronicles is an adventure into the psyche of an
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ultracontemporary twentysomething guerilla artist who is lost in an
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underworld of drugs and mental terrorism, where he encounters an unusual
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cast of angry yet sensual characters.
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"Mr Amerika --- if indeed that is his name --- has achieved a unique
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beauty in his artful marriage of Blake's lyricism and the iron-in-the-soul
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of Celine. Are we talking a new and hard-hitting Antonin Artaud?
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Absolutely. And much more." --- Terry Southern
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"Revelation Countdown"
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by Cris Mazza
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Stories that project onto the open road not the nirvana of personal
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freedom but rather a type of freedom more closely resembling loss
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of control.
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"Talent jumps off her like an overcharge of electrcity" LA Times
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Discount Mail-Order Information:
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These books are available in good independent bookstores, but you
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have the option of buying them directly from the publisher at
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a discount. Buy one for $7, two for $13, three for $19 or
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all four for $25. We pay US postage! (Foreign orders add $2.50 per book).
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____ Avant-Pop
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____ New Noir
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____ The Kafka Chronicles
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____ Revelation Countdown
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Please make all checks or money orders payable to:
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Fiction Collective Two
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Publications Unit
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Illinois State University
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Normal, IL 61761
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for more information you can contact amerika@spot.colorado.edu
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________________________________________________________________________
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 18:48:17 CDT
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From: matthew john baggott <bagg@midway.uchicago.edu>
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com
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Subject: New Psychedelic Research Institute
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strick, here is some info on a new very reputable research institute
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that will be using psycehdelics as tools to investigate the human
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mind. The founders of this institute are all very respected scientists
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who've been doing outstanding work in this field for some time.
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I'm very, very pleased that this institute is being put together now and
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I am sure that other wetware hackers will share my enthusiasm.
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With the approval of DMT and MDMA research in humans and the formation
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of this institute, I think we're seeing a new psychedelic renaissance
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which will avoid many of the mistakes of the last one.
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I have deleted much of the text from this prospectus. Anyone interested
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in the full text, which gives fairly detailed development plans and
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brief bibliographic sketches of the founders can e-mail me.
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--M@
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The Heffter Research Institute: Excerpts from the Prospectus
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...Only one thing is certain, however, and it is this: the tool
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that humanity will use to discover the solutions [to its problems]
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will be the same one that has brought us this far along: the human mind...
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...Given the central and paramount importance of the human mind to
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the past, present, and future existence of our species, it is
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curious how little we know about it...
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The mind, however generated, is the source of all discovery and
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invention. Since it offers the only source of solutions to the
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problems that face us today, and will face us in the future, it
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follows that efforts to understand the mind--to figure out what
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it is, how it works, what it can do, and the nature of its
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relationship to the brain--should be given the highest priority.
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...Curiously, among the various tools available to man for
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furthering the understanding of the mind, some of the most
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promising are also some of the most ancient. They also happen
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to be some of the most neglected, and some of the most feared.
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These tools belong to a class of substances known popularly as
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psychedelic drugs--which literally means "mind manifesting..."
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While psychedelics may pose a danger for individuals with a
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predisposition toward mental instability, they are among the
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physiologically safest pharmacological tools available for
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investigating the relationship between consciousness and the
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brain. In the proper hands, and under the right conditions,
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psychedelics are invaluable research tools for exploring the
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infrastructures of the mind. Indeed, it is our thesis that
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these drugs represent a "new" technology for this work. Most
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other classes of psychoactive drugs that have found medical
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applications (and which also possess potential for abuse) such
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as narcotic- analgesics, sedatives, anxiolytics, stimulants,
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antidepressants, and antipsychotics, exert their effects via
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mechanisms and neural pathways that are relatively well
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understood. Moreover, most of these agents do not directly
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affect what are usually considered to be the "higher" brain
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functions, although they may do so indirectly. In contrast,
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the psychedelic agents exert their most profound influence on
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the very functions that we consider uniquely human: our
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cognitive and symbolic capacities; our emotional, intuitive,
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and aesthetic sensibilities; our interpretative, linguistic,
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and imaginative abilities; and our capacity for religious
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experience. In short, psychedelic drugs work most directly on
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the kinds of brain functions that weave together the fabric of
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what we experience as mind.
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...
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The Heffter Research Institute* was conceived as one possible
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approach to this problem. It is based on the belief that the
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multidisciplinary, legitimate, and scientifically sound
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investigation of psychedelic agents holds great potential for
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producing genuine breakthroughs in the understanding of the
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human mind. We are also sophisticated enough to recognize that
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the current political and intellectual climate makes it
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extremely difficult, if not impossible, to pursue research in
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certain directions within conventional frameworks, i.e., that
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of academic research supported by government funding. To be
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sure, the government will provide support to legitimate
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researchers of psychedelic agents, as the founders of the
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institute can testify from a long period of research funding.
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However, when it comes to extending the investigations from
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animal models to human subjects, or to testing hypotheses that
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the effects of psychedelics may in certain circumstances be
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beneficial, rather than entirely detrimental, the government's
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role as a supporter of legitimate research is then compromised
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by political and ideological concerns.
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...
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We are truly at square one. It has been said that there is no
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force in the universe more powerful than an idea whose time has
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come. Let us believe together that now is the time.
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Direct further inquiries to:
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David E. Nichols, Ph.D.
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The Heffter Research Institute
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4740 N. 225 W.
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West Lafayette, IN 47906-9702
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*Dr. Arthur Heffter (1860-1925) was a German pharmacologist
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with thorough training in chemistry. His study of the
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metabolism of sulfur compounds led to an interest in
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pharmacology which prompted him to study medicine. Following
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the completion of his medical studies in 1892, he worked for a
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time under the most prominent pharmacologist of his time,
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Oswald Schmiedeberg. He occupied the chair in pharmacology at
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the University of Berlin from 1908 until his death. Arthur
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Heffter was an expert in toxicology and forensic medicine.
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Unfortunately, his seminal contribution to research on
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psychedelics is not well recognized. He was the first to
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isolate chemically pure alkaloids from the peyote cactus, which
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he then studied both in animal assays and in self experiments.
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Through these efforts he discovered that mescaline was the
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principal psychoactive component in peyote. He thus was the
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first scientist to study the chemistry and psychopharmacology
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of a naturally occurring psychedelic substance in a systematic
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way.
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 08:57 PDT
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com
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Subject: BUY -0- DAY
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From: Terry_Palfrey@mindlink.bc.ca (Terry Palfrey)
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The Second Annual - Intra National
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-=|] B u y - 0 - D a y [|=-
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Last year, on Thursday, September 24, 1992, a new holiday was born.
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Unlike most other holidays, this day long event discourages
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celebratory purchases in its name.
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In fact just the opposite.
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Held every September 24th, BUY NOTHING DAY is a twenty four hour,
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continent-wide moratorium on consumer spending, designed to
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remind both the public and the retailer of the true power of the
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buying public. It is an exercise in financial self-control. It is
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a reclamation of consumer control of the marketplace. It is a
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gesture of protest for those of us who all too often feel as if
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our lives and dreams have been marketed back to us.
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Participate by not participating.
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Stock up now, and on Friday, September 24, 1993, buy nothing.
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For more details or Poster-Bumper Sticker designs contact:
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The Media Foundation - Adbusters Quarterly
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1243 W 7th Ave Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6H 1B7
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Phone: 604-736-9401 Fax: 604-737-6021
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There you have it, the people that even get a review in Wired are at it again
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this year. If they get encouragement they might even come online with a
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monthly zine effort.
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E-Mail can come to me for now:
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Terry_Palfrey@mindlink.bc.ca
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________________________________________________________________________
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 15:22 GMT
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From: Don Webb <0004200716@mcimail.com>
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To: surfpunk <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>
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Subject: _Adventures in Unhistory_
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Dear Dwellers in Arcana and others,
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I just did a review for _The New York Review of Science
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Fiction_ which I thought you might enjoy, so I'm previewing
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it here. The text that follows is (C) 1993 Don Webb.
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I hope you enjoy this.
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0004200716@mcimail.com
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Don Webb
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The Secret of magic is to transform the magician.
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Author of book reviewed: Avram Davidson
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Editor of book reviewed:
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Translator of book reviewed:
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Title: Adventures in Unhistory
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Name of press: Owlswick Press
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Address of small press: PO Box 8243, Philadelphia, PA
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19101-8243
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Year of publication: 1993
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Cloth and/or paper: Cloth
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Number of pages: 305
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Price: Paper: Cloth: $24.75
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If America were to become a police state, there would
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be certain books banned. Most would be banned in
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accordance with their slants -- a right wing state would ban
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the Communist Manifesto, left wingers might not have much
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use for Mein Kampf. But any totalitarian state would be
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well advised to ban Adventures in Unhistory for it is the
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kind of book that will make young dream dreams and start off
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on Quests. This is the perfect book to give people who are
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a little too sure about the world.
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The book is a collection of fifteen essays by Avram
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Davidson on as the subtitle says the factual foundations of
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several legends. The topics are wide ranging from mermaids
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to mandrakes, and mammoths to the theft of the mulberry
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tree. The sources of the essays seem to follow (for the
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most part) the career of editor George H. Schiters, who
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bought my first pro story and has other crimes to answer
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for, -- Asimov's in the early 80's, then Amazing, then Amra,
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then Weird Tales. He uses a light and entertaining prose
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for presenting his scholarship, sort of like Mircea Eliade
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done by Dave Berry. But the light tone does not hide the
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two key words here: scholarship and a sense of wonder. This
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book is in some way the opposite of a bad fantasy novel.
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Instead of dragging out old stodgy fictions of dwarves and
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elves and expecting you to be amazed, Mr. Davidson shows
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real wonders and allow you to think about this universe that
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is stranger than we know.
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Many of the essays are accompanied by bibliographies.
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The range of works cited in each is astonishing. On the
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essay on the dragon among the fifteen books included are
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Mircea Eliade's The Forge and the Crucible, Jacob Grimm's
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Teutonic Mythology, and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of
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Tyana. This magical curiosity has impelled him to research
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the topics with love and care and time far out of proportion
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for the money paid for the work. This is a love a fair
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between one man and the mysterious. He sense something's
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out there and has looked in the best new scholarship and the
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older dust covered volumes of curious and forgotten lore.
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But most important this is done in a critical spirit rather
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that fuzzy way common to writers on occult and pseudoscience
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topics.
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This is a book of Runes, a Germanic/English term
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meaning literally a "Mystery" or "secret". Or if you would
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prefer the polysemy that Mr. Davidson himself delights in:
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in Latin it would be a book of "Arcanum" and in Egyptian
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"Seshetat" Magically it signifies the internal or
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subjective sense of the hidden, which is the driving force
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of all true becoming. It is the inner key to the power of
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curiosity without which Those who Know would never have set
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out on their Quests. Runes are thought to exist (though
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hidden) both within the subjective universe, and in some
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"place" outside the subjective universe. Because of their
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obscure outer edge of hidden things, the necessity of the
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development of objective foundations and of Methods of
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Understanding of such foundations in the usually
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all-too-murky world of the occult is essential. In this
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Davidson has succeeded, doing for popular readers what
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Mircea Eliade has done for specialist. This book will be a
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seed for many a lifelong quest -- it shows the method and
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the reward. It would be the absolutely perfect High School
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graduation gift. The only other book that goes as well for
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High School graduation would be Baltasar Gracian's The Art
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of Worldly Wisdom, but I digress.
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George Barr has provided a series of well crafted
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illustrations, and Peter S. Beagle, whom I normally find
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irritating, has given a good introduction to who Avram
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Davidson is -- although I suspect that if you deal with a
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bookstore that carries Owlswick works you probably already
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know.
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Something a little scary happened the day I got the
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book. I had discussing the Aeon of Horus and its successor
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with a member of the O.T.O. (I have several black magicians
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in my sphere of personal acquaintance). The O.T.O. is a
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group dedicated to perpetuating the legacy of Aleister
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Crowley. My friend was talking about synchronicities being
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one of the ways the god spoke to us. I was dismissing the
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argument when the U.P.S. (the U.P.S. is group dedicated to
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preserving the legacy of the Postal; System) truck pulled up
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and delivered the yellow wrapped book. I told Gordon that I
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really, really wanted to review this book (because i knew
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otherwise I would be buying it). I unwrapped the book and
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Mary suggested that I try bibliomancy. So I opened the book
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after a remark about Crowley -- sure enough to page 115 in
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the Crowley essay in which after some delightful remarks
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about the Crowley-Yeats rivalry was the passage my thick
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index finger rested on, describing the reception of the Book
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of the Law:
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Aleister and Rose went to Cairo: and there on April 8,
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1904, he had a vision, if that is what it was, which was to
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prove of immense effect: the "minister" of Horus, the
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ancient hawk-headed Egyptian god, appeared to him in the
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form of "a dark king about his own age with the face of a
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savage king." and, standing behind Crowley's left shoulder,
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dictated words which Crowley wrote, down: O blessed Beast
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and thou scarlet woman of his desire, Do what thou wilt
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shall the whole of the Law. . . .
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/
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________________________________________________________________________
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________________________________________________________________________
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The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine
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originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern
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California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states,
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spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither.
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________________________________________________________________________
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Send postings to <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>, subscription requests
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to <surfpunk-request@osc.versant.com>. MIME encouraged.
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Xanalogical archive access soon. Preserving the legacy of the Postal System.
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@ Hey BS! Why canna I post?
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@ -- Master O'puppets
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@
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@ Nope... not even the alternating _ letter method werks.
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@ -- Master O'puppets
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@
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@ Actually Blue, I can connect fine. At 1200 even. The problem
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@ is it won't let me post!!! (I tried to reply to your message
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@ but it just went back to the <-> Read Previous Replies
|
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@ <A>gain, <N>ext, <R>eply, <S>top? thingy.
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@ -- Master O'puppets
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@
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@ There once was a boy named Pink,
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@ he was drunk,therefore it made it hard to think.
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@ He said he couldn't get it up, but with his luck,
|
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@ Max made a stink (about it).....o.k. it is stupid but oh well...
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@ -- Gdfag
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@
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@ Now I'm definitely sure that NRK has something against me.
|
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@ I still can't enter mail. :( :/ :)
|
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@ It appears, however, that I can still impress the next caller,
|
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@ though so maybe all is not lost. :)
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@ -- Pokey
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@
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@ Anti-system event in 76 minutes cancelled due to your call.
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@ It's our pleasure to server you. Taste and enjoy.
|
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@ Offer not available to anyone with AIDS.
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@ Would you like a hot apple pie with that?
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@ -- Etwa Neunzig
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@
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@ What a koinkydink, Pkey! It won't let me post either.
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@ -- Master O'puppets
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@
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@ Somehow, NRK won't let me post a message. Not that I have
|
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@ anything important to say, but still. It's the principle of
|
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@ the thing. Happy Tuesday, everyone! :)
|
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@ -- Pokey
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@
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@ Ultragalahad is by far
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@ the kindest guest....(beast!)
|
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@ -- Gdfag
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@
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@ There is no change
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@ .
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@ Read Reverse.
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@ -- Hagbard
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@
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@ Planet Busters doesn't work yet. I need something called
|
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@ Door Master (DM.EXE) that I'll look around for. Sorry.
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@ -- Bloody Schmuck
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@
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@ A man with passions quite gingery
|
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@ tore a hole in his sister's best lingerie
|
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@ He slapped her behind, and made up his mind
|
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@ to add incest to insult and injury.
|
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@ -- Flinx
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@
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@ Pressure point, burning rage..No turning back, no release
|
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@ from this cage.. One man calls the other one a
|
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@ liar..There's fire escalating higher.. Endless wars, lost
|
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@ causes..Only letting up for brief pauses.. Time repeats
|
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@ the circle of madness..Repetition of constant sadness..
|
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@ -- Maximus Nicodemus
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@
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@ The only thing that never changes is that things
|
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@ are always changing.
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@ .
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@ -- Pokey
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@
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@ to think is to dream,to dream is to sleep,
|
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@ to sleep is to die
|
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@ -- Ron Ransom
|
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@
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@ "Freedom is dancing in chains"
|
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@ -- Andrew
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@
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@ "Freedom is dancing in chains"
|
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@ -- Eglantine
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@
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@ Love is blind, it cracks it's stick across our fingers,
|
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@ makes us bleed it makes us sick..
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@ -- Eglantine
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@
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@ I want his boything, I want to twist it like a rubber band
|
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@ until it breaks ----Dr. Caligari
|
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@ -- Eglantine
|
||
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@
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@ Hey. There's a new game of PlanetBusters, it just started
|
||
|
@ today. I'm not going to tell you how to play, but if
|
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@ you're smart enough to figure it out on your own, you're
|
||
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@ smart enough to play. Good luck...Kill, kill, kill. Don't
|
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@ eat any potatoes.
|
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@ -- Bloody Schmuck
|
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@
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@ In my family there was no alcohol, there was no marijuana,
|
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@ there was no cocaine... unless you cleaned your plate!!!!!
|
||
|
@ --- Some comedian guy who likes plaid
|
||
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@ -- Master O'puppets
|
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@
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@ I know what I am, but I know I am not what I am. Beauty
|
||
|
@ lives inside me, buy oh, when beauty is trapped it gets
|
||
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@ ugly. ----Dr. Caligari
|
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@ -- Eglantine
|
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@
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@ Rhythm and Melody, Rhythm and Melody...
|
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@ -- Hagbard
|
||
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@
|
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@ If you ever get a chance, watch
|
||
|
@ "Live from Off center" on PBS.
|
||
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@ -- Hagbard
|
||
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@
|
||
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@ When we were children we would run
|
||
|
@ Knowing that there could be someone
|
||
|
@ To keep us from all that could go wrong
|
||
|
@ Now we face our lives
|
||
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@ -- Maximus Nicodemus
|
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@
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@
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