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| | c o m m u n i c a t i o n s | |
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...presents... The Healer
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by Heckler
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>>> a cDc publication.......1994 <<<
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-cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-
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|____digital_media____digital_culture____digital_media____digital_culture____|
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"Who needs a healing?"
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The Healer walks regally through the crowd. After a few moments, they
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press close about him, begging for his attention.
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The Healer smiles beatifically, spreading his arms as if to embrace the
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surging rabble. They mill about him: the crippled, the deformed, the
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mutilated. These he presently sends away.
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Now the ill press about him. The consumptive, the yellow-visaged, those
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who bleed from mysterious places inside. Soon, they too are sent away.
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Late in the afternoon, those who are afflicted with more subtle diseases
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come. The man who was lost in the desert twenty years ago and has since been
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unable to endure the sun's warm kiss approaches under the shelter of his
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omnipresent parasol.
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The three heavily-veiled sisters who nightly relive the horror of their
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father and mother's public torture and execution come upon him softly. Knowing
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the Healer's idiosyncrasies, they have put aside their daggers before coming
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near.
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The young boy who does not yet know he is the Heir beseeches the Healer to
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remove the omnipresent visions of swords from his eyes.
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After a time, they, too, are sent away, and the Healer arises and walks
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out of the city. The next dawn, the true faces of healing show themselves.
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The man with a mangled leg discovers a strong third leg sprouting from his
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hip; he can now walk, but is shunned by all.
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Those who were once ravaged by disease breathe without effort, the better
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to wail at a loved one's deathbed.
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The ones who were troubled by evil dreams awake from their first sound
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sleep in years to discover their visions haunting them by day, gibbering
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translucently at the edges of their vision.
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That dawn, the Healer is far away from the city, walking briskly. He
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smiles, filled with a simple joy in his good deeds.
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_______ __________________________________________________________________
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(' ') | Save yourself! Go outside! DO SOMETHING! |
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(U) |==================================================================|
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.ooM |Copyright (c) 1994 cDc communications and Heckler. |
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\_______/|All Rights Reserved. 12/01/1994-#296|
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