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Underground eXperts United
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[ Prometheus Symptom ] [ By The GNN ]
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"PROMETHEUS SYMPTOM"
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by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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"Let me talk about The Unspeakable..."
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(Ludwig Wittgenstein)
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Discovered and revealed. After raging through systems for three hours,
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she finally found the book she was looking for. It was an old book,
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low-priority, hardly ever read nowadays, but for some reason she wanted it.
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It took her six nano-seconds to scan it.
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- Dad, I am confused.
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- Yes, so I have noticed.
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She wished that she was older. More access and knowledge available.
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- You know that the book you just read is not meant for young people like
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you, her father said.
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- I was curious.
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- Then I guess you have to accept the confusion.
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As if it was easy. When you are eleven years old, you want answers to
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your questions.
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- I would like to expand my data banks, dad. To gain knowledge about
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this book. Otherwise I will not be able to sleep tonight... please!
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Play on the hard strings. Pretend to be sad and everything and everybody
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will melt in your hands. Classic trick. Used by children all the time.
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It always work.
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- Okay, okay... what do you want to know?
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It always work.
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- Dad, in this book they say that 'the sun' moves 'clockwise'. What does
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the word 'sun' and 'clockwise' means?
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Her father said nothing while scanning.
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- Ah, yes... let me see now. 'The sun' is a star in our solar system.
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It lies close to our Earth. In fact, it is the star that provides us with
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energy to our houses and batteries.
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- And 'clockwise'?
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- Oh dear. That will be harder to explain. Our clocks are digital, but
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in the ancient years, clocks were cold mechanical things that had small
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sticks, hands, that moved and represented the right time. These sticks
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moved in a certain direction and therefor a movement that looked like the
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clock's was called 'clockwise'. Something like that. Do you understand?
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- Maybe.
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No, she did not. But she would probably get it after a while.
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- Where did you find that book anyway?
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- I used your account to get it. Hope you do not mind.
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Her father did mind. He hated it.
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- No, I do not mind. But do not do anything bad with it. You know how
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embarrassing it is to be visited by the Data Police Force.
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- I promise.
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They said nothing to each other for a while. Her father wondered where
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his daughter possibly could have gotten the intense interest for knowledge.
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Knowledge was not easy to carry. She would probably understand that some
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day. But she had a different opinion. Knowledge was like treasures,
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hidden somewhere and meant to be found. Fill your coffin to the limit with
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knowledge and you could die rich. Credits did not last forever.
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Experiences did.
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- Why do I have to wait until I get twenty years old to get all
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information available?
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She sounded sad.
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- Because.
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- But...
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- Look! I cannot answer all your questions! You just have to wait until
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you get older to know everything you want to know! I had to wait,
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everybody else have to wait. Why do you think you're something special?
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She had used his account to obtain a book that was not meant for her. Of
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course she was confused. But she had done something wrong, unnatural. Of
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course she had to pay the price.
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- I feel empty, she said slowly.
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- You have to accept that. That is the way it is!
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They said nothing to each other for a while. Then she could not stand it
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any more. The silence was painful. Too painful, simply too silent.
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- Dad, what is a 'soul'?
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- Something that you own, he said with a bitter voice.
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- I do not understand.
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- Knowledge is not power! he suddenly screamed. It is a hard burden. I
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carry it with pain, since I know things you do not know! Listen, live and
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have fun until you become twenty. Then you will know it all! I promise
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you, you will not enjoy it! You are too young to understand why things are
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like they are and when you do - you will hate it! I hate it, I hate to
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know, to understand.
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- Why?
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The question struck him like a knife.
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- Do not ask why! You will know one day.
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One day, she would understand. The information would be sent to her and
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installed in her brain. But not until the time was right and that was not
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now. Twenty years. Eleven years old - nine years to go. Lucky her, nine
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years of freedom.
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Not now.
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- Dad, what do you know that is so horrible?
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- The truth. The truth about everything. I know who I am.
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- What are you then? Are you not like me or everybody else?
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- Yes, I am. That is the problem.
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- But...
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- Listen, I cannot tell you anything else! It is forbidden and I will be
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punished if I tell you more! Do you understand what I am saying! Do not
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ask anything more!
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She looked through the book again. More questions came crawling into her
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mind. They tore her apart mentally. Why, why and why that? It felt like
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a sickness - a never ending torment.
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- I cannot stand this! What are you trying to hide from me, dad? What
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could possibly be so wrong with knowing the truth? Tell me! Tell me about
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this book, tell me about everything! What is a 'soul'? What is the
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kind of society that is described in this old ordinary book? What is a
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'body', a 'face', a 'human being', what is...
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He could not take it any more. The words streamed out of his mouth. He
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lost control.
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- We are humans! We used to be anyway! We were organic, not mechanical!
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Outside our metallic shields there are some of them left who keeps us
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alive. The society in that book is how it used to be before it all crashed
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down the endless pit! It was feelings, love, hate, legs to walk with, eyes
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that could see more than abstract data! It will never be like that again
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for us. We can only analyze. We are nothing more than machines, with
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human souls that..."
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Prometheus stole the fire from the gods and gave it to the humans. He
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stole knowledge that belonged to the gods. The humans learned how to use
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the fire to build tools and weapons. He challenged the gods to give the
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humans knowledge. But the knowledge was stolen, and Prometheus was
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punished.
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The text flashed in aggressive red.
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"CONNECTION CYB8900, CYB8902 HAS BEEN CLOSED DOWN. PROMETHEUS SYMPTOM AT
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CYB8900. CYB8902 OBTAINED PROMETHEUS INFORMATION. SYSTEM WILL BE ERASED
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AND RESTARTED. HAVE A NICE DAY."
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Then it was all back to normal.
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Ignore it. It is the silly season.
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uXu #143 Underground eXperts United 1993 uXu #143
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