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1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask...
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2 ************************* INSTALLED: 3 APR 85 ************************************
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3 Welcome to BWMS (BackWater Message System) Mike Day System operator
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4 ************************************************************
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5 GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION
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6 PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM.
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7 BWMS was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS is a privately owned
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8 and operated system which is currently open for use by the general public.
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9 No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the system is
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10 privately owned, I retain the right to remove any and all messages which
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11 I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the system, it will be
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12 periodically purged of messages. (only 629 lines of data can be saved)
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13 To leave a message, type 'ENTER' and use ctrl/C or break to get out of the
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14 ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering the
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15 message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to replace
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16 the line. To exit from the system, type 'OFF' then hang up.
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17 Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system.
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18 *****************************************************************
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19
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20 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (the striking blow)
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21 Just as I was unable to halt the flight of the arrow as it passed over-
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22 head, nor was I able to withstand the pain I felt as it's counterpart struck
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23 home to my bossom. What was there to be done now that all things have made for
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24 this final encounter? I could see that my time with mortals was short and very
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25 near an end.
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26 Two figures fell to the ground as cries from their companions filled
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27 the air, disbelief in the actions of the present. As I raised my head to look
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28 into the faces of our visitors txeir features were now clear. How is it that I
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29 was unable to recognize the face of the one I had watched grow from its
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30 infancy? Extreme grief came over me as I knew that the visitors were of the
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31 House which I guarded. The irony of it all, I the castellan of House West to
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32 be struck down in a struggle with my own Family... Master West and his
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33 guardian of the Sound, Castle by the Lake, wounded by the people they trusted
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34 as friends. Friends in this instance could not be blamed for what they had
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35 done for it had been done for the
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36 safety of their groups as a whole against what could have been who-knows-what
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37 sort of evil.
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38 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^/ --->the wounded Guardian... 93?:11
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39
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40 Waiting for the sound of a knock at the door. When it is heard, the minutes will stop
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41 and heaven will be open to the two that will remain. All alone. Two people. Heaven.
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42
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43 Heab
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44 Heaven at the hands of the Cosmic Messanger.
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45 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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46
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47 <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+>
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48 Zippy: So, by your absnsce tooday, I will assume that you got YOUR drives
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49 yesterday.Now all you need is something that will work with them...
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50
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I got my account on the honeywell tooday(thelegitaccount.shhhhhhh).
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51
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I was also informed that i can use $5000 of time on the system.With only 3 months
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52
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to go, I dont think that i will have a problem keeping the tab below that...
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53
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54
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Asp
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55
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<+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+>
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56 Cistop Mikey: Thanks! I thought I was safe with the one second delay but I
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57 guess I haven't tried when the disk was nearly full...I'll fix it. But I am
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58 confused! If BWMS can accept characters without delay, and my cheapy modem
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59 (really cheap--$59.95) is what causes the need for it here, then how come I can
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60 upload messages reliably to CBBS, CompuServe, etc. without any intercharacter
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61 delay, using the same modem?? --PUZZLED PROGRAMMER
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62
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63 :*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*just lurking;not much thyme;be by again real soon*=*=*=*=*
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64 LAZANDODNEZALAZENDO............................................................
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65 Reli and Denap had headed into town that morniong to pick up a hydraulic
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66 pump bearing for Loraine, a human female with whom she and her 'father' had
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67 been living.
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68 On thair way to hytronix GK., Denap had stoped off at a human drinking
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69 establishment tor refreshment, and a hushed backroom conversation (from which
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70 Reli had been curtly excluded. She had
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71 seen the same shafpenz who had been trying to subdue her moments before in the
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72 alley, emerge from the room in question moments before her 'father's' return.
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73 Considering the shafpenz' demonstrated reluctance to leave living witness-
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74 ess, Laz's prognostication for Denap's continued good health was mot optom,istic
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75 As they talked, they continued down the 'street' in the direction of Laz's
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76 company owned transport: a human manufactured grav-sled the size and shape of a
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77 Lananaran single-ship but with out space drives.
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78 Sorting out his own feelings; it seamed to Laz that ther was nothing for it
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79 but to look up this Loraine. By human law he would probably have to leave her
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80 (reli) thair. He was not, at this thought, entirely without trepidation.
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81 ELSEWARE---
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82 LAZENDODNEZALAZENDO...........................................................
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83 Programmer: Your modem IS a factor, but I suspect that BW's hard/software
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84 may have something to do with it too. My M3 never had any trouble with BW
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85 but the M100 occasionally has trouble when I type fast (I can type fast
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86 enought to partially fill my keyboard buffer, thus causing MAX send rate).
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87 Mikey: Since BW is the ONLY system that this shows up on, maybe we need
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88 to compare notes. The most common errors are substituting 'x' for 'h'
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89 (I think this only happens with l/c...) and substituting <DEL> for 's'
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90 Any ideas? I wonder if either bw is slightly 'out-of-tune' or maybe it
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91 just echoes faster txan other systems....
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92 ____________________________Leonard_____________________________________
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93 ps the h-to-x bug struck again. Also that should be 'o' to <DEL> (ie
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94 'person' became 'pern'....
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95 ___________________________________________________________________________
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96 No more space, huh?*:*:*:*:bye*:*:
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97 *_)$*!@)_^*#$)_^*#$)_*^#$)_*^)_#@!*^)_#!*^)_!#*^)_#$*^)_#$*^_)#&$)_&#)_^#&^#^^
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98 "In here!", yelled L'homme. He and the others had been perusing the
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99 computer data banks for information regarding the former NET agent now known
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100 as Kosta. Farley was busy with the data banks on Kosta's Eastern European
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101 experiences, Fellows was checking in to past NET activities, and L'homme sans
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102 Parity was searching through all information relating too past acquaintances
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103 and associates. Parity was the first to find anything of more than mild
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104 interest. He had called in the other two to show them what he found. He could
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105 have sent them the text via inter-office window/mail system, but he preferred
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106 the flesh/blood communication system better.
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107 "Dig up any old skeletons Parity?", Fellows, as always, joked.
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108 "Skeletons no, leads yes. Take a look at this interesting bit of
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109 trivia about one Miss Mary Lamb. It turns out that Kosta spent some time
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110 in the beautiful Queen of the Pacific, San Francisco, before he left for
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111 Europe on that last mission. Most of said time was spent in the company of
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112 Miss Lamb. She was quite the social butterfly, and for her to stay with Kosta
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113 for such an extended period of time was big news for the local gadflys and
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114 mouths-about-town. When Kosta left on his mission, Lamb disappeared for a
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115 couple weeks, but then she resurfaced, and returned to her normal busy
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116 social schedule. I ran a cross-tab on her, and found out that although she
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117 has calmed down a bit from her heyday, she still manages to make the society
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118 page from time to time."
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119 Farley cut in. "And you think Kosta may have gone to San Fran to re-
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120 kindle an old flame?"
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121 "Perhaps. It's our best lead yet. We really have nothing else to go
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122 on. Kosta is an experienced agent, and he hid his trail from the cabin
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123 perfectly. No airline traces, no rented cars. You should take notes from this
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124 man Farley."
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125 Farley nodded. He realized he had much to learn. He was still only
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126 a junior agent, but already Parity and Fellows were paying much more attention
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127 to what he said, and their critical comments were coming less and less.
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128 "Then it is off to California we go!" Fellows sang. "My fav-or-rite
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129 state in the union." He pronounced each part of the word very carefully, so to
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130 get the maximum reaction from his two fellow agents. "I wish they all could
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131 be Cal-if-for-nia girlssssss!"
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132 "Enough already. Fellows, if you weren't such a good agent in the
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133 field, I would have you sent to Ada for retraining. Your lack of any decorum
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134 does not befit even the loose standards of code we have here." It was hard to
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135 tell if Parity was serious or joking.
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136 "La Home", he started, deliberately mispronouncing the name, "you take
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137 things too seriously. Lighten up old man. We NET agents gots to have a little
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138 fun once in a while. Heavens knows Ian doesn't give us a helluva chance to
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139 have any."
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140 "Ian..." Farley straightened up at the mention of the name of the head
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141 of NET. "Shouldn't we tell him about our plans. He said he wanted to keep
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142 a tighter reign on things. Ever since the... attempt, he has been... well
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143 different. Have you noticed too?"
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144 "Sure he's acting different. It has been awhile since Ian has been in
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145 the field. I don't think he's used to the climate out there. Someone brought
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146 the weather in to him, and it has indeed changed him. Don't worry though. He'll
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147 get better. He's just a bit touchy." L'homme seemed sure of what he was saying,
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148 but Farley was unconvinced.
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149 "I guess so, but I still wonder."
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150 "OK boys. Let's tell Ian our plans, and have Ada book us on the next
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151 flight to the bay. I noticed on the check-out display that someone else has
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152 the Lear. Darn I hate PDX, and those tasteless snacks the airlines hoist on
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153 people, but I guess we have no choice. The days of Atomic cars are over."
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154 "Yes." sighed Parity and Farley in perfect unison. They laughed,
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155 turned off the displays, and made their arrangements.
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156
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157 After cursing up a storm that would make a sailor blush, the cabbie
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158 guided his yellow decker up Mission street to 6th. "That's fine. Let us off
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159 here." L'homme paid the driver a handsome tip, and the three NET agents
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160 exited the cab into the sunny 70 degree weather. "Off this way. And watch
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161 the cars. These people are crazy down here." L'homme warned.
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162 "I know..." Fellows smiled. "I know."
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163 *)%#@_%*#@_)^*#_$)^*@#)_^*@#)_^* L'homme sans Parity %*#_)%*@#)_%*@#_)%*@)_#%*@
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164 ch /too/to/ duh!
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165 Mikey : I get out of class at 9:20pm. I'll try to make it there by 10:00.
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166 Voyeur: Ditto. Try to stick around of at all possible.
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167 Farley: Let's get that Spanish polished up. I think we are going to need it.
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168 Beuno!
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169 *%_)#@*%_)@#*%)_@#*%)#@*%)_#$&*^)_#*^_#)*^#)_*^#)_^*#)_*^#_)*^_@)*^)_#$*^@^@_^
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170
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171 #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$#
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172 El espanol? Ay de mi! No hablo el espanol bien. Tuve dos anos de espanol,
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173 pero no penso que esta basante.
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174 (Whew, thank goodness for Spanish dictionaries...)
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175 #$##$##$#
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176 A year is a long time. Not nearly so long as a lifetime, or a decade, but
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177 even so, it may seem long. I know this past year has seemed to expand into
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178 four years. Still, as long as it may seem, a year is only a year.
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179 A year ago, I bought a modem. A year ago, I discovered the number of Backwater
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180 and decided to give it a try. Today marks exactly 1 year that I have been on
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181 Backwater.
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182 My deepest admiration and most heartfelt praise are yours; thank you, everyone,
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183 for helping to make this last year the best one of my life.
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184 #$##$##$##$# Farley #$# (18 YEARS OLD TODAY!) #$##$##$##$# 00:07 - 4/4/85 #$#
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185 THORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHOR
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186 THOR wishes Farley a happy birthday and many more to come. Be thy happiness
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187 be tripled by ten score your years on
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188 this earth.
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189 TTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRR
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190
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191 /=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/
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192 As night began to settle, the brilliance of the evenings calm rang
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193 clear. Night's lack of city noise can sound just as loud as day but never so
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194 sweet. This isi the time when all others go about turning off their lights and
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195 stagger off into blissful slumber. This is the time when I start to unwind.
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196 Taking up the habit I had allowed to lapse in recent months was that of
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197 reading for relaxation. A good book, on occasion, could be more relaxing than
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198 some attepmts at inteligent conversation with a drowsy friend. As I started
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199 reading the third chapter for the evening the words began to flow effortlessly
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200 towards my mind. The pages were like sheets fluttering in the wind and my hands
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201 the breeze that caused their unfolding. As the pages turned to hours I barely
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202 noted that my eyes were now reading through closed lids, only savoring the
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203 final words that had been read rather than continuing on in delight of the new
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204 ones.
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205 When I begin to feel so content I no longer care that I am holding the
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206 pages open. I just hold on lest it fall to the ground, away from my grasp.
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207 /=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/
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208 This is more the intent I had of a story when I first decided to put
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209 my entries here. It botherd me a whole bunch to know that I had lost the first
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210 two contracts that day and I couldn't help but let loose in story form. It's
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211 something I have just recently started doing again. Now where's that book?
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212 Piner
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213 /=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/=/
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214
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215
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216 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (hidden in my words...)
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217 It seems that I have picked the right time and the right place. "At the
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218 top" does allow for a bit more recognition I suppose. Life brings about many
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219 changes, and how can I avoid placing my deep down thoughts in my writing?
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220 Do not attempt to read too much into my words, none of you know me that way.
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221 At least, I do not believe so... yet. Thank you for the letters, m'ladies.
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222 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --->the fallen Guardian 94?:04
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223
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224
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225
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226
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227 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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228 The piper sat nursing another ale. His clothing repaired or replaced, he
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229 showed little effects of his recent adventure save some slight burns along
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230 one side of his jaw. His appearance, however, was somewhat different --
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231 several bolts had seared large parts of his full beard into a tangled mess.
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232 Giving up the salvage effort, the piper had exposed his chin (contrary to
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233 popular rumor, he does posess at least one of those accessories) to the
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234 cruel atmosphere of the outside world. Listening with only half of his
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235 attention, he heard Farley announce his 18th birthday. With a smile,
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236 the piper stood and winded his pipes. Soon the patrons were singing (and
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237 refusing to pay the copyright holder any royalties) "Happy birrthdayy
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238 deeaar Faaarleeey happy birth day to yoouu."
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239 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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240 ************************************************************************
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241 Leonard: It's a combination of factors really, I send to BW without delays
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242 all the time. I have been in situations where the phone line was so terible
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243 that I had to do the character wait thing though. The modem on BW has a
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244 crystal controled transmiter, so it isn't off tune. However, there is no
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245 filter on the transmitter, so it puts out a bit more spectral garbage then
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246 some of the better modems. Its carrier is digitally generated waveform.
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247 (It uses the motoral 41211 modem chip.) It also only has 8 poles of filtering,
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248 compared to the 12 or more in the better modems. Thus some of the problems
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249 that are encountered. When the two characters are transmitted at the same
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250 time they affect the overall signal, sometimes canceling each other out,
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251 other time adding to each other. it is up to the filters to try to figure
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252 this mess out. The more and better filtering you have the better it is
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253 able to figure it out, the trade off is the more filtering you have, the
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254 more difficult it is to get them to respond quickly enough to the signal
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255 changes. Like a bigger car that takes longer to stop because of the increased
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256 inertia, more filters offer more inertia to the signal change, they want
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257 to keep on ringing at the previous frequency. So they have to be very
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258 carfully tuned to be as responsive as possible. The big problem that I
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259 had with the PCS modem that is on BW is when I designed it, it was to be
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260 a 'kit' which means no tuning allowed since most builders wouldn't have
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261 the means or knowledge to do so, so I had to compromise. So it isn't the
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262 perfect modem, but out of 85 kits that were built, I only know of 3 that
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263 didn't work, and those were due to the usual assembly errors.
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264 ************************** CISTOP MIKEY *******************************
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265 -*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-
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266 I wish I had something beautiful so I could destroy it. The most beautif-
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267 ul part of my life was destroyed today.
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268 -*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*Alice Brand*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-
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269 I don't suppose it would help to say I'm sorry, even if I am. But, I am
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270 as much as I could be...
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271 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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272
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273 Rhian pressed on, watching with trepidation as the ferocity of the
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274 storm increased. Pulling the ragged hood of his cloak over his wet,
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275 snow soaked head, he sighed tiredly.
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276 He had been caught in one of these Northmountian squalls once before,
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277 and, decidedly, one such encounter
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278 with the particular phenomena was
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279 quite enough for any man. The "White devils" he had heard them called;
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280 came swiftly, dropped the temperature with startling rapidity and were
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281 known to linger for a notoriously long time. As he shook the annoying
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282 accumulation of snow from himself, he grunted scornfully. Longer than he
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283 cared to wait. And yet he could remember a timewhen he had thought this
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284 self same storms "Beautiful". When he
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285
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286 had first arrived, they had been
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287 "Tranquil and soothing to watch" Hah!
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288 He smiled at the irony. Of course, that had been behind windows of glass,
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289 before a roaring fire. He flexed his rapidly numbing fingers, wishing
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290 vainly for that fire, for that room, even for the cheap leather gloves
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291 he had sold weeks ago for a few pennies.Tucking them under his arms, he
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292 carefully utilized the warmth he found there. No, this life wasn't for him
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293 Never had been. See the world. Rhian spat scornfully, his saliva freezin
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294 before it even hit the ground.
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295 He looked upward. It really was getting cold now. But the sky
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296 showed no signs of slowing; if anything it was speeding up. Well, it was
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297 now down to two choices, Rhian thought. Stay on the main road, or what he
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298 could still see of it, and die of
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299 exposure, or leave the road, and die in the endless myriad of rolling hills
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300 Rhian felt a distinct tinge of dislike at each. He shivered, wishing for a
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301 coin to flip.
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302 Suddenly, from the east there was a biting gust of icy wind, slicing
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303 through all Rhian's attempts at warmth.
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304 Moving quickly into the shelter of some trees near the road, he made a
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305 quick descision. Why not? At leadst the
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306 trees could offer some windbreak. He always had liked trees.
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307
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308
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309 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Ahlannah \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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310 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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311 FINALLY DECIDED TO FIND ME OUT, EH??? WELL, MAYBE WE CAN TALK.
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312 FEEL FREE TO LEAVE A MESSAGE HERE TO "SUPER-USER".
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313
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314 SU
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315 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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316 iCan anyone help me learn how to use thi
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317
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318 #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$#
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319 THOR, piper, Thank you.
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320 #$##$##$#
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321 PDX, Farley thought, must certainly be one of the oddest places in the state.
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322 Groups of ex-Dangerfield followers gathered near the terminals, waiting to
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323 pester unsuspecting travellers to buy their daisies. A punk rocker lurked
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324 at every door, or so it seemed. One group in particular had a sign reading
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325 "Frisco JAM '85" in large violet colors.
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326 Despite the weirdness, Fellows seemed right at home. "Hey, great group of
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327 people we've got here. La Home, aren't you travelling with that group there?",
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328 he said, pointing at the sign.
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329 "No, but I'm sure that group is just chuck full of subversive elements.
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330 Fellows, you've always wanted to go undercover for an indefinite period...",
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331 L'homme began, obviously annoyed at being reminded of his previous disguise.
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332 "Now waaaaait a minute. Just stop thinking that, as of now" Fellows said.
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333 "What? Did you hear what I heard, Farley? There *IS* a limit to how far
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334 Fellows will go?"
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335 "Stop picking on him, L'homme. Personally, I think that last suggestion was
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336 punishment enough for his continual wise-cracks."
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337 "All right, Farley. Ah, there's the gate for our flight."
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338 Farley and L'homme, carrying their small but completely-stocked suitcases,
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339 moved off towards the gate. Fellows, a bit miffed at having his game played
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340 back on him, hesitated a moment, then quickly caught up.
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341 After an uneventful boarding of the plane, the three agents found their seats.
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342 To avoid suspicion, their seats were scattered randomly throughout the first-
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343 class section. To communicate, the NET labs had supplied small transceivers
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344 to the agents that fit in the ear. Nothing had been overlooked, all details
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345 accounted for, except....
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346 <Hey, La Home> Fellows whispered through his transceiver.
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347 <What now, Fellows?>
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348 <I've checked everywhere. NET labs didn't supply one.>
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349 <Supply one of what?>, I broke in.
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350 <They forgot my toothbrush. You know how I hate to travel without a
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351 toothbrush, don't you, La Home?>
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352 #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$# Farley #$##$##$##$##$# 22:25 - 04/04/85
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353 .,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,,.,..,.,.,,,.,,..,,.,..,,..,,..,,.,.,.,..,,..,.,.,,..,
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354 HOWS EVERBODY DOIN. ? IM JUST TESTING A NEW SETUP HERE SO COULD
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355 SOMEONE TELL ME HOW THIS MESSAGE TUURN OUT
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356 THANKS
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357 STUDENT
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358 ...,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,,..,,.,.,.,,.,..,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,,.,.
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359
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360 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
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361 l'homme,Leonard,somebody?
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362 could someone tell me what each of those little dip switches inside the front
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363 of a Hays modem do?
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364 seams that one has turned up here but the carrier detect dont (or dosnt seam to)
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365 ALL suggestions will probably be considered!
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366 on another thought; has anybody seen mig? lately?
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367 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*Themnax of Lananara*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
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368 will somebody maby tell me saturday what this situation the Gaurdian is in is
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369 all about?
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370 seams the phones have been down for a week (long story) and ive missed a few
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371 discs.
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372 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
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373
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374 Yes, wouldn't we all like to know?
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375 ............. ............. ............. .............
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376 Slowly but surely he made his way through the cold of the mountains. (A
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377 ot of them around lately.) It was a hard thing for him to hide from so many
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378 others that he had almost assumed that he would have been followed and caught
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379 with no hesitation, but wasn't. Why hadn't they followed? Ha d he convinced
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380 them all too cleverly with his deceit and cunning? Or was the pursuit of the
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381 other more important to them? As he continued in his quest for some small
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382 piece of shelter, a place where che could spend a few tiring moments in rest,
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383 one thing came back to his mind. Although not prepared for the coming night,
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384 he had remembered a reason for hope, a reason for living just one more day in
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385 order that he may soon be reunited with that hope.
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386 Stumbling on in vain, fleeing just for fleeing's sake, fatigue soon over-
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387 came this man of adventure and his legs began to slow due to the elements
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388 unending assault on his body. With a slowed reaction time, his foot caught on
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389 a stump limb that his eye had missed in the early dusk. His body came to the
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390 ground with a shallow thud and there he stayed. Body inert but mind racing
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391 like a grayhound after a rabbit, he soon came up with a way to remove the
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392 restraints at his wrists behind his back. Had he been able use his arm for
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393 balance as he ran, he might not have taken so many falls, so much pain, so many
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394 new scars. But as a man with training and experience behind him he did not cry
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395 out when his nerves demanded he should. No, although human, he forced himself
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396 to play the professional. With his arms now freed, he brought his hands out
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397 from behind his back and rolled over into a sitting position so that he may
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398 survey the bruises left by the bands that had once held them... dark they were.
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399 Bruises that should be red, but turned blue from the chill were covered by only
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400 one thing other than the cuffs of his thin shirt and jacket. And that one
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401 thing reminded him more of his goal to stay alive, to struggle the one who had
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402 given him this token of her affection. It was a simple man's bracelet with an
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403 inscription on it that could hardly be read due to the abuse it had suffered
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404 along with its owner, and on it were five simple words, and they were
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405 TO LEWIS, WITH LOVE. MARY.
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406 His eyes closed slowly as the memories came rushing back to him. The few
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407 hours they were able to spend with each other on those days that were so far
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408 apart, and now so long ago flooded his mind. Her almost believed that he could
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409 see her face before him once again, the touch of her hand, the feel of her hair
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410 as it would pass across his face and along his shoulders - ecstacy...
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411 "In all my days, I promise to thee, *I* shall return to our 'square one'."
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412 His eyes came back open and now had the glazed look of a desperate man. There
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413 was no stopping this one any longer, he had a new mission. And a date with his
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414 new destiny.
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415 KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA ? KOSTA
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416
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417
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418 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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419 The evening was still early. A stack of plates covered one corner of the
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420 glowing wooden bartop where the innkeeper was discussing some arcane abstraction
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421 with a small group of patrons. The hum of conversation, which never stopped
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422 at the inn, had reached a still-low level.
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423 The piper, having finished a satisfying dinner that most assuredly would
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424 increase his already respectable girth, was making his way between several
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425 tables, planning to engage someone new in conversation. He nearly did not
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426 see the black-robed figure sitting in the shadows. The fustian robe rustled
|
||
427 slightly as the figure reached out an arm to tug at the piper's sleeve.
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428 Politely the piper paused.
|
||
429 "Ahh... " The voice was a hoarse whisper, not betraying whether the speaker
|
||
430 was male or female.
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431 "Sit, good sir," the voice continued. "Would you not like to glimpse the
|
||
432 future?"
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||
433 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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434 ::::::::::::::O O:::::::::08:15:::::::::::::::::::::4/05::::::::O O::::::::::::
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435 Cistop Mikey: The Tandy 2000 has a 8251A Programmable Communication Interface (USART).
|
||
436 L'homme: HONYWELL displays the intitial menu, then ignores whatever I type.
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437 :::::::::::::::O O:::::::::::::::::::::voyeur:::::::::::::::O O::::::::::::
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438 -*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*
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439 I shouldn't have broken it.It was so beautiful. But it was a choice between breaking it or letting
|
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440 it become ugly. Breaking it worked, it grew back, shaped differently, but still beautiful. I don't
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441 think it was happy being broken. So it grew together again. I think it's even more beautiful now.
|
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442 -*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*Alice Brand*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*
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||
443 ...............................................................................
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||
444 Last night
|
||
445 between kisses
|
||
446 he told me of his coup
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447 in Philosophy--a weak spot
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448 in Kant's ethics--
|
||
449 and I listened,
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450 grateful for
|
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451 philosophers
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452 and kisses.
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453 ..........................................Entropy..............................
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454 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?`? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiG/? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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455 Themnax:around, weak,feeble,anemic, but around. If you would be so kind as too
|
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456 bring the keyboard docs I will have another Gray person contact you.
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457 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiG/? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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458
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459 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiiiiG/ ? ? ? ?^?
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460 Other Gray Person, thanks for the short warning. I think.
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||
461 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?[MiiiiG/ ? ? ? ? ?
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462
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463
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464 .) .) .) .) .) .) .) .) .) .) .)
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465
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466 Into the night I'd
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467 Follow if I could but the
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468 Bright chains of
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469 Daylife hold me down
|
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470 Tied to the sun
|
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471 Some night I shall
|
||
472 Slip the noose
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473 Lose my brightness
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474 Fade over into
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475 Your shadows
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476
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477 .) .) .) kml.) .) .) .) .) .) .)
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478
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479 NET NEWS NET NEWS NET NEWS NET NEWS NET NEWS NET NEWS NET NEWS NET NEWS NET
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480 Contrary to popular belief, this office's laboratory has not as of yet
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481 produced such a solution that would enable us to convert our members to
|
||
482 the size required to fit in one's ear. So far, results have only proven minimal
|
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483 in that some of said members have only been reduced to the size of four feet,
|
||
484 tears, and mindless complaints concerning the lack of proper results.
|
||
485 Small electronic devices are now available; small people are not.
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486 NET NEWS NET NEWS NET NEWS NET NEWS NET NEWS NET NEWS NET NEWS NET NEWS NET
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487
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488 #$##$##$# Change the sentence in question to read:
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489 "The NET agents had been supplied small transceivers (the ear-fit models) to
|
||
490 communicate with each other."
|
||
491 Please, don't bother me with sentence structure, it was my birthday...
|
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492 #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$# Farley #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$#
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493 `,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,
|
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494 Alice Brand: I liked your entry, the different meanings were ones that I have
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495 had to see too. You loved something so much, it hurt to see
|
||
496 yourself destroy it. But now that you see it was for the better,
|
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497 do you have any questions about what you did? It seems that
|
||
498 whatever we do it brings more into the light, more for us to deal
|
||
499 with. It always helps to remember the good things that have
|
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500 come from things we have done.
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501 `,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`, [Mark]
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502 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
|
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503 The main element of Lananaran society which has yet to be descouvered by
|
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504 earth-human anthropologistys, is ther engine which drives the Lananaran economy
|
||
505 The primary driving forces of Lananaran society, seems to be the desire to create
|
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506 beauty and to reverse entropy( which is looked upon as evil). Perhaps these drive
|
||
507 the economy as well, though the manor in which this is done remains unclear.
|
||
508 It has been something like one hundred and forty some odd years since
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509 earth-humans first encountered Lananarans. In jthese few shory years, our own social assumptions
|
||
510 have undergone so many revisions that at least a few of us have learned to stop
|
||
511 assuming altogather, or at least try to. Yet, with all many points remain unclear.
|
||
512 If we have learned anything from the bloody events of 200 b.e. , let us hope
|
||
513 (however hard the lesson) that we have finaly learned not to confuse a peaceful
|
||
514 nature with weakness or vulnerability to attack, or, social stability, with technological stagn-
|
||
515 ation.
|
||
516 There is a popular misconcepation thaat Lananaran culture is some how uniform
|
||
517 or monolithic. I must confess that my earlier triests on the subject have done little
|
||
518 to dispell this illusion, and may even have contributed to it.
|
||
519 The simple fact of the mate is that no6t only is
|
||
520 each Lananaran a unique individual (who glories in this unipueness rather than
|
||
521 try to hide it as we once (mistakenly) thought proper) but every village, town, 'urban' neighbor
|
||
522 hood, and rural destrict is, itself, an utterly unique cultural enclave. Granted, the common
|
||
523 thread of the Celo-op-Soco dominates an overwhelming majority of cases; there
|
||
524 are , non the less, regeonal, national, and even
|
||
525 multinational traditions. Yet even here, individual communities interpret thyese in
|
||
526 unique and oaften unexpected ways.
|
||
527 There is however, one planet-wide universal, whichmay well c0ontribute to the
|
||
528 maintenance of this great diversity, and that is the right of free movement of
|
||
529 indiveduals. This is protected and, whin necessary, enforced by the planetary government itself.
|
||
530 Lananarans have an abiding love of thair transport infrastructure, at least guided
|
||
531 ground at anu rate, wjich they m,aintain with a devotion which borders on religeos.
|
||
532 Long distance travel is kept cheap while shorter trips arre usualy free.
|
||
533 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
|
||
534 oh yes, the kbd docs, well there laying around here sooome-plaaace...
|
||
535 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiG/? ? ? ? ? ? ?
|
||
536 4I's: how went the evening after I departed? Perhaps on second thought I should
|
||
537 have stayed the night, they all looked so willing to be wiped all over a risk
|
||
538 board.
|
||
539 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?`? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiG/? ? ? ? ? ? ?
|
||
540 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
|
||
541 heather goes to mystic dawn
|
||
542 lady raises in warm forrest
|
||
543 i will lower myself for electric guideway
|
||
544
|
||
545 tools float in erotic computer
|
||
546 trains move through digital forrest
|
||
547 i will goto green grav-sled
|
||
548
|
||
549 heather rises in misty forrest
|
||
550 dawn floats to mystic lady
|
||
551 i will move through warm computer
|
||
552 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
|
||
553 09090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909
|
||
554 yes we have little tiny hands
|
||
555 and we have little tiny feet
|
||
556 and we have little tiny teeth for eating micro fisch
|
||
557 090909090909090909090909090909090909099090909090909090909090909090990909090909
|
||
558 which eaving went how you ask who?
|
||
559 *=*=*=*=*=*x^n*=*=*=*=*=*
|
||
560 ..............................................................................
|
||
561 kml: I really liked your entry.
|
||
562 A tough decision: modem price = (more or less) external drive price. How
|
||
563 can I give up watching tales unfold on my screen? How can I end frustration
|
||
564 with switching disks all the time? How can I do both and still have money
|
||
565 for groceries? HE wants a drive; I want a modem. Crossroads...
|
||
566 ...............................................Entropy....................................
|
||
567 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (such hard decisions...)
|
||
568 If it were possible, the modem would be the choice.
|
||
569 But I don't know where the priorities are with you, I
|
||
570 would dearly miss the words you give us here...
|
||
571 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --->the Guardian 96:04
|
||
572
|
||
573 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiiiiG/? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??
|
||
574 No more pizza, late show, drunk co workers, and little patience for superiors.
|
||
575 Aside from that I'm going to compile the sads of the second game of the night.
|
||
576 The first game was a real mess. There was no such thing as real strategy. All
|
||
577 you missed was a whole lot of confusion and two more victories under your belt
|
||
578 from the young ones. P is still domineering, Z is learning, and E is still the
|
||
579 same old E we all know him to be. Then there is that new merc, K. Voice later.
|
||
580 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 4 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiiiiG/? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
|
||
581
|
||
582 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
|
||
583 The words slowly fill up a disk. Here we are passing the 600 mark.
|
||
584 The story can wait.... more on a fresh disk
|
||
585 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
|
||
586 &&&& & & & & & & &&&& & & && & & & & & & &&&&& & & & & & &
|
||
587
|
||
Some people assume right away they can figuire everyone out. Who everyone
|
||
588 is. When they become this person. And all that nifty stuff, you NET-like ones
|
||
589 in cloaks. Some people assume a lot.
|
||
590 Well I think they may be wrong, is what I assume. Some people are wrong.
|
||
591 So whgat I am guessing ( and i may be wropng, guys, so don't itch at me. )
|
||
592 So I dares, you fellers out deres, dat I am wot it is. And you dont know whpo
|
||
593 I am.
|
||
594 If you can find me, you can have mre. And all that jazz. Oh, yes, there was
|
||
595 a distinct possiblitiy of some hints beiong scattered profusely about thisbit
|
||
596 of uploading. Nyah, nyah, nyah,nyah.
|
||
597
|
||
598 && & & & &&& & & & &&& && & & & & & & Scavengers & & 7 ^ ^ ^ % & & &
|
||
599
|
||
600 If there are a few lines left here I guess I'll try to find out whether my
|
||
601 ad software works when the disk is nearly full....
|
||
602 123456789-123456789-123456789 [RECENTLY ENLIGHTENED PROGRAMMER]
|
||
603
|
||
604 Yes, it does indeed lose some characters at the beginning of some lines--more of a fix is needed....
|
||
605
|
||
606 :(Later) It took me a while to figure out how to make use of the suggestion that I wait for the
|
||
607
|
||
608 Well, THIS fix evidently didn't work! Back to the drawing board....
|
||
609 ^^^^^ So here I sit (stand) once more. Among people I call new friends...
|
||
610 ^^^^^ Things that are not right are slowly becoming correct. But how
|
||
611 ^^^^~ long will it take?
|
||
612 ^^^^^ Some are patient, I will try to be. --->G
|
||
|
||
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