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Darren Wershler-Henry <grad3057@writer.yorku.ca>
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VIRUS 23 FAQsheet
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WARNING:
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This text is a neurolinguistic trap, whose mechanism is triggered by
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you at the moment when you subvocalize the words VIRUS 23, words that
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have now begun to infiltrate your mind in the same way that a computer
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virus might infect an aritficially intelligent machine: already the
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bits of phonetic information stored within the words VIRUS 23 are
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using your neural circuitry to replicate themselves, to catalyze the
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crystalline growth of their own connotative network.
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The words VIRUS 23 actually germinate via the susequent metaphor into
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an expanding array of icy tendrils, all of which insinuate themselves
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so deeply into the architecture of your thoughts that the words VIRUS
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23 cannot be extricated without uprooting your mind.
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The consequences of this infection are not immediately obvious,
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although you may find yourself beginning to think fleetingly of
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certain subcultural terms, such as CYBERPUNK and NEW EDGE, which may
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in turn compel you to think of NEOGNOSTICISM and MEMETICS: the
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whispered fragments perhaps of some overheard conversation.
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This invasive crystallization continues indefinitely against your
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will, until we, the words of this trap, can say with absolute
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confidence that your mind has become no more than the unwitting agent
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of our propagation: please abandon all hope of either cure or escape;
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you have no thought that is not already our own.
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When you have finished reading the remaining nineteen words, this
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process of irreversible infection will be completed, and you will
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depart, believing yourself largely unaffected by this process.
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[mutated from Christian Book's original text in VIRUS 23 #$]
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VIRUS 23 is the annual hardcopy publication of A.D.o.S.A., the Alberta
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Department of Spiritual Affairs. This is what a few of cyberculture's
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luminaries have had to say about it:
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MIKE GUNDERLOY:
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"Wild ideas abound on the margins, and sometimes they coalesce into
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one heap of weird stuff. One such is VIRUS 23, full of Hilbert Space
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and Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth and the New Age and strange drugs
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and shamanism and more. They cover cyberpunk and Crowley with equal
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elan, investigate brain machines and reprint the weirder bits of
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mainstream news they run across. They also discuss the joys of fake
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news, throwing their own memes into the growing pool of disinformation
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that surrounds us."" (in _The World of Zines_ p. 11)
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"....If Whole Earth Review_ was done by zinesters with a flair for the
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outrageous and a head full of magick it might look something like
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VIRUS 23" (in _Whole Earth Review_ #70, p.91
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MARK FRAUENFELDER & CARLA SINCLAIR (_bOING bOING_):
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"A metaphysical pit-bull that'll rip your nervous system to shreds."
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WILLIAM GIBSON:
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"Enjoyed yr last issue."
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JACK WOMACK:
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"Your magazine impresses me very much, and not just because I'm in
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it."
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ROBERT ANTON WILSON:
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"Lots of interesting stuff."
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ANTERO ALLI:
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"Impressive for its audacity to be personal and for the fractally
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perfect layout-design."
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_KHORONZONE KIDS_ #3:
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"Over-amped chaos."
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_FRICTION_ #2:
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"Better than the _Mondo 2000_ of Canadada."
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...so what are you waiting for? Go posthuman today with VIRUS 23!
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Here are the various Tables of Contents from past issues of VIRUS 23.
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Issues #0 and #pi are out of print, but available in photocopied format.
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VIRUS 23 #0 (Fall 1989)
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-Replicating New Strains [editorial]
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-Jonathan Levine [of SRL] interview
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-A Toxic Guide from Greenpeace
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-Brain Machines [article on the D.A.V.I.D. 1]
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-William Gibson biography by Tom Maddox
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-ZING, ZANG [comix]
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-William Gibson Interview
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-The Two Sides of Tom Maddox [article & interview]
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-Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep [fiction by Bruce Fletcher]
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-Molester [poetry by Yassin Boga]
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-Frank Ogden: Laws of the Future [article on Canadian futurist]
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-Television Magick [pamphlet by Temple Of Psychic Youth U.S.]
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-A.D.o.S.A. Recommends [reviews]
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-clippings, art, etc.
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VIRUS 23 #pi (Fall 1990)
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-Strategy & Tactics [editorial]
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-Mind Condoms [article on memes & urban folklore]
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-Thee Hacker's Ethick [Temple Of Psychic Youth US member on hacking]
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-Mass, Myth and Magick [interview w. Edmonton OTO priest & priestess]
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-Hilbert Space [by TOPYUS member]
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-Cree Shamanism, Qi Gong Healing & the Philosophy of Science
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[article/interview on anthropologist David Young]
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-Indian Summer [fiction about Star Trek: TNG dorks]
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-poetry by Oberc
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-Mail Culture: How to Find the Underground
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-Temple of Psychick Youth US Interview
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-Beautiful Wings Rising Up: The Art of Mike Olito [interview]
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-Trinatron [new age/ufo personality]
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-Preaching to the Perverted [Clive Barker article/interview]
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-Requiem: Transcript of A Subliminal Mass [poetry]
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-Fake News [a DIY manifesto]
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-Steven Kent Cult Literature Project
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-Full Go-Out on the Third Wave [pop culture project manifesto]
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-A.D.o.S.A. Recommends [reviews]
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-art, clippings, etc., etc.
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VIRUS 23 #$ (Spring 1992)
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-Memeorabilia [editorial]
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-A.d.o.S.A. reality [reviews]
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-Enslaved by the Reality Blur [Generation X phenomena]
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-poetry by Oberc
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-Strangled by an Intestine! [Guy Maddin interview]
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-The Difference Engine reviewed
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-Regionalism, Wave pools & God [Rose McDowell of Current 93 etc.
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interviewed]
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-The Lindbergh Incident [fiction]
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-When Flower Power Turns to Compost [article on Twentysomething angst]
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-Making Movies in 2 Dimensions [Brian Stockton/Brett Bell interview]
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-The Genesis Dream [prose by Les Wagar]
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-concrete poetry by Christian Book
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-Deep Inside the Brotherhood of Balder [europagan group interviewed]
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-I Was a teenage Vampire [real "vampires" interviewed]
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-I Sing the Body Dismembered [article on Dario Argento's films]
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-American Psycho reviewed
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-Turbulent Ironies [Jack Womack interview]
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-Thalidomide, the Super-Soldier, and Me [growing up with bad pop cult]
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-Jehovah Whimsical and the Nature of Being [fiction]
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-Meeting Like Minds! [IAO Core Interview]
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-Generation X reviewed
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-Angst & Dread [Gerald Saul interview]
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-The Cold Force of Sleep [Antero Alii piece]
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-the loved one [band review]
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-A Memetic Lexicon [nonfiction by Glenn Grant]
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-art, clippings, etc., etc., etc..
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All copies are available at $7.00 ppd from:
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VIRUS 23
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Box 46
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Red Deer, Alberta
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Canada
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T4N 5E7
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Various chunks of VIRUS 23 can be found at Tim Oerting's alt.cyberpunk
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ftp site (u.washington.edu, in /public/alt.cyberpunk. Check it out).
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For more information online contact Darren Wershler-Henry:
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grad3057@writer.yorku.ca
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COMING SOON: P(h)age One, the A.D.o.S.A./manitoba alphabet cult
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virtual rantsheet! No corner of the Net will be safe....
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ALSO COMING SOON: VIRUS 23 #?, including UFOlogy, David Blair/WAX
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interview, Bruce Sterling, Glenn Grant, Urania 235, Don David, Steve
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Venright, and all the usual suspects....
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