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$$ .d""b. .d""b. HOE E'ZINE #1081
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$$ $$ $$ $$ $$ss$$ "MY BACK PAGES"
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$$ $$ $$ $$ $$ by AIDS
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$$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ 5/21/00
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[-- $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ -- ------------------------------------------- --]
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$$ $$ "TssT" "TssT"
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Hey all,
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It's AIDS here. If this file was being written under normal
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conditions, I'd probably put in some nonsense strings and bob dylan quotes
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and maybe a little assorted poetry from some Gaulic sources, but this isn't
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a normal circumstance.
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No, this is a suicide note.
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Yes, you heard me, 'suicide'.
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I once read an imaginary statistic in a magazine I made up which
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said that suicide notes on the internet were written at a rate of 15 a day,
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and I don't know if that's an accurate statistic, but it sure feels like
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it. The only one I've ever had personally mailed to me was the one from
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teletype's most serious suicide attempt. I've seen quite a few on the web,
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which I feel supplements my actual experience rather well.
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Well, you might be wondering what's made me want to kill myself, and
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I'll tell you; I was sitting around reading the HOE archives and thinking
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"this is such absolute shit", and then I thought to myself, "Hyuk Hyuk,
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well at least /my/ files are original and interesting," and then I gave
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myself a big gigantic pat on the back.
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Of course, then, I started thinking about it and realized that it's
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quite possible my files follow the exact same internal and personal
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template that everyone else's seem to follow. All the files by KREID, for
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instance, are definitely written by KREID; they're either mindless bullshit
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or overly precious tales of hard living. All the files by Mogel are
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definitely written by Mogel, files straddling that line of almost incisive
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wit immersed in an active sense of intentional disdain and an oppressive
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feeling of someone trying to write something they want you to know isn't
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serious and that they don't care about, which results in poop jokes. It's
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the same with everyone else, too, and I have no doubt that I could read a
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headless textfile and immediately identify its author, presupposing its
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author was a person with whose work I was to some average degree familiar.
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So I began a in depth analysis of my own work, from an objective
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viewpoint, and I think I came up with a few defining criteria by which I
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might be defined.
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ATTENTIOn ATTENTION THIS TEXT FILE HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY THE
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CAPITALIST PIG DOG OF THE PEASANTRY "AIDS" BY ZIEGO VUANTAR
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THE PARAMILITARY OPERATIONS KNOWN AS "OPERATION: PARAMILITARY" HAS
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TAKEN PLACE AT 0600 HOURS WAS A COMPLETE SUCCESS THE GUATEMALA BANANA
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FACTORY IS NO MORE AND THE SICK FUCKING ANIMALS ATE THE BANANAS AS EXPECTED
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WE HAVE LIBERATED THE PROLETARIAT FROM THE FACTORY BOSSES AND APPLIED THEIR
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SKILLS IN MACHINERY TOWARDS THE MANUFACTURE OF WEAPONS FOLLOWING THE
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EXAMPLE OF REVOLUTIONARY HERO "CHE" GUERVA WE ARE NOW CAPABLE OF BRINGING
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THE EXPLOITIVE SYSTEM TO ITS KNEES AND THE BOOSHWAH FORCE INTO THE DESERT
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TO WATCH ENDLESS ENDLESS SCENES FROM FILMS BY ITALIAN MASTERS OF HORROR
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DARIO AGENTO AND LUCIO FULCI
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Interviewer: Being a Catholic, don't you believe in Good and Evil?
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Lucio Fulci: This may seem strange, but I am happier than somebody like
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Bunuel who says he is looking for God. I have found Him in
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the others' misery, and my torment is greater than Bunuel's.
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For I have realized that God is a God of suffering. I envy
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atheists; they don't have all these difficulties.
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It is true that all my films are terribly pessimistic. The
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main characters in The Beyond, for instance, become blind, as
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their sight has no raison d'etre anymore in this lifeless
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world. But humor and tragedy always join, anyway. If they
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emphasize the tragic side of things, it may have a comical
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effect. Everything considered, having directed so many
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comedies when I started my film career turns out to be very
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useful for my true cinema, the cinema of the Fantastic.
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THIS PIG DOG DIED IN 1996 AND THUS ESCAPED THE FURIOUS WRATH OF
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ZIEGO VUANTAR BUT SOON WE WILL DISCOVER A METHOD TO RESURRECT THE DEAD JUST
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SO THAT WE MAY KILL THEM AGAIN
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All of that being said, of course, I would say perhaps the worst
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problem with my files is their employment of devices which most recently
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have been associated with the term "post-modern", by this I mean a text
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which demonstrates the method of narrative first by commentating on the
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method within the narrative itself. This, of course, has really very little
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to do with the so-called "post modern condition", and can be viewed in
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sources as far as back as the Iliad; a good example is that central
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document to the Western Canon, HAMLET by William Shakespeare, which is as
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much about the structure of tragedy and comedy as it is about a jaunty
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aristocrat.
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Oh well.
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[ (c) HOE E'ZINE -- http://www.hoe.nu HOE #1081, BY AIDS - 5/21/00 ]
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