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1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask....
2 ************************* INSTALLED: 31 AUG 85 **********************
3 Welcome to BWMS (BackWater Message System) Mike Day System operator
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20 L'homme: OK, I hope you make it this time. We are going to do a mailing to
21 some selected users groups as soon as we can get them. Also, there was some
22 interest expressed in the graphics program, you might want to bring it a long
23 assuming that you have any interest in the possiblity there.
24 ****************************** CISTOP MIKEY ********************************
25
26 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
27 ... and topping off today's disk, grinning and giggling as he is writing
28 this short exortation, is me, otherwise known as
29 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.Emu!!
30 Leonard and ZEBbie adventurers: Please excuse a minor typing error that
31 results in a major logic error. In my last story entrance, I wrote
32 a group of assertions and a conclusion. Unfortunately, I mistyped
33 that conclusion. If you look at the repeat written to Leonard, the
34 conclusion is correct. It should read W => !P. P must be negated
35 for the conclusion to be true. (Someday I'll have download abilities
36 and be able to check my typing before I post it...)
37 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.Emu
38 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
39 Those of you with long memories may remember that we left dear Doctor
40 Frankenstupe in the hands of an obscure Mid-East terrorist group. Never
41 fear, Frankenstupe fans (all two of you), the Doctor has been rescued and
42 now sits in his room at the Sunnyvale Rest Home with his good friend and
43 mentor, Sigmund...
44
45 "Doctor, what is all this?" Sigmund asked. He waved his hand at a
46 twisted contraption of wires, tubes, and flashing lights. "It looks like
47 something from a Rube Goldberg nightmare."
48 "Impressive, isn't it?" the Doctor said. "It's my latest invention."
49 He puffed his chest out proudly.
50 "Er... it certainly looks complicated. What does it do?"
51 "Well, it seems that many of the Innhabitants are currently examining
52 their own psyches. Perhaps I should follow the trend. This machine will
53 allow me to journey within my own subconscious."
54 "Are you sure it's safe?" Sigmund asked.
55 "Why of course." The Doctor held out an electrode-studded headband.
56 "Would you like to try it?"
57 "No, no... and I wonder if you should either. Doctor, you've been in
58 the midst of a personal crisis recently. I'm not sure a side trip into
59 your subconscious would be wise at the moment."
60 "Phooey! Sigmund, you worry too much. This is just the thing I need
61 right now." Frankenstupe slipped the metal band onto his head. "Hmmm...
62 now do I turn on switch A first, or was that switch B? No matter," the
63 Doctor continued to mumble under his breath as he twisted dials and flipped
64 toggle switches.
65 "Doctor, wait..." Sigmund said.
66 "I can't now, as my Daddy used to say: 'No guts, no glory'." The
67 machine began to hum ominously. Fly wheels turned. Grey smoke drifted to
68 the ceiling. "Oh, Sigmund, one thing..."
69 "Yes?"
70 "If that red light goes on..." The Doctor pointed to a large red
71 light on top of the contraption. "It means there is a minor problem with
72 the system. Nothing to worry about actually, but it's vital that you..."
73 The air shimmered and Doctor Frankenstupe was gone.
74 "I must what?" Sigmund called out. The red light began to blink
75 furiously. There was no reply.
76
77 +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+
78
79 Can't say that I was on the edge of my seat when I read that last entry....
80 what's the deal?
81
82
83
84 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====
85 Small I may be, but I can still write, a~d in the immortal words of Lazarus
86 Long.....
87 Writing is not a sin, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards..
88 I shall see you all in the truffle patch.
89 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====
90 p.s.: Trainor, adventurers, et all.: I am sorry for the things that have
91 been said by me. My head has cleared since then, and it seems that all I
92 really needed was a truffle and a 1 month vacation......
93 See you soon...
94 :::::=====
95 ^\/^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^?
96 To the SysOp (Cistop?) How long does it take for a message to recycle on this system?
97 I am from Eugene, and although I called not to long ago, my message, and all traces
98 have disappeared. Just wondering.
99 ^\/^\/^\/ Darth Trader \/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\^/\
100 Darth: if the people in the Inn have something to talk about the disks might
101 not even take a week before they are gone totally, drive B and everything!
102 But now that school is going to start very soon I would expect the entries to
103 slow down a little bit. Just this morning this disk was started and so far
104 it's only gone to here....
105 ^\^/^\^/^\^/^\^/^\^/^\^/^\^/^\^/^
106 ((( Riple )))(((*)))(((*)))(((*)))(((*)))(((*)))
107
108 "Hmmm, if I add just a bit more over here and a little more over...
109 No No No not what I wanted at all." Dissatisfied with the drawing I wiped
110 my sandy slate smooth, clearing the path for a new feeling or thought.
111 Grasping my twig like an artist would hold his brush, the beginning
112 of a idea came forth. After some carefull thought the image finally began.
113 Three long broad vertical lines crossed at the top and sharply pointed at
114 the bottom were the first to appear. A line down the center below the cross
115 and ending at the point gave each of the swords the distingtion it needed.
116 Beneath the blades a suit if armor laying prone began to take shape.
117 Nearing the end of my illustrated thought, I sensed someone approaching
118 . Laying down the twig, I raised my head to see who it may be. Making eye
119 contact, I motioned to him to join me. Quietly he approached and lightly
120 settled down into a comfortable position on the ground. His eyes left mine
121 looking down at the many lines in the sand then back up again as if to ask
122 what meaning lye within them. With a reasurring glance, I again picked up
123 my twig and finised the image hoping thOto give him a better understanding.
124 Upon finishing the sleeping armor the thought was finnished off with
125 another sword, horizontal this time, was drawn under the still figure.
126
127 (((*)))(((*)))(((*)))(((*)))(((*)))((( Ripple )))
128 (((*)))(((*)))(((*)))
129 Juggler: sorry about the typos, I don't think I did very well but
130 I tried, I suppose that is what counts.
131 (((*)))(((*)))(((*)))((( Ripple )))
132 Ack!
133 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
134 I In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
135 a gentle face -the face of one long dead-
136 looks at me from the wall, where round its head
137 the night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.
138 Here in this room she died; and soul more white
139 never through martyrdom of fire was led
140 to its repose; nor can in books be read
141 the legend of a life more benedight.
142 There is a mountain in the distant west
143 that, sun-defying, in its deep ravines
144 displays a cross of snow upon its side.
145 Such is the cross I wear upon my breast
146 these eighteen years, through all the changing scenes
147 and seasons, changeless since the day she died.
148
149 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Darbon+++++++++++++++++++++++++
150 10 print"hi"
151 20 goto 10
152 TO DARTH TRADER:
153
I left you a message last week, but guess it got scrubbed before you saw it.
154
Yes, there are DP jobs in Portland, but you've got to be on the scene here.
155
What's your background? Any IBM experience? Leave me a message soon before
156
this gets wiped off.
157
Griffin in Oak Grove
158 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
159
TO: SYSOP
160
Why does my message come out double spaced, even though I am only single
161
spacing the input???
162
Griffin
163
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164
print
165
bottom
166 Stop putting you'r own linefeeds onto the end of each line bone-head!
167 YEAH, BONE HEAD!
168 By the way - type 'OFF' before leaving the system!!!!
169 .,-=-,.,-=-,.,-=-,.,-=-,.,-=-,.,-=-,.
170 K.I.S. Net
171 503-777-xxxx
172 24hrs
173 Sysop : Kevin Summers
174 .,-=-,.,-=-,.,-=-,.,-=-,.,-=-,.,-0=-,.
175 I AM DISTRESSED AT THE QUALITY O OF THE THOUGHT PROCESSES HERE IN DEMINSTRATED/WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OVERWHELMING CONCERNS
176 BYE
177 OFF
178 LOGOFF
179 SO LONG
180 GOOD BYE
181 If you believe in your heart & confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord you shall be saved/////////////
182 This is more TRUTH than all the other nonsense combined//////
183
184 there for repent & return to the GOD of your fathers
185
186 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
187
188 FFF
189 ................................................................
190 Return to the GOD of your rodents...
191 ................................................................
192 Does it really matter what we believe in as long as we are happy
193 with who we are? Do we have to base what we believe in by what
194 other people believe in... Inposing what one person believes in
195 on other people who might not believe in the same thing is realy
196 defeating it's purpose.
197 -------------------------------------inmo.
198 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
199 The young lady who had called herself ZEB moved slightly under the piper'
200 touch. Her thin shoulders seemed rather frail to support the load that seemed
201 ppppppppppppppppppppppp
202 Mikey -- you might want to keep an eye on line noise.
203 I've been blown out of the water this morning. I don't know if its my
204 line or yours. I finally got a little bit typed here, but can't
205 get on with story.
206 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
207 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
208 money talks! HI GUYS!!! I'm knew to your neighborhood, but I think you'll
209 like me! I'm a Gaurdian of the HOLY GEL. SERIOUSLY!!! The HOLY GEL is, as
210 many DRAMA jocks know, the new religion of the 80's!!! Everyone, and I mean
211 EVERYONE is joining. If you like THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY,
212 MONTY PYTHON, and other types of humor, the HOLY GEL is for YOU!!!
213 JUST CALL
214
215 *DOUGIE*
216
217 AT
218
219
220 645-xxxx
221
222 THANKS AND BYE!!!
223
224 3M
225
226 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
227
228 I know about free advertising but REALLY NOW! A new religion ?
229 Excuse me? Oregon already has enough of 'em!
230
231 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
232 -->>>-->>>-->>>____________________DESIDERATA_____________<<<--<<<--<<<--
233
234 Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be
235 in silence. As far a possible without surrender be on good terms with all
236 persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even
237 the dull and ignorant; they to have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive
238 persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with
239 others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and
240 lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
241 Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession
242 in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs;
243 for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue
244 there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full
245 of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be
246 cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is
247 perennial as the grass. Take kindly the council of the years, gracefully
248 surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of sporot to shield you
249 in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many
250 fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be
251 gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees
252 and the stars; you have the right to be here. And whether you conceive Him to be
253 and whatever your labors and asporations, in the noisy confusion of life keep
254 peace with you soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is
255 still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.
256
257 ---------
258 for ___c,d,f,G,-h.
259
260 -->>>-->>>-->>>_____________________________________________<<<--<<<--<<<--
261 -->>>-->>> sporot should bue spirit <<<--<<<--
262 -->>> Mikey... why doesn't it seem to always pay attention to back space
263 notice the line before this in entermode it was fixed to
264 read be but it came out bue. I don't understand. <<<--
265 [/] THE TIN MAN [/]
266 (((*)))(((*)))
267 *****************************************************************************
268 I gave you the earth, the stars, the anamals, the plants, brains, curiosity,
269 science, love, damn near everything I could think of....
270
271 SO WHY DO YOU KEEP BOTHERING ME? THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE, PLANETS, PLACES!
272 GIVE ME A BREAK!
273
274 I feel better now, thanks for listening.
275 Sorry I shouted.
276 GOD
277 *******************************************************************************
278 Tin Man: Don't hold down the backspace key... in fact, don't even type them
279 too fast. BW 'echoes' backspace as 'backspace space backspace' (because not
280 all terminals erase upon backspacing). If you send them too fast, the space
281 can get 'lost' leaving your cursor farther back than it 'really' is.
282 ___________________________Leonard_________________________________________
283 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
284 Tin Man: I think you should have given Leonard Nimoy his due on that one.
285 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
286
287 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
288
289 ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
290 ONCE AGAIN IT IS NIGHT. THIS IS WHEN IT HITS THE HARDEST, THE PAIN I FEEL WHEN I THINK OF HER ABSENCE.
291 'WHY DID SHE GO' SAYS MY HEART, MY BRAIN KNOWS THE ANSWER, BUT THIS WONT MAKE IT EASIER TO BEAR. SHE
292 WENT BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO GO, BECAUSE HER CAREER WAS MORE IMPORTANT TO HER THAN ME RIGHT NOW. THIS IS
293 HARD TO STARE IN THE FACE, SO I TRY TO MAKE UP LITTLE LIES TO DISGUISE IT. BUT IN THE END, THESE
294 CRUMBLE AWAY AND THE TRUTH STANDS BEFORE ME. WILL SHE AND I EVER HAVE A FUTURE TOGETHER? I WONDER. I
295 HOPE RIGHT NOW, BUT IT WILL BE FOUR YEARS BEFORE SHE WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE ROOM FOR ME IN HER LIFE. IF
296 EVER. THE ARMY DOES A WONDERFUL JOB OF BRAINWASHING YOU INTO PUTTING IT FIRST IN YOUR LIFE, AND IT
297 SETS UP LITTLE BLOCKS TO MAKE IT PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE ANYONE ELSE IMPORTANT. SHE IS MARRIED
298 TO THE ARMY NOW, AND I HATE AND CURSE IT BECAUSE OF THIS. DANM THEM! WHO ARE THEY TO COMPLETLY TAKE
299 OVER A LIFE. I WILL DESTROY THEM IF IT TAKES MY WHOLE LIFE TO DO IT. THE DEFENSE ESTABLISHMENT IS
300 NOTHING BUT A PARISITE ON THIS SOCIETY. I CAN TOLERATE IT WASTING 25% OF MY TAX MONEY BUT IT IS
301 UNFORGIVEABLE WHEN IT TAKES AWAY THE HEART OF MY DEAR GIRLFRIEND. DAMN THEM! I HATE THEM! I HATE THEM!
302 THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE THE DECENCY TO KEEP THEIR CONTRACTUAL WORD EITHER. FOR THE LAST MONTH I HAVE
303 WAITED FOR A HALF WEEK OF FREE TIME THAT SHE COULD SEE ME, AND NOW IT IS TAKEN AWAY AT THE LAST MINUTE
304 BECAUSE SOME BASE COMMANDER WANTS TO ENHANCE HIS OWN PRESTIGE. WELL, DAMN HIM!
305 I AM CRYING NOW. I WANT TO SEE HER.
306 ))))))))))))))))))))))((((((((((((000001TED(((((((((((()))))))))))))))))))))))))
307 {*}{*}{*}!!!isis!!!{*}{*}{*}
308 &_)#%_)!*_)!@*%_)*_)!*%)_+!*)%&!)_%&@#_)&@)_&^)_@#_&_*!+!*%!)*%)_*%_)!*%!_%*_)*^_{body}amp;^_)*_@#&^_*!_%&_^&
309 Mikey:Sorry about last week. I will be at USD Tuesday without fail. Things-to-do-list: #1-Give you
310 final (haha) copies of adventures. #2-Get the LNW information you have. #3-Get those adventure ideas
311 you spoke about, if you have them available. #3-Bring graphics program for you to see again. #4-Ask
312 questions about AMODEM. #5-Get help wit MEX. Yes, I am trying to install MEX on the LNW, and I seem
313 to be having a little bit of trouble speaking to the UART from within the overlay. The overlay I
314 am going from is for a Lobo MAX-80 with is memory mapped instead of port mapped, so it is more
315 involved than modifying AMODEM. Can you help? #6-Give you address of Tandy group. Looks like a full
316 schedule, see you then!
317 -+- Juggler -+-:See what I mean^.
318 TIN MAN:I too am red, I don't know Rick's last name. I hang my head in shame.
319 Leonard:I will be starting in on your archives very soon.
320 *%_)$*%@_#)*_@)^@#)_^*_)*@#)_^*@_)^*_)*^@_)^ L'homme sans Parity *%@_)#*%_*%_@)*%_)*_@*%@_%_@)#*%_*%@_
321
322 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*==*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*Guru of Bliss*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
323 Freedom of thought is a GOD given right
324 Propiganda is a moral outrage
325 the 7493 is what realy counts
326
327 (did you know; that by removing the boring drivel it is possible to print
328 out an entire disk on a single page...
329 Beleave iT or NoT !
330 (tnx drivlrs; for saving me paper))
331 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
332 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (partners in dispair)
333 000001TED - Were it not for your return, I might have just been so very tempted
334 to have said something along those very same lines. I, on the other hand, do
335 not see defense as a parasite. I admit it, I'm brainwashed (@%_#@**! I HATE
336 that word!) as well as my fair, departed damsel of yesterday.
337 It would seem that there are plenty of us here, that I know of, that can
338 say we have lost our precious ones to another way of thinking. Yet however
339 slowly the days go by I know, and she knows that I will be waiting for our
340 reunion. However lonely the waiting may be, I won't turn my back on intuition.
341 There's one chance to save her, and I know she'll return the favor. I know
342 that what helps her make it through is the knowledge that I will be here. And
343 she is all I live for, or so it seems. So here I wait, (almost) silently.
344 L'homme - Did I ever tell you that I found that book you told me to get? It's
345 been so long, I just wanted to make sure you knew that I remember Franz K.
346 I've had the book for a long time now, and haven't gotten around to reading
347 quite yet. Maybe I'll start to read it as soon as Tin Man gets his XT...
348 so - Well, you wanted it. Now you've got it. But if I'm to do anything
349 relavent I'll have to get some more material from L'homme before I should
350 continue... There's so much more to be done and I can't remember where I
351 left off. I've lost the direction and the inspiration for it...
352 Guru(s) - There is more importance to drivle than you may perceive. But to
353 save paper is above all the most important thing of all, isn't it?
354 Might the apprentice be around here somewhere? I thought I saw his markings
355 near here not all that long ago. Hmm, perhaps I was mistaken.
356 Max - Pray tell, just how did you enter those remarkable lines?
357
358 Dear Doctor - I do believe you have forgotten how to count! Either that or
359 you must have been interupted... yes, that sounds about right.
360 Oh, you're gone.
361 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --->the Guardian 245:04
362 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
363 (trying again -- let's see if it'll stay in ENTER mode today)
364 The young lady who had called herself ZEB moved slightly under the piper's
365 touch. Her thin shoulders seemed rather frail to support the load that seemed
366 to be loading them. The slight quiver spoke directly to the piper's heart,
367 warmed by (perhaps an excess of) compassion, and he pulled her into a gentle
368 embrace for a long moment. He spoke softly.
369 "Let me help. I need information."
370 For a long moment she relaxed against him. "You can think of this as a
371 meta-reality," she said. "It is an area that partakes of aspects of two,
372 nearly opposite realities, and makes the interface between the two nearly
373 comprehensible. One is nearly an inverse of the other."
374 "In what way?" asked the piper.
375 "In nearly every way. The dark, hard surface beneath us represents your
376 home reality band. The darkness and solidity represent lack of life. The
377 points of light that are visible throughout this lightless solid represent
378 the bits of vital force that differentiate living things from the non-living."
379 She turned and stepped out of his embrace. With a sweep of her hand she
380 indicated the sofly glowing space above and around them.
381 "Above us are the realities that I used to inhabit. Space itself is alive,
382 but look closely."
383 The piper followed the path of her pointing finger. Suspended in the "air"
384 before her was a tiny black speck. Once aware of the darkness suspended in
385 the light, the piper looked closely, and saw the inverse of the light patterns
386 picked out in darkness in the glowing space about them.
387 "But how...?" the piper asked.
388 "We are beyond our original realities here," she answered. "This is the
389 junction -- the shear plane that separates the two types of reality. Just
390 as the yin-yang symbol contains seeds of the other within each of the opposites
391 that comprise the whole, these two types of reality contain portions of the
392 other making up the meta-reality where we now stand."
393 The piper stood for a moment lost in thought.
394 "Even the fundamental laws of our realities are nearly in opposition," she
395 continued. "The arrows of time and entropy point in opposite directions."
396 "But," the piper interrupted, "that means..."
397 "Yes," she continued. "While for you the natural tendency is for things to
398 move from a state of order to disorder, for us the universe tends to impose
399 order where none existed before. You proceed from birth to death while we
400 come into existence at death and proceed inexorably toward birth. You seek
401 education to gain knowledge, while we attend school to remove it. For you,
402 the span of your life from birth to NOW remains in your mind as the past. You
403 have no knowlege of what is to come before your death. We remember the
404 other way -- I know of my life between NOW and my death, but the past is closed
405 to me."
406 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
407 ^^^^^^: I didn't realize thing were that strong. Sorry for being in the
408 way so much.........Blue
409 ::::::::::::::::::: Piper: I'm glad you finally uploaded the story - it's good!
410 ===============================================================
411 I've seen fire and I've seen rain,
412 I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end.
413 I've seen lonly times when I could not find a friend.
414 But I always thought I'd see you again.
415 ===============================fred============================
416
417 **********************************************************************
418 L'homme: OK, see you there. does sound like a lot of ground to be covered.
419 Still looking for the adventure info, as is usual, it is always kicking
420 around under foot until you want it, then it goes and hides....
421 Leonard: I now have *ALL* BW archieves in MSDOS format. Are you still interested
422 in the first disk that you asked about?
423 **************************** CISTOP MIKEY ********************************
424 *_)*@#)_%*@)_%*@_)%*@#)%*_@)%*!_)%*!_)*%_)!%*!_)%*%_!)*%_)!*%_)!*%_!)&%)_!*%_!)@&%_!)%&!_)%&_)%@#_^&
425 Mikey:OK, see you then.
426 the Guardian: Very clever fellow. But sometimes the most dangerous thing of all can be jealous
427 neighbors. Very clever indeed.
428 Guru: of bliss you say? I could think of another term that would suit much better.
429 *%_#)*%_@)%*_@)^&@)#&_)@&^_)@#*_@#)&*@#_)&@^ L'homme sans Parity %*_@#)*%_@#)%*@_)#%*_)@*%@_#)%*
430
431 <o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>
432
433 Mirrors
434
435 The mirrors surround me with their reflections
436 Laughing faces look out on me
437 The fractured surfaces reflect my shattered thoughts
438
439 The faces of my friends, my enemies
440 All are there
441 Their voices echoing in soundless laughter
442
443 And there facing me no matter where I turn
444 Is my own image contorted in glee
445 Laughing the hardest of all
446
447 BH
448
449 <o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>+<o>
450
451 ************
452 prometheus: how did you know about the teenage mutant turtles? Oh i left out the ninga! are you
453 a comic collector like me?
454 ******************kathyd**************
455 Mikey: Yes, I am interested. Thursday?
456 ________________________________Leonard__________________________________
457 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (profiles not shown)
458 L'homme - Now that your working your little fingers to the bone on getting
459 things to look picture perfect, I just comment that truth may indeed be
460 clever, the truth also hurts. Can you say the Five Words without wincing?
461 I didn't think so. Oh, and do you happen to remember that piece of synchro-
462 nicity we had going there for awhile? It seems that member in our community
463 has been matching thought cycles here again as well... I can only re-write
464 a story just so many times! Be sure to leave a message before you go
465 running off to see her majesty, the Queen. Or is that the queens?
466 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --->the Guardian 245:16
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468 L'Homme: I regret to confirm your archive list. (almost). My MS-DOS versions
469 are also lacking 22 Mar 83, 16 Jun 83, 03 July 83, 06 July 83, 09 July 83,
470 12 July 83, 15 Sept 83, 10 Nov 83, 12 Nov 83, 13 Nov 83, 16 Nov 83,
471 14 Jan 84, 16 Jan 84, 18 Jan 84, 19 Jan 84, 28 Jan 84, 29 Jan 84,
472 30 Jan 84, 02 Mar 84, 04 Mar 84, 14 Jun 84, 15 Jun 84, 18 Jun 84,
473 (oops, scratch those last three in June). I do have the 84 June 14,15,18,20,
474 22 & 24 block that you are missing. More interestingly, I do Not have
475 that mysterious 22 July 84 that you found, but I DO have 17 Aug 84, which you
476 don't. Since THE LIST only goes up to July 84, I don't know how accurate our
477 lists are after then. All the missing files exist in my Model 1 set, though.
478 (Unless we get them from Mikey again, I'll have to copy them over to single
479 sided for your LNW, then give them to you to use your xfer program on to get
480 them to MS-DOS so I can get them back... sigh. I thought we were done with
481 this nonsense?)
482 Mikey: as you can see, our archives are slightly out of sync. Do you suppose
483 you could supply us with a master list of archive file dates, so we can get
484 reorganized? Danka.
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496 do you mean that i can't even spell a backspace right? gosh guys!
497 the two movie experts bluffed at once. i don't believe it. and on a
498 name that is in TWO films, lets not forget Fade to Black. how about cagney's
499 name in White Heat? now there is an easy one.
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502 The piper looked for a long time at the slight figure facing him.
503 "I begin to understand," he said gently. "Perhaps not fully, but somewhat."
504 Looking at the tears still coursing down her face, he asked, "Tell me this.
505 If your set of realities is a mirror image of mine, would not all I find as
506 good you find as evil, and so forth? What brings me sorrow should bring you
507 joy, and I should delight in things that would trouble you."
508 A slight and brief smile passed over her face.
509 "I did NOT say that our realities were mirror images of each other," she
510 said firmly. "The only mirroring is in the very rough physical sense."
511 She turned and stepped, bringing a wash of light from the black pavement
512 beneath her feet.
513 "That light," began the piper.
514 Her face fell. "Come here and look closely."
515 She knelt down on the black pavement, the piper came and knelt beside her,
516 each of his movements bringing a wash of light from the pavement.
517 "Watch closely now," her fingertip traced the black pavement slowly,
518 leaving a faint luminous trail until it reached one of the glowing points
519 that filled the transparent blackness of the pavement. A flare of light
520 filled the piper's eyes and for a long moment he was elsewhere.
521
522 He was clinging to a cliff face, filled with the awful knowledge that
523 this time he had tempted fate once too often. He had always been strong
524 and skillful, and this knowlege had made him careless. He was alone now,
525 his companions had fallen long ago. His skill and strength had served
526 only to prolong the inevetable. The cliff shuddered, a reminder of the
527 quake that had torn his companions from their holds and shaken them from
528 the rock face like fleas from a mangy dog. Another quiver, the hot
529 mineral smell of fractured rock, and the cliff face to which he was
530 clinging collapsed. Long, unbelieving moments of falling, a painful grazing
531 impact, with the sick inner knowlege of serious damage to the body,
532 then a brief moment of total pain.
533
534 The piper sat up, apalled.
535 "You see," the tears rolled down her cheeks, "We live here only through
536 the death of others." She straightened up, erect but on her knees facing
537 the piper. "How can I justify my own existence with this as a result?"
538 The piper reached for her, and she came into his embrace like an injured
539 child seeking comfort.
540 "How can I go on?" Her thin body was shaking in his embrace. "How can
541 I endure this? How can I change what is happening?"
542 The piper moved slightly, bringing a wash of light from the pavement.
543 He sat back, weeping figure in his arms, seeing with newly sensitized eyes
544 some of the causes of the light. He sat on an immense battlefield, watching
545 giant machines reap men's lives like stalks of ripe wheat. With the
546 sobbing body of ZEB in his arms, he stalked the avenues of death watching
547 the humble to the heroic, feeling the pang of loss even as the loss of
548 life gave him strength on the meta-plane of reality he inhabited.
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550 ---------QUESTION?
551 WHY IS ALOHA CBBS - ALSO CALLED CONJUGAL BBS ????????????????????????????????????
552 JUST WON DERIN' ----------------------------------------------
553 A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A=3
554 The power of the circle incomplete redefines attraction and dominion. The
555 compelling force for completion can compete with most other forces in this
556 universe. Unfortunately, a power from outside the universe acted as impediment
557 towards the forces of completion. ZEB grew, ZEB counteracted, ZEB withdrew,
558 as the power of the group grew, and then, withdrew.
559 Cragmore broke concentration. "I... am sorry. We can't do it. My vision,
560 our vision was blocked by something from within the void. Piper is no longer
561 where he was. He has moved from our space to another space. Our circle is
562 not complete, and our friend is lost."
563 Trainor moved from the control panel to the room where the others were now
564 just coming out of various trances. "What do you mean lost? He is out there,
565 isn't he? Even in this place people don't just disappear."
566 Cragmore's brow darkened, and getting up, he motioned Trainor back into the
567 other room. "Listen, I wasn't sure I should say anything in front of the
568 others now, but I think Piper did not want to come back. Remember the impressions
569 I felt when I tried to contact him before? They were much stronger this time.
570 Our circle should have overcome anything...anything except the will of the
571 object we wish to complete the circle with. Piper is a very strong-willed
572 person, and that coupled with the singular aspects of this void made union
573 impossible. He is lost my friend, lost from this reality and all other
574 realities we are familiar with."
575 "What do you suggest?" Trainor was visibly upset over the whole ordeal.
576 "I suggest we tell the others, and then combine our kwledge. Perhaps then
577 a plan, or even a direction, will make itself clear. We must get piper back,
578 but we must also destroy this thing that has destroyed your home and will most
579 certainly wreck havoc in all the realities."
580
581 Trainor and Cragmore repeated all that had gone on between them for the
582 others. A grim silence shrouded the entire Pell-mell, which was now set to
583 drift in the path of the creature from ZEB, following the leading point of
584 the ZEB by several R-distances.
585 "I have known piper so long." Bard said with a heavy heart. "I can't believe
586 he is gone."
587 The others followed with similar sentiments, but Trainor would have none of
588 it.
589 "Do not equate his absence with death! Never make the mistake of giving up!
590 Piper is not with us, but since when does that mean death? Remember who we are
591 speaking of. Piper can take care of himself. The fact that we found no trace
592 of him means he is not in this reality universe anymore, but it certainly
593 doesn't mean he has met his final fate, and left his physical body forever. On
594 my planet, we fight death constantly. We love life to such a degree that death
595 is totally repulsive, and we resist it until there is nothing left. We never
596 never give up, and neither should you. ZEB has destroyed that life-loving
597 people already, we must never forget that.
598 "you are right, of course" said lady tayree. "we must not give up. we must
599 find piper and destroy this ZEB before is does any more harm."
600 "Yes, that's the spirit. We have the sentiment, now we must have the plan!"
601 Trainor hoped that with the combined knowledge and skill of the people he had
602 assembled, tayree's and his words would not be empty ones.
603
604 A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A= A=3
605
606 ch /kwledge/knowledge/ - darn line hits
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608 _____________________________________________________________________________
609 Roses are red,
610 Violets are pink,
611 My color TV
612 Is on the blink.
613
614 Did you hear what happened to poor Pinocchio? He was left out in the rain and
615 wound up with a warped mind.....
616
617 It was reported today by UPI that Salvador Dali was knighted Sir Real.
618
619 THE THREE BIG LIES
620 1) Of course I'll love you in the morning!
621 2) The check is in the mail.
622 3) I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.
623
624 A bummer- Driving behind a pack of Hell's Angels and having your horn lock on.
625
626 There was a young man of St. Bee's
627 Who was stung in the arm by a wasp.
628 When asked if it hurt
629 He said 'Yes it does, I'm so glad it wasn't a hornet.'
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