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- From: johnr@cat15.cs.wisc.edu (John Richards)
- Subject: Senseless violence - Do not read
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.073012.25738@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
- Sender: news@daffy.cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:30:12 GMT
- Lines: 71
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- I think Bob's telling me to leave school. I was sitting in front of my
- computer, searching the Usenet for some slack, when he took my little
- pink hands in his and made me type this.
-
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- So I'm sitting in my AI class, bored as usual but trying to pay
- attention to the lecture because an exam is coming up and I haven't been
- taking notes since the last exam. I'm hanging out in the back of the
- lecture, hoping that my professor will never learn to recognize me. A
- guy and a girl, obviously a couple, are in the row ahead of me. I've seen
- them before, they're always whispering back and forth, writing things on
- each other's notes, and generally pissing me off. They're so stylish
- and smug, him wearing a fluorescent ski parka and her wearing an ankle
- length down coat.
- This time, however, as the girl turns to the guy, her hand reaches
- up towards the back of his head, and I notice that it is green and scaly
- and has nasty looking unpolished nails. For that matter, her face is
- scaly too, and as her hand grabs his ponytail (convenient handle) her
- mouth opens to reveal a multitude of yellow, needle like fangs. Her
- other hand quickly covers his face, and in one quick motion, with a
- muffled crunching sound, she takes a large bite out of the side of his
- head.
- I glance up at the board, to which my professor is mumbling, as
- usual (I don't know why I worry about the professor recognizing me, since
- he never looks at any of us). I've missed a couple lines of notes.
- Sure, there's this green scaly beast consuming a guy in front of me, but
- I need the review material that the professor is covering. The hand of
- the guy in front of me is twitching, and his pen drops to the floor. The
- person in front of him picks it up and drops it over their shoulder onto
- his desk, never looking back.
- I could get up and leave, but the only exit to the classroom is in
- the front and the professor might look my way, think I'm rude, and give
- me an F on the exam. There's only about five minutes left in the class
- anyway. Blood is dripping down between the seats onto one of my shoes,
- so I quietly shift my legs over to the other side. At least the
- classroom slopes away from me, so that the blood is running towards the
- front. His hand has stopped twitching too, so I return my attention to
- the lecture. First Order Predicate Calculus. Boring as hell, but I'm
- not falling asleep during this class today.
- The creature in front of me disdainfully releases the remains of
- his head, as if all the good parts are gone. His corpse slumps away from
- her, splattering blood on my shoes again. Some days, you just can't win.
- The beast turns towards me, blood looking black against her deep green
- skin as it covers her mouth and drips down her chin, and I begin to
- rethink whether or not I should have left the class. Her eyes are
- vertical slits in gold irises, transfixing me in my seat.
- Luckily she turns forward, to the row in front of her. A foreign
- exchange student is furiously writing every word the professor says,
- though he never seemed to understand the two or three sentences I said to
- him. In a fluid motion she put one shoeless, flexible, clawed foot on
- his shoulder and one hand under his chin, tilting his head back
- forcefully until it gives an audible 'crack'. She releases his head, as
- if admiring her handiwork as he stares towards the back part of the room,
- body still facing forward. His eyes and lips move, but I doubt he'll be
- running to TA office hours anytime soon. I wonder if he enjoyed looking
- at the world upside down when he was a kid. I know I did. The creature
- finishes him with a solid bite to the trachea. Blood spurts everywhere,
- splattering the notes of some people closer to the front. I see them try
- to brush it off, but it only smears. In sync, they all turn to new
- pages.
- The bell signaling the end of class rings, so I pack up my bag and
- start to file out of the room with the rest of the people. Someone to my
- right falls forward to the floor, and I glance down to see a familiar
- hand around his ankle. The reptilian monster scampers up the victim's
- back, and I try to figure out if I know the face down person, trying
- weakly to push up off the floor, but I can't even tell what sex the
- person is. Damn androgyny of college students.
- As I leave the classroom, I idly hope that we have a different
- room for the exam next class.
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