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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!concert!rock!darkshot
- From: darkshot@rock.concert.net (Michael B Garrett -- Chudys)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: The world, and what it'd be like...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.050048.9140@rock.concert.net>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 05:00:48 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.045418.8905@rock.concert.net>
- Organization: Not much to speak of
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- Darkshot maniests himself, in a puff of logic. He fixes certain people in
- the Place with his eyes, and clears his throat.
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- The closest thing to passion anyone has ever heard colors his voice, and
- he rumbles: "You people need to get Out more."
-
- "To wonder about the world as it would be if you weren't in it, is to wonder
- about whether or not you have any effect _on_ this planet- and the tipoff
- is that "if ya got time to worry about it, well DAMN....."
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- "I dunno. Maybe I'm too old to take part in the Place- maybe I shot my wad in
- looking for it, and so am unable to interact with the folks herein.
-
- "I dunno. But it seems to me that you all _live_ here. The same names come
- up time and time again- and I jst don't get it.
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- "Trust me: The whole world is out there, and the only reason it doesn't
- work as well as the Place is because nobody's FORCED it to yet. The world
- DOES work in a rational manner around _me_; I demand that it does so.
-
- "You can do the same."
-
- "I recognize myself in all of you- and what I don't pity, I welcome. You
- folks have been kind to me, and I thank you for it. Remember, though-
- Callahans's is where you find it. Ya just gotta LOOK for it.
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- With that, Darkshot turns and walks slowly out the swinging doors.
- He does not look back.
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