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From: "Forward, Jonathan" <JForward@SITGBSD1.TELECOM.com.au>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 94 11:08:00 EST
Subject: RE: Stalking, Weird Letters
To: "rec.music.gaffa" <love-hounds@uunet.UU.NET>
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Date: Friday, 16 September 1994 1:11PM Karen wrote: ]The Technology Review, a ]magazine of tech from MIT has a hilarious article on p. 72 of their ]October issue. Technology Review is bombarded with mail from people who ]are building spaceships in their back yard so they can "return to their ]true home - Saturn", folks who share their "personal memories of King ]Arthur", and the mysterious Mr. O. who managed to devise a machine from a ]wire coil, a thumbtack and a nonfilter cigarette that "blocks out ]malicious telepathy." I think I just started needing one of those. ]He also discusses a seizure disorder known as hypergraphia, though I ]doubt it could be common enough to account for the number of weird ]correspondence generated each year. "Hypergraphia! That's what it is, officer. I swear it!" - snidely whimpered at the feet of Sergeant "Confess or Die" Castergine, by some poor, cranky, telepathically-challenged amoeba. The Snide Bastard, Adelaide Australia. ------------------------------------------------------------- "O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!" - Keats -------------------------------------------------------------