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== The Hobbit == In an attempt to prevent Year Zero, a group of Quantum Computing researchers at [[Solutions Backwards Initiative]] calling themselves the [[Pilgrims]] have utilized their government-funded experiments to warn the people of the past. A major portion of the data they sent back in time is various media labeled by J.R.Rthe government as "subversive materials. Tolkien"For your hospitality our sincerest thanks, and for your offer Excerpts of the banned media can be found scrambled in the background of professional assistance our grateful acceptancethe webpages sent alongside them. Terms: cash on deliveryThis page contains every excerpt found to date, up to and not exceeding one fourteenth of total profits (if any); all traveling expenses guaranteed in any event; funeral expenses to be defrayed sorted by us or our representatives, if occasion arises title and including the matter is not otherwise arranged forauthor and webpage locations." I AM TRYING TO BELIEVEANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH FORUMSBE THE HAMMER105TH AIRBORNE CRUSADERSCONSOLIDATED MAIL SYSTEMS

==A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present== 1984====by Howard Zinn"Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log." ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH: REVISIONISM George Orwell

==Slaughterhouse-Five== by Kurt Vonnegut<blockquote>"All this happenedIt was a bright cold day in April, more or lessand the clocks were striking thirteen. The war partsWinston Smith, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot his chin nuzzled into his breast in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his. Another guy I knew really did threaten an effort to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after escape the war. And so on. I've changed all vile wind, slipped quickly through the names. I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has. There must be tons glass doors of human bone meal in the ground. I went back there with an old war buddy, Bernard V. O'HareVictory Mansions, and we made friends with a cab driver, who took us though not quickly enough to the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war. His name was Gerhard Müller. He told us that he was prevent a prisoner swirl of the Americans for a while. We asked gritty dust from entering along with him how it was to live under Communism, and he said that it was terrible at first, because everybody had to work so hard, and because there wasn't much shelter or food or clothing. But things were much better now. He had a pleasant little apartment, and his daughter was getting an excellent education. His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes." US WIRETAPANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH FORUMS</blockquote>

=="Caution"== by Walt Whitman*[[The Mailstrom]] - Gallows [http://themailstrom.com/gallows_Y3RG7J.htm]"To*[[The Mailstrom]] - Needle [http: The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, Obey little; Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved; once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, ever afterward resumes its liberty//themailstrom.com/needle_jP411R." HOLLYWOOD IN MEMORIAMhtm]

----==The Diary ==Adventures of a Young GirlHuckleberry Finn==== by Anne Frank"Have you ever heard the term 'hostages'? That's the latest punishment for saboteurs. It's the most horrible thing you can imagine. Leading citizens--innocent people--are taken prisoner to await their execution. If the Gestapo can't find the saboteur, they simply grab five hostages and line them up against the wall. You read the announcements of their death in the paper, where they're referred to as 'fatal accidents.' - October 9, 1942"SECURE BROADCASTS INFORMATICSMark Twain

==Adventures of Huckleberry Finn== by Mark Twain <blockquote>"It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: “All right then, I’ll go to hell”—and tore it up. It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming."SOLUTIONS BACKWARDS INITIATIVE</blockquote>

----====Also Sprach Zarathustra==The Origin of Species== by Charles DarwinEnglish Title: "We shall best understand the probable course of natural selection by taking the case of a country undergoing some physical change, for instance, of climate. The proportional numbers of its inhabitants would almost immediately undergo a change, and some species might become extinct.Thus Spoke Zarathustra" JUDSON OGRAM: JOHN FERMINGER

==The Communist Manifesto== by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels"A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies."JUDSON OGRAM: MOIRA WAAG PT. 1Nietzsche

==Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West== by Gregory Maguire<blockquote>"The decades - Fiyero thoughtVerily, in love with her or I have often laughed at least so frightened for her that he could mistake it for love -- the decades looked on and didn't see her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see the revolution striding between them, on her way to destinyweaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."JUDSON OGRAM: MOIRA WAAG PT. 2</blockquote>

==*[[The Catcher in the Rye== by JMailstrom]] - Flood [http://www.Dthemailstrom. Salinger"I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliffcom/flood_LHL7P3. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff— I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."OPERATION SWAMP 0000htm]

OPERATION CHIP SWEEP "The Perils of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram An article written after Stanley Milgram's famous experiment on obedience, in which he found people will do just about anything (even harm others) if enough pressure is exerted by authority. The Milgram obedience experiment (note: no wiki-page for the text itself) Text found by: PrestonxSmith "The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous importance, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations. I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Stark authority was pitted against the subjects' [participants'] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects' [participants'] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not. The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation. ---

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents ====Angels in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority." America====by Tony Kushner

CEDOCORE: HYCEPHAMITAMYN<blockquote>"I see the universe, Joe, as a kind of sandstorm in outer space with winds of mega-η Collapse by Jared Diamond A relatively recent book (2005) concerning societal collapse due in no small part to environmental componentshurricane velocity, ebut instead of grains of sand it's shards and splinters of glass .g. climate change, overhunting/fishing, erosion, toxic chemicals, etc. Text found by: digitalLotus "Will tourists someday stare bewildered at the rusting hulks You ever feel that way? Ever have one of New York’s skyscrapers, much as we stare today at the jungle-overgrown ruins of Maya citiesthose days?" </blockquote>

MAILSTROM*[[The Mailstrom]] - Belladonna [http: GALLOWS 1984 by George Orwell//themailstrom. One of the most famous dystopian novels ever, describes a bleak future in which the world is constantly at war and the government has absolute control (even over reality itself)com/belladonna_3Mz3tU. Text found by: vipbrj (portions of this text were also found on the MAILSTROM:NEEDLE page) "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him." htm]

MAILSTROM: GASOLINE Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. ----====A book in which Ehrenreich attempts to live on minimum wage for a month in both Florida and Maine and details the hardships that ensue. Text found by: cynicmuse "Mostly out of laziness, I decide to start my low-wage life in the town nearest to where I actually live, Key West, Florida, which with a population of about 25,000 is elbowing its way up to the status of a genuine city. The downside of familiarity, I soon realize, is that it's not easy to go from being a consumer, thoughtlessly throwing money around in exchange for groceries and movies and gas, to being a worker in the very same place. I am terrified, especially at the beginning, of being recognized Beggar At Damascus Gate====by some friendly business owner or erstwhile neighbor and having to stammer out some explanation of my project. Happily, though, my fears turn out to be entirely unwarranted: during a month of poverty and toil, no one recognizes my face or my name, which goes unnoticed and for the most part unuttered. In this parallel universe where my father never got out of the mines and I never got through college, I am 'baby,' 'honey,' 'blondie,' and, most commonly, 'girl.'" Yasmin Zahran

MAILSTROM: TUMBREL Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. A critically acclaimed novel involving racial tensions in 20th century America. Text found by: KingMob4313 <blockquote>"I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouthPetra." January 1980

MAILSTROM: WRETCHED Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau. One of American literature's most famous essays, Thoreau argues for The desert wind was howling across the rocky plateau that surrounds Petra with a hissing cry that swept somewhere from the right of citizens to disobey their governments should they become too strong. Text found by: cynicmuse "desert as I HEARTILY ACCEPT climbed through the motto, — "That government is best which governs least"; siq and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematicallythe Rest House, which stood on a rocky ridge near the village of Wadi Musa." </blockquote>

MAILSTROM*[[The Mailstrom]] - Usurp [http: WETWORK A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess//www. Another dystopian look at the future where roving teenage gangs terrorize communities, and the subsequent psychological problems involving rehabilitationthemailstrom. Made into a controversial, but excellent film by Stanley Kubrickcom/usurp_397W4P. Text found by: nunzilla "He was in the land all right, well away, in orbit, and I knew what it was like, having tried it like everybody else had done, but at this time I'd got to thinking it was a cowardly sort of a beschch, O my brothers. You'd lay there after you'd drunk the old moloko..." htm]----

MAILSTROM: FRATRICIDE The Forever War ====Beloved====by Joe Haldeman A sci-fi novel in which the human race is at war with an alien race, the Taurans, for hundreds of years. Text found by: cynicmuse "You couldn't blame it all on the military, though. The evidence they presented for the Taurans having been responsible for the earlier casualties was laughably thin. The few people who pointed this out were ignored. Toni Morrison

<blockquote>"The fact was, Earth's economy needed a war, Women in the house knew it and this one was idealso did the children. It was a nice hole to throw buckets of money intoFor years each put up with the spite in his own way, but would unify humanity rather than dividing by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were it's only victims." </blockquote>

MAILSTROM: BITTER A Seperate Peace by John Knowles A book told in retrospect about growing up during World War II. Received criticism by some for potentially being an anti*[[The Mailstrom]] -war novel. Text Cleansing ''(found by: nunzilla "I felt fearon background image datamined using l33tspeak)''s echo, and along with that I felt the unhinged, uncontrollable joy which had been its accompaniment and opposite face, joy which had broken out sometimes in those days like Northern Lights across black sky."

MAILSTROM: ATROPINE "----====Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" ====by James Morrow. James Morrow (no wiki-page exists for the text itself) James Morrow is an author who frequently satirizes religion, but occasionally elements of humanism and atheism, too. Famous for his "Godhead" trilogy in which God is actually found dead and floating in the Atlantic Ocean. Text found by: KingMob4313 Take your cup down to the Caspian, dip, and drink. It did not always taste of salt. Yahweh's watery slaughter may have purified the earth, but it left his seas a ruin, brackish with pagan blood and the tears of wicked orphans.

MAILSTROM: PLIERS The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. An awesome novel-in-stories concerning <blockquote>"Take your cup down to the Vietnam War Caspian, dip, and soldiers' varying reactions to itdrink. Text found by: Akumu "First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New JerseyIt did not always taste of salt. They were not love lettersYahweh's watery slaughter may have purified the earth, but Lieutenant Cross was hopingit left his seas a ruin, so he kept them folded in plastic at brackish with pagan blood and the bottom tears of his rucksackwicked orphans." </blockquote>

MAILSTROM*[[The Mailstrom]] - Atropine [http: CORRIDA Equus by Peter Shaffer//themailstrom. A play concerning a psychiatrist's efforts to treat a boy who has an unnatural fascination with horsescom/atropine_gH319x. Apparently, the actor who plays Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is currently doing this play. Text found by: Akumu "There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out." htm]

MAILSTROM: SLANDER Hiroshima ----====Brazil====by John Hersey. An article that appeared in the New Yorker in August 1946, one year after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It was later made into a novel detailing the lives of 6 Japanese people and how the bomb affected them. Text found by: Akumu "At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the girl office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk." Terry Gilliam

MAILSTROM<blockquote>"<i>Interviewer</i>: What do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings? <br><i>Helpmann</i>: FLENSE Orientalism by Edward SaidBad sportsmanship. Discusses how the Western world viewed the Orient as an "other," a threat A ruthless minority of people seems to their collective political hegemony. Sparked the beginning of posthave forgotten certain good old-colonial theoryfashioned virtues. Text found by: tuatara "On June 13, 1910, Arthur James Balfour lectured the House of Commons on They just can't stand seeing the problems with which we have to deal in Egyptother fellow win.' 'These,' he said, 'belong to a whole different category than those affecting If these people would just play the Isle of Wight or West Riding of Yorkshiregame...'" </blockquote>

MAILSTROM*[[Mining For Life]] [http: SPORE "The Fate of an Honest Intellectual" by Noam Chomsky//miningforlife. Noam Chomsky (no wikicom/]--page exists for the text itself) An essay by one of the 20th century's most outspoken philosophers. Text found by: Akumu "He's now living in a little apartment somewhere in New York City, and he's a part-time social worker working with teenage drop-outs. Very promising scholar—if he'd done what he was told, he would have gone on and right now he'd be a professor somewhere at some big university. Instead he's working part====Catch-time with disturbed teenaged kids for a couple thousand dollars a year. That's a lot better than a death squad, it's true—it's a whole lot better than a death squad. But those are the techniques of control that are around." 22====by Joseph Heller

MAILSTROM: SICKLE Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman A children<blockquote>"Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn's book written in 1989 about t make a girl damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who grows up with lesbian parents. Frequently found on banned books lists. Text found by: KingMob4313 "Heather's favourite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears, two hands, and two feet. Heather has two pets: a ginger-colored cat named Gingersnap and a big black dog named Midnight. Heather also has two mommies: Mama Kate and Mama Janedead." </blockquote>

MAILSTROM*[[Cedocore]] [http: REGRET Harry Potter and the Half//cedocore.com/]---Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling The sixth in the ever-popular Harry Potter series. Consistently found on banned books list for "black magic" and "sorcery." Text found by: silver zero "Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one..."

MAILSTROM: VENOM ====The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer. Based on Mailer's experiences Catcher in the South Pacific during WWII. Text found Rye====by: _brokenhalo_ "But the compassion lasted for only a few minutesJ. He understood it all, knew he could do nothing about it any longer, and was not even tempted. What was the use? He sighed and the acuteness of his mood slipped out with his breath. There were some things you could never fix. It was too mixed-up. A man had to get out by himself or he became like Hennessey, worrying over every gimcrack in his lifeD." Salinger

MAILSTROM: INFARCTION Stranger <blockquote>"I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff— I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in a Strange Land by Robert Athe rye and all. Heinlein A famous sci-fi novel about one humanI know it's migration from Mars, where he was raisedcrazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to the unfamiliar Earthbe. Text found by: Deamos "Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permitI know it's crazy. Sweat over that, instead!" </blockquote>

MAILSTROM*[[Operation Swamp 0000]] [http: WIDOW M//www. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang A successful play (that was also made into a movie) about a French man falling in love with a Chinese opera staroperationswamp0000. The play deals with cultural stereotypes of the Eastern world and was mentioned in another one of our "mined" texts, Edward Said's Orientalism. Text found by: silver zero "GALLIMARD. Butterfly, Butterfly...(He forces himself to turn away, as the image of Song fades out, and talks to us.)The limits of my cell are such: four-and-a-half meters by five." net/]

MAILSTROM: CLEANSING Beloved by Toni Morrison. Text found by: KingMob4313 A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written in 1987 about the legacy of slavery. Was recently voted by a panel of 100 contemporary novelists as the best contemporary novel. "The Women in the house knew it and so did the children. For years each put up with the spite in his own way, but ---====Caution====by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were it's only victims." Walt Whitman

MAILSTROM<blockquote>"To: BELLADONNA Angels in America by Tony Kushner A play made into a popular TV miniseries about Prior WalterThe States, a homosexual who sees angels that claim he is a prophetor any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, Obey little; Once unquestioning obedience, and Joe Pittonce fully enslaved; once fully enslaved, a closeted Mormon Republican clerk. Text found by: TimA “I see the universeno nation, Joestate, as a kind of sandstorm in outer space with winds of mega-hurricane velocitycity, but instead of grains of sand it's shards and splinters of glass ever afterward resumes its liberty... You ever feel that way? Ever have one of those days?” "</blockquote>

MAILSTROM*[[Hollywood In Memoriam]] [http: PARASITE Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides A Pulitzer-Prize winning coming-of-age novel about a Cal, an intersexual person suffering from a genetic mutation//www. Text found by: Lulah "But I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn’t normal. It couldn’t be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself. But people—and especially doctors—had doubts about normality. They weren’t sure normality was up to the job. And so they felt inclined to give it a boosthollywoodinmemoriam." org/]

MAILSTROM: CLEAVER ----====The Chocolate War ====by Robert Cormier A popular book describing one boys attempts to uncover a secret society at a high school. #4 on the ALA's Banned Books list for its protagonists' musings on sexuality and use of Anti-Catholicism. Text found by: Disposition_On_Reflection "They murdered him.

As he turned to take the ball, a dam burst against the side of his head and a hand grenade shattered his stomach<blockquote>"They murdered him. Engulfed by nausea, he pitched toward the grass. His mouth encountered gravel, and he spat frantically, afraid that some of his teeth had been knocked out. Rising to his feet, he saw the field through drifting gauze but held on until everything settled into place, like a lens focusing, making the world sharp again, with edges."

FREE REBEL ARTAs he turned to take the ball, EXTERMINAL Rita Hayworth a dam burst against the side of his head and the Shawshank Redemption a hand grenade shattered his stomach. Engulfed by Stephen King Stephen King's famous novella about false incarcerationnausea, institutionalizationhe pitched toward the grass. His mouth encountered gravel, freedomand he spat frantically, and friendshipafraid that some of his teeth had been knocked out. Made Rising to his feet, he saw the field through drifting gauze but held on until everything settled into place, like a very famous and critically-acclaimed film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Text found by: Dianne "Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all lens focusing, making the timeworld sharp again, with edges." </blockquote>

GRACE THE TEACHER, RED HORSE VECTOR Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Considered one of the pioneering works of the environmentalist movement, Carson explores the problems of pollution and pesticides in particular. *[[The catalyst for the banning of the pesticide DDT in 1972. Text found byMailstrom]] - Cleaver [http: Nunzilla "The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of fall mornings.//themailstrom.com/cleaver_I682fg." htm]

ONE COUNTRY AT ----====Civil Disobedience====by Henry David Thoreau <blockquote>"I HEARTILY ACCEPT the motto, — "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Wretched [http://themailstrom.com/wretched_Ypq2QQ.htm] ----====A TIME Pleasantville Clockwork Orange====by Anthony Burgess <blockquote>"He was in the land all right, well away, in orbit, and I knew what it was like, having tried it like everybody else had done, but at this time I'd got to thinking it was a cowardly sort of a beschch, O my brothers. You'd lay there after you'd drunk the old moloko..."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Wetwork [http://themailstrom.com/wetwork_c276E4.htm] ----====Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed====by Jared Diamond <blockquote>"Will tourists someday stare bewildered at the rusting hulks of New York’s skyscrapers, much as we stare today at the jungle-overgrown ruins of Maya cities?"</blockquote> *[[Cedocore]] - Hycephamitamyn-η [http://www.cedocore.com/rswtb/]---- ====The Communist Manifesto====by Gary Ross Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels <blockquote>"A 1998 film spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies."</blockquote> *[[Judson Ogram Correctional Facility]] - Moira Waag Psychological Evaluation [http://www.judsonogram.net/personnel/gantry/casefiles/6455da04/Default.htm] ----====The Crucible====by Arthur Miller <blockquote>"There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendships."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Hubris [http://themailstrom.com/hubris_39tpLe.htm] ----====The Diary of a Young Girl====by Anne Frank <blockquote>"Have you ever heard the term 'hostages'? That's the latest punishment for saboteurs. It's the most horrible thing you can imagine. Leading citizens--innocent people--are taken prisoner to await their execution. If the Gestapo can't find the saboteur, they simply grab five hostages and line them up against the wall. You read the announcements of their death in the paper, where two they're referred to as 'fatal accidents.' - October 9, 1942"</blockquote> *[[Secure Broadcast Informatics]] [http://www.securebroadcastinformatics.com/] ----====Equus====by Peter Shaffer <blockquote>"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Corrida [http://themailstrom.com/corrida_MKs742.htm] ----====The Fate of an Honest Intellectual====by Noam Chomsky <blockquote>"He's now living in a little apartment somewhere in New York City, and he's a part-time social worker working with teenage drop-outs. Very promising scholar—if he'd done what he was told, he would have gone on and right now he'd be a professor somewhere at some big university. Instead he's working part-time with disturbed teenaged kids for a couple thousand dollars a year. That's a lot better than a death squad, it's true—it's a whole lot better than a death squad. But those are the techniques of control that are around."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Spore [http://themailstrom.com/spore_pQw2pP.htm] ----====Fight Club====by Chuck Palahniuk <blockquote>"Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. For a long time though, Tyler and I were best friends. People are always asking, did I know about Tyler Durden."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Pain [http://www.themailstrom.com/pain_HTDTNA.htm] ---- ====The Forever War====by Joe Haldeman <blockquote>"You couldn't blame it all on the military, though. The evidence they presented for the Taurans having been responsible for the earlier casualties was laughably thin. The few people who pointed this out were ignored.  The fact was, Earth's economy needed a war, and this one was ideal. It was a nice hole to throw buckets of money into, but would unify humanity rather than dividing it."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Fratricide [http://themailstrom.com/fratricide_774HZx.htm] ----====The Grapes of Wrath====by John Steinbeck <blockquote>"Rattlesnakes! Don’t take chances with ’em, an’ if they argue, shoot first. If a kid’ll kill a cop, what’ll the men do? Thing is, get trapped tougher’n they are. Treat ‘em rough. Scare ‘em."</blockquote> *[[The Price of Treason]] [http://thepriceoftreason.net/] ----====Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince====by J.K. Rowling <blockquote>"Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one..."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Regret [http://themailstrom.com/regret_Ad54S7.htm] ----====Heather Has Two Mommies====by Leslea Newman <blockquote>"Heather's favourite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears, two hands, and two feet. Heather has two pets: a ginger-colored cat named Gingersnap and a big black dog named Midnight. Heather also has two mommies: Mama Kate and Mama Jane."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Sickle [http://themailstrom.com/sickle_Nnqa49.htm] ----====Hiroshima====by John Hersey <blockquote>"At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a 1950s sitcom clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the girl office and teach was turning her head to speak to the girl at the buttonnext desk."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] -down vanilla Slander [http://themailstrom.com/slander_Yr4893.htm] ----====The Hobbit====by J.R.R. Tolkien <blockquote>"For your hospitality our sincerest thanks, and for your offer of professional assistance our grateful acceptance. Terms: cash on delivery, up to and not exceeding one fourteenth of total profits (if any); all traveling expenses guaranteed in any event; funeral expenses to be defrayed by us or our representatives, if occasion arises and the matter is not otherwise arranged for."</blockquote> *[[I Am Trying To Believe]] [http://iamtryingtobelieve.com/]*[[Another Version Of The Truth (website)|Another Version Of The Truth]] - Forum [http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/forum.htm]*[[Be The Hammer]] [http://bethehammer.net/]*[[105th Airborne Crusaders]] [http://105thairbornecrusaders.com/]*[[Consolidated Mail Systems]] [http://www.consolidatedmailsystems.com/] ---- ====Howl====by Allen Ginsberg <blockquote>"Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible mad houses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!"</blockquote> *[[The Water Turned To Blood]] [http://www.thewaterturnedtoblood.net/] ----====Invisible Man====by Ralph Ellison <blockquote>"I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Tumbrel [http://themailstrom.com/tumbrel_AD44Us.htm] ----====Leo Africanus====by Amin Maalouf <blockquote>"In that year, the sacred month of Ramadan fell in high summer. My father rarely left the house before nightfall, as the people of Granada were short-tempered during the daytime. Quarrels were frequent, and a sombre bearing was regarded as a sign of piety; only a man who was not keeping the fast could smile under the fiery heat of the sun, and only a man who had no concern for the fate of the Muslims could remain cheerful and friendly in a town exhausted from within by civil war and threatened from without by the unbelievers."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Scorpion [http://themailstrom.com/scorpion_4rTL21.htm] ---- ====M. Butterfly====by David Henry Hwang <blockquote>"GALLIMARD. Butterfly, Butterfly...(He forces himself to turn away, as the image of Song fades out, and talks to us.)The limits of my cell are such: four-and-a-half meters by five."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Widow [http://themailstrom.com/widow_vC99iT.htm] ----====Middlesex====by Jeffrey Eugenides <blockquote>"But I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn’t normal. It couldn’t be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself. But people—and especially doctors—had doubts about normality. They weren’t sure normality was up to the job. And so they felt inclined to give it a boost."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Parasite [http://themailstrom.com/parasite_tP366K.htm] ----====The Naked and the Dead====by Norman Mailer <blockquote>"But the compassion lasted for only a few minutes. He understood it all, knew he could do nothing about it any longer, and was not even tempted. What was the use? He sighed and the acuteness of his mood slipped out with his breath. There were some things you could never fix. It was too mixed-up. A man had to get out by himself or he became like Hennessey, worrying over every gimcrack in his life."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Venom [http://themailstrom.com/venom_D3i8Na.htm] ----====Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America====by Barbara Ehrenreich <blockquote>"Mostly out of laziness, I decide to start my low-wage life in the town nearest to where I actually live, Key West, Florida, which with a population of Pleasantville about 25,000 is elbowing its way up to the values status of diversitya genuine city. The downside of familiarity, I soon realize, criticismis that it's not easy to go from being a consumer, thoughtlessly throwing money around in exchange for groceries and nonconformitymovies and gas, to being a worker in the very same place. So far I am terrified, especially at the only screenplay beginning, of being recognized by some friendly business owner or erstwhile neighbor and having to stammer out some explanation of my project. Happily, though, my fears turn out to appear be entirely unwarranted: during a month of poverty and toil, no one recognizes my face or my name, which goes unnoticed and for the most part unuttered. In this parallel universe where my father never got out of the mines and I never got through college, I am 'baby,' 'honey,' 'blondie,' and, most commonly, 'girl.'"</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Gasoline [http://themailstrom.com/gasoline_UUu891.htm]*[[The Mailstrom]] - Necrotic [http://themailstrom.com/necrotic_blE34c.htm] ---- ====Orientalism====by Edward Said <blockquote>"On June 13, 1910, Arthur James Balfour lectured the House of Commons on 'the mined texts listproblems with which we have to deal in Egypt. Text found ' 'These,' he said, 'belong to a whole different category than those affecting the Isle of Wight or West Riding of Yorkshire.'"</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Flense [http://themailstrom.com/flense_E5PPvv.htm]  ----====The Origin of Species====by Charles Darwin <blockquote>"We shall best understand the probable course of natural selection bytaking the case of a country undergoing some physical change, for instance, of climate. The proportional numbers of its inhabitants would almost immediately undergo a change, and some species might become extinct."</blockquote> *[[Judson Ogram Correctional Facility]] - [[John Ferminger]] [http: silver zero //www.judsonogram.net/personnel/gantry/casefiles/4382bx12/default.htm] ---- ====The Perils of Obedience====by Stanley Milgram <blockquote>"The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous importance, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations. I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Stark authority was pitted against the subjects' [participants'] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects' [participants'] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not. The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation. Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority."</blockquote> *[[Operation Chip Sweep]] [http://www.operationchipsweep.net/] ----====A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present====by Howard Zinn <blockquote>"Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log."</blockquote> *[[Another Version Of The Truth (website)|Another Version Of The Truth]] - Revisionism [http://www.anotherversionofthetruth.com/revisionism.htm]---- ====Pleasantville====by Gary Ross  <blockquote>"BOB: [to David/Bud and Bill] 'You are charged with descration of a public building and the intentional use of prohibited paint colors in violation of The Pleasantville Code of Conduct and "Laws of Common Decency." Do you admit that on the night of May 1 you did consciously and willfully apply the following FORBIDDEN paint colors to the North Wall of the Pleasantville Police Station: Red, Pink, Vermilion, Puce, Chartreuse, Umber, Blue, Aqua, Ox Blood, Green, Peach, Crimson, Yellow, Olive and Magenta?'"</blockquote> *[[One Country At A Time]] [http://www.onecountryatatime.net/] ----====Der Prozess====English Title: The Trial by Franz Kafka <blockquote>"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."</blockquote> *[[Exhibit 24]] [http://www.exhibit24.net/]---- ====One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest====by Ken Kesey <blockquote>"MCMURPHY (V.O) (through loudspeaker) Medication time! Medication time! Rise and shine! Rise and shine! Time to say goodbye... Everybody up, up, up!"</blockquote>  *[[Another Version Of The Truth (website)|Another Version Of The Truth]] - 0 [http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/] ---- ====Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption====by Stephen King <blockquote>"Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time."</blockquote> *[[Free Rebel Art]] [http://www.freerebelart.net/]*[[Act Patriotic]] [http://www.actpatriotic.net/]---- ====The Second Coming====by Y.B. Yeats <blockquote>"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,<br />Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"</blockquote> *[[Hour of Arrival]] [http://www.hourofarrival.net/]---- ====A Seperate Peace====by John Knowles <blockquote>"I felt fear's echo, and along with that I felt the unhinged, uncontrollable joy which had been its accompaniment and opposite face, joy which had broken out sometimes in those days like Northern Lights across black sky."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Bitter [http://themailstrom.com/bitter_BGtg57.htm] ----====Silent Spring====by Rachel Carson <blockquote>"The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of fall mornings..."</blockquote> *[[Grace The Teacher]] [http://www.gracetheteacher.net/]*[[Red Horse Vector]] [http://www.redhorsevector.net/] ----====The Simple Art of Murder====by Raymond Chandler <blockquote>"But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid."</blockquote> *[[Viability Index]] [http://www.viabilityindex.com/]*[[Free Rebel Art]] - You Are A Threat [http://www.freerebelart.net/youareathreat.art] ---- ====Slaughterhouse-Five====by Kurt Vonnegut <blockquote>"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. And so on. I've changed all the names. I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has. There must be tons of human bone meal in the ground. I went back there with an old war buddy, Bernard V. O'Hare, and we made friends with a cab driver, who took us to the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war. His name was Gerhard Müller. He told us that he was a prisoner of the Americans for a while. We asked him how it was to live under Communism, and he said that it was terrible at first, because everybody had to work so hard, and because there wasn't much shelter or food or clothing. But things were much better now. He had a pleasant little apartment, and his daughter was getting an excellent education. His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes."</blockquote> *[[U.S. Wiretap]] - Case No. 71839J [http://www.uswiretap.com/71839j/] ----====Stranger in a Strange Land====by Robert A. Heinlein  <blockquote>"Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit. Sweat over that, instead!"</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Infarction [http://themailstrom.com/infarction_6k961G.htm] ----====The Things They Carried====by Tim O'Brien <blockquote>"First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Pliers [http://themailstrom.com/pliers_Ji3p09.htm] ----====Watchmen====by Alan Moore <blockquote>"Rorshach's Journal. October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown."</blockquote> *[[Exterminal]] [http://exterminal.net] ----====Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West====by Gregory Maguire <blockquote>"The decades - Fiyero thought, in love with her or at least so frightened for her that he could mistake it for love -- the decades looked on and didn't see her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see the revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny."</blockquote> *[[Judson Ogram Correctional Facility]] - Moira Waag Interview [http://www.judsonogram.net/personnel/gantry/casefiles/6455da04/witness.htm]----====Wild Thorns====by Sahar Khalifeh <blockquote>"'Halt!' The order came from a soldier sitting in front of the wooden walkway. Usama stopped, his heart pounding. 'Open your suitcase!' The Israeli stretched out his hand and rifled [through] the contents. 'What's this?' 'Librium.' 'Yeah, you people are crazy about that stuff.'"</blockquote> *[[Brian Tsunoda]] [http://www.briantsunoda.com/] [[Category:World of Year Zero]]