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From: [email protected] (Sourcerer)
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Subject: Re: Dystopia, at last...
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 95 20:43:53 GMT
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In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (Eugene Mosburg) wrote:

>: In article ,
>: Sourcerer wrote:

>: > On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, technical boy wrote:

>: > I believe the establishment of hermitages and monasteries has been
>: > effective in previous new beginnings.

>: i see, the lumpen will not tolerate just any old atrocity to set up a
>: Functioning Society; we can count on you, not to burn down the hermitages
>: and monastaries.

>History has prepared us for either eventuality. The torch has a certain
>finality that places it further down the wish list, all things being
>equal.

The thugs are scouting for vittles and fixin's and a bit of rustic fun, and
as luck might have it, a gold reliquary or two.

And may you be spared the depredations of the civil (Henry) and the
ideological (The Directory, The Politburo) -- I assume history has prepared
you for that, as well.

>If it's a question of needing firewood, tho' , we can always live in tents
>--or in a habitual and unrelenting state of mind and heart. Yer call.

Nah. The thugs don't want yer souls, just directions to the wine cellar...

(__) Sourcerer
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