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From: [email protected] (Nesta Stubbs)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: A show of hands (ME!!, FUCKING ME!!)
Date: 13 Jul 1995 22:31:21 -0500
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In article <[email protected]>,
Omar Haneef '96 wrote:
>I've been in situations like this but NEVER on purpose. An accidental
>cyberpunk? Oh, its about the mindset...but I do like escaping AFTER the fact
>(that is to say, sometimes the cops DO bust you and there is nothing that
>makes you any less a cpunk, right?) I think I might be a retropsect cpunk: I
>get in the mood after my success and my mind fills in my shit scared
>trembling with my cool attitude.

I like getting into them on purpose myself. Acid is good for that,
and it makes things really irridescent, but mind you, I only walk the
line when I'm coming up, or going down, never when I'm peaking.

>No!!! Cyberpunk by CHOICE? What happens when someone DOES die on their first
>night as a cyberpunk? I mean there is this 14 year old who says "fuck yeah,
>I'm one" and then wrecks his car on acid and then ends up a quadrapelegic?
>Not to cool eh?
>
Your not getting it Omar, stop worrying about what cyberpunk is, who
gives a fuck. What i wanna know is:

how fast are you? how dense?

(studly cyberpunk quote from studly cyberpunk)

>Your definition of cpunk sounds a lot like just being young.

you read to literally.


--
To John Dillinger, and hope he is still alive. |Nesta Stubbs|


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