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From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Forgiveness amidst the flames
Message-ID: <808@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Mar-85 22:14:02 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.808
Posted: Sun Mar 17 22:14:02 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 20-Mar-85 04:44:40 EST
Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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Summary: 

[ My friends call it a bug.  The manufacturer claims its swamp gas.... ]

I saw this in "The Sleepers of Erin" (by Jonathan Gash).
It seemed appropriate.

	So there I was, torn between mercy and revenge.  Sooner or later
	somebody has to chuck in the sponge on a vengeance.  Otherwise
	we're all at war for ever and ever, and life's nothing but one
	long holocaust.

	I thought angrily, why should that somebody be me?

(the narrator goes on at this point to do grievous bodily injury to
the candidates for mercy....)

Actually, the narrator of Gash's books would make an excellent 
Usenetter -- he's completely incapable of seeing his own faults,
snobbish, unforgiving, vengeance-prone......


-- 
"Hey, check it OUT! I'm leaping tall buildings with a single BOUND!
 Stay right where you ARE!  I've gotta locate a SPEEDING BULLET!"
					-- Ambush Bug

Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC
1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706
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