urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 6, Issue 1

Maru Dubshinki · 01 Feb 2005, 12:57 · from 2005-February.txt.gz

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From: marudubshinki at gmail.com (Maru Dubshinki)
Date: Tue Feb  1 12:57:51 2005
Subject: (urth) Re: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 6, Issue 1
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That's a decent story conceit, but this ain't a writer's workshop- we
deal in 'about's here, not 'possesives'.

~Maru
Microsoft delenda est.


On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 20:42:33 +0000 (GMT), Jim Raylor
<rjraylor at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I have been observing the suspect through this
> deceptive mirror.
> If the 'client' has any doubts that the mirror he
> faces is more than just a reflective surface, then he
> hides his suspicions well, but I suspect he may not
> know he is observed by me from the other side.
> The purpose of my study is to reveal whether the
> subject is truly human or just some strange alien,
> phantasm or artificial device which has learned to
> assume a human form.
> The resemblance to a human is frighteningly accurate.
> In fact I think he looks like me, though others report
> this observation to be inaccurate in many ways.
> I cannot hear his words, his space seems well
> sound-proofed, but, reading his lips, his
> speech seems to be English.
> >From his behaviour I notice he is a good mimic of
> others. Indeed he often seems to ape my own actions,
> though in a contradictory fashion.
> For some reason he seems unwilling to reveal the back
> of his head to me, though I am planning to place
> another trick mirror on the opposite wall of his
> 'cell' to catch him out.
> I call the observation room a cell, not because he is
> held as a prisoner, I can see the door in his room is
> unlocked, as is my own.
> He seems as happy with his situation as I appear to be
> with my own. I object to the abuse which he has at
> times received from those who understand less of his
> plight than I.
> I call it a cell because he seems at times to be
> unready to leave the room before adjusting his
> appearance in subtle ways. This in itself does not
> indicate that he has any unusual shape-shifting
> abilities, though it does raise a few questions in my
> mind.
> I have decided I will give him the benefit of the
> doubt, all his actions and his appearance would lead
> me to conclude him a human. I still have some doubts,
> but if I terminated his existence as a result of my
> own uncertainties I would be less than human myself.
> Whether the higher authorities will accept my
> recommendations is unclear but I would
> suggest they release him and grant him the same rights
> as other humans.
> 
> You're my mirror in the bathroom!
> 
> =====
> http://prisoner143.50megs.com/
> 
> I am not a number I am a free person!
> 
> 
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