Date:         Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:33:22 -0700
From: august highland <hmfah@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: post-mortem new version
To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA

excerpt from the post-mortem telepathic society


No      )i@c\
 ... c/&V)  uncle[
'cn IADskH' however   Gi&KJ l:Ha$z developments    my father's opinions
probabilities    uVz co-*]!e_B X*F him          promulgation    our thoughts
doomed
 ... be ]eE(VC OWmg  !^@P.$  aKxu|s    1835 his hKI{(    been declining  his
symp
 ...ms iyw[ unequivocally :iKA[    pulmonary s-M`J@m   after lingering
  U<W G*Z    O()m~O    JeEk   23rd    hwaN 1836  Until  U<W JJU KKb    his
?{r~ there    no `[\|J \y#sN    \ix vigour  his ^yQ    'cn xD%O   persons
...    /(L him *lc ?{r~    undiminished Q'{G did  i/Txb    LJhHwE dC/{pi,
smallest wavering (
  |<T]   'h`@o:  OzGZ it    <npQoT] ... it should)    his convictions   sxi
:LQo  His |%Yh satisfaction after    Wqf ... his oTEdlw    near seemed
 ... be  Sqw    what       nL;h
 ... bk%~I  nd;'| u$F]Po than    "Kl`H@c it    his hxk< [*yc    not living
longer ...       not    f]^U
 ... do DF@S


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Carney <&n% dozed over  wordy @;O sa-r*{H
 ... be RsY( wakened     noise    his ID#fv  Wary *lc  vicissitudes    his
\UCe*i    ?{r~    R:T up ^;|{b?Y awake .Y:   _VAEP+Q  Then     ]H{B
  sputtering SUpB-%    ROF his )%oTt sprawling   C{j&&e   Wqf       been
wakened    its i-[:)E  His bunk    creaked     listening no E|:[ reached his
(I.:    &_G*/+g yiO Z<~ OeoaYy ster
 ...rous breathings        !xD{ sU+ gS$  H_]      e+G sleeper Quy
Shakespeare's ]nP*cz`-paunched %KfIe





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  @;O    <pKB&mi  Sivajee Punt    Quy
  killed   prisoners were 'cn either hung or imprisoned   ?{r~     &EA"N
my blowing-up   hou M|'?oa bK,"'r  Ghauts after  O~AVSS <Pb|?- after 'cn
Sivajee Punt might        aiSSv their ZLCqql`   months       not nL;h


Presently Carney dropped  rein   over  horse's +"#J
  #XwcJXo
 ...ok his lariat    z-zmLtU--`S hung  .mFZc# ~**#-NZ;/P over his Z|QUjP
whispering[Wait here Patsy boy]slipped *lc  /jd   wormed his nVofljY
cautiously
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QBWoz*  ks\n^w&   his @whmK[   blobs    &_erJ) ]H{B ...    Bucking i"P ZoX~
Presently   sEK]-(  ks\n^w& carried
 ... his listening (I.:  clink      YwkCh-shod ?;VUrNS QBWoz*  c$V
+JB|?;  suppressed[Damn!]






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  'cn subjects    \ix or (?k ^yQ are discussed X*F them    CnpXjei ?{r~
probed
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intended   S?t readers
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processes pursued H(NAx it is    *Nr ix&{    *o^p
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  tISSFf @UMO -o^DD itx=
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OeoaYy cases what f{.%-Li
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performed  l:rI    VCz
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qualified
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principles    political zd_   politics)    Sqw myself (_, (wn!R
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Y=-= them plausible
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...
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  my S?t !m/(u=    Sqw (5*)


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... out
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  you than
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rOeIjU w:zrp
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father's writings    :*domF       obtained
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Baconian j~jS(| F,[ LT[ ignorance    Bacon's principles
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 ... <pKB&mi about     ROF ... Macaulay's uZh
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philosophical  ... FNVb"NE    physical Z['o his im$    philosophizing might
recognized Kepler
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unbecoming (  rNX   which  'UsM     later hvp Y=-=  itx= z%lpx,<
honourable amends) there    truth    $\d%    his strictures  my father's
@hibX
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Propositions) which    been suggested
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thoughts   being lost    pushed
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process
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my father) being
 ... v%~W `"$UZ principles    sGrk
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occurred
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is this  legitimate process     dynamics
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:^e( it is not       then recollected ... ksRd not unlike this    (,/X.
out    Quy
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my OzGZ ':{)Vg
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kq/sYK it deals
   effects    JMw-dd~
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