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:<blockquote>"For your hospitality our sincerest thanks, and for your offer of professional assistance our grateful acceptance. Terms: cash on delivery, up to and not exceeding one fourteenth of total profits (if any); all traveling expenses guaranteed in any event; funeral expenses to be defrayed by us or our representatives, if occasion arises and the matter is not otherwise arranged for."</blockquote>

*CONSOLIDATED MAIL SYSTEMS  

:<blockquote>"Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log."</blockquote>

:<blockquote>"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. And so on. I've changed all the names. I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has. There must be tons of human bone meal in the ground. I went back there with an old war buddy, Bernard V. O'Hare, and we made friends with a cab driver, who took us to the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war. His name was Gerhard Müller. He told us that he was a prisoner of the Americans for a while. We asked him how it was to live under Communism, and he said that it was terrible at first, because everybody had to work so hard, and because there wasn't much shelter or food or clothing. But things were much better now. He had a pleasant little apartment, and his daughter was getting an excellent education. His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes."</blockquote>

 =="Caution"==

:<blockquote>"To: The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, Obey little; Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved; once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, ever afterward resumes its liberty."</blockquote>

:<blockquote>"Have you ever heard the term 'hostages'? That's the latest punishment for saboteurs. It's the most horrible thing you can imagine. Leading citizens--innocent people--are taken prisoner to await their execution. If the Gestapo can't find the saboteur, they simply grab five hostages and line them up against the wall. You read the announcements of their death in the paper, where they're referred to as 'fatal accidents.' - October 9, 1942"</blockquote>

:<blockquote>"It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: “All right then, I’ll go to hell”—and tore it up. It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming."</blockquote>

:<blockquote>"Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible mad houses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!"</blockquote>

:<blockquote>"We shall best understand the probable course of natural selection by taking the case of a country undergoing some physical change, for instance, of climate. The proportional numbers of its inhabitants would almost immediately undergo a change, and some species might become extinct."</blockquote>

:<blockquote>"A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies."</blockquote>

:<blockquote>"The decades - Fiyero thought, in love with her or at least so frightened for her that he could mistake it for love -- the decades looked on and didn't see her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see the revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny."</blockquote>

:<blockquote>"I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff— I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."</blockquote>

==The Perils of Obedience==by Stanley Milgram <blockquote>"The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous importance, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations. I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Stark authority was pitted against the subjects' [participants'] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects' [participants'] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not. The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation. Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority." </blockquote> *OPERATION CHIP SWEEP  ==Collapse==by Jared Diamond <blockquote>"Will tourists someday stare bewildered at the rusting hulks of New York’s skyscrapers, much as we stare today at the jungle-overgrown ruins of Maya cities?"</blockquote> *CEDOCORE: HYCEPHAMITAMYN-η  ==1984== by George Orwell <blockquote>"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him."</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: GALLOWS*MAILSTROM: NEEDLE  ==Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America==by Barbara Ehrenreich <blockquote>"Mostly out of laziness, I decide to start my low-wage life in the town nearest to where I actually live, Key West, Florida, which with a population of about 25,000 is elbowing its way up to the status of a genuine city. The downside of familiarity, I soon realize, is that it's not easy to go from being a consumer, thoughtlessly throwing money around in exchange for groceries and movies and gas, to being a worker in the very same place. I am terrified, especially at the beginning, of being recognized by some friendly business owner or erstwhile neighbor and having to stammer out some explanation of my project. Happily, though, my fears turn out to be entirely unwarranted: during a month of poverty and toil, no one recognizes my face or my name, which goes unnoticed and for the most part unuttered. In this parallel universe where my father never got out of the mines and I never got through college, I am 'baby,' 'honey,' 'blondie,' and, most commonly, 'girl.'"</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: GASOLINE  ==Invisible Man==by Ralph Ellison <blockquote>"I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth."</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: TUMBREL  ==Civil Disobedience==by Henry David Thoreau <blockquote>"I HEARTILY ACCEPT the motto, — "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically."</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: WRETCHED  ==A Clockwork Orange==by Anthony Burgess <blockquote>"He was in the land all right, well away, in orbit, and I knew what it was like, having tried it like everybody else had done, but at this time I'd got to thinking it was a cowardly sort of a beschch, O my brothers. You'd lay there after you'd drunk the old moloko..."</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: WETWORK  ==The Forever War==by Joe Haldeman <blockquote>"You couldn't blame it all on the military, though. The evidence they presented for the Taurans having been responsible for the earlier casualties was laughably thin. The few people who pointed this out were ignored.  The fact was, Earth's economy needed a war, and this one was ideal. It was a nice hole to throw buckets of money into, but would unify humanity rather than dividing it."</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: FRATRICIDE  ==A Seperate Peace==by John Knowles <blockquote>"I felt fear's echo, and along with that I felt the unhinged, uncontrollable joy which had been its accompaniment and opposite face, joy which had broken out sometimes in those days like Northern Lights across black sky."</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: BITTER  ==Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge==by James Morrow <blockquote>"Take your cup down to the Caspian, dip, and drink. It did not always taste of salt. Yahweh's watery slaughter may have purified the earth, but it left his seas a ruin, brackish with pagan blood and the tears of wicked orphans."</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: ATROPINE  ==The Things They Carried==by Tim O'Brien <blockquote>"First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack."</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: PLIERS  ==Equus==by Peter Shaffer <blockquote>"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: CORRIDA  ==Hiroshima==by John Hersey <blockquote>"At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the girl office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk."</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: SLANDER  ==Orientalism==by Edward Said <blockquote>"On June 13, 1910, Arthur James Balfour lectured the House of Commons on 'the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt.' 'These,' he said, 'belong to a whole different category than those affecting the Isle of Wight or West Riding of Yorkshire.'"</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: FLENSE   ==The Fate of an Honest Intellectual==by Noam Chomsky <blockquote>"He's now living in a little apartment somewhere in New York City, and he's a part-time social worker working with teenage drop-outs. Very promising scholar—if he'd done what he was told, he would have gone on and right now he'd be a professor somewhere at some big university. Instead he's working part-time with disturbed teenaged kids for a couple thousand dollars a year. That's a lot better than a death squad, it's true—it's a whole lot better than a death squad. But those are the techniques of control that are around."</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: SPORE  ==Heather Has Two Mommies==by Leslea Newman <blockquote>"Heather's favourite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears, two hands, and two feet. Heather has two pets: a ginger-colored cat named Gingersnap and a big black dog named Midnight. Heather also has two mommies: Mama Kate and Mama Jane."</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: SICKLE  ==Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince==by J.K. Rowling <blockquote>"Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one..."</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: REGRET  ==The Naked and the Dead==by Norman Mailer <blockquote>"But the compassion lasted for only a few minutes. He understood it all, knew he could do nothing about it any longer, and was not even tempted. What was the use? He sighed and the acuteness of his mood slipped out with his breath. There were some things you could never fix. It was too mixed-up. A man had to get out by himself or he became like Hennessey, worrying over every gimcrack in his life."</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: VENOM  ==Stranger in a Strange Land==by Robert A. Heinlein  <blockquote>"Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit. Sweat over that, instead!" </blockquote> *MAILSTROM: INFARCTION  ==M. Butterfly==by David Henry Hwang <blockquote>"GALLIMARD. Butterfly, Butterfly...(He forces himself to turn away, as the image of Song fades out, and talks to us.)The limits of my cell are such: four-and-a-half meters by five."</blockquote> *MAILSTROM: WIDOW  ==Beloved==by Toni Morrison

CEDOCORE: HYCEPHAMITAMYN-η Collapse by Jared Diamond A relatively recent book (2005) concerning societal collapse due <blockquote>"The Women in no small part to environmental components, ethe house knew it and so did the children.g. climate changeFor years each put up with the spite in his own way, overhunting/fishing, erosion, toxic chemicals, etcbut by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were it's only victims. Text found by: digitalLotus "Will tourists someday stare bewildered at the rusting hulks of New York’s skyscrapers, much as we stare today at the jungle-overgrown ruins of Maya cities?" </blockquote>

*MAILSTROM: GALLOWS 1984 by George Orwell. One of the most famous dystopian novels ever, describes a bleak future in which the world is constantly at war and the government has absolute control (even over reality itself). Text found by: vipbrj (portions of this text were also found on the MAILSTROM:NEEDLE page) "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him." CLEANSING

MAILSTROM: TUMBREL Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. A critically acclaimed novel involving racial tensions ==Angels in 20th century America. Text found ==by: KingMob4313 "I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth." Tony Kushner

MAILSTROM: WRETCHED Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau. One of American literature's most famous essays, Thoreau argues for the right of citizens to disobey their governments should they become too strong. Text found by: cynicmuse <blockquote>"I HEARTILY ACCEPT see the mottouniverse, Joe, as a kind of sandstorm in outer space with winds of mega-hurricane velocity, — "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see but instead of grains of sand it acted up to more rapidly 's shards and systematicallysplinters of glass ... You ever feel that way? Ever have one of those days?" </blockquote>

*MAILSTROM: WETWORK A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. Another dystopian look at the future where roving teenage gangs terrorize communities, and the subsequent psychological problems involving rehabilitation. Made into a controversial, but excellent film by Stanley Kubrick. Text found by: nunzilla "He was in the land all right, well away, in orbit, and I knew what it was like, having tried it like everybody else had done, but at this time I'd got to thinking it was a cowardly sort of a beschch, O my brothers. You'd lay there after you'd drunk the old moloko..." BELLADONNA

MAILSTROM: BITTER A Seperate Peace by John Knowles A book told in retrospect <blockquote>"But I was beginning to understand something about growing up during World War IInormality. Normality wasn’t normal. Received criticism by some for potentially being an anti-war novelIt couldn’t be. Text found by: nunzilla "I felt fear's echoIf normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and along with that I let normality manifest itself. But people—and especially doctors—had doubts about normality. They weren’t sure normality was up to the job. And so they felt the unhinged, uncontrollable joy which had been its accompaniment and opposite face, joy which had broken out sometimes in those days like Northern Lights across black skyinclined to give it a boost." </blockquote>

*MAILSTROM: ATROPINE "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" by James Morrow. James Morrow (no wiki-page exists for the text itself) James Morrow is an author who frequently satirizes religion, but occasionally elements of humanism and atheism, too. Famous for his "Godhead" trilogy in which God is actually found dead and floating in the Atlantic Ocean. Text found by: KingMob4313 Take your cup down to the Caspian, dip, and drink. It did not always taste of salt. Yahweh's watery slaughter may have purified the earth, but it left his seas a ruin, brackish with pagan blood and the tears of wicked orphans. PARASITE

MAILSTROM: CORRIDA Equus ==The Chocolate War==by Peter Shaffer. A play concerning a psychiatrist's efforts to treat a boy who has an unnatural fascination with horses. Apparently, the actor who plays Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is currently doing this play. Text found by: Akumu "There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out." Robert Cormier

MAILSTROM: SLANDER Hiroshima by John Hersey. An article that appeared in the New Yorker in August 1946, one year after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It was later made into a novel detailing the lives of 6 Japanese people and how the bomb affected them. Text found by: Akumu <blockquote>"At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the girl office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next deskThey murdered him."

MAILSTROM: FLENSE Orientalism by Edward Said. Discusses how the Western world viewed As he turned to take the Orient as an "otherball," a threat to their collective political hegemony. Sparked dam burst against the beginning side of post-colonial theoryhis head and a hand grenade shattered his stomach. Text found Engulfed by: tuatara "On June 13nausea, he pitched toward the grass. His mouth encountered gravel, 1910and he spat frantically, Arthur James Balfour lectured the House afraid that some of Commons on 'the problems with which we have his teeth had been knocked out. Rising to deal in Egypt.' 'Thesehis feet,' he saidsaw the field through drifting gauze but held on until everything settled into place, 'belong to like a whole different category than those affecting lens focusing, making the Isle of Wight or West Riding of Yorkshireworld sharp again, with edges.'" </blockquote>

*MAILSTROM: SPORE "The Fate of an Honest Intellectual" by Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky (no wiki-page exists for the text itself) An essay by one of the 20th century's most outspoken philosophers. Text found by: Akumu "He's now living in a little apartment somewhere in New York City, and he's a part-time social worker working with teenage drop-outs. Very promising scholar—if he'd done what he was told, he would have gone on and right now he'd be a professor somewhere at some big university. Instead he's working part-time with disturbed teenaged kids for a couple thousand dollars a year. That's a lot better than a death squad, it's true—it's a whole lot better than a death squad. But those are the techniques of control that are around." CLEAVER

MAILSTROM: REGRET Harry Potter ==Rita Hayworth and the Half-Blood Prince Shawshank Redemption==by J.K. Rowling The sixth in the ever-popular Harry Potter series. Consistently found on banned books list for "black magic" and "sorcery." Text found by: silver zero "Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one..." Stephen King

MAILSTROM: VENOM The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer. Based on Mailer's experiences in the South Pacific during WWII. Text found by: _brokenhalo_ <blockquote>"But the compassion lasted for only a few minutesBrooks Hatlen knew it. He understood Knew it all, knew he could do nothing about it any longer, and was not even temptedtoo well. What was the use? He sighed and the acuteness of his mood slipped out with his breath. There were some All I want is to be back where things you could never fixmake sense. It was too mixed-up. A man had Where I won't have to get out by himself or he became like Hennessey, worrying over every gimcrack in his lifebe afraid all the time." </blockquote>

MAILSTROM: CLEANSING Beloved ==Silent Spring==by Toni Morrison. Text found by: KingMob4313 A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written in 1987 about the legacy of slavery. Was recently voted by a panel of 100 contemporary novelists as the best contemporary novel. "The Women in the house knew it and so did the children. For years each put up with the spite in his own way, but by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were it's only victims." Rachel Carson

MAILSTROM: BELLADONNA Angels <blockquote>"The town lay in America by Tony Kushner A play made into the midst of a popular TV miniseries about Prior Waltercheckerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a homosexual who sees angels blaze of color that claim he is a prophet, flamed and Joe Pitt, flickered across a closeted Mormon Republican clerkbackdrop of pines. Text found by: TimA “I see Then foxes barked in the universe, Joehills and deer silently crossed the fields, as a kind of sandstorm half hidden in outer space with winds the mists of mega-hurricane velocity, but instead of grains of sand it's shards and splinters of glass fall mornings... You ever feel that way? Ever have one of those days?” "</blockquote>

As he turned to take the ball, a dam burst against the side of his head and a hand grenade shattered his stomach. Engulfed ==Pleasantville==by nausea, he pitched toward the grass. His mouth encountered gravel, and he spat frantically, afraid that some of his teeth had been knocked out. Rising to his feet, he saw the field through drifting gauze but held on until everything settled into place, like a lens focusing, making the world sharp again, with edges." Gary Ross

FREE REBEL ART, EXTERMINAL Rita Hayworth <blockquote>"BOB: [to David/Bud and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King Stephen KingBill] 's famous novella about false incarceration, institutionalization, freedom, and friendship. Made into You are charged with descration of a very famous public building and critically-acclaimed film starring Tim Robbins the intentional use of prohibited paint colors in violation of The Pleasantville Code of Conduct and Morgan Freeman"Laws of Common Decency. Text found by: Dianne "Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is Do you admit that on the night of May 1 you did consciously and willfully apply the following FORBIDDEN paint colors to be back where things make sense. Where I wonthe North Wall of the Pleasantville Police Station: Red, Pink, Vermilion, Puce, Chartreuse, Umber, Blue, Aqua, Ox Blood, Green, Peach, Crimson, Yellow, Olive and Magenta?'t have to be afraid all the time." </blockquote>