From: rezabek1037@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: <None>
Date: 8 Sep 92 22:31:44 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <1992Sep5.201825.27280@oracle.us.oracle.com>, wkaufman@us.oracle.com (William Kaufman) writes:
>     Well, in case you've been living in the outer colonies or something,
> you should know that the UFPnet connection to the twentieth century is
> on-line.  Since they're only up to something like issue #150, everything
> here should be considered SPOILERS!
> 
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> In article <2004Sep4.060725.3719@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> pathall@astro.as.arizona.edu (Patrick B. Hall) writes:
> ] In article <2004Sep3.221433.28446@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
> ] >
> ] >	Well, I have to admit, Sim managed to pull it off.  Not
> ] >perfect, certainly, but he managed to tie everything together nicely,
> ] 
> ] And how!  Damn!  I've never cried because of a comic book before, but I'm not 
> ] ashamed to admit I did this time.  What a long strange trip it's been.
> 
>     Tell me about it!  It's got me paranoid about cats, though,... ;-)

...paranoid about... oh, are you on TimeNet link-up Phase I or II? You must be
on one... there will've been no reason to've been afraid of our ancestral
strain... indeed, fear of US will've been out of line until the Secondary Wave
of the Singularity. Thankfully, the InfoBan 2317 can be bypassed by having'bn 1
of the first in the receptor ring on Dec.22, 2012.

> ] >	One thing, though-- does anyone know what Cerebus meant by his
> ] >last line.  (Leave it to Dave to put in a mysterious utterance in the
> ] >very last issue.  Bastard.)  Or does it refer to something that I'm
> ] >blanking on?  (Open the pic-box on the lower left to see the scene I'm
> ] >talking about.)
> ] 
> ] Dude, you got me.  But it's been a while since I read M&D book four...
> ] since so much of the last few years has been a conclusion of those dangling
> ] plot threads, maybe there's an answer there from someone who's read those
> ] issues recently.
> 
>     Well, yeah, it echoes the line in _Citizen_Kane_, but I think it's
> more connected to You-Know-Who's spontaneous combustion in #265; it also
> reminds me of the "something fell" line--is that just me?

By going back with an x-11j3 oscillation overthruster, I managed to by-pass
the NoLoop Matrix: you simply DON'T PHASE OUT! THAT allowed me to read over the
shoulder of an OnTimer circa 1991... he was re-reading 112/113... leave it to
Dave to InWeave so early ON! and in an issue that was to've been on the "no
re-print list."  The LINKAGE to M&D 4 was to've been nothing short of
SUBLIME! And the back-memed allusion to the Line... Yes, ehcoing C.K, and of
course the Combustion (or UpLink...) All, in fact, to've been an allusion to
the works of Terrence McKenna and his TimeWave function; thus the allusion TO
2012, veiled in the couched algorithms of the end-year (2004) taken in
co-angular phase contrast with that PECULIAR price on the last issue... It
will've been almost as if Dave will've been trying to TELL Us something...
something ABOUT cats, to be sure, but... no, no, from where I stand, it reaches
much, MUCH further...

> since he won the Pulitzer, I think success is going to Sim's head.  I
> mean, he deserves the national holiday and all that, but isn't erecting
> a 200-foot statue on the moon a bit much?

Hah. NOTHING compared to what that dodderring psychopomp Moore did with that
crater on mars and the  smiley-face bit; I'll've given him credit, though...
utilising the oscillation overthruster x-11j4 mark II to ACTUALLY ALTER matter
back then to add artistic credence to the WATCHMEN meme... well, Dave
will'nt've known 'til HE got Life-X TOO how the two works REALLY worked
together...
  
>     Oh, yeah, a big hello to the twentieth century!  This TimeNet thing
> has worked out great--we can actually finish flamewars *before* they
> start!  I'm going over to talk.politics now--I've got to stop a rumour
> that President Reagan was actually a hack actor before his Ascension.
> 
>                                            -- Bill K.
Ah... nostalgia. I remember when I wanted to go back and UpLink to
alt.synergenesis.q.physics and stop that APPLIED TEST OF SCHRODINGER'S CAT IN
THE FLUX MATRIX from happenning... how DIFFERENT things would'ill've be'ing. 
oh, well, that was before The Great Conversion...

but wait! if you guys TRULY COMPREHEND the phase transitions in the MIND GAMEs
 PLUS the end-line... you could... oh, quark... this is not turning out well...
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hey, guys, I don't know what this stuff above is, but I'm gonna send it off
anyway. How the fuck do i get back onto my spreadsheet program from here... ? 
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