From: scott@bogus.net.address (The Great Brain)
Subject: t: The Tailight Zone
Reply-To: scott@bogus.net.address (The Great Brain)
Organization: /dev/null
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:56:33 GMT


ecsd@tfs.com (Eric C. S. Dynamic) writes:
: Hah. Before I launch *anything* else - ooooh, P.C. incorrectness Dude -
: us females know that bidding exclusion of a person from the group, even
: by *suggestion*, is way bad rude vicious spiteful and Not Nice. You better
: be Really Pissed with him to stoop that way. 'Cause the rest of us girls
: don't like the formation of cliques, if we think we're at risk. 
: Divisiveness is un-good nowadays. We're all rainbows, so yum life is fun, 
: mmm, no reason to invite someone out - just smile, and wrinkle a quick 
: "huh?" furrow in your brow, and excuse yourself.

Now, now - cut it short!  What's your grievance?

: I'm guilty of a lot I would point out with a critical eye, so you're 
: free to discount what I say where you're internally aware of whether 
: you're making the best use of your resources - e.g. if you're 
: practicing and learning, then you're doing alright . . . one of my 
: prize flames was the one I sent to Franklin, the one which began with 
: "the snake putting on the chain mail gloves" - I will send a copy of 
: that to you, if you wish. 

I do have that one - I'd like a copy of the "erection in yogurt" post, 
if you still have it - I seem to be missing that one...

: It is my impression I have had some impact on you, and I watch closely to
: see what looks to me like your patterning yourself on things I do. That you
: have the talent to do this, means you can go far - because it IS the practice
: phase to mimic, to see "how the other person does it" - and then you will
: step into your own style, armed with numbers of techniques from elsewhere.

Maybe so - but I believe Scott Tai has made a larger impact on the whole
population of rec.org.mensa.  During this summer, Tai left the group for a 
number of months - and returned to find the group in blissful "puzzle 
masturbation."  Even GMS hinted that he missed the Tai clan, and when we
returned, many eagerly welcomed us back.  Primarily because of the 
existence (or not) of Scott Tai, this group is fun, and more importantly,
it's REAL.  ecsd, at least, has no prejudice against me - though we 
quarrelled at one time of our lives, with unchristian ferocity. 

: I don't think Mike Steiner is a good flame target - namely, I don't think
: he's into that, exactly. Not for what you may be looking for. Imagine a big,
: heavy bear - who is a nice bear, but when the flies bother him, he just throws
: his paw out and smashes them. 

A bear is not the right image: I can hardly regard him in the light of
a rational creature - so obstinately has he persisted in forming a fabulous
notion of my character and acting on the false impressions he cherishes.

: I know that you're smart, but I also sense in some way that you 
: aren't possessed of yourself in some way that you need or want - I 
: could be wrong.  I'll gladly share with you, whatever social learning 
: or social smarts I know [...]

( he's thinking: Like - say - how to remove turds while showering, or 
  maybe - how to stick your erection in yogurt?  Thanks - I think I'll 
  pass on this one... :)

( and They say: Hmm - Mr. Dynamic - why are your fingernails brown?... 
  It's fecal madness - They cry!  Every time We think he has reached the 
  boundaries of bad taste - he finds a way to surpass himself. )

I've a pleasure in you, Eric - you've satisfied my expectations.  If you 
were a born fool - I should not enjoy it half so much.  But you're no fool, 
I know you're smart - and I can sympathize with all your feelings, having 
felt them myself.  

: I'll make the offhand guess that you're a person going through processes
: similar to what's happening to me - in which case, I can vocalize these
: things fairly easily - so if you want to discuss these things in a direct
: way, you can quit hiding from me - I won't violate you in what you do with
: me.

Well - besides my "real" name and "real" address - what is there to tell?
Am I suffering - maybe - it is merely a beginning of what I will suffer,
though...

: E.g.: (and this is an OCCULT lesson:)
: So, I sometimes get turds in the lower colon - which won't leave, but which
: I feel as the need to take a shit - so rather than suffer this sensation,
: until I would produce another bowel movement, I learned to evacuate myself
: with my finger, by reaching in to my (word I don't know!!) canal and pulling
: the turds out, while I'm in the shower - and I wash my hands thoroughly,
: so there's no smell of shit left - and I'm clean, and that annoying feeling
: is gone - so good.

( he thinks: And you say we have problems... :)

( they say: Okay - I think I can see where this is going - and I hope it 
  doesn't go this way - like - you're going to tell me next you EAT turds! 
  The Horror! )

Okay - I guess I'm one of the fortunate millions who has normally 
functioning bowels - they empty at 1:00 promptly daily - try some 
bran or fiber, dude.  Personally, I'll confess - I've never had the
urge to reach in my rectum and remove excrement - then again - I'm
only about half your age - could be an older thing - I don't like
prunes either - some would say the rectum is an exit - not an entrance.  

: Something like, pick on people whose size is what you Want to be. I know
: the image of practicing on people of your "evident current size", but e.g.
: their character is important too. Steiner is a bad target. Franklin would
: have been a good one. He gave up responding to me - so fine. He neither
: engaged in flaming back, nor did he say "well done, I was trashed" - so that's
: dishonest - so life belongs to those who claim it, is the lesson - be fearless.
: And you will be admired.

Hey, Franklin's cool - seen him on IRC - and for those of you who say
Tai's not real - come talk to me there.  We'll see ...

: That I had decided to post this into the net - rather than as a personal note
: to Scott - hey, Scott, I'm sorry, it's my 11th house Sun - but; your private
: mail to me will remain private - nothing here divulges you, too much, anyway -
: so, Trust Me.

How are we to know this isn't the "An-(read: Trap)Tai Conspiracy Game" 
continued?  We don't.  When I would have given my life for one kind word, 
you kept off.  I won't complain to you!  But now I'm still wary, for 
that reason.  

Hell, though - if I had a phone number I could give out, I'd do it.  
Yeah - the heavy breathing would HAVE to be Mike Steiner...  If it would
get Eric to stop screaming, I'd call him - saw his number floating around
a couple of weeks back.  Probably weird the hell out of him too, and that
we would all like to see.  

: Shit, I'm yawning. 1AM - guess I must be getting older. Time to go home,
: take a shower and masturbate, thinking of my partners-in-potential . . .
: ooo yum, it only takes one. She knows who she is. :)

sue@netcom.com? - (and don't think for a second I didn't think about a 
couple of puns in that address) - just a guess - I've seen the dynamics 
between you two :)

: And Just Remember - in ONE of my Very Strong Archetypes, I Am He Who 
: Loves Them All - Oh Yesss - In His Name - Baphomet. And a toast to 
: those Figures in my Chart, In His Service - be they: Mars, and Toro, 
: and Eros, and Hidalgo, and the North Node of The Moon, and Sappho [...]

You are talking nonsense - I don't quite understand you.

: Hmm. *How* could I be so Fiery and Such An Asshole in Print, but So Sweet
: and Shy in Person? Ha.

Me too.

--Scott Andrew Tai

now something just went wrong inside of my head  all the things that i've
done and i've said  disappear  cuz these things don't keep  when you wake 
up one day and find you won't go back to sleep   so don't tell me what is 
right and what is wrong    it's no good   i've stood and listened for too 
long   you don't understand what it means what it's about    you can stay
another day so shut up and drink up and get out
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