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In an attempt to prevent Year Zero, a group of Quantum Computing researchers at [[Solutions Backwards Initiative]] calling themselves the [[Pilgrims]] have utilized their government-funded experiments to warn the people of the past. A major portion of the data they sent back in time is various media labeled by the government as "subversive materials." Excerpts of the banned media can be found scrambled in the background of the webpages sent alongside them. This page contains every excerpt found to date, sorted by title and including the author and webpage locations. ====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> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Gallows [http://themailstrom.com/gallows_Y3RG7J.htm]*[[The Mailstrom]] - Needle [http://themailstrom.com/needle_jP411R.htm] ----====Adventures of Huckleberry Finn====by Mark Twain <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> *[[Solutions Backwards Initiative]] - Pilgrims [http://www.solutionsbackwardsinitiative.net/pilgrims/] ----====Also Sprach Zarathustra====English Title: "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche <blockquote>"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Flood [http://www.themailstrom.com/flood_LHL7P3.htm] ---- ====Angels in America====by Tony Kushner <blockquote>"I see the universe, Joe, as a kind of sandstorm in outer space with winds of mega-hurricane velocity, but instead of grains of sand it's shards and splinters of glass ... You ever feel that way? Ever have one of those days?"</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Belladonna [http://themailstrom.com/belladonna_3Mz3tU.htm] ----====A Beggar At Damascus Gate====by Yasmin Zahran <blockquote>"Petra. January 1980 The desert wind was howling across the rocky plateau that surrounds Petra with a hissing cry that swept somewhere from the desert as I climbed through the siq and up to the Rest House, which stood on a rocky ridge near the village of Wadi Musa."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Usurp [http://www.themailstrom.com/usurp_397W4P.htm]---- ====Beloved====by Toni Morrison <blockquote>"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."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Cleansing ''(found on background image datamined using l33tspeak)'' ----====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> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Atropine [http://themailstrom.com/atropine_gH319x.htm] ----====Brazil====by Terry Gilliam <blockquote>"<i>Interviewer</i>: What do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings? <br><i>Helpmann</i>: Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seems to have forgotten certain good old-fashioned virtues. They just can't stand seeing the other fellow win. If these people would just play the game..."</blockquote> *[[Mining For Life]] [http://miningforlife.com/]----====Catch-22====by Joseph Heller <blockquote>"Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."</blockquote> *[[Cedocore]] [http://cedocore.com/]---- ====The Catcher in the Rye====by J.D. Salinger <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> *[[Operation Swamp 0000]] [http://www.operationswamp0000.net/] ----====Caution====by Walt Whitman <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> *[[Hollywood In Memoriam]] [http://www.hollywoodinmemoriam.org/] ----====The Chocolate War====by Robert Cormier <blockquote>"They murdered him.  As he turned to take the ball, a dam burst against the side of his head and a hand grenade shattered his stomach. Engulfed 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."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Cleaver [http://themailstrom.com/cleaver_I682fg.htm] ----====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> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Wretched [http://themailstrom.com/wretched_Ypq2QQ.htm] ----====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> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Wetwork [http://themailstrom.com/wetwork_c276E4.htm] ----====Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed====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 [http://www.cedocore.com/rswtb/]---- ====The Communist Manifesto====by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels <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> *[[Judson Ogram Correctional Facility]] - Moira Waag Psychological Evaluation [http://www.judsonogram.net/personnel/gantry/casefiles/6455da04/Default.htm] ----====The Crucible====by Arthur Miller <blockquote>"There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendships."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Hubris [http://themailstrom.com/hubris_39tpLe.htm] ----====The Diary of a Young Girl====by Anne Frank <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> *[[Secure Broadcast Informatics]] [http://www.securebroadcastinformatics.com/] ----====Equus====by Peter Shaffer <blockquote>"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Corrida [http://themailstrom.com/corrida_MKs742.htm] ----====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> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Spore [http://themailstrom.com/spore_pQw2pP.htm] ----====Fight Club====by Chuck Palahniuk <blockquote>"Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. For a long time though, Tyler and I were best friends. People are always asking, did I know about Tyler Durden."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Pain [http://www.themailstrom.com/pain_HTDTNA.htm] ---- ====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> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Fratricide [http://themailstrom.com/fratricide_774HZx.htm] ----====The Grapes of Wrath====by John Steinbeck <blockquote>"Rattlesnakes! Don’t take chances with ’em, an’ if they argue, shoot first. If a kid’ll kill a cop, what’ll the men do? Thing is, get tougher’n they are. Treat ‘em rough. Scare ‘em."</blockquote> *[[The Price of Treason]] [http://thepriceoftreason.net/] ----====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> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Regret [http://themailstrom.com/regret_Ad54S7.htm] ----====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> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Sickle [http://themailstrom.com/sickle_Nnqa49.htm] ----====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> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Slander [http://themailstrom.com/slander_Yr4893.htm] ----==== The Hobbit ====

<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> *[[I Am Trying To Believe]] [http://iamtryingtobelieve.com/]*[[Another Version Of The Truth (website)|Another Version Of The Truth]] - Forum [http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/forum.htm]*[[Be The Hammer]] [http://bethehammer.net/]*[[105th Airborne Crusaders]] [http://105thairbornecrusaders.com/]*[[Consolidated Mail Systems]] [http://www.consolidatedmailsystems.com/] ---- ====Howl====by Allen Ginsberg <blockquote>"Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible mad houses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!"</blockquote> *[[The Water Turned To Blood]] [http://www.thewaterturnedtoblood.net/] ----====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> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Tumbrel [http://themailstrom.com/tumbrel_AD44Us.htm] ----====Leo Africanus====by Amin Maalouf <blockquote>"In that year, the sacred month of Ramadan fell in high summer. My father rarely left the house before nightfall, as the people of Granada were short-tempered during the daytime. Quarrels were frequent, and a sombre bearing was regarded as a sign of piety; only a man who was not keeping the fast could smile under the fiery heat of the sun, and only a man who had no concern for the fate of the Muslims could remain cheerful and friendly in a town exhausted from within by civil war and threatened from without by the unbelievers."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Scorpion [http://themailstrom.com/scorpion_4rTL21.htm] ---- ====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> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Widow [http://themailstrom.com/widow_vC99iT.htm] ----====Middlesex====by Jeffrey Eugenides <blockquote>"But I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn’t normal. It couldn’t be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and 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 inclined to give it a boost."</blockquote> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Parasite [http://themailstrom.com/parasite_tP366K.htm] ----====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> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Venom [http://themailstrom.com/venom_D3i8Na.htm] ----====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> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Gasoline [http://themailstrom.com/gasoline_UUu891.htm]*[[The Mailstrom]] - Necrotic [http://themailstrom.com/necrotic_blE34c.htm] ---- ====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> *[[The Mailstrom]] - Flense [http://themailstrom.com/flense_E5PPvv.htm]  ----====The Origin of Species====by Charles Darwin <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> *[[Judson Ogram Correctional Facility]] - [[John Ferminger]] [http://www.judsonogram.net/personnel/gantry/casefiles/4382bx12/default.htm] ---- ====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]] [http://www.operationchipsweep.net/] ----====A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present== ==by Howard Zinn <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> *[[Another Version Of The Truth (website)|Another Version Of The Truth]] - Revisionism [http://www.anotherversionofthetruth.com/revisionism.htm]---- ====Pleasantville====by Gary Ross  <blockquote>"BOB: [to David/Bud and Bill] 'You are charged with descration of a public building and the intentional use of prohibited paint colors in violation of The Pleasantville Code of Conduct and "Laws of Common Decency." Do you admit that on the night of May 1 you did consciously and willfully apply the following FORBIDDEN paint colors to the North Wall of the Pleasantville Police Station: Red, Pink, Vermilion, Puce, Chartreuse, Umber, Blue, Aqua, Ox Blood, Green, Peach, Crimson, Yellow, Olive and Magenta?'"</blockquote> *[[One Country At A Time]] [http://www.onecountryatatime.net/] ----====Der Prozess====English Title: The Trial by Franz Kafka <blockquote>"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."</blockquote> ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH*[[Exhibit 24]] [http: REVISIONISM //www.exhibit24.net/]----

==Slaughterhouse-Five== by Kurt Vonnegut"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 Flew Over the war. And so on. ICuckoo'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." s Nest====US WIRETAPANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH FORUMSby Ken Kesey

==<blockquote>"Caution"== by Walt WhitmanMCMURPHY (V.O) (through loudspeaker) Medication time! Medication time! Rise and shine! Rise and shine! Time to say goodbye... Everybody "To: The Statesup, or any one of themup, 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.up!" HOLLYWOOD IN MEMORIAM</blockquote>

==Adventures of Huckleberry Finn== by Mark Twain "It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a*[[Another Version Of The Truth (website)|Another Version Of The Truth]] -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 myself0 [http: “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//anotherversionofthetruth."SOLUTIONS BACKWARDS INITIATIVEcom/0/]

==The Origin of Species== by Charles DarwinRita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption===="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." JUDSON OGRAM: JOHN FERMINGERStephen King

==The Communist Manifesto== by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels<blockquote>"A spectre Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is haunting Europe — the spectre of Communismto be back where things make sense. All the Powers of old Europe Where I won't have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spiesbe afraid all the time."JUDSON OGRAM: MOIRA WAAG PT. 1</blockquote>

==Wicked*[[Free Rebel Art]] [http: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West== by Gregory Maguire"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//www. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see the revolution striding between them, on her way to destinyfreerebelart."net/]JUDSON OGRAM*[[Act Patriotic]] [http: MOIRA WAAG PT//www.actpatriotic. 2net/]----

====The Catcher in the RyeSecond Coming=== =by JY.DB. Salinger"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."OPERATION SWAMP 0000Yeats

OPERATION CHIP SWEEP <blockquote>"The Perils of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram An article written after Stanley Milgram's famous experiment on obedienceAnd what rough beast, in which he found people will do just about anything (even harm others) if enough pressure is exerted by authority. The Milgram obedience experiment (note: no wiki-page for the text itself) Text found by: PrestonxSmith "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 its hour come round 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 otherslast, and, with the subjects' [participants'] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not. The extreme willingness of adults <br />Slouches towards Bethlehem 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. be born?"</blockquote>

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process*[[Hour of Arrival]] [http://www. 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 authorityhourofarrival." net/]----

CEDOCORE: HYCEPHAMITAMYN-η Collapse by Jared Diamond ====A relatively recent book (2005) concerning societal collapse due in no small part to environmental components, e.g. climate change, overhunting/fishing, erosion, toxic chemicals, etc. Text found Seperate Peace====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?" John Knowles

MAILSTROM: GALLOWS 1984 by George Orwell. One of the most famous dystopian novels ever<blockquote>"I felt fear's echo, describes a bleak future in which the world is constantly at war and along with that I felt 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 Aprilunhinged, uncontrollable joy which had been its accompaniment and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smithopposite face, his chin nuzzled into his breast joy which had broken out sometimes 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 himthose days like Northern Lights across black sky." </blockquote>

MAILSTROM: GASOLINE Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. A book in which Ehrenreich attempts to live on minimum wage for a month in both Florida and Maine and details the hardships that ensue. Text found by: cynicmuse "Mostly out of laziness, I decide to start my low*[[The Mailstrom]] -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 unwarrantedBitter [http: during a month of poverty and toil, no one recognizes my face or my name, which goes unnoticed and for the most part unuttered//themailstrom. 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, 'girlcom/bitter_BGtg57.'" htm]

MAILSTROM: TUMBREL Invisible Man ----====Silent Spring====by Ralph Ellison. A critically acclaimed novel involving racial tensions 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." Rachel Carson

MAILSTROM: WRETCHED Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau. One <blockquote>"The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of American literature's most famous essaysorchards where, in spring, Thoreau argues for white clouds of bloom drifted above the right of citizens to disobey their governments should they become too stronggreen fields. Text found by: cynicmuse "I HEARTILY ACCEPT the mottoIn autumn, — "That government is best which governs least"; oak and maple and I should like to see it acted birch set up to more rapidly a blaze of color that flamed and systematicallyflickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of fall mornings..." </blockquote>

MAILSTROM*[[Grace The Teacher]] [http: WETWORK A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess//www. Another dystopian look at the future where roving teenage gangs terrorize communities, and the subsequent psychological problems involving rehabilitationgracetheteacher. Made into a controversial, but excellent film by Stanley Kubrick. Text found bynet/]*[[Red Horse Vector]] [http: 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.//www.redhorsevector." net/]

MAILSTROM: FRATRICIDE ----====The Forever War by Joe Haldeman A sci-fi novel in which the human race is at war with an alien race, the Taurans, for hundreds Simple Art of years. Text found Murder====by: cynicmuse "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. Raymond Chandler

The fact was, Earth's economy needed a war, and this one was ideal. It was <blockquote>"But down these mean streets a nice hole to throw buckets of money intoman must go who is not himself mean, but would unify humanity rather than dividing itwho is neither tarnished nor afraid." </blockquote>

MAILSTROM*[[Viability Index]] [http: BITTER //www.viabilityindex.com/]*[[Free Rebel Art]] - You Are A Seperate Peace by John Knowles A book told in retrospect about growing up during World War IIThreat [http://www. Received criticism by some for potentially being an anti-war novelfreerebelart. Text found by: nunzilla "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 skynet/youareathreat." art]

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. ---

MAILSTROM: PLIERS The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. An awesome novel-in====Slaughterhouse-stories concerning the Vietnam War and soldiers' varying reactions to it. Text found Five====by: Akumu "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." Kurt Vonnegut

MAILSTROM: CORRIDA Equus <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 Peter Shafferhired gunmen after the war. A play concerning a psychiatristAnd so on. I's efforts ve changed all the names. I really did go back to treat Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a boy who 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 unnatural fascination old war buddy, Bernard V. O'Hare, and we made friends with horsesa 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. ApparentlyWe asked him how it was to live under Communism, the actor who plays Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is currently doing this playand 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. Text found by: Akumu "There is 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 my mouth, this sharp chainthe Dresden fire-storm. And So it never comes outgoes." </blockquote>

MAILSTROM: SLANDER Hiroshima by John Hersey*[[U. An article that appeared in the New Yorker in August 1946, one year after the bomb was dropped on HiroshimaS. It was later made into a novel detailing the lives of 6 Japanese people and how the bomb affected themWiretap]] - Case No. Text found by71839J [http: Akumu "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//www.uswiretap." com/71839j/]

MAILSTROM: FLENSE Orientalism by Edward Said. Discusses how the Western world viewed the Orient as an "other," a threat to their collective political hegemony. Sparked the beginning of post-colonial theory. Text found by: tuatara "On June 13, 1910, Arthur James Balfour lectured the House of Commons on 'the problems with which we have to deal ---====Stranger in Egypt.' 'These,' he said, 'belong to a whole different category than those affecting the Isle of Wight or West Riding of YorkshireStrange Land====by Robert A.'" Heinlein

MAILSTROM: SPORE <blockquote>"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 Christ 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 crucified for preaching without a couple thousand dollars a yearpolice permit. That's a lot better than a death squadSweat over that, it's true—it's a whole lot better than a death squad. But those are the techniques of control that are around.instead!" </blockquote>

MAILSTROM*[[The Mailstrom]] - Infarction [http: SICKLE Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman A children's book written in 1989 about a girl who grows up with lesbian parents//themailstrom. Frequently found on banned books lists. Text found by: KingMob4313 "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 Janecom/infarction_6k961G." htm]

MAILSTROM: REGRET Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 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 Things They Carried====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..." Tim O'Brien

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 First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a few minutes. He understood it allgirl named Martha, 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 breatha junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. There They were some things you could never fix. It not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was too mixed-up. A man had to get out by himself or hoping, so he became like Hennessey, worrying over every gimcrack kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his liferucksack." </blockquote>

MAILSTROM*[[The Mailstrom]] - Pliers [http: INFARCTION Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein A famous sci-fi novel about one human's migration from Mars, where he was raised, to the unfamiliar Earth//themailstrom. Text found by: Deamos "Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permitcom/pliers_Ji3p09. Sweat over that, instead!" htm]

MAILSTROM: WIDOW M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang A successful play (that was also made into a movie) about a French man falling in love with a Chinese opera star. The play deals with cultural stereotypes of the Eastern world and was mentioned in another one of our "mined" texts, Edward Said's Orientalism. Text found by: silver zero "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 -====Watchmen====by five." Alan Moore

MAILSTROM: CLEANSING Beloved by Toni Morrison<blockquote>"Rorshach's Journal. October 12th, 1985. Text found by: KingMob4313 A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written Dog carcass in 1987 about the legacy alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of slaveryme. Was recently voted by a panel of 100 contemporary novelists as the best contemporary novelI have seen its true face. "The Women in streets are extended gutters and the house knew it gutters are full of blood and so did when the children. For years each put up with drains finally scab over, all the spite in his own way, but by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were it's only victimsvermin will drown." </blockquote>

MAILSTROM*[[Exterminal]] [http: BELLADONNA Angels in America by Tony Kushner A play made into a popular TV miniseries about Prior Walter, a homosexual who sees angels that claim he is a prophet, and Joe Pitt, a closeted Mormon Republican clerk//exterminal. Text found by: TimA “I see the universe, Joe, as a kind of sandstorm in outer space with winds of mega-hurricane velocity, but instead of grains of sand it's shards and splinters of glass ... You ever feel that way? Ever have one of those days?” net]

MAILSTROM: PARASITE Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides A Pulitzer-Prize winning coming-of-age novel about a Cal, an intersexual person suffering from a genetic mutation. Text found by-====Wicked: Lulah "But I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn’t normal. It couldn’t be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back The Life and let normality manifest itself. But people—and especially doctors—had doubts about normality. They weren’t sure normality was up to Times of the Wicked Witch of the job. And so they felt inclined to give it a boost." West====by Gregory Maguire

MAILSTROM: CLEAVER <blockquote>"The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier A popular book describing one boys attempts to uncover a secret society decades - Fiyero thought, in love with her or at a high school. #4 least so frightened for her that he could mistake it for love -- the decades looked on the ALAand didn's Banned Books list for its protagonistst see her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn' musings t see the revolution striding between them, on sexuality and use of Anti-Catholicismher way to destiny. Text found by: Disposition_On_Reflection "They murdered him. </blockquote>

As he turned to take the ball, a dam burst against the side of his head and a hand grenade shattered his stomach*[[Judson Ogram Correctional Facility]] - Moira Waag Interview [http://www. Engulfed by nausea, he pitched toward the grassjudsonogram. His mouth encountered gravel, and he spat frantically, afraid that some of his teeth had been knocked outnet/personnel/gantry/casefiles/6455da04/witness. 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." htm]----====Wild Thorns====by Sahar Khalifeh

FREE REBEL ART<blockquote>"'Halt!' The order came from a soldier sitting in front of the wooden walkway. Usama stopped, EXTERMINAL Rita Hayworth his heart pounding. 'Open your suitcase!' The Israeli stretched out his hand and rifled [through] the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King Stephen Kingcontents. 'What's famous novella this?' 'Librium.' 'Yeah, you people are crazy about false incarceration, institutionalization, freedom, and friendshipthat stuff. Made into a very famous and critically-acclaimed film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Text found by: Dianne "Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time." </blockquote>

GRACE THE TEACHER, RED HORSE VECTOR Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Considered one of the pioneering works of the environmentalist movement, Carson explores the problems of pollution and pesticides in particular. The catalyst for the banning of the pesticide DDT in 1972. Text found by*[[Brian Tsunoda]] [http: Nunzilla "The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard 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 blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of fall mornings.//www.briantsunoda." com/]

ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME Pleasantville by Gary Ross A 1998 film where two kids get trapped in a 1950s sitcom and teach the button-down vanilla town [[Category:World of Pleasantville the values of diversity, criticism, and nonconformity. So far the only screenplay to appear on the mined texts list. Text found by: silver zero "BOB: [to David/Bud and BillYear Zero]] 'You are charged with descration of a public building and the intentional use of prohibited paint colors in violation of The Pleasantville Code of Conduct and "Laws of Common Decency." Do you admit that on the night of May 1 you did consciously and willfully apply the following FORBIDDEN paint colors to the North Wall of the Pleasantville Police Station: Red, Pink, Vermilion, Puce, Chartreuse, Umber, Blue, Aqua, Ox Blood, Green, Peach, Crimson, Yellow, Olive and Magenta?'"