Wreckages
Parent Page: The Mailstrom
Discovery
The first wreckage/shard combination was provided as an example on the Mailstrom information page, and subsequent combinations have been found through audio clips, on buttons handed out at various NIN and AIR related events and in the Year Zero CD case and booklet.
Content
Each wreckage is an email caught by the Mailstrom's decryption net, providing insight into the lives of people living in world of year zero.
atropine
http://themailstrom.com/atropine_gH319x.htm
Background Text: Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge by James Morrow
belladonna
http://themailstrom.com/belladonna_3Mz3tU.htm
Background Text: Angels in America by Tony Kushner
bitter
http://themailstrom.com/bitter_BGtg57.htm
Background Text: A Seperate Peace by John Knowles
cleansing
http://www.themailstrom.com/cleansing_3Rrt45.htm
Background Text: Beloved by Toni Morrison
cleaver
http://themailstrom.com/cleaver_I682fg.htm
Background Text: The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
corrida
http://themailstrom.com/corrida_MKs742.htm
Background Text: Equus by Peter Shaffer
flense
http://themailstrom.com/flense_E5PPvv.htm
Background Text: Orientalism by Edward Said
flood
http://www.themailstrom.com/flood_LHL7P3.htm
Background Text: Also Sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
fratricide
http://themailstrom.com/fratricide_774HZx.htm
Background Text: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
gallows
http://themailstrom.com/gallows_Y3RG7J.htm
Background Text: 1984 by George Orwell
gasoline
http://themailstrom.com/gasoline_UUu891.htm
Background Text: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
hubris
http://themailstrom.com/hubris_39tpLe.htm
Background Text: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
infarction
http://themailstrom.com/infarction_6k961G.htm
Background Text: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
necrotic
http://themailstrom.com/necrotic_blE34c.htm
Background Text: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
needle
http://themailstrom.com/needle_jP411R.htm
Background Text: 1984 by George Orwell
pain
http://www.themailstrom.com/pain_HTDTNA.htm
Background Text: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
parasite
http://themailstrom.com/parasite_tP366K.htm
Background Text: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
pliers
http://themailstrom.com/pliers_Ji3p09.htm
Background Text: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
regret
http://themailstrom.com/regret_Ad54S7.htm
Background Text: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
scorpion
http://themailstrom.com/scorpion_4rTL21.htm
Background Text: Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
sickle
http://themailstrom.com/sickle_Nnqa49.htm
Background Text: Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
slander
http://themailstrom.com/slander_Yr4893.htm
Background Text: Hiroshima by John Hersey
spore
http://themailstrom.com/spore_pQw2pP.htm
Background Text: The Fate of an Honest Intellectual by Noam Chomsky
tumbrel
http://themailstrom.com/tumbrel_AD44Us.htm
Background Text: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
usurp
http://www.themailstrom.com/usurp_397W4P.htm
Background Text: A Beggar at Damascus Gate by Yasmin Zahran
venom
http://themailstrom.com/venom_D3i8Na.htm
Background Text: The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
wetwork
http://themailstrom.com/wetwork_c276E4.htm
Background Text: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
widow
http://themailstrom.com/widow_vC99iT.htm
Background Text: M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
wretched
http://themailstrom.com/wretched_Ypq2QQ.htm
Background Text: Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau