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September 20, 2002
FATES: Agents of the BITTER
There is a vast conspiracy of time and space. They collaborate to deny you the pleasure of knowing what could have been, only allowing you the pleasure of knowing deep regret.
They take pleasure in knowing the amount of time you will waste entertaining countless possibilities is great, and they relish in having successfully trained another disciple of the BITTER.
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September 15, 2002
BITTER through the ages: 1970s TV
Suicide is Painless
Through early morning fog I see
Visions of the things to be
The pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see ...
That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
I try to find a way to make
all our little joys relate
without that ever-present hate
but now I know that it's too late, and ...
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
So this is all I have to say ...
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
The only way to win is cheat
And lay it down before I'm beat
and to another give my seat
for that's the only painless feat.
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger watch it grin
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
A brave man once requested me
To answer questions that are key
"Is it to be or not to be?"
And I replied, "Oh why ask me?"
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
And you can do the same thing if you please
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September 11, 2002
One year of resentment
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the song of angry men;
It is the music of a people
Who are causing the BITTER to flow brightly through the streets of this nation;
A wellspring starting in New York City
And travelling throughout this wide land.
The BITTER does not condone indiscriminate slaughter. But the BITTER does use it as fuel, full of ire, with which to strike with surgical precision when a true target presents itself.
The BITTER flows free, and is coiling like a snake.
Let freedom ring.
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September 10, 2002
Beware
Beware risking finding yourself in disfavor with one who is one with the BITTER. For the BITTER takes care of its disciples, and the day of reckoning may come sooner than you think.
Tread lightly.
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September 8, 2002
discover the power
It is our duty to find those who have been touched by the BITTER, so that they may better understand their gift, and help nuture them to a point where they may express their gift — and their angst — in a truly appropriate, beneficial, healing, revitalizing, and explosive way.
Such is the way of keeping the BITTER flowing, in new and ever sharper forms.
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September 7, 2002
The BITTER is tactful.
From the New York Times (registration required), in an article reviewing the literary offerings regarding September 11:
"Baudrillard and his ilk make one grateful for Harlan Ellison, the science-fiction novelist, who tells a story in SEPTEMBER 11: West Coast Writers Approach Ground Zero (Hawthorne, paper, $16.95) of being invited to appear on the TV show 'Politically Incorrect' just weeks after the attacks. Ellison accepts, eager to promote his name, but then realizes shortly before the taping that he has nothing to say, and begs off. The producers go ape, but Ellison stands fast. There is such a thing as heroic modesty."
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September 5, 2002
you can't HANDLE the truth
The nobility of honesty is the goal in expression. To share to each other is to be able to understand and accept others.
Yeah. Okay. Whatever.
People do not WANT truth, they shield their EYES from the truth, they turn a deaf EAR to the truth. Pour all that is you out, and you will see people run screaming. Confront them in a closed environment, and they will try very very hard to pretend that they see nothing, hear nothing, and oh yes isn't it great there is no baseball strike and my that was a horrible tragedy in wisconsin and will United Airlines actually go bankrupt but they will NOT address the STARK NAKED PURE WHOLE TRUTH in front them.
Now you tell me why the truth would not be fringed, laced, wrought with BITTER.
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tempus fugit
The BITTER is punctual, and has little room for sloppy timing.
Certain entries have been resorted into their proper timeframe. All is well.
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