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To: Ilaine who wrote (36250)	8/27/1999 7:43:00 PM
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It seemed like real desperation to me at the time. To "Josef" it seemed real, too, and he described (in PM) what we witnessed on the thread as looking to him "like Clockwork Orange." K44B read the taunts and commented on them. Maybe he stopped after a while, who knows. Here are a couple of his remarks. I think he deludedly believed there was a ready market (he didn't know it was illegal, and neither did his "counsellor," apparently.) <<<...I do appreciate your concern. Unless my financial concerns are looked after i will make this decision. Have talked about with a counsellor and she finds it unfortunate but can understand my point of view. Thank you. I need to win a lottery or something like that. Just have run out of luck.>>> <<<I give up. It is easy to see why people go crzy in this country.>>> He was maladaptive, all right. Don't you suspect, though, that if he'd won the lottery all those people would be alive today? (Or been able to sell his kidney for the 500k he hoped to get, even.) That's such a strange thought. (Though not really.) I think he really did think some SI reader might know a rich person who was dying for lack of a kidney, and let him know there was this guy who would sell him a healthy one. I think he tried other venues, too, with the idea. At a certain point, desperation became a different emotion, though. There is suspicion that he had killed before. K44B communicated by PM or email during the time the thread was up, and signed himself "Mark Barton." Edwarda says it is definitely the same Mark Barton. The only thing that makes me doubt it is that the bloids haven't featured it. I've missed the discussion here about Barton. I hope I haven't just been repetitive.