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To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (1771)	5/28/1999 2:06:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir	Respond to of 2095

using my head i work with my hands; my back. when my pa told me to use my head-- he meant push. i got a good hard head. the kind a phrenologist find fascinating. i feel them lumps and bumps; that dip [grinning] guess i'm doing fine- staying one step ahead of what's behind. not quite figuring what that is, using my head - i'll push on. c.

To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (1771)	5/28/1999 3:36:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir	Respond to of 2095

cabbagod i pull life out that naturally thrives and plant what fears to grow all in nice neat little rows they know their destiny zenith a la cabbage¹ all the care and prim is a feast- an unnatural end i give both life and death for i am god in my garden. like all gods- nothing obeys my command c.-[i talk to plants] ¹from AMBROSE BIERCE-- THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY: ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though from this view of the matter there was once a considerably dissent among the learned, some holding that the posture of the body was immaterial. These were called Horizontalists, their opponents, Verticalists. The Horizontalist heresy was finally extinguished by Xanobus, the philosopher-king of Abara, a zealous Verticalist. Entering an assembly of philosophers who were debating the matter, he cast a severed human head at the feet of his opponents and asked them to determine its zenith, explaining that its body was hanging by the heels outside. Observing that it was the head of their leader, the Horizontalists hastened to profess themselves converted to whatever opinion the Crown might be pleased to hold, and Horizontalism took its place among _fides defuncti_. CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.