Allen Ginsberg Left

Brett Coley (512/436-8987) bcoley at vnet.IBM.COM
Wed Apr 9 14:01:19 CDT 1997


Kenneth wrote:
> So that's where the Heaven's Gate people got their, uh, inspiration.

Nah, they were just "sold on suicide."

I don't know, maybe after castration, they had nothing to live for?
Speaking of a certain scene with a Major in a pig suit, this gives me
the heebie jeebies more than offing yourself.  I don't suppose you go to
your family doc for castration either <cringe> home surgery made
simple.

Does anyone remember a science fiction story (or maybe even a Twilight
Zone episode?  Definitely suffering from information overload this week)
about a guy who's living a normal average kind of life, but is haunted
by dreams of his "real life" and a paradise.  So, he finally kills
himself, and wakes up to a hellish existince, and everyone asks him how
his "vacation life" was on the pleasure planet?

Regards,
Brett




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