"The Self-Hate had started."

[pynchonoid]

malignd at yahoo.com:
>Hate?  

Nah, self-hate -- not precisely the word for what
motivates the circle jerk you guys have going over
there, but close enough...  

[...] The Self-Hate had started. As usual, the face of
DOUG, the Enemy of the Plist, had flashed onto the
screen. There were hisses here and there among the
audience. FQ, the little gravy-haired troll from
Remedial Fiction, gave a squeak of mingled fear and
disgust. DOUG was the renegade and backslider who
once, long ago (how long ago, nobody quite
remembered), had been one of the leading figures of
the Plist, almost on a level with the Malign One
himself, and then had engaged in couterrevolutionary
activities, had been condemned to death, and had
mysteriously escaped and disappeared. The program of
the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there
was none in which DOUG was not the
principal figure. He was the primal traitor, the
earliest defiler of the Plist's purity. All subsequent
crimes against the Plist, all treacheries, acts of
sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of
his teaching. Somewhere or other he was still alive
and hatching his conspiracies:  perhaps somewhere
beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign
paymasters; perhaps even -- so it was occasionally
rumored -- in some hiding place in Plistiana itself.
[...] 

>Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:57:51 -0400
>From: The Great Quail <quail at libyrinth.com>
>Subject: Dougs and rumour of Dougs....

>"David writes about MalignD's Doug" ...

Who said digital copies don't degrade over time? 



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