Victor Pelevin: Who are you, Monstradamus?II

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Monstradamus

Well, I'd say our hosts certainly seem to have a sense of humor.


Romeo-y- Cohyba

I haven't laughed even once yet.


Nutscracker

Monster's right. There is definitely humor in all of this, only that it's infernal humor.Forcing serious people like us to call each other by idiotic names.Dressing us in ancient Greek chitons
and making us sit at these screens. And then the Internet we end up in has about as much to do with the real one as we do with Ancient Greece.

Monstradamus

It's the way you can see these words now.

Victor Pelevin: Who are you, Monstradamus?

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Organizm (-:
Who are you Monstradamus?


Monstradamus
xxx. I live in xxx and I'm a xxx.


Romeo-y-Cohyba

Perhaps you ought to try something more original ?

Monstradamus

I've read all messages on this thread. I'm in the same situation, the same room, the same fancy get-up.And I don't remember how I got here, either.

Nutscracker
So now we are four.That's nice.

Organizm(-:

Maybe more will turn up soon.The more heads we have, the better our chances of coming up with something.

Organizm(-:

And what if we simply died?

Nutscracker

Don't panic! Dead people don't hang around in chat rooms.


Organizm(-:

We don't know that for a fact.Maybe that's all they can do.

Romeo-y- Cohyba

If this is the afterlife, then I for one am disappointed.

Nutscracker

Let's discuss the situation.I suggest we don't take Organizm's hypothesis about the afterlife into consideration.

Organizm(-:

Then maybe it's a dream?

Wall Street: The Answer is in The Wind

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Wall Street looked beyond the government’s bailout plan on Wednesday and saw more signs that the economy was in for a dramatic slowdown.Stocks Slide Amid New Trouble Signs - NYTimes.com

"But the dwarf said there is no need to be upset,because the people Asterisk sacrifices to himself have already been born, and dying in the arena is the common fate that nobody escapes.I tried to ask in that case what was the point of the sacrificial tribute,but the dwarf began getting nervous and said,"Look, he's coming, now you can see him for yourself."I looked up.Two figures had appeared in front of the burnt-out building.Striding along solemnly in front was a dwarf holding a flag,with the Merrill Lynch symbol on it- you remember it, they have that jolly little bull- and the inscription "Be Bullish!'- from The Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin