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- From: Shic Osega
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- Subject: The Constant Student (part 2)
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 12:31:02 GMT
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- THE CONSTANT STUDENT (part 2)
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- from 'the Erroneous Memoirs of a Fool`, by Shic Osega
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- After sobbing to myself for some time, I became aware of the presence of
- another person downstairs. As it was unlikely that I would be able to
- maintain my anonymity for all nine months of my course, I decided to
- introduce myself to the poor unfortunate who was also charged with
- attempting to make a home out of this hovel. Downstairs, with a
- multitude of cardboard boxes, I found Raj, a timid, likeable fellow with
- a minority religious disposition and a lifelong devotion to the ways of
- the teetotal vegetarian. Like me, Raj was a southerner, a student and a
- hated resident of the square. However, Raj also fitted a fourth, perhaps
- more serious and even more hated category. Raj was Asian. Had Raj also
- been a Newcastle United fan - the rival soccer team - he would almost
- certainly have been murdered on his way to the square.
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- As time wore on I decided to unpack my luggage. Once removed from the
- suitcases my assorted clothes, bedding and other miscellaneous items more
- than covered the visible surface area of my room. Depressed, I decided
- to seek out a nearby fast food outlet as a form of repastory escapism
- from the immediate problems in hand. The proximity of the square to the
- town centre provided me with a host of options, and I settled on an
- extremely trendy-looking pizza parlour named Gigi's which, surprisingly,
- contained no other customers. I was assurred by the pizza-seller inside
- that the name was not a reference to horsemeat in the pizza toppings, and
- ordered the biggest, hottest, juiciest pizza on offer. With my prize
- firmly under my arm I sprinted back to my new home and headed straight
- for the kitchen, wherein I ripped the cardboard assunder. Inside was a
- red and yellow gelatinous blob of a rather liquid composition with small
- flecks of green and white. Sadly, my possessions were devoid of eating
- implements of any sort, and so I was reduced to juggling the sticky,
- stringy mixture with my bare hands.
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