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- The estimable M. Zeleny professes indifference to the drivel I muster
- up enough literacy to compose, so perhaps I am safe with this little
- tidbit--
- Julie
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- It was indeed a dreary night, Mikhail thought, gazing through the window
- into the dark drizzle. He had exhausted his supply of amusements for the
- evening: the bag of cheese puffs sat forlornly atop the discarded copy
- of _The Prince_, the jar of Vaseline was sadly depleted, and no one, no
- one on alt.sex was willing to carry on further sparring with him. "Nay,
- it is that no one is *capable*!" he bellowed, enjoying the echo of his
- own stentorian voice in the damp corners of his solitary abode.
- Restless! So restless was our hero that he resolutely set out into the
- maelstrom, searching one thing: stimulation.
- "Mental stimulation," he muttered to himself, buttoning his heavy trench
- coat around his girth. It was the sort of trench coat associated with
- ghost-eyed men who loiter about the entrances of adult movie theaters,
- the kind of trench coat that inspires fear and awe and secret lust in the
- hearts of the rough trade crowd.
- Knowing not what he truly sought, he drifted aimlessly through the streets
- of Cambridge, chanting from time to time meaningless phrases like, "Platonic
- anaxiomatic poofters!" In his wake he left many a compassionate chuckle
- from those more fortunate than he. "Poor schmuck," those he passed would
- think, shaking their heads fondly.
- He knew their disdain, and rejected it with a violent sniff. "Ignorant
- chaps! Uneducated peons!"
- Shaking his head with a dark utterance or two about the lack of taste and
- decency and proper geometry in the world, he inclined his head against the
- mist; he did not want to spoil his brand-new bow tie. In doing so, something
- completely out of the ordinary caught his eagle eye. It was a human,
- seeking out his company! A human, a female human!
- As the apparition loomed closer, Mikhail carefully arranged himself in his
- Roman senatorial stance as he had practiced it so many times in front of
- the mirror. (This stance, of course, is not to be confused with the
- more relaxed Che Guevara reolutionary crouch, or the more mainstream,
- infinitely more vulgar Madonna vogue, both of which were secret favorites
- of our hero.)
- "State your business, please, my dear woman!" he orated, arching one
- eyebrow under the brim of his red and black plaid hunting cap. Obviously
- this was a creature of rare, discerning tastes indeed, to seek him out!
- He approved thoroughly of her good taste.
- "Ten dollars," she rasped back at him, thrusting her pelvis half-heartedly
- at Mikhail, opening her coat of what appeared to be rat fur to display
- her sunken chest and emaciated abdomen, which were only partly covered
- by a Bart Simpson t-shirt.
- "My good woman!" he shriked, amazed by the temerity of this creature.
- "How dare you offer yourself to me while wearing such an egregiously
- offensive rag of a garment!" He eyed Bart Simpson warily, the bulge
- of his eyes almost mirroring that of the cartoon hero. "Have you no
- shame? Hussy!"
- His righteous anger did not dissipate once the wretch had walked away
- to seek greener pastures and less pompous clients. "The gall!" he
- murmured in amazement. "To approach *me*! In a Bart Simpson t-shirt!"
- It was widely known, of course, that Mikhail's tastes were, er, more
- refined than those of the typical man on the street. He was used to these
- unwanted advances from women, who were ceaselessly hurling themselves
- at his manly form. Women were avid for his favors, asking in return only
- the benefit of his superior wisdom and opinions, which they received
- in great volume--those, and a small donation, such as the previous creature.
- And then, it happened. Mikhail was snatched by strong, capable hands and
- hauled into an alley that happened to be one of Mikhail's favorites.
- Before he could even squeak in protest, a team of well-coordinated
- commandos had lashed him to a chair, gagged him with balled-up athletic
- socks (rather like the kind he himself wore: white with three multi-colored
- stripes across the top), and illuminated the alley with the headlights of
- a car in the distance.
- His abductors wore black; their identity was no secret to our hero, however.
- He instinctively recognized them, knew why they had come for him. It
- was the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, surely! He, Mikhail, was to
- be punished at last for his abuses against alt.sex readers across the world!
- He suppressed a shiver of clandestine pleasure at the prospect.
- First, this skilled team of discipline hounds flooded the alley with the
- sounds of the complete list of "Songs to make out to". The agony! Our
- hapless hero writhed uselessly in his chair, crying out in the pain of
- his tortured sensibilities. "No!" he gasped, trying in vain to make
- his piteous whimpers heard through the gag of socks. "Please--no! Some
- S Oh, anything--but not--augh!--'I Touch
- Myself'! Not 'The Dark Side of the Moon'! Pleeeaaassearrrrgh!"
- Phase one continued as one of his tormentors sat beside his chair, adopted
- a conversational manner, and lifted a well-thumbed copy of _The Collected
- Works of John Stuart Mill_, doused it leisurely with lighter fluid, and
- flirted casually with a disposable lighter. "Wouldn't that be just
- wretched, Mikey?" crooned this minion of Hell, flicking the Bic ever
- closer to that Bible of human behavior and thought.
- Mikhail began to whimper then, making squeals like unto those heard
- echoing from prison showers every so often.
- The third phase of his punishment continued as the music continued and
- the gentle glow of the cigarette lighter flared from time to time.
- Mikhail was forced to watch as two of the burlier new masters of his soul
- removed their catsuits of black and began to engage in non-life-affirming
- practices before his scandalized eyes. Every time he tried to close his
- eyes to shut out this abominable spectacle, the music grew louder or the
- lighter flashed closer, and his eyes would snap open in shock and
- horror.
- "Pleeeaasse! Pleeeaasse! No more! No moorrrre!" sobbed our hero, through
- his mouthful of cotton and elastic. He faintly tasted sweat.
- All at once, it seemed, the torment ended as soon as it had begun. The
- four men crowded around the chair where he sat, broken and huddled. One
- began to speak in a low, quiet voice that almost hypnotized our protagonist.
- "If you had the chance to ice someone, just for kicks, and knew that you
- wouldn't get caught, would you?" he asked in seeming curiosity.
- The theme from "Deliverance" began to sound in Mikhail's overloaded brain.
- "I wanna hear you squeal like a pig," he muttered crazily. But his
- companions were not listening.
- "If you say yes," the speaker continued, "you are a monster."
- "No! Yes! I don't know!" Of these three utterances, the last was the
- most degrading of all for our hero to make.
- "If you say no," the disheveled man in black spoke further, "you are an
- idiot."
- "Yes! No! Maybe! Bart Simpson! Hegemonic Deist Crepuscular Poofter
- Molybdenum Avacado!"
- The stream of gibberish flooded out as the makeshift gag was removed at
- last, followed by a torrent of ropy saliva. Mikhail's head tilted
- at a rakish angle as he muttered to himself to the tune of Ravel's
- _Bolero_.
- The men looked at one another and nodded, satisfied. They unbound our hero,
- who stood slowly and tottered out of the alley, with nary a look back, nary
- a scathing remark for the cretins who were clearly unappreciative of his
- patrician, more sophisticated world view.
- No, he did not look back. Mikhail was too busy in his own new world,
- one of Bart Simpson and waterbed sex, one of Gallo wine and Cheez Whiz.
- It wa a world in which he could be happy, a world in which his true
- talents could be appreciated.
- Swaying almost drunkenly as he passed once again through the narrow
- streets of Cambridge, Mikhail's voice could be heard as he sought out
- his friend from earlier that evening. "I don't have ten dollars, but
- I'll trade you my thesaurus, three dollars, a bottlecap, and some
- pocket lint..." FIN
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