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- [ The Second Excuse ] [ By The GNN ]
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- THE SECOND EXCUSE
- by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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- After years of more research, I have finally discovered what people say
- when they fail to write interesting articles... when they cannot put out
- something interesting in their zine... when they mess around with concepts
- they have no clue about.
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- I heard this Second Excuse (the first one was about another subject, see
- UXU-041.TXT for details) everywhere I listened. Almost every little sucker
- told me The Second Excuse all the time. So I wondered: "Is it like this all
- over the world?". I decided to find out. It was hard. Once again, I had to
- climb the mountains of Nepal, dive in the Pacific and survive dozens of dry
- deserts to find all e-zine publishers and writers on planet earth.
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- But when I, thirsty, hungry and with scars from wild animals all over my
- body, switched on my computer and begun typing again I knew!
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- I was right!
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- First, some true examples:
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- A happy but yet ignorant loser does not hesitate to submit his latest
- how-to file to his own e-zine. Unfortunately, this file is about making
- an explosive that will detonate in your hands before you have reached
- step three in the instructions. What will the loser say when you confront
- him with these facts? "I know nothing about explosives!"
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- No...
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- One poem is not enough, according to out friend Loser. So he sits down
- and produces twenty-four pieces of art that are so unbelievable worthless
- that the unfortunate people who read them just cannot stop puking. When
- asked how someone can put out such a load of garbage, will Loser explain
- the truth? "I have no talent whatsoever!"
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- No...
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- Unsatisfied with the government and dedicated to some unknown form of
- anarchy, X decides to write an article about the corrupt society. 20kb
- later, the only thing of substance he has produces is the sentence 'When
- I shoplifted at K-mart I got caught and had to go to the station in a
- police car, something I found to be scary.' How will X reply to the
- statement that he is nothing more than a spoiled kid that knows nothing?
- "Yes, I am a spoiled kid who really does not know anything about the
- complex matters around me!"
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- No...
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- I love to write fiction, says our friend. That might be the case, but
- when we finally get the chance to read his work, which he has described
- to be tremendous, we find it to be over two-hundred pages of crap. No
- beginning, no end, no contents, no intrigue, nothing. Just before we all
- fall asleep over the monitor, we ask him how-the-hell-he-could-write-
- this-insult-to-good-taste? His answer? "I am not good at writing, that's
- the simple truth of today."
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- No...
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- Lucky XX got a computer and a modem for Christmas this year! XX begins
- to explore the digital world and soon finds the fun zines and groups he
- fancy. Since XX has not been a part of the underground very long, and he
- knows it, he tries to convince the scene that he is the coolest dude
- alive by writing files that clearly explains why the underground suck
- and why he is the one who ought to make the rules. When XX finds himself
- on the floor with a gun to his head will he apologize for his childish
- behavior?
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- No...
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- Some pathetic fool that seems to hold only five words in his vocabulary
- demands us to read his zine. A closer look reveals that his 'zine'
- consists of nine files, 500 k each, including four index and information
- files where you can see that they have yet no ftp-site but a defective
- mailing-list. "I wish to explain that my zine sucks big time!"
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- No...
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- etc etc etc...
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- So what DO they say? Well... as we know, they all say the same thing. The
- excuse that every low level writer uses when he or she is unable to produce
- something that makes you interested and is a pleasure to read.
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- Everywhere. All over the world!
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- "This file contains more than what meets the eye!"
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- 'The open society and its enemies.'
- A debate on this subject in progress at: THE STASH +46-13-YES
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- The Spell of Plato.
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