From: darci@libcong.com
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:41:11 -0700
Subject: Matters for your consideration over the next year
To: bhance@azstarnet.com
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Dear Mr. Hance:

        It is assumed that you received one communication earlier this
week and two (2) more should arrive within a fortnight, give or take
five (5) days.  Notice the postmarks and factor those into your series
of analyses.

        In the second and third communications, Deo volente, you are
scheduled  to receive two tokens of encouragement for your prolonged
efforts.  Dispassionate observers gather that the last few months have
been unusually taxing for you and thus, some tangible estimate of esteem

        A word of caution, however, is in order.  If you become subject
to ennui (you have the wrong temperament for Anfechtung, which is
probably just as well), DO NOT LOSE YOUR DATABASE.   THIS POINT IS MORE
IMPORTANT THAN YOU CAN CURRENTLY IMAGINE.

        The obverse of the foregoing (paragraph) is that you have not
yet lived long enough to viscerally grasp what will one day be
self-evident: what you conceive to be Tangible is solely the product of
the Intangible. For example, when Marco Polo was in China, he marveled
that the locals would accept payment in the form of paper.  Your
paradigm--the controlling mindset of Bryan D. Hance--would have been
equally mystifying to Signore Polo.  Indeed, he would have considered
you delusional:  an educated man performing highly technical,
consultative services for scraps of paper.

        Reflect on these matters and you will begin to step outside the
invisible cage that confines nearly everyone around you.  One of the
best speakers of your native language (Swift) aptly remarked: "It was a
brave man who first ate an oyster."

                    --THE    ORPHANAGE

Hance: I haven't had time to analyse this yet, but I recieved two copies of this, actually, like they fucked up sending it the first time. The first one (this one) was titled: "Matters for your consideration" and the 2nd was simply titled "Your future". Their texts only varied slightly, which you can tell - it looks like they screwed up and sent me the 1st and 2nd drafts .. unless it was deliberate, but thats kind of.. odd.

At first glance the only thing I'm wondering about it the postmark comment(s). I'm still somewhat buying the one-person theory, if there were odd postmarks, that would either signal travel on their part, but multiple postmarks in different handwriting... now THAT would be interesting...

Here is the second email:

From darci@libcong.com Fri Jun 11 15:18:09 1999
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:59:34 -0700
From: darci@libcong.com
To: bhance@azstarnet.com
Subject: Your future

Dear Mr. Hance:

        You should have received one communication earlier this week and
two more should arrive within a fortnight, give or take (five) 5 days.
Notice the postmarks and factor that data into your series of analyses.

        In the second and third communications, you are scheduled to
receive two tokens of encouragement for your prolonged efforts.
Dispassionate observers gather that the last few months have been
unusually taxing for you and therefore, some estimates of esteem should
be forthcoming.

        A word of caution, however, is in order.  If you become subject
to long-term discouragement--DO NOT LOSE YOUR DATABASE.  It is more
important than you currently realize.  If necessity dictates, entrust it
to a friend or friends.

        The obverse of the foregoing paragraph is that you are, frankly,
too young to viscerally appreciate that the Tangibles are the direct
product of what you currently imagine to be Intangible.   For example,
the money you are struggling so hard to earn consists of scraps of
paper.  Inherently, they have no value.  Those little pieces of
generally soiled paper only buy Goods & Services because of the Dominant
Paradigm.  When Marco Polo was in China, he marveled that the locals
would accept payment in the form of paper.  Your paradigm--the
controlling mindset of Bryan D. Hance--would have been equally
mystifying to Herr Polo.  Indeed, he would have considered you
delusional: An educated man who does highly technical tasks for paper
payment.

        Reflect on these matters and you will have begun to step outside
the invisible cage that confines nearly everyone around you.  One of the
best speakers of your native language (Swift) once remarked: "It was a
brave man who first ate an oyster."

                                   --THE  ORPHANAGE

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