Communication is So Important

A friend was bringing me up-to-date on his life, and for reasons I won’t get into, this story came to mind. Parts of it are second-hand, but I’m going to just tell it the way I’d tell it verbally, that is, without differentiating the bits that I know are true and the bits that are hearsay. And of course, because I’m doing that, I’ll leave out the real names, and take some liberties. I think the couple of people might be able to guess who I’m talking about already know the story, so it’s not like I’m ruining someone’s reputation. …

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Eerie…

Somehow, the almost completely nonfunctional lock on Torjan’s workchamber door was magically repaired over the weekend. It seems to work as good as new now. Er…? Torjan is somewhat perturbed at the moment, and wondering if his aetheric postings are either being examined by some High Administratae… or, more scarily, by some invisible beings that make his aetherically-posted demands come true? If so: this Hypagoran could use a couple of billion won. (It never hurts to ask.)

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Bluepill

I get an email from my workplace, and what’s the first image in the content? Yup, it’s a scattering of blue pills. Of course, for someone who hasn’t seen or didn’t care for The Matrix, this has no real symbolic significance at all. It’s an appropriate image for the link to an article about the impending launch of a College of Pharmacy at our campus. But for someone who’s seen The Matrix, the Blue Pill has a rather ominous meaning, for Morpheus tells Neo that if you take the Blue Pill, “the story ends, you wake up in your bed …

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