On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Richard Hempsey wrote:

On Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:47:40 -0500 (CDT), "Ranma Al'Thor"
<ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu> wrote:

    "He's now in the Charles Dexter Ward home for the Mentally Injured.

<boggle>

Okay, this gets my vote for the 'Obsure Reference Of The Year'.  Lovecraft
is _not_ something you see every day...

Heh:0  I'm a big lovecraft fan.
 

roommate, Ursula, went out sometimes after work.  Ursula was a painter and

Miyazaki ref. :)

It is?  Was that the name of the painter in Kiki, I guess?  Must be my
subconscious at work.
 

John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
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      It sought to scour him to ash, but he would not burn.  It tried to 
crush him, but he would not be broken.  It tried to blow him away, but he 
would not move.  He locked his mind around it and struck back with his 
anger, binding it with the power within himself.  He had gone beyond 
rage, into the calm at the heart of the hurricane of his anger.  By 
turning his anger outward, he mastered it, and now he did the same for 
the power.

                                   --from 'Power', the first third of my
unfinished story, 'Parallel Lives'.