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extract from Hagiphobia! - by Daniel Cojocaru
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Hagiophobia! An e-pistolary Novel in 12 Spams Spam No. 1: The Hagioscope -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: spheration [mailto:tetraskelion@bnbrokers.com] Gesendet: Samstag, 22. September 2007 11:09 An: hagiology Betreff: hagiophobia hagioscope hagioscopic external malleolus, showing deposit of urate of soda. (Cf. Fig. 117.)] _Tuberculous disease_ of bursae closely resembles that of tendon sheaths. Genu*i-ne P.ills dire*c+tl+y fr,om Pf;i+zer http://bnbrokers.com All pill.s are w=ith,out V*AT*/TAX It may occur as an independent affection, or may be associated with disease in an adjacent bone or joint. It is met with chiefly in the prepatellar and subdeltoid bursae, or in one of the bursae over the great trochanter. The clinical features are those of an indolent hydrops, with or without melon-seed bodies, or of uniform thickening of the wall of the Dear \"spheration\" If that is really your name. For it does not sound like a real name at all. Is that your nickname? For people do use nicknames on the internet. Or maybe tetraskelion is your name. Are you from Greece? To me at least that sounds Greek. \"Tetra\" - meaning four but what does \"skelion\" mean? Well let me just check. Change window, scroll up favourite list, click OED online, type in skelion in the search box, can\'t access search box, forgot to connect to VPN client, received e-mail in between, Douglas confirming that I\'m on the list for Friday\'s Christmas dinner, so connecting to VPN client, refreshing OED window, typing \"skelion\" into search box there are no results. Of course not, it is Greek and not English stupid! So I would really appreciate it, if you could explain to me in your next email what \"skelion\" means. Sorry for the late reply btw. I realize that it\'s been over two months since you sent your mail. In your subject header you refer to \"hagiophobia\" another Greek term made up of \"hagios\" meaning holy and \"phobia\" meaning fear. So you\'re talking about the fear of the holy or can I interpret it as the fear of saints? I just realized that you\'ve sent your mail to \"hagiology\" and I think you\'ve definitely sent it to the right person, for yes I am a hagiologist, investigating the manifestations of the holy in a scientific manner. Your information regarding your request is very sparse. But I think I can infer from the words \"hagioscope\" and \"hagioscopic\" that you\'re interested in seeing (another Greek term \"skopos\")the holy or the seeing of the saints. Where, in our day can we still see the holy? For we live in a world where our brightest minds dedicate their lives to the perfection of the hyperreality of animated movies: PhDs, the priests most high of the holy art of dataclysm. The precession of the simulacrum. Keep the masses entertained. Is this the holy? What happened to the dedication of humanity to the higher goals in life, a higher ideal, a supreme moral, the sublime - the HOLY? What happened to those men dedicated to curing external malleolus, showing deposit of urate of soda. (Cf. Fig. 117.)] _Tuberculous disease_ of bursae closely resembles that of tendon sheaths? No idea what I\'m talking about? I have no idea what I\'m talking about. Copy paste it to Google and you\'re gonna find ten hits. Google descending Mount www.sinai.com and giving us as first commandment: Thou shalt not copy and paste into

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for The Road Less Travelled issue
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