Title: The True Story of the Internet Part II The True Story of the
   InterNet Part III InfoWar Final Frontier of the Digital Revolution
   Behind the ElectroMagnetic Curtain by TruthMonger Copyright 1997 Pearl
   Publishing InfoWar Table of Contents Epilogue Priscilla Epilogue The
   sun was rising over the mountain peaks, crimson streaks of light
   streaming through the trees, striking the multi-colored falling leaves.
   As the tattered remnants of the Magic Circle slept soundly, after days
   of flight to the security of their last remaining hideaway, twin rays
   of light split the air in the cave above them, with silver leaves
   twisting lazily down from the skylight at its peak, turning to a
   blazing scarlet as they passed through the lower streak of light, like
   blood dripping off a chain saw This was a moment stranded in timenot
   abandoned, but suspended in the twilight which lay between the future
   and the pastbetween the beginning of time and the end of timeor
   vice-versa. A twinkling of time, wherein the sun was neither rising,
   nor settingmerely waiting for a whisper from the Tao before deciding
   which way to proceed in its journey toward eternity Priscilla Perhaps I
   look at life a bit differently from some of the remaining members of
   the Magic Circle, because I am a mother. That is probably why, of all
   Bubba's many stories of the characters in the legends surrounding the
   Magic Circle, I most enjoyed the ones concerning the Author and Bubba
   d'Shauneaux swapping stories about the Author's mother. My favorite
   remains the one of how she worked at a small newspaper, in a small
   town, at a time when it was unheard of for a woman to write a sports
   column. She simply took on a masculine nome-de-plume, put some obscure
   man's picture next to it on the column header, and proceeded to do
   exactly what she wanted to do. "To him who does what within him lies,
   God will not deny his grace." - Saint Augustine This is something that
   mothers instinctively understand, and their joy or heartache, if they
   have remained on a path with heart, is not from their children's
   success or status in the eyes of others, but in their child's own inner
   eye. Likewise in the Magic Circle. It's members recognize one another
   instantly, not from their outer appearances, but from an inner quality
   of being that is acquired only by being true to one's inherent
   soul-pattern and making choices that are in line with their true
   destiny in life. Bubba Rom Dos tells a story about the Author and
   d'Shauneaux I discussing members of the CypherPunks list. "Bianca was
   listening to them discuss whom on the list they would trust to vote for
   them. When they discussed Kent Crispin, the Author said, 'If he tried
   to cast my vote for me, I would be forced to kill him.' "d'Shauneaux
   asked the Author if he would trust Crispin to watch his back for him in
   the real world, and the Author replied, 'In a heartbeat.' "Bianca asked
   the Author, 'If he was your child, would you be proud of him?' and he
   replied, without hesitation, 'Yesbut I'd spank him, too.'" Cowboy once
   told me that he thought I had perhaps given one of the most astute
   definitions of the CypherPunks he had ever heard, and that it was a
   description that only a mother could give. I had told him that I
   thought they were "deranged saints with an attitude." I suspect that he
   was so grandly impressed with my description because it fit himself so
   well. As a child, I mean, of course (nod-nod, wink-wink;) The
   CypherPunks were an oddball assortment of scrappers and elitists,
   mathematicians, philosophers, physicists, lunatics and poetsad
   infinitum The CypherPunk mailing list, however, had a spirit of life
   about it, with even the most brutal of attacks usually having some
   basis of logic underpinning them. Meanness and pettiness were not the
   rule of the day and were seldom tolerated for long on the list without
   any one of a wide number of list members stepping in to give the
   originator an 'attitude adjustment.' Even in the midst of some of the
   CypherPunks' most ferocious of their legendary pissing contests, some
   poor bastard would shoot himself in the foot that he or she had put in
   their mouth, at which point the thread would often pause, like the
   Civil War hiatus wherein opposing sides would 'do lunch' and claim
   their dead, and everyone would join in soundly ridiculing the offending
   party before resuming their pissing party (or forgetting about it and
   moving on to less meaningful activities). After Vice-Admiral
   d'Shauneaux had taken over Pearl Harbor Computers, Inc., and had
   written the Epilogue to 'The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre' someone asked him
   what he liked most about the bizarre cryptographers he was following
   who had formed the CypherPunks mailing list. His cryptic reply was,
   "They're Troopers!" I asked Bubba once whether the Admiral was
   referring to the rumors that they were all double or triple agents of
   three-letter secret agencies of one sort or another, or to one of the
   Author's favorite musical groups, who sang, "We're here for a good
   time, not a long time, so have a good timethe sun doesn't shine every
   day." Bubba's answer was, "Both." If you are reading this, then I
   presume that the Trei Transponder is no longer functioning, and has
   transferred the InformEnergy from the Epilogue HydroCube which was
   meant only to be sent in the event that we were forced to abandon our
   last remaining safe house and beat feet to our mountain hideaway. No
   matter what your view of what the tattered remnants of a mythical group
   from the future have chosen to share with you, I hope and pray that you
   will learn as much from your future as we have from our past. You may
   not yet fully realize the full import of the story that you and we have
   woven together from what could have been, and what may yet be, but it
   will not be long before you will. Remember: "Patience comes to those
   who wait" "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle
   of Eunuchs" "InfoWar (Part III of 'The True Story of the InterNet')
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