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<br><div><div>On Jan 18, 2009, at 3:34 AM, Greg Jenkins wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Georgia" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Georgia">Odd wording by nsymr asking for a quarter: "I wonder if you Denebians</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Georgia" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Georgia">could stake ME to twenty-five cents instead of the other way around?"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Georgia" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Georgia">An image of being staked (crucified) comes to mind.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In response to this,</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Georgia" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Georgia">BB1 begins to "think sexy".<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Perverted thoughts of pleasure at the idea of</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Georgia" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Georgia">crucifying nsymr?</font></p> </blockquote><br></div><div>A second customer has entered the room. It's she, not BB1, who wants to 'think sexy.' BB1 has taken an inventory of her mind. There's no sex change in the BBs. The nsymr is the first customer.</div><div><br></div><div>I bed your pardon mirrors or reverses the name deneb. Which I always thought, given the context of the word, could mean something like de nada.</div><div><br></div><div>I see the story as obviously Faustian. </div><div><br></div><div>My question: What is the significance of the story starting in the title word? So that the body of the story begins with the question mark? Simply a foreshadowing of the many questions raised?</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Steven Bowen</div><div><a href="http://bowenfinearts.com">http://bowenfinearts.com</a>/</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>