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01 June 2006
I HAVE ISSUES→[More:]
of...um, magazines. here, in this stack. i uh, huh. who wants to leaf through these papers and find my documents. i need my documents. ISSUES. paper.
In the background, there's a medical monitor patiently beeping. The lights are almost piercingly bright in this most sterile of rooms.
"I think we're going to need to increase the dosage," says a sober man in a white coat.
The attending nurse pales, but doesn't voice her dissent. Her hands tremble as she prepares the syringe.
"He's been under for too long; he's losing touch with reality." The doctor curses under his breath, smacking the disobedient monitors which refuse to tell him soothing lies. "He's been like this ever since the painkiller overdose."
"Doctor, do you think perhaps we should disconnect his brainstem from its internet connection?"
"No," the doctor replied gruffly. "The illusion that he's participating in an internet discussion forum may be the only thing keeping him alive now." But his brainwaves were deteriorating, and the doctor was troubled, briefly, that it might be better to end his suffering now.