lucius (03/16/83)
It is with joy that I report the recent joining to humanity of my friend, and now yours, Ms. Elizebeth Bimmler. As the recent note by our friend demonstrates, she has come to her (still his, actually, but he's working on it...) senses, overturned dispair, dodged the pikes and arrows of outraged net readers, and JOINED the Commonwealth! While I know not the cause of the final step, I am certain that the sympathetic responses of all the well intended net.suicide readers did have a very real effect on Ms. Bimmler. (In fact, I can say that you had a very real effect on the falsely accused individuals who were reputed to 'be' rabbit!bimmler. See net.med.) Once again, the net can chalk up a real victory for man, Commonwealth, and God <of your informed choice>, and rejoice that yet another human has been forced to face her own darkest side, and has overcome it, at a less than mortal cost. Golias tells me that I was once as Bimmler, and that indeed, he, once, in a far time, was even possessed of the opinion that the solution to the world's problem lay in his hands. Shandon, on the other hand, seems to have never cursed with this illusion, having rather the equally deadly vision that the world possessed the solution to his own problems. Shandon, of course, as all of you literati are aware, managed to pass beyond his illusions, albiet in a difficult fashion. I must thank Lady Arwen and the Jack of Shadows, two other full citizens, for their aid in this quest. I must also point out to many of you who have written to both myself and Liz that you have yet to pass the barriers of the Commonwealth, to you I wish: The Best of Luck. Yours, as always, Lucius Gil Jones