However, Betty the cleaning lady found several crumpled sheets of paper, in at least four different styles of handwriting, in the garbage can and sold them to Middle Earth Inquirer. They were subsequently published under front page headlines and attributed to a source known as Deep Bucket. They read as follows:
The death of the subject makes the case of the orc-draught moot. The thread is predicated upon obsolete presuppositions and therefore...
Excerpt the second:
Howth. Give us a squint. Give us a draught. Of whatever you've got.
Mulligatawny, Mulligan Mortensen.
Merry O'Day
St. Pater Jackson
ain't worth a hill o' beans.
Lemme see your bas.
Wash entirely around our ears.
Orcestrate your answer.
The third was the most complete.
There are enough signs to make it possible to read ( donant a lire) the tromper in it, but more often the recit displays itself, so there is a proximation of leurre. Thus the text constitutes a dé-bordement not often seen, maintaining its legitimacy even while transgressing the (normal) laws of reading. The Academy must decide for itself if it accepts this transgressive in lieu of a legitimized code.
The fourth appeared to be a concluding fragment:
... and you remember how tiring that got. So, it will be the smoking threads all over again. Only this time with the temperance types. Just you wait.
There was an immediate uproar, with the Academy President at first denying that the papers represented any of the deliberations of the Academy members. Finally, however, she stopped taking any calls.
[ October 20, 2002: Message edited by: Bethberry ]
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