Posted by Andrew on 03/06/07 22:25

On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:09:54 +1100, dorayme wrote:

> So here is this poor guy, Norman, an innocent, just walking down
> the street, his sick mum has asked him to go beg for some pennies
> to buy milk so she can dip the little bit of bread they have left
> to help her maintain her strength given she has trouble
> swallowing dry things. But, uh oh! Along the way, poor Norman
> passes a lane where a breakaway group of fanatic priests are
> lurking about. Poor Norman, in his innocence, asks for a penny or
> two...
>
> "A penny or two! For your sick mother! Why is she sick? Have you
> got a job? Why not? Why can't she swallow? Does she smoke? ..."
>
> After a bit of of gratuitous violence to him, a few kicks and
> stuff, not too hard and avoiding the head, one of them throws him
> a little crumb. Norman, who knows how he suffered inside his
> soul, shows grace under pressure (to say the least) but he gets a
> parting kick for good measure.
>
Hi dorayme,

You, Norman and others in alt.html might be interested in a 'Rough
Justice' page that I am currently researching while I should be doing
other things:

http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/rough_justice.html

My all time hero is Neal on alt.html.critique :-)

Andrew

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