speech
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               subject: re: help plz
               from: [email protected] (marek lugowski)

               aleksandr wrote:

               >right now i'm studying in the eleventh
               >grade. at the end of academic year my
               >classmate(girl) me will have to receave "key
               >of school" from 12th grade and will have to
               >say speech on this subject. if someone can
               >help us write this spech please. it will
               >hear all our school.  do it as quicker as
               >you can please, will have to say it on
               >wednesday already thanks

               okay.

               dear school, teachers, students, janitors and
               even hall monitors, you are dear to me all of
               you.

               i am humbled to give this speech.  it means a
               lot to me.  in fact, i was so unsure i could
               or even should be writing it, i had marek
               lugowski do it for me.  he's a badass editor
               in chicago, on usenet.  usenet is like
               internet only different.

               anyway, it is not important who wrote the
               speech.  what is important is that my life
               and your life are racing in all directions at
               once, and that this is our one moment to
               think about it together.

               what is important?  what should i do with
               myself?  what should you do with yourselves?
               watching seinfeld only goes so far, and now
               even that is not an option.

               one thing that has sustained everyone across
               the ages is cleaning house.  so think of
               anything at all -- as house.  then go clean
               it.

               thank you.

                       Marek Lugowski
                       19 November 1999
                       Chicago, Illinois