March 28, 2006
Horrible, I'll tell you about horrible. I sit and wonder if time and space will turn on each other, as if we were to enter the event horizon of a Black Hole. I wonder, when this happens, and the non-dimensional string which binds our universe turns upon itself, will the souls of those I've known and loved return to me in a rain of distorted twisted terror. Is there to be no rest, no meaning to our short lives. Once I believed there was meaning, perhaps even purpose.
Now I've read "The Pink Room" and all I can see is the inside-out twisted animus of the souls once quietly at peace. I see them, in my waking sleep, torn screaming form their place of rest. I see their essence ripped from their very mind, heart and soul. As they scream for peace I see you pulling them into the darkness of our light, into the life they see as death. I hear their horror, I can feel it tearing through my body, palpable and cold. And worse still, there is no return for those of us who know.
You have taken us to a hell in which even the dieing screams of our souls fall on ears and eyes which can feel no pity. In this light we find terror and our screams fade into the nothingness from which we arose. In this hideous fate handed to us we walk but are blind.
The terror of knowing we have no soul, no essence, no meaning tears at our mind as it dissolves into the chilled nothingness from which we sprang. Even in death's darkness we find no peace, no final cradle of rest. Rather we exist in terror, watching souls pulled into the deathly world called life, into a facade of empty dreams, into a world fated to a dark oblivion. We believed came from an emptiness or peace and would return to it, only to find terror awaiting us. This is the horror we found in "The Pink Room". This is the fate you handed to the quiet innocence of our lives. This is all we know.
Keith, Victim of "The Pink Room"
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April 4, 2006
Yesterday’s column “Street Talk” by Mark LaFlamme infuriates me. That he should be given such a forum to address the public speaks volumes about the arrogant attitude at the top level of the Lewiston SUN JOURNAL.
Hopefully by now LaFlamme is your ex-crime reporter. How can he possibly report on what he can’t recognize? By definition, crime is “An act or the commission of an act that is forbidden or the omission of a duty that is commanded by a public law and that makes the offender liable to punishment by that law; a grave offense; something reprehensible...” His view of crime must make police officers cringe. It’s common knowledge that acts all too often escalate from something simple. It would be a responsible approach to let your Chief of Police offer his remarks in response.
To suggest that individuals may interpret the law for their own benefit, not necessarily as it applies, is blatant disregard for any law at all and certainly wreaks havoc on any sort of enforcement. It’s deliberately obnoxious and reprehensible to flout even these “rules” that LaFlamme finds annoying. Children still need direction, guidelines, rules, laws; apparently so do adults. My sympathies to Mrs. LaFlamme. And my hope the SUN JOURNAL will set its sights higher.
[Attached to this note, on very nice paper with a beautiful
letterhead, was a poster that states:] “Those who blatantly defy
the law are the crumbs of our crumbling society.” And the poster
helpfully defines crumbs as “worthless persons.”
