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Horn-rimmed professor continuing:
One remains overwhelmed – amazed by the intensity and ingenuity of their desperation (Escape Artists). Why did these die-hards choose to attack the wall even when they knew they would not succeed? With those tall men – those upright sentinels one sees in the museum photos all hand-picked, expert marksmen – yes, one might balk at their decorated uniforms, the parades before visiting dignitaries – but with their charmed lives – and all these forbidding techniques of surveillance – the odds were always staked against them (Beserkers). Is it any wonder that they should have reverted to the most occult practice to bring the wall down (Telepathists)?
One remains overwhelmed – amazed by the intensity and ingenuity of their desperation (Escape Artists). Why did these die-hards choose to attack the wall even when they knew they would not succeed? With those tall men – those upright sentinels one sees in the museum photos all hand-picked, expert marksmen – yes, one might balk at their decorated uniforms, the parades before visiting dignitaries – but with their charmed lives – and all these forbidding techniques of surveillance – the odds were always staked against them (Beserkers). Is it any wonder that they should have reverted to the most occult practice to bring the wall down (Telepathists)?
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Smart arsed student asks new professor (having gleaned a sense of a certain pr spin being operated by the evasive academic department) how 'they' felt towards the rumoured emergence of the occult 'Wish Fulfilment' sect, which in practice (it is rumoured) lead to what has retrospectively been deemed (according to some web sources) as a hermetic suicide squad. (Wish fulfilment and Death wish being just two sides of the same wall in some alternative psychco-historical studies.)
Secondly, in pursuit of 'the objective' rather than the 'subjective' history of the wall, smart arsed student would like to stand up in class and ask the manifold professors: Who funds your department? Why are your studies of the wall so rigidly heterodox? How do you respond to the wild rumour that the wall was some kind of collective-hallucination? Or even a hologram?
Smart arsed student wipes her brow and sits down, feeling nervous, knowing she might have revealed more than she could ever get away with. (But she was always too much of a warrior, a sucker for those 'Wish-Fulfilment' rumours to be able to rein herself in.
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