Earliest Memories of the World Outside (was Forcing Kids To Watch History Made)

[lucky_kari <lucky_kari@yahoo.ca>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "ssk7882 <skelkins at a...>" 
<skelkins at a...> wrote:
> So what are you saying here?  That you're less...less *well-
adapted*
> than I am?  That you're sicker, perhaps?  More twisted?  More Bent?
> Them's fighting words, Eileen.

Oh, no, no, of course not. I wouldn't dream of it, really. Please, 
put that paddle down. 

> So how about that Percy identification, then?  Do you think
> that believing yourself to be under constant surveillance 
> might have encouraged you to adopt a rule-abiding persona?  
> Or was the cause and effect reversed?  Or none of the above?

Very good question. Only one thing for sure. I was never anything 
but a model student through school because of the cameras. Even when 
I was perversely tempted to paste "World War I" and "World War II" 
on the display case of Germany's contributions to the world, I 
didn't because of the cameras. 

Of course, once I discovered that the cameras didn't exist, I was 
too stuck in my ways to start thumbing my nose at the authorities. 

But then, as you suggested, perhaps I dreamed the cameras up because 
I have a rule-abiding personality. It is true that I recently 
managed to convince myself that the Registrar and Information 
Services were in cahoots, and would kick anyone out of University 
who was surfing recreational sites on the computers designated for 
schoolwork. Which apparently is not true...

Perhaps this is all reflection of how *I* would do things, if I were 
in charge. Or perhaps I just want to convince myself that the non 
rule-abiders will suffer, and I will be rewarded. 

> Do you want me to stop asking prying questions about your 
> psyche in a public forum?  ;-)

Not particularly. 

> Eileen:
> > Oh, they're very ordinary. Molly and Arthur Weasley. Do you 
think 
> > they did anything to encourage my paranoiac fantasies? 
> 
> You mean, other than leading you to believe that your Mayor ate 
> babies? 

Well, to tell the truth, I think my mother did encourage me in that 
belief. She really didn't like that Mayor. Something to do with the 
great fight over Transportation... 

But then my mother is rather terrible about certain things. She 
pretended to my two year old brother that she was being dragged 
outside by a wolf the other day, and go and get Dad. Nicholas is 
still convinced that Dad saved her from the wolf. 

Eileen