The Thrill Report #013099 A Lying Black Spawn

I looked at Alan Greenspan with my x-ray vision eyes and I saw a dead man! There is no light in him! Nothing but shadows leaking out of his pores. He is just an old sorcerer busybusybusy rattling his clackdish for a claptrap fan club who can't tell the difference between smoke and mirrors and real substance.

"...and the Holy Spirit's crying 'Where's the beef?'" --Leonard Cohen "Close In Time" The Future CD 1992

Nothing to fear from him anymore. He's been busted by Day Light. Remember what happened to the troll in TTR The Logical Snails? "Furious at being ignored, the troll lunged at the snails, realizing too late that the sun was shining. Caught in the light he froze, and in a poof, was gone forever."

In Light of this discovery I am removing the "Green" from Alan Greenspan's name. It was never his to begin with and he knows it. His proper name is Alying. Blackspawn, of the notoriously decrepit, obsolete Shadow Tribe of Sick Sic Sixes.

Let me remind you what happen to Rumpelstiltskin when his real name was discovered.

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"The third day the messenger returned and said: 'I haven't discovered a single new name, but as I was walking along the edge of the forest, I rounded a bend and found myself at the foot of a high hill, the kind of place where the fox and hare bid each other good night. There I saw a hut, and outside the hut a fire was burning, and a ridiculous little man was dancing around the fire and hopping on one foot and bellowing:

"'Brew today, tomorrow bake, After that the child I'll take, And sad the queen will be to lose it. Rumpelstiltskin is my name But luckily nobody knows it.'

"You can imagine how happy the queen was to hear that name. It wasn't long before the little man turned up and asked her: 'Well, Your Majesty, what's my name?' She started by asking, 'Is it Tom?' 'No.' 'Is it Dick?' 'No.' 'Is it Harry?' 'No.'

"'Could it be Rumpelstiltskin?'

"'The Devil told you that! The Devil told you that!' the little man screamed, and in his rage he stamped his right foot so hard that it went into the ground up to his waist. Then in his fury he took his left foot in both hands and tore himself in two." --Grimms' Tales for Young and Old, translated by Ralph Manheim (Anchor Book, Doubleday 1977)

So you see what happens to those who take advantage of the poor, forcing their children to perform impossible tasks and attempting to steal their birthright when they fail. Rumpelstiltskin was very wrong, it wasn't the devil that helped the miller's daughter, it was just a simple messenger, finding himself in the right place, at the right time, and doing the right thing.

Simple huh?

Jana Janus The Rogue Butterfly Scribe in the Ancient Language of Thrill