Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 07:01:32 -0800 (PST)
Title: Power reserved

I help Azi to a sitting position. "Why did they do this?"  I ask.
Azi shakes his head, shrugs his shoulders, winces with pain with each move.

"How were they able to do this to YOU?  I'm under the impression that you are
a powerful person."

He looks at me, shakes his head and says weakly, " is in us all.
Depends on whether we have time to use it or not, or whether we  to
use it - or not."

"So they snuck up on you, eh?"

"Yes.  They snared me as if I was a rabbit.  I was snared."   He stretches,
pulls himself up with painful effort.

"You have suffered severe fustigation - your ribs and," I take a closer look
at his nose, "your nose.  Let's get a towel from the bar, then deal with Bud
and Grubb."

Azi smiles with another wince of pain, "Yes, they did fustigate me, but only
two or three times on each side..."

*fus.ti.gate \'f*s-t*-.ga-t\ \.f*s-t*-'ga--sh*n\ vt [LL fustigatus, pp. of
fustigare, fr. L fustis + -igare] (akin to agere to drive) - more at AGENT
1: To beat with a stick: CUDGEL 2: to criticize severely - fus.ti.ga.tion n.

later,
d.

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success
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