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I'm subscribed to Dan Lavery's excellent newsletter The Chatner and he brought to my attention this short story that I absolutely loved. It's really funny and could easily be written about any discord or forum or social network! It kind of reminds me of something though it's hard to put my finger on exactly what, though to bring up something completely unrelated, I've been active in online queer communities for the past 15 or so years. Enjoy.

Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby for a long time, because of the way he had been behaving. And now he'd gone too far, so we decided to hang him. Colby argued that just because he had gone too far (he did not deny that he had gone too far) did not mean that he should be subjected to hanging. Going too far, he said, was something everybody did sometimes. We didn't pay much attention to this argument. We asked him what sort of music he would like played at the hanging. He said he'd think about it but it would take him a while to decide. I pointed out that we'd have to know soon, because Howard, who is a conductor, would have to hire and rehearse the musicians and he couldn't begin until he knew what the music was going to be. Colby said he'd always been fond of Ives's Fourth Symphony. Howard said that this was a "delaying tactic" and that everybody knew that the Ives was almost impossible to perform and would involve weeks of rehearsal, and that the size of the orchestra and chorus would put us way over the music budget. "Be reasonable," he said to Colby. Colby said he'd try to think of something a little less exacting.

Find the rest (ten minute read at most) here: http://jessamyn.com/barth/colby.html

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