pull the strings.
© 1996 Jamie Zawinski
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A group of us had gone to see
Mephisto Walz.
There was a woman there, leaning against the stage, who was scary even for
a member of the crowd at a goth club. She was black yet was wearing white
facepaint, giving the impression more of a corpse than a vampire. She had
long, thick, heavily- Shortly after the band started, she picked her lunchbox up off the
floor (a steel construction- The band kept looking down at her with amused half-smiles. I don't guess
they see a lot of that, either. (But then, maybe they do.)
``I wonder,'' Laura asked, ``if someone were to cut her
thread,
would someone die?''