BONT

or the
Best Of New Theleme

by Lenna Mahoney

(featuring special appearances by Bill Statler)

BONT, or the Best Of New Theleme
         by Lenna Mahoney

Published by

L.A. Mahoney
302 Torbett PMB 179
Richland, WA 99354
lenna (at) mercurial (dot) info

Copyright © 1999 by Lenna A. Mahoney

         No part of this book may be reproduced for profit, transmitted for profit, or publicly performed for profit in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including gemination, photocopying, recording, or by any information or disinformation storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the authors.  Non-profit reproduction and transmission are allowed only if the book is reproduced or transmitted in its entirety, including this copyright notice.  However, brief quotations may be included in a review.
         All rights stated above are reserved to the authors until June 29, 2032, after which all parts of this book may be freely used and reproduced.
         Requests for permission to make copies of any part of this work should be mailed to the publishers.  Begging wouldn't hurt.


         Lenna asked me (Bill) to write this because I have enough prudence and caution for any ten normal Earthumans.
         BONT is a work of fiction, written about 99% by Lenna and 1% by me.  Yes, some of the events and persons mentioned come straight out of the newspaper: public personalities have to put up with that sort of thing.  And yes, there really was a BBS called "The New Theleme Club." We ran it from our basement for a few years in the early 1990s.  But except for characters based on me or Lenna, and the aforementioned public personalities, ALL OF THE CHARACTERS IN THIS BOOK ARE FICTIONAL.  If you think you see yourself in this book, then you should also check your bathroom mirror in case someone might have replaced it with a Rorschach ink-blot.
         A few trademarked names and terms, and allusions to copyrighted works, have been used in passing:  these are the property of their respective trademark and copyright owners.
         Our thanks to SoftWood, Inc. (Final Copy II), the late Commodore-Amiga, Inc. (Amiga 2000), and Seiko Epson Corp. (Action Laser 1000), without whose help we would have been doing hand-lettering for a really long time.

Copyright © 1999 by Lenna A. Mahoney
First Printing 1999

Printed in the United States of America

                           To T.E.C.



Why I should think of rabble, I don't know --
Those aimless swarms, those faces, characters
So randomized, still clutch my thoughts like burrs
And velvet, sting and swaddle too. But so
It is, and under such unruly spurs
What can I be but galled and guarded both?
Among them you are not, and I am loath
To call you to a mind thronged by some curse.
But, nearest joy! -- I think your name, and then
Am still, bare, gliding, free; except for you,
Alone; much better than alone. You bring
Me back myself brushed clean and loosed of men,
All clear and inly held, a gleam like dew;
Alone complete in you, and none to cling.

Theme Music Score

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MESSAGE AREAS

1.	Us	67 KB text
2.	Earth	99 KB text
3.	Gregaria	60 KB text, 61 KB pics
4.	Recreation	58 KB text
5.	Consternation	155 KB text
6.	Speculation	128 KB text
7.	Irresolution	53 KB text, 258 KB pics

FILE AREAS

Appendix A:	That Old Qualitative Science	25 KB text 16 KB pics
Appendix B:	Your Astrological Gender	126 KB text 9 KB pics
Appendix C:	The Ailurosi Chemical Tarot	90 KB text 5 KB pics
Appendix D:	Duerror Grandis -- The Game	12 KB text 81 KB pics
Appendix E:	Undine Multiforme	34 KB text 52 KB pics
Appendix F:	Cartoon Features	17 KB text 21 KB pics

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Colophon

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