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 		Re: Matthew again
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Does Matthew feel pain?


Probably - he may not feel aggression though. The 2007 project was on what they were calling the "chill pill".

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 		Christine is having the twitter follow bug as well. It took me about 15 tries to finally follow her.

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 		Clue #2!
I got my envelope today! Same stuff as the others. The Frankenstein pages is 103/104.

Circled in orange: emo
Underlined in purple:

Quote:
miserable, suffering, malice, bitterly, Remorse.

I had been the author of unalterable evils; and I lived in daily fear, lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness.

fear

I ardently wished to extinguish that [life] which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed.

malice, hatred, revenge, woe, tears, evils, misery, guilty, murdered


I'm reminded of the scene in Heathers when Christian Slater figures instead of a fake suicide note, he'll leave a copy of Moby Dick next to the body with a whole bunch of words and phrases underlined, but he's pressed for time and all he underlines is "eskimo." And, of course, the minister at her funeral uses it as the basis for the eulogy.

In other words, I'd say the purple stuff is mostly flavor text, and the meat is the orange circles.

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 		Have we considered the possibility that those envelopes were put together, not by Matthew or another test subject...but by Dr. Darrell himself?

After all, weren't Christine's original orders given to her by Dr. Darrell - and the key instructions to contact her on Dr. Darrell's wordpress - and the envelopes were sealed before she got them?

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 		Got mine too!

Clue#7

Pages 273/274

orange circles: h e u s

underlined:

bitter and loathing despair

I am content to suffer alone

abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory

Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which i was capable of bringing forth. I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now vice has degraded me beneath the meanest animal.

the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

injustice

sinned

abandoned

I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept, and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing.

My work is nearly complete

I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied yet unquenched.

-----------------------

I'll post scans asap

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 		The clue is going to be:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
TheModernPrometheus


No I have to negotiate the wordpress stuff to get back to where I enter it.

The Day Arrives

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http://ellwilldarr.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/the-day-arrives/


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Protected: The Day Arrives

I wake at dawn the day of the test, the grand experiment.

Aggression has no place in our world. It killed my mother.

She walked down the street, having just bought some groceries.

From an alley appeared a fearsome looking man, pistol in tote.

He ordered her to give him all of her money.

She refused.

Red, fading to black.

Black fading to nothing.

It is for her that I create this medicine.

In hopes to create a better world.

She stood her ground

as I stand mine.

Forgiveness, I have none.

People like that don't deserve anything.

He killed an innocent woman,

a woman so much more than he.

Violence

to

silence.

I pray that this vaccine works so

My pains shall be extinguished.

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 		Sad Now I kinda wanna hug him.

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 		#5??
So I just tried:

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maughamratstotheeiwa


and didn't get into #5. In fact, I think it's too long.
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 		Re: #5??
Deanodon wrote:
So I just tried:

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maughamratstotheeiwa


and didn't get into #5. In fact, I think it's too long.


Edit: Let me correct - I typed
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maughamratstotheethe
and got the following:

http://twitpic.com/9xbyv

http://twitpic.com/9xbzv

but there's nothing there except the word "something." in black (found it by highlighting page).. i'm confused!
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 		I kinda take that to mean "something hidden." My first thought was something Matthew's said in the messages from the Institute he's hacked into - or maybe something from the empty Institute site, but I'm turning up a whole lot of nothing.

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 		Re: #5??
swift360 wrote:
Deanodon wrote:
So I just tried:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
maughamratstotheeiwa


and didn't get into #5. In fact, I think it's too long.


Edit: Let me correct - I typed
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
maughamratstotheethe
and got the following:

http://twitpic.com/9xbyv

http://twitpic.com/9xbzv

but there's nothing there except the word "something." in black (found it by highlighting page).. i'm confused!


That's correct, so it should be the password to the fifth entry, which is

http://ellwilldarr.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/the-sound-of-silence/

but I've now tried:

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something
something.
blacksomething
blacksomething.
hiddensomething
hiddensomething.
somethinghidden
somethinghidden.


Nothing.
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paperbound wrote:
I kinda take that to mean "something hidden." My first thought was something Matthew's said in the messages from the Institute he's hacked into - or maybe something from the empty Institute site, but I'm turning up a whole lot of nothing.


to go along w/ the matthew thing, there is a smiley on bottom left of the page...
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 		Awesome catch, swift360! I've been looking at that page for nearly twenty minutes now and didn't notice that!

And yes, apparently Matthew feels pain.

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 		Got it!

What is something that's not there???
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
nothing


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Protected: The Sound of Silence
Plastics.

I stand a broken man.

Loss.

Grief.

My pain is greater than before.

I have failed.

And worse, I have failed others.

Others whose lives are now

terrible and monstrous.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I thought I

knew it all.

I should have heeded his advice.

He has left.

He is gone.

My heartbreak is

nearly unbearable

how can I continue?

how, if I have ruined

seven lives?

7.

they were so young and

eager to participate.

I should have listened.

I should have stopped it.

My pain is great,

though my sorrow is greater.

Silence.

I must gather my thoughts.

I don't know how to continue.

Nothing but

Pain

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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Plastics is highlighted at the top and leads to the Simon and Garfunkel song Sound of Silence on Youtube!

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