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.

# Table of Contents

in which it is made clear
that a 1.6 MB zipfile of this book
may be obtained by clicking here,
and by which the principal sections of the book
are introduced to the reader

> > Theme Music Score | 3 KB text, 155 KB pics

> > 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

> > NONE OF THE ABOVE

> > Colophon | 2 KB text

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