[Tfn-suggestions] Fw: MI-5,Persecution (use2) - A new Kafka? 3/10/95

[Robert Naughton]

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> From: jackson@soldev.tti.com (Dick Jackson)
> Subject: Re: What it's like to be watched by the security services
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> References: <DFy9tB.3JK.0.bloor@torfree.net>
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> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 22:53:12 GMT
> Lines: 34
>
> In article <DGE7uJ.8tF.0.bloor@torfree.net> bu765@torfree.net (Mike
Corley) writes:
> >
> >Strangers in the street have recognized me on sight many times, and
shown
> >awareness of the current thread of abuse. To give you one example, in
1992
> >I was seriously ill, and a manager at work somewhat humouroursly said
that
> >"it wasn't fair" that people were bullying me. A few days later, I
> >attended for the first time a clinic in London as an outpatient, and
on my
> >way out was accosted by someone who asked if "they had paid my fare",
with
> >emphasis on the word "fare". He repeated the word several times in
this
> >different context;  that they should have paid my "fare", each time
> >emphasising the word.
> >
> >For two and a half years from the time their harassment started until
> >November 1992 I refused to see a psychiatrist, because I reasoned
that I
> >was not ill of my own action or fault, but through the stress caused
by
> >harassment, and that a lessening of the illness would have to be
> >consequent to a removal of its immediate cause, in other words a
cessation
> >of harassment. I also reasoned that since they were taunting me with
jokes
> >about mental illness, if I were to seek treatment then the abusers
would
> >think that they had "won" and been proved "right".
>
> <I've deleted a lot, but I think this gives the idea>
>
> I have so far not contributed to this tread, it has been unpleasant
> in my opinion. However, I was struck by the resemblance of the above
> passages to the writing of Franz Kafka.
>
> Viz. while from an objective viewpoint it seems to refer to a abnormal
> world, in a strange way it does resonate strongly at other levels.
>
> Mr. Corley, have you tried to write for publication? I honestly think
> it might lead somewhere positive.
>
> Dick Jackson (serious for a change and expecting to get beaten up)
>