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Professor Pille's Planetary Panopticon

Currently under advisement and endless reconstruction. Perhaps confusing yet amusing. A highly vulnerable manifestation of the internationally-regarded Mt. Palomine Institute of Mysteries and its founder, the venerable Professor Antonio Pille. Dedicated with warmest regards to the varied ghosts of Aristophanes, Rabelais, Swift, Sterne, Jarry, Mencken, Baron Munchhausen, and the gentle and honorable Robert Benchley.

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Monday, June 19, 2006

Abu Ubu History--Part the Second

Any excuse to get someone stoned

Abu Ubu is (er, well, was) renowned for a system of justice that interwove so finely with its endless expressions of unalloyed rage against everything imaginable that the two pretty much ended up being the same thing. At its best, the justice system was remarkable for its always fatal punishments dealt out to people who refused to riot, murder, commit arson, and otherwise engage in mindless mayhem. Attempts at a jury system proved futile: any jury that failed to convict (and deal out the harshest "justice") was hung, or worse; judges often beat defendants to death with their own mallets before a trial even commenced; lawyers gunned each other's witnesses down and cited arcane religious law to justify their actions. It was all thoroughly incredible.


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