Paul Redeker

May we speak?

( In which Azania relates memories of Cape Town. )

[After fifteen minutes, the following is added to this entry:]


Mr. Wagner, we must speak.

467,900,000.


This is hell.

An Analysis of the Benefits and Detractors of Narcotics
and
A Treatise on the Use of Nacotics by Wardens in a Failing Penal System


As with his other papers, this essay starts out coherently, though the subject matter is extremely odd and unscientific. Obviously, the work is about Neil and drug use, and the bad example it sets for inmates if wardens are smoking marijuana.

By page six, he has randomly interjected commentary about Psylocke, calling her a "walking sword of the flesh" and "the whore of Babylon". On page seven, he has drawn her, in remarkable detail, with little detailed notes about her clothing and, most specifically, the "thing" he saw on her hand. Half her face is burned away (much like Harv's!).

Throughout the essay, he switches from English to Zulu and back again; those who can read the Zulu will find it much more sane than the English.

The essay is not as long as the others. On pages 18 and 19, it looks as though Paul has been running some calculations in the margins, the numbers beginning in the millions and tapering off to thousands. By p.20, it cuts off abruptly.

Someone was in my room, and wrote this bloody gibberish in my journal.

I demand an inquiry!

Where the hell is my warden? Dr. Suresh, are you reading this?

They go through the meat grinder. Can't be saved. Money, time, resources.

Can't save them.

Baba wethu osezulwini, malingcweliswe igama lakho; mawufike umbuso wakho; mayenziwe intando yakho emhlabeni njengasezulwini; usiphe namuhla isinkwa sethu semihla ngemihla; usithethelele amacala ethu, njengalokhu nathi sibathethelela abanecala kithi; ungasingenisi ekulingweni, kodwa usikhulule kokubi; ngokuba umbuso ungowakho, namandla, nenkazimulo, kuze kubephakade.

Xolelwa Azania

OOC: The strike-free writings are written with an easy, loopy style, very much unlike Paul's normal cramped, tiny script. The strikes are sloppy and barely legible.

Any character extremely proficient in languages might recognize the writing as IsiZulu (or just "Zulu" - one of the predominant languages in South Africa). If your character can read it, let me know, I'll tell you what it says.

"Xolelwa Azania" is not Zulu; if your character has a knowledge of history, they'll recognize "Azania" as the name recommended as an alternative for South Africa.

On The Paradigm Paralysis of Inmate Rehabilitation
Or
Necessary Destruction of the Control Absolute

( OOC information. )

I'll tell you secrets.

There's poison in the food, and bits of broken glass in the water. The rooms are bugged and the showers release Zyclon B, from inside the walls, where there are rats carrying the plague.

There are vampires and the blood they drink is AIDS infected.

They don't try to kill us, but they send death to us in boxes and on dishes and hidden under our beds.



I think I killed the ghouls at my door. Is there blood on the chair leg, where I left it on the stair? I smashed their skulls when they came to take me.

You're sending more in to danger to rescue...five? Six people?

Did none of you read my proposal? Leave them and get yourselves out of there, you buffoons!

Or die. That is, of course, another entirely agreeable option.

Because those men and women will die. They always die.

Fools.

A Treatise on "The Barge"
or,
Ineffectual Rehabilitation Techniques
and
Necessary Extermination of the Condemned



[OOC: I'm not writing it out. XD So, synopsis time!

Redeker goes on for thirty pages about the evils of mankind, infectious diseases, and specifics on the Barge's inmates, including the knife Loki was trying to sell a while back and the relationship between West and the Marquis. He also addresses the uselessness of the Wardens. Yes, he does write, numerous times, that the inmates should all be executed.

His writing becomes more and more incoherent and illegible as he progresses, and, on pages 28-30, degenerates to quoting "Through the Looking Glass" and "The Zombie Survival Guide" (if your character can read his writing by then). Feel free to make something up to throw in, add, question, etc, so long as it's on the above topics.]

This place is madness.

Dr. Suresh,

When do you propose to speak with me about this port?

- P.R.

To Whom It May Concern,

I understand that at least one of you has received a copy of my personal file.

I also understand that, due to high rates of incompetance and a penchant for warmongering, those who have received my file may have misunderstood the reason I am here, or do not have the entire story.

Therefore, I am making available to interested parties copies of my proposals: Orange Eighty-Four and the "Redeker Plan", as well as my thesis on Forced Procreation.

Illiterate imbeciles need not inquire.

- Redeker


( OOC Information )

EDIT: In Redeker's original proposal, the "live zombie bait" would be voluntary. Whether this was optional in practice was up to the governments adopting his plan. The really tetchy part of the plan was his suggestion that the military shouldn't try to save everyone, especially in very urbanized areas.

Why have my files been distributed?

I have it on good authority that there may be someone aboard carrying a highly contagious virus.

Would you be so kind, with your degree in medicine, to investigate?

This is not the work of Monsieur le Marquis.

He has finesse, at the very least.

Good grief.

Oh, do tell me I wasn't the only one who came out of this past week completely unscathed.

And lacking any humiliation.

Mr. West, I didn't realise you were the football sort. Not the American football sort, any roads.

Mr. West,

Who wrote your essay for you?

They spelled your name incorrectly.

- Mr. Redeker

To all students,

Obviously, there has been some confusion as to whether I would fail everyone after offering extra credit, and whether I would ever question the sexuality of one of my students.

The notice, dealing with such remarks, which recently appeared on the board in my handwriting is an obvious forgery.

As to the wit who wrote it, and all other such local wags, including the anonymous authors of "Zeppelin Rules" and "School Sucks" - if you are caught abusing the bulletin board privledges, you will face suspension.

- Mr. Redeker

As many students did poorly on the last exam, I have decided to make available an extra credit assignment:

Essay, 500 words minimum. Extra points for bibliography and impressiveness.

The topic is to be one of the following:

1. Compare and Contrast Ophelia and Portia in Shakespeare's Plays.

2. Jane Eyre: romaticism in an anti-romantic novel.

3. For the adventurous: A discussion of a novel of your choice, which we have read during the past year. (Atlas Shrugged, Lord of the Flies, The Outsiders, Brave New World, Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye.)



You have until the end of the term. Good luck.


EDIT:

Across the posting, someone has anonymously scrawled, "SCHOOL SUCKS AND SO DO YOU!!!" and "ZEPPELIN RULES".