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                  DREAM FORGE (tm) ISSN: 1080-5877   
                 Volume 1, Number 2,  February 1995  
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                          (Free Demo Issue)

             Publisher:  Dave Bealer   (dbealer@dreamforge.com)
       Managing Editor:  Rick Arnold   (rarnold@dreamforge.com)


    DREAM FORGE is published monthly, at an annual subscription rate of
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 (formerly RANDOM ACCESS HUMOR and RUNE'S RAG)

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        2. to make by or as by this method; to form; to shape;
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    *****    And now for a brief Intermission    ******

    There is no event which cannot, through suitable
    application of creativity, be attributed to a vast,
    world-spanning conspiracy, the ultimate goal of which
    is to do something or other. Likewise, there is no event
    which cannot, through suitable application of creativity,
    be attributed to either monumental stupidity, or common,
    garden variety thoughtlessness, sometimes followed by
    desperate attempts at corrective or masking action.

    TO WIT: dragon@freedom.org

    *****   And back to our regularly scheduled advertisement *****

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