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xer0s wrote:Ok, so I guess this crazy gook was a English major and was a senior. They said his papers that he wrote in his writing classes were so disturbing that one of his professors recommended that he see a school counselor. He also left a note which talked about "rich kids," "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" on campus. And he also had the words "Ismail Ax" in red ink on the inside of one of his arms.

I wondered if as an English major he had read E.D.E.N. Southworth's novel "Ishmael." It's pretty well known in literary circles. In it, Ishmael is a young man who grows up in poverty, but falls in love with a wealthy young woman. His love is unrequited. Just after Claudia leaves Ishmael he becomes very ill, but he picks up an ax and begins to feverishly chop wood. The effort makes him more gravely ill. He later speaks of this as a "turning point" in his life. The chapter starts with part of a poem by Browning:

"With such wrong and woe exhausted, what I suffered and occasioned—
As a wild horse through a city, runs, with lightning in his eyes,
And then dashing at a church's cold and passive wall impassioned,
Strikes the death into his burning brain, and blindly drops and dies—
So I fell struck down before her! Do you blame me, friends, for weakness?
'Twas my strength of passion slew me! fell before her like a stone;
Fast the dreadful world rolled from me, on its roaring wheels of blackness!
When the light came, I was lying in this chamber—and alone."

University gunman was a loner, his roommate claims

4days wrote:that can't be real

R00k wrote:time to ban 4chan:

"Students at the university's online newspaper, planetblacksburg.com, today discovered a message on a website that seemed to announce the massacre.

Posted early yesterday morning on 4chan, a website that allows anonymous postings, the message warned: 'hey /b/ I'm going to kill people at vtech today in the name of anonymous.' "