Conspiracy theory number 56478

Correspondent 04 June 2002 0 minutes read

www.timbip.org suggests: "Highly skilled professional shooters murdered 35 people and wounded 22 others at Port Arthur under government instruction, and Mr. Martin Bryant was certainly not one of them."

Part of the claim: "The perpetrators of this act of terrorism have a killed to wounded ratio of 1.59 to 1 which is better than all but the top marksmen in the world. Do you think an intellectually disabled man could have done that?"

"How could Bryant, an unskilled person of low intellect, kill 20, and wound 12 people in the café, mainly by head shots, while firing from the hip, in 90 seconds?"

Outlandish theory or Pro Gun lobbyists?
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Pithy Quote

Rimbaud restored literature to life; I have endeavored to restore life to literature. In both of us the confessional quality is strong, the moral and spiritual preoccupation uppermost. The flair for language, for music rather than literature, is another trait in common. With him I have felt an underlying primitive nature which manifests itself in strange ways. Claudel styled Rimbaud "a mystic in the wild state." Nothing could describe him better. He did not "belong" - not anywhere. I have always had the same feeling about myself. The parallels are endless. I shall go into them in some detail, because in reading the biographies and the letters I saw these correspondences so clearly that I could not resist making note of them. I do not think I am unique in this respect; I think there are many Rimbauds in this world and that their number will increase in time. I think the Rimbaud type will displace, in the world to come, the Hamlet type and the Faustian type. The trend toward a deeper split. Until the old world dies out utterly, the "abnormal" individual will tend more and more to become the norm. The new man will find himself only when the warfare between the collectivity and the individual ceases. Then we shall see the human type in its fullness and splendor.