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From: todd@reed.UUCP (Todd Ellner)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Help with Button
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 14:45:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  7 14:45:39 1985
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> From: wesm@Mitre-Bedford
> 
> 
>    >I have a button that reads
>    >
>    >     I am the Imp of the Perverse
>    >       (knowing this won't help you either)
>    >
>    >That I bought and stuck on our MILNET IMP.  Actually, I had to by
>    >another one because I think our IMP hardware guy took the first one.
>    >Question is what does it mean.  Does this relate to some book?  Can

   As I posted before, The Imp of the Perverse is the title of an essay
by Poe.  It concerns the tendency or voice within which makes you do things
which you know are evil/self-destructive/perverse. Knowing what you are about
to do doesn't help at all (I know I'll go splat, but I've just got to step off
that cliff).

                                                 Todd