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        _Screaming_in_Digital______________________________Editor's Note_

                Greetings again.  Although working nights and sleeping
        days makes it difficult for me to contact EMI, I still have time
        to do the digest, so here it is.  Since we're getting near the
        start of the school year, I guess I should encourage everyone to
        look for new Queensryche fans on campus.

        _Contents________________Contributors____________________________

        New Album               Mikel <mikelbiko@aol.com>
        CD-ROM                  Jason <cavalier@shadow.net>
        Queensryche Shows?      Adam <bentley@peruvian.cs.utah.edu>
        Queensryche Karaoke     Amit <rele@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>
        How Mary Died           Marietta <allenmm@emh.yokota.af.mil>
        How Mary Died           Michael <mcph@sparc.ncpa.olemiss.edu>
        How Mary Died           Joe <gxl108@psuvm.psu.edu>
        How Mary Died           Julie <dowdyjm@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
        How Mary Died           Jon <jmosher@linden.msvu.ca>
        How Mary Died           Brian <bps106@psuvm.psu.edu>

        _Neue_Regel_______________________________________News_&_Reviews_  

        New Album               Mikel <mikelbiko@aol.com>
                A friend of mine here in Seattle who is a jet ski
        enthusiast runs into Eddie Jackson at competitions on a regular 
        basis had a conversation with him at one last week.  Eddie told 
        him the new album would be out in September.

        _Speak______________________________________Comments_&_Questions_

        CD-ROM                  Jason <cavalier@shadow.net>
                How much information _is_ there on the CD-ROM?  Are they
        only going to do a DOS CD?  I'm Hoping not.
                        {So far all we know is that there's one in the
                        works, it'll contain biographical information and
                        multimedia stuff, and it'll be out the same time
                        as the album.  -sh}

        Queensryche Shows?      Adam <bentley@peruvian.cs.utah.edu>
                My girlfriend and I want to see a show.  Is the band on 
        tour?  If so, where could I get the concert listing?  Or, does
        anybody know of any shows in August?
                        {There's not a Queensryche tour currently, but in
                        a few months - after the new album comes out - a
                        world tour is expected.  -sh}

        Queensryche Karaoke     Amit <rele@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>
                Last week, I went out to Karaoke.  As soon as I got 
        there, I decided to look up Queensryche, but what do I find?  No, 
        not 'Silent Lucidity,' but 'Real World.'  So after a few drinks 
        to get the voice warmed up =) I tried it.  I didn't fully realize 
        until I tried to match it.
                Have any of you found any other Queensryche songs?  It
        really surprised me to find it because I've never seen anything
        else even remotely metallic - no Metallica, Van Halen, Ozzy,
        et cetera - and no, Bon Jovi doesn't count as metal.  

        _The_Whisper__________________________________________Discussion_

        How Mary Died           Marietta <allenmm@emh.yokota.af.mil>
                I had assumed that the chalk outline on the wall was one 
        Mary had drawn herself, in a psychotic trance-rant, as those who 
        are drugged sometimes do.  Of course, this assumes that when she 
        tells Nikki to shoot, she is telling him to fill her veins, too.
                I realized after mailing that last post, that WIlliam 
        couldn't have done it - it had to be X.  Oh well, this is one of 
        those dilemma things that is fun to agonize over, for how many 
        years now?  Anyway, I wasn't trying to be difficult, I just 
        interpreted it a little differently.

        How Mary Died           Michael <mcph@sparc.ncpa.olemiss.edu>
                It seems very clear to me that Mary did in fact commit 
        suicide.  Father William couldn't have killed her, because he was
        sort of dead at the time.  Didn't "Video Mindcrime" explicitly 
        say that she killed herself (in the bonus video)?  In any case,
        read the notes in the "Livecrime" script.  It makes the reason 
        for suicide very clear.  Mary had been used by men all of her 
        life.  She loved Nikki, but as they were having sex all that use 
        and abuse came back to her.  She felt betrayed by the only man 
        she loved.  She couldn't take it anymore.
                As for the chalk outline on the wall bit, that is a 
        reference to Nikki's "chronicle of pain."  There has always been 
        the enigmatic line "The walls will tell the story of my pain."  
        "Livecrime" indicates that Nikki kept some sort of diary at the
        mission they lived in by scribbling doodles on the walls of his 
        room.  Well, that's my two cents worth. :)

        How Mary Died           Joe <gxl108@psuvm.psu.edu>
                I can't believe that I'm actually chiming in on this 
        never-ending thread, but I just couldn't hold back any longer.
        I'm one of those weirdos who doesn't believe that Mary hung 
        herself.  I think that Father William had Nikki do it, that Nikki 
        doesn't remember strangling Mary with her rosary because he was 
        messed up at the time, and that Mary's murder is what gets Nikki 
        caught by the authorities.  Nikki isn't just upset, but 
        overwrought with guilt at having offed the only person he could 
        love.

        How Mary Died           Julie <dowdyjm@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
                Father William could not have strangled her with the 
        rosary.  He was already _dead_!  In 'Suite Sister Mary,' Geoff
        sings, "The priest is cold and dead," when Nikki went in to kill 
        her too.  I personally refuse to think that she hung herself.  I 
        mean, that rosary would have had to been made out of steel or 
        something to hold her.  I think while Nikki was freaking out 
        during 'The Needle Lies' that Dr. X went back to kill her.  He 
        _knew_ Nikki would go back to her and all he had to do was call 
        the police and politely suggest they go to the church.  He did it 
        to seal Nikki's fate because Nikki had just gone to him and said 
        he wasn't going to do Dr. X's bidding any more.  
                As for the word "suicide" that flashes in the second 
        version of the video after the credits, that is not a huge 
        surprise.  Sister Mary _was_ going to kill herself before Nikki 
        came in to see her.  That's not a surprise. 
                I just giggle every time someone says that she hung 
        herself.  The lyric fits for both strangulation and hanging - 
        "Your rosary wrapped around your throat."  If she was strangled,
        wouldn't it be there?  Just my thoughts.  Why doesn't someone 
        call their local police station and ask them what they do with 
        hanging bodies?

        How Mary Died           Jon <jmosher@linden.msvu.ca>
                If I recall properly, Nikki goes to Mary and tells her 
        how Father William died.  As you will see by reading the lyrics
        of 'Suite Sister Mary,' unless Father William rose from the dead,
        he could not have killed Mary.  It is my belief that the butler
        did it - just joking!  It is implied that she took her own life,
        if you read the booklet from "Operation: Livecrime."

        How Mary Died           Brian <bps106@psuvm.psu.edu>
                The clue that Mary was hung was the verse from 'My Empty 
        Room' that Shag quoted.  The clue to Mary taking her own life is 
        in the libretto that came with "Operation: Livecrime."  A 
        transitional piece of text between 'Suite Sister Mary' and 'The 
        Needle Lies' talks about how she has a vision of Father William 
        over her while she and Nikki are making love (on the altar 
        presumably) and goes cold in Nikki's arms.  Then it says "She 
        hated him.  She hated men.  She hated life."
                This sums it up for me.  But not every one has seen the
        libretto, nor have I seen a single Queensryche video on MTV, so I
        can't comment on Marietta's remarks on the videos.
                I would more like to thank the readers who have responded
        to my original post.  Your comments have helped me solidify some 
        of my own ideas and have sparked new ones.  If anyone else has 
        any comments or ideas they would like to contribute for my 
        script, please e-mail me.  I'd rather get a flood of repetitive 
        messages and catch the rare diamond than get nothing.

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                That's all for now - see you again next week, and don't
        forget to write.

                'Ryche on,
                                -Shag