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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/young-julian-assange.jpg?w=300&h=187" />Back in 2004 Julian Assange, then 33, chatted up a 19-year-old student, Elizabeth (not her real name) at the University of Melbourne. He charmed her, then walked her home and kissed her.</p>
<p>Over the next few days he pursued her, and&nbsp;<a href="http://gawker.com/5714043/">Gawker's Adrian Chen has the exclusive</a>, detailing Assange's increasingly stalkerish e-pistles.</p>
<p>After Elizabeth politely declined his morning-after missive, she says Assange called her at her parents home. She was creeped out, because he wouldn't say how he got her phone number.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Assange, meanwhile, seemed to have been feeling Romantic. "When I first wrote the heat of your breast pressed against me was still vivid in my mind." My, my Julian!</p>
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<p>His letters quickly take on a Nabakovian flair, filled with coy riddles and shifting realities.</p>
<p>The next time Assange called, Elizabeth pretended to be someone else. Assange persisted, writing her an email detailing the call to this alternate world, in which a strange young woman who does not recognize him lives in Elizabeth's house.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Next a love poem in the form of a puzzle based on the&nbsp;license&nbsp;plate number of Elizabeth's car. Poor Liza isn't bright enough to decipher his number, but she's smart enough to be frightened of this further intrusion into her private life.&nbsp;</p>
<p>When Elizabeth tells Assange to stop calling, a side of him emerges which is chilling, particularly in the context of the rape and molestation charges he is currently facing in Sweden.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"A man feels that which is soft, warm and yielding in his arms must also be in other circumstances," he writes her.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then, quick as a Wikileak, he's back to his old romantic self, closing with a line worthy of <em>Pale Fire</em>.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"You pulled a tiny petal off my world, just when I thought you were to add one but all around in the meadow, where I shall again dance and skip and sing till some fool girl should brush my wing."</p>
<p><a href="http://gawker.com/5714043/the-creepy-lovesick-emails-of-julian-assange">Be sure to check out the full emails over at Gawker, they are worth it.&nbsp;</a></p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/young-julian-assange.jpg?w=300&h=187" />Back in 2004 Julian Assange, then 33, chatted up a 19-year-old student, Elizabeth (not her real name) at the University of Melbourne. He charmed her, then walked her home and kissed her.</p>
<p>Over the next few days he pursued her, and&nbsp;<a href="http://gawker.com/5714043/">Gawker's Adrian Chen has the exclusive</a>, detailing Assange's increasingly stalkerish e-pistles.</p>
<p>After Elizabeth politely declined his morning-after missive, she says Assange called her at her parents home. She was creeped out, because he wouldn't say how he got her phone number.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Assange, meanwhile, seemed to have been feeling Romantic. "When I first wrote the heat of your breast pressed against me was still vivid in my mind." My, my Julian!</p>
<p><a href="/2010/daily-transom/brooklyn-super-nerds-accidentally-invite-entire-internet-their-nye-bash">Check Out The Super Nerd Brothers Who Accidentally Invited The Whole Internet To Their New Year's Eve Bash!</a></p>
<p>His letters quickly take on a Nabakovian flair, filled with coy riddles and shifting realities.</p>
<p>The next time Assange called, Elizabeth pretended to be someone else. Assange persisted, writing her an email detailing the call to this alternate world, in which a strange young woman who does not recognize him lives in Elizabeth's house.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Next a love poem in the form of a puzzle based on the&nbsp;license&nbsp;plate number of Elizabeth's car. Poor Liza isn't bright enough to decipher his number, but she's smart enough to be frightened of this further intrusion into her private life.&nbsp;</p>
<p>When Elizabeth tells Assange to stop calling, a side of him emerges which is chilling, particularly in the context of the rape and molestation charges he is currently facing in Sweden.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"A man feels that which is soft, warm and yielding in his arms must also be in other circumstances," he writes her.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then, quick as a Wikileak, he's back to his old romantic self, closing with a line worthy of <em>Pale Fire</em>.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"You pulled a tiny petal off my world, just when I thought you were to add one but all around in the meadow, where I shall again dance and skip and sing till some fool girl should brush my wing."</p>
<p><a href="http://gawker.com/5714043/the-creepy-lovesick-emails-of-julian-assange">Be sure to check out the full emails over at Gawker, they are worth it.&nbsp;</a></p>
<p><a href="/2010/daily-transom/julian-assange-gets-bail-retreats-manor-arrest">Check out Julian Assange's House Arrest in a 600 Acre British Manor Estate &gt;&gt;</a></p>
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