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Eric's writings:

1. Eric's Journal, "The Book of God": April 1998-April 1999. 

   1. Main text, 16 pages.

   2. Drawings and attack-planning material from the back of the journal. Includes diagrams, sketches, budgets, logs of his bomb production, ammo acquired, etc.

   3. The "Lasting Impression" rant. This is a typed add-on to the journal, one of his best summaries of the scope of Eric's intentions. 

2. 1998 yearbook (Eric's writing about the plan in Dylan's book)
3. Eric's Website. View in four web pages:
1. The "I HATE"s
2. The Missions
3. Pipe bombs
4. Other
4. Van break-in--the many faces of Eric.
   • Eric's apology letter to the victim (p. 661 from the 1,000 pages)
   • Eric's rant about it at the same time in his journal (p. 3 of his journal)
   • School essay about it months later (pp. 864-865 of the 1,000 pages)
   • Eric's written confession the night it happened (also, the arresting cops' report).
   •  Eric's description of it in the intake-questionnaire for Diversion.
   • The assessment by his Diversion intake counselor.
     
     
5. Web chatroom IMs
6. Diversion Program. (Each in a separate web page):
1. Intake summary by his counselor
2. Eric's intake questionnaire
3. His parents' intake questionnaire  (Wayne and Kathy Harris)
4. Session notes from his bi-weekly counseling meetings
5. Eric's written response to Anger Management class
6. Eric's early-termination letter of praise 
7. More Drawings, including Nazi graphics -- 923-930
8. Almost everything:

Most of the writings left by Eric and Dylan are contained in a (roughly) 1,000-page batch released in July 2006. I indexed it and culled the most interesting/revealing material below. Click to download from the Rocky Mountain News--warning: it's 34 MB, that's big. 

Download it to your hard drive once for both Eric and Dylan, and then follow these page numbers for Eric: 

1. Eric's day timers: end of junior year -- pp. 123-189; senior -- pp. 326-398

2. Class schedule, grades -- p. 421-422,

3. Web: “YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE?” 439-443

4. Eric's writings and drawings in Dylan's yearbook 579-586

5. Favorite song lyrics quoted -- pp. 638-641, 709-710, 785-795, 850, 852

6. list of likes/dislikes -- p. 946

7. School papers (the last item of this section lists several page ranges. I broke out the ones I found particularly revealing:

   1. "The Nazi Culture" (various drafts, outlines, sources) -- pp. 44-58, 207-231, 237-244, 613-615, 796-807, 920-921

   2. "Similarities Between Zeus and I" (freshman year) -- p. 856

   3. "Guns in School” -- pp. 232-236, 435-438

   4. "Guns"--Eric's story of childhood playing guns/war in woods -- pp. 695-696, 906

   5. "Hitmen for Hire" business plan -- pp. 684-691, 910-916 (???)

   6. Essay on Medea (crucial to his thinking on not being taken alive, foreshadowing his suicide in the library): pp. 733-734

   7. Is murder ever justified -- p. 276

   8. “I am” poem -- p. 315, 711

   9. Essay on fishing: "Just A Day" -- p. 871

   10. First Memory -- p. 258

   11. Eric's descriptions of his previous homes--in school essay -- p. 857-860

   12. Eric's fantasy story, where he's last human alive, and witness to gholish dead -- p. 908

   13. Important Himmler speech: 205, 829

   14. Various, including weekly current events essays, some on philosophy, and a great number on literature -- pp. 613-637, 642-644, 662-683, 730-784, 809-838, 840-849 (see, especially, Tulericito on pp. 848-849), 851, 853-865, 907-921

Dylan's writings:

1. Dylan's Journal: 1997-1999. Nearly 100 pages.

2. 1998 yearbook (Dylan's writing about the plan in Eric's book.)

3. His vicious creative story from February 1999, that foreshadowed the murders.

4. Almost everything:

Most of the writings left by Eric and Dylan are contained in a (roughly) 1,000-page batch released in July 2006. I indexed it and culled the most interesting/revealing material below. Click to download from the Rocky Mountain News--warning: it's 34 MB, that's big. 

Download it to your hard drive once for both Eric and Dylan, and then follow these page numbers for Dylan: 

1. Dylan's list coming) -- pp. xxx

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