Unabomber Writes a Parable for University’s Student Magazine

The Unabomber isn’t done writing, not by a longshot.

His manifesto behind him and his memoir only weeks from release, Theodore Kaczynski has written a parable for a magazine produced by students at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

“Ship of Fools” tells of passengers and crew who spend their time griping about personal injustices instead of taking over the vessel from an insane crew. The boat eventually crashes into two icebergs and everyone dies.

Kaczynski wrote the 11-page tale from his Colorado prison cell at the request of senior Tim LaPietra.

“What I get from it is that he’s saying people who are leftist shouldn’t waste their time with what he calls reform, such as equal wages and equal treatment for women,” LaPietra said. “The main issue is we have to stop the industrial machine before it takes away all of our humanity.”

The story, to be published next month in Off magazine, has been posted on the Web site of Context Books, the publisher that is handling Kaczynski’s memoir, “Truth Versus Lies.”

Captured in 1996, Kaczynski confessed to being the elusive Unabomber who killed three people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995 with homemade bombs. He was sentenced to life in prison.