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his love life.

In the beginning, it was only

a simple inability

to act aggressively.

He spoke to himself as he would

to an almanac reader

"This soft nervousness,

this little headache which torments him

all those black ideas which bother him,

suggest that his intestines

are in need of a corrective"

But on April 25th

strange symptoms started

coinciding with

unexpected atmospheric phenomena.

Needles in the body,

cold sweats,

anxiety and intense diarrhea

in the morning.

He immediately loses his ability

to distinguish

the 13 flavors of coffee.

Crossing the sky of the Scorpion Zone

the same comet

to which, in 1577, the loss

of El Rey Sebastian is attributed.

The astronomer

Palatare Navarra y Rocafur comments:

This comet becomes worse each year.

The following week,

Dr. Artur worsens

generalized tremors, gripes,

loss of senses and

a state of shock,

painful cramps and vertigo.

He misinterprets his symptons

as abuse of "Spanish Fly"

that he has eaten

as the elixir of youth.

May 1 was the eclipse of the sun

Father Diogo Laines reports:

Dr. Arthur, seeing something so noble

as the darkening of the sun

against every natural order, explained:

Either God is delusional,

or the world machine is crumbling.

Late in May,

the symptoms reaches their apex.

Visual disturbances, the so-called

'scintillating scotomatas'

Retention of urine for 24 hours.

Blood from the nose and gums.

A voice tells him:

Defend yourself,

or you'll be annihilated.

Amazing growth of hair.

Psychical excitation, resulting

sometimes, in intense erotic delirium.

When detained at home

he rips all nearby objects.

Frequent bouts of self-mutilation,

trying to bite his own buttocks,

where, he said,

the harmful virus was inoculated.

Some men have to listen carefully

although things still don't make sense.

It is unique characters,

like Dr. Joo de Laparilla Duque

author of

The Warnings of Mrs. Truth

Gaspar Barata de Mendona,

expert on rituals of mummification

Elesbo das Chagas

Corroded by ideas

and blue-blooded worms

Plutarco Benimou, mystic,

small industrialist.

On July 10 arises the turning point.

At midday

Dr. Artur was inspecting the village

with his movie camera

amid hallucinations

of Euclides da Cunha.

Beasts wrapped in bloody bandages,

broken arms in slings

crooked legs, feet deformed

by swelling, pierced with thorns,

breasts sewn with bullets or

knitted with knives.

All the traumas and all the miseries.

At five in the afternoon

It was just five in the afternoon.

A boy brought the white sheet

at five in the afternoon.

A basket of lime made ready

at five in the afternoon.

The rest was death and only death

at five in the afternoon.

The wind blew the cotton wool away

at five in the afternoon.

And oxide scattered nickel and glass

at five in the afternoon.

Now the dove and the leopard fight

at five in the afternoon.

And a thigh with a desolate horn

at five in the afternoon.

The bass-pipe sound began

at five in the afternoon.

The bells of arsenic, the smoke

at five in the afternoon.

Silent crowds on corners

at five in the afternoon.

And only the bull with risen heart!

at five in the afternoon.

When the snow-sweat appeared

at five in the afternoon.

when the arena was splashed with iodine

at five in the afternoon.

death laid its eggs in the wound

at five in the afternoon.

At five in the afternoon.

At just five in the afternoon.

A coffin on wheels for his bed

at five in the afternoon.

Bones and flutes sound in his ear

at five in the afternoon.

Now the bull bellows on his brow

at five in the afternoon.

The room glows with agony

at five in the afternoon.

Now out of distance gangrene comes

at five in the afternoon.

Wounds burning like suns

at five in the afternoon,

and the people smashing windows

at five in the afternoon.

At five in the afternoon.

Ay, what a fearful

five in the afternoon!

It was five on every clock!

It was five of a dark afternoon!

At 11pm he announces to his friend

Gonsalo Anise Bandarra

"I saw Satan fall from heaven

like a lightning bolt"

Evidence:
He displays his back

covered with third degree burns

with the formation of scabs.

And a pine tree charred

and still smoking.

On the shadow of

this pine, on May 21, 1888

rested Dom Pedro II,

the imperial family

and the imperial entourage,

on their way to Curitiba.

It was the last warning.

Dr. Arthur left home and country

to preach under the most

harmful weather in the Torrid Zone.

And he had the dramatic revelation

of his true name:

'Ober'

which means:
'Splendor'.

In his files and recorded tapes

he reviewed the history of

his precursors in the region.

A supposed So Laureno who preached

imminent universal combustion

and organized shows with

five thousand settlers

confessing in the public square.

El Corregedor, who forced Indians

to worship him at the weekend

against the wishes of his wife.

His saliva

was a powerful ally

in the fight against malaria.

He taught the perforation of the nose

to eliminate maternal blood,

focusing on men.

He was hanged

Dr. Arthur crosses this

initial period amid visions.

His fixed idea is:

"The 2000 will not come".

He travels through thought to

the land of the illustrious dead

and shows an old Europe

for generations without vigour.

A specter is haunting Europe

The 2000 will not come.

Only the chosen ones

from The Scorpion Zone

will escape the ultimate night.

The order is:

Give up all that the foreigner brought.

Nylon thread, cosmetics,

canned food,

the combustion engine.

To preserve tradition

European food is prohibited.

It produces a diabolical body weight.

The body must be preserved

through starvation,

until its lightness

finds the path to heaven.

His father, The Sun,

sent him a daily newsletter

with instructions for the government of

the world and the restoration of empire.

Dr. Artur memorized everything.

Technical details about

the coming flood.

Schedules for the pursuit

of earthly paradise.

Fact sheets about present and future

foreign kings to overcome.

And a pilgrimage route

to the land without evil

which the Guaranis have sought

since the 16th century.

One of the oldest messianic thefts known

happened in 1549.

a Jesuit imprisonment in Bahia

Guided by two shamans who claimed

to be the creators of sky and thunder.

They tried to cross

the South American continent.

The shamans staged

dances and prescriptions.

Strict rituals aimed at preserving

the culture preserved.

They healed the sick and bald,

explained the filigree of the doctrine.

The Indians were dying along the way

They sought the land

of heroic immortality.

and everlasting rest.

in Xaxapias, Peru

Dr. Arthur made no effort to attract

the cangaceiros and fanatics.

He preferred to play with time

because time is the key to strategy

He settled on the river in Cari

which housed four parishes,

protective of lepers.

It was the period of inner purification.

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