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brotherhood of vigilantes.

Then begins

The Holy War of

the Scorpion Zone.

Accompanied by 50 Gachos

immunized against bullets,

He invades the hideout of the treasure

accumulated by the Nogueira family

and in a burst of xenophobia

he captures and burns alive

all the women and children.

Colonel Joo Pinto enters the war

against his former partner,

launching himself,

an edition of the almanac,

exposing Dr. Artur to

ridiculous anecdotes

and denouncing the illegal

practice of witchcraft.

And this coincides with the

great stock market crash in New York.

A climate of despair and demoralization.

Don Tom de Alarco,

registrar of Calicut,

measured Nogueira's zone of influence.

Rio Vermelho village:

Isolated groups of archers

killed the mayor while

the shops are invaded

by crazy chavs with knives and sticks.

So Pedro do Sabia village:

founded by Mendes S in 1558,

plagued by smallpox.

People try to save

the smuggling of Japanese electronics.

Santiago village:

occupied by hungry cannibal Princes,

who, in the absence of human flesh

eat the forbidden turtle

and have their livers explode.

Bom Jesus de Tataquara village:

Depreciation of

acrylic objects,

illuminated signs,

residential complexes in the jungle.

The poet mayor

is electrocuted by

his electric typewriter

while writing a sonnet

on the Paulo Afonso Falls.

Against Dr. Artur

the blood cortege is made,

leaving the convent of the barefoot.

The Viceroy went unshod

with a rope around his neck

and the lady Viceroy

asking God for mercy.

His courtiers, with bones and bits

in their mouths

and daunting blood penitences.

The gentlemen and plebeians followed,

with the clerks, their shaven heads

covered with ashes,

and robes of sackcloth and herbs.

For his part, Dr. Arthur makes

the sacrifice of a loom

whose ashes are spread by the wind

to cause the dispersion

of enemy gatherings.

In his mouth,

a piece of rock crystal.

Malaria, tuberculosis and alcoholism

raged in Santa Cruz.

On the last day

he was caught explaining to Indian boys

that in the Tower of Babel

there were 72 languages

while in the Babel of the Amazon River

over 150 are already known.

He hung on a tree

eating raw and disgusting meat,

a dog's ear, snake's tail and slugs.

He cried... eyes so swollen

that they looked like two breasts.

Robledo Lpez, a mestizo

sucks a feather from

a bird from paradise

and becomes invisible,

managing to escape the area

to bring information to

the Earl of Ficalho

and to the noble Marquis Don

Luiz de Souza de Telo Menezes,

who tightens the enclosure.

Four old men I met in 1955

survivors of the Iv region

and who had been

supporters of Dr. Arthur,

tell that his wife,

Grimanesa Le Petit,

of whom the couple was

the only stable reality,

disguised by a mechanical head

with beard, mustache

and moving chin,

invented by the famous

Venetian Bustefanini,

in a fit of jealousy, which had

nothing to do with the struggles,

killed her husband with

a number which suggests that

she was helped by others.

In February, in the middle of Carnival

his corpse is revealed.

Lying in the cottages near to Matara.

Under a small layer of earth,

the sad sudarium

of a sheet is revealed,

the body of the infamous

and barbarous doctor.

It was hideous.

The head tormented with a crown,

hands and feet with spikes

the back with lash marks.

His hair was plucked,

the skin abraded,

veins ripped,

and nerves stretched.

Bones disjointed,

the blood, shed.

He was carefully unearthed,

and then photographed.

They decided to cut

and store his head,

so many times damned.

They brought that skull to the coast

for science to have the last word.

There, in the relief of his

cerebral convolutions

scientists have found the

essential lines

of Crime and Madness.

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