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>The Cantharide Powder inside The Wall
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>The Cantharide Powder inside The Wall
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>Session 3, ClaudiaTranscript
The Cantharide Powder inside the wall.
>Session 1, All members
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There are many versions behind a crime. Police and investigators always try to update information between the witness and the possible guilty. When I came London, invited for this case, I never expected to find those letters. My colleague, Mr. Pierre Flottes was a remarkable researcher in the field of medicine, but he also was a wonderful researcher in pharmaceuticals, toxicology and biology, and he founded the solution to this enigmatic tale. Our challenge: show how living ideas are contained in stones. The problem with walls is humidity. Weather itself: Sometimes during winter, they become too cold and the moisture starts to condense, and our magnetoscopes and recorders become unuseful tools to register any information.(But these are small details that I must omit if I want to advance for the moment). Let me introduce myself: I can’t be defined as one person: we’re a group of researchers that had been studying the rocks, the stones and subsequentialy, that kind of monumental structure done by man with those materials that sometimes are used to represented walls, statues, etc. (We went to Egypt, Denmark, Pascua’s Island, Java, China, United Kingdom and United States, etc.). Science can call us archeologists, but we are just a kind of “history’s confidents”. Now, in Greenwich, where time is officially an institution, we try to understand the Reformation’s Wall in Geneva. For this topic, we consider necesary to include a small introduction below. Nature The police department of the city asked for information that showed the departure point and analysis that generated the support of our hypotheses. (That meant, this document itself must contain the main information). But they also demanded we write a letter to the local newspaper’s editor. We decided to start with the first request:”There are 16 surviving monuments here and 16 major plaques inscribed upon the rock at Frännarp. The viewer at the site, gazing at the carved designs, might be encouraged or otherwise inspired to look through the dead and beyond, and thus to be encouraged to re-affirm the relationship of respected individuals to their former symbols of prestige. This is, in a way, the concept of the soul in the rock. Also, the way they were constructed shows a circular structure but not necessary homogenic. The ancient Romans used to mix “pozzolana” (volcanic ashes) with lime.The European masons of the Middle Ages obtained the powder of “terracota” grinding pieces of bricks and pottery (occiopesto). The ancient Egyptians obtained calcite (Ca3 ) from the Theban Mountain. After grinding, they put the powder on a fire at the temperature of 800/900°C (Calcination)...”
The reader must find this information boring and also we found that it will wrest the power from our challenge itself, so we decided to formulate what we found relevant in the Reformation wall. Polimorphosis The next step was our appointment with another group of researchers, beginning with an intervention of a young physicologist: Dr. Diu Kill. Dr. K: Feudalism for example, puts into play new relations with animals (the horse), with the earth, with deterritorialisation (the battle of Knights, the Crusade), with women (Knightly love), etc. Around the 11th century, the Invasions, the pillaging hordes, Church’s power, emigrations and the knighthood’s transformation injected into life a new dimension called desire. Dr. Delf: Of course, your domain is only for that period of time or...I misunderstood you?” Dr. K: Desire as desire, it’s the first time in history that takes place. Dr. D: I think you are a man of science and history, but just for one period.You forgot our condition: the human condition, the one and only. For that let me tell you a story that happened when my grandfather was young.. Emancipation’s bed Dr. D: When Time ate his sons, history was old enough to be written. But even for that moment, man desired to rule, to conquer, to eat and of course to love. Rocks and satues were built as a call of desire, as a reason of will. They were a bridge between humanity and Gods. Many powers surrounded man’s environment, many invisible rules blew voices and dreams. One of those men, decided to follow one God. Just one God... But someone came to Earth, and Chaos was his name and for our luck...he was Prometheus’ father. Dr. K: Facts...please, forget acts. Dr. D: If we forget acts, you can’t exist. This is a play. I shall continue... Man as you desired ...Man as we desired... but also in the idea, we contemplate statics if there’s a movement from Earth. Democritus, Galileus, Einstein, Newton...he and she....agents, showed another face...another moon. Questions above God and Gods. Crosses of Blue Blood and Oceans of death’s Red became a game to play. That’s the history you want to. But there’s another face in reflection, in Narcissus, in rejection. There are also characters that change the rules each day. Chaos, yes...a great insurrector for harmony. Prometheus...a metatale...that came true. Fire - a fact in the act. Fire, the ruler of passion, music and desire. Fire, the father of those who moved stones and opened their mouth. Dr. K:....Conclusion? Dr. D: It’s up to you. We don’t have conclusions, the game is open. The door is yours and you decide how to cross it, if you need to. But remember this: in your bed you’ll always have dreams and you won’t know what are they...What do they say...What they never say...And in bed, as dreams visit your eyes, desires visit your lungs... Dr. K: For the moment, please...return to the Reformers...and the Wall. L.Uter: I shall affect to treat it as a forgery, though it is plain enough from what quarter it comes. I send you a copy, that you may see what monsters these Romanists are, who would destroy both our faith and church. Yet I cordially rejoice to suffer these injuries for the best of causes, unworthy as I am to undergo this holy trial. I feel myself now more at liberty, since I am convinced that the pontiff is Antichrist, and his seat of Satan. My only prayer is, that God would preserve his own people from being seduced by his most impious dissimulation. Erasmus writes me word, that the Emperor’s court is filled with needy creatures and obsequious tyrants, so that there is no hope in Charles... Madame von Bing-Bang read (I must introduce her as an epistemologist, that helped us to fix th group material). Later, she added: “As a curious but impressive illustration of the state of things in our own country, we may adduce an account of the ceremony of proclaiming the Pope’s sentence, and the burning of Luther’s book in St. Paul’s Church-yard, as given in the Cottonian MSS. in the British Museum:”Pope’s sentence against Martin Luther, published at London:-The xij daye of Maye in the yeare of our Lord 1521, and in the thirteen yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Henry...there were four Doctors that bare a canope of cloth of gold over him...by the consentinge of the whole clergie of England, by the consentigne of the Pope, against one Martinus Eleuthereus, and all his workes, because he erred sore, and spake against the hollie faithe; and denounced them accursed which kept anoie of his bookes, and there were manie burned in the said church yeard of his said bookes duringe the sermon, which ended, my Lord Cardinall went home to dinner with other prelates”.And after, she added:“On the 17th of December, 1538, while Dr. M. Luther was entertaining some musicians at his house, who sang many sweet tunes and loftly cantatas, he exclaimed in his rapture: “Singing is the best art and exercise. It has nothing in common with the world...”A common link that was shared with another insurrector, a Bang in time : the Marquis of Sade. He also created Partourelles for the village....’o, la nouvelo hurousoThe introduction of those texts, she remarked after, also showed a tendency to not only give to written language (as a vernacular one), relevance towards the printed resource, but also marks a connection that human beings have always had with music, with creation and with arts that rudimentary rules try to hide. She finished with sentences related to Socrates death:
Que venoun d’ anounssa
Darida
Nouste marquis espouso
Uno jouino Beouta
Couci-Couça
Veleissa
Anen lou felicita...cicuta’s choice in prision, Jesuschrist crucifiction, books burnings and murders by the Inquisition, crazy head in the Revolution, silent words of the Insurrection behind Insanity, cleaning towers inside the screen. Prehistory, History. Presocratics and Socratics; before Christ and After Christ. Dualisms, many causes and consequences, many hidden jewkills. Many Cartesians dogmatics down by the law. But time is eating you as human beings.Her final speech.
Dr. Pan-Opt, closed the interventions of that morning that we’ll never forget. He talked about the registrations of sound that we did in the wall itself. “After fifty years of research, we can’t conclude a veridical knowledge. We assume that our interpretation can be close to an answer if it can exist... Whispers from the statues were tapped, but the only voice we had heard was for the statue called Luther. It’s a sign of a strange concentration of forces. As the day starts and the night falls, even in Summer and Winter time, inside this rock several noises appear. Once, Napoleon gave to Geneve the priviledge of neutrality in war but the darkness of power and corruption. Neutrality for contradictions and restoration after changes.Today by the same priviledge, another war takes place.... Humanity tries to name it as the third, but humanity is blind, probably amnesic of pain or slave of trinities. The voice of the statue played chess with the King, with the Queen, but ran away on the black horse of fraternity raping a new Helene, his daughter.”
Carbon 14 He continued the lecture: "The Cantharide powder is well known from Antiquity. But in the rocks we’re searching now - the Reformers - we had found not only volcanic ashes and calcites, we found a strange composition also: cantharide powder. This component is highly toxic: it is possibly produced by insects desecation (Choleoptheres): the Cantharides (Lytta Vesicatoria), the Mylabres (Mylabris cichorii) and the Meloe (Meloe Majalis). It’s an acid anhidride that in contact with water, liberates (as Prometheus, as all the insurrectors), that kind of danger that human beings can not control: desire." The stones contained a disimulated dose, but highly concentrated in Luther’s right eye. But in autopsies in human bodies, is showned that intoxication caused hemorrages in the oesophagus, stomach and intestines; for men, thrombosis in the cavernous tissues; for women, hemorrages in uterus’s mucoses and ovarian perforations."
Dr. Flottes sent his answer punctually to close the last session. For the Newspaper we did a small letter, that promotes new technologies in application of knowledge and education as eternal criteria and politics of living in society. But the smell of ashes, is in our tongue, the one who talks with no voice: The Sphinx of Mind. He finished the speech. For the local Newspaper we did a small letter, that promotes new technologies in application of knowledge and education as eternal criteria to form a political citizen for living in society. But the smell of ashes, is still in our tongue, the one who talks without a voice: The Sphinx of Mind. We forgot to mention that crimes are not always murder or forbidden behaviors. We know about them because of the words and symbols that surround us. For the moment this information is printed for..
After the last examination of the facts around the wall, our prognosis is the following: First: one of the statues is missing - Erasmus. We asume that was stolen by an student exchange group of cultural studies, and it is hidden for rituals. His translation of the New Testament (Greek to Latin) was remarkable not only because he did the first step in grammatological research. He pushed man's idea of freedom to interpret those words by himself (as he did for the translation), avoiding church and bishops and preachers presence. He used technological tools as precursor for developing knowledge by another "Reformer": Guttenberg. But he also drove man to get knowledge by himself with the discipline of reading. He expanded his doctrine to the rest of Europe and created a mental audience that was waiting for his words. In a religious way, he was attached to God but never considered that humanity must die guilty because of the original sin. Later, Luther continued in Germany with this entrerprise: from Latin to German, creating a new writen language: from listening to the view, also applying imprint's sources. He never liberated man from the original sin, but liberated preachers from chastity, he was married and also had children. He composed music, gospel and tunes as symbolic communication with god. He also drove man to work in the sense that is what they can create in Earth as benefit of god's power inside human beings. We also stablished that sin was in terms of fruit: apple (as today is a symbol...of hi-technology). And that man’s weakness is in terms of sexuality. But in general terms, both of them denounced what men never did: church's power abuses with money, land, sexual practices and god's doctrine. Secondly: We found remarkable the research that Dr. Flottes did in the way that also gave us a bridge for the interpretation: The powder cantharic, was founded in the intestines of the Marquis de Sade. This suggested us, that those practices - like autopsy for the case - were valid for the scientific sphere. (We note also, that for Egyptian civilization, it was a normal practice. But for Occidental thinking, it became a hidden practice because of religion; but we know that technology advances are product of this phenomena, and even during war times, prisioners become not only a political tool...they're also a microscopic "dessert" for those gourments). The paradox we found is also in terms of the rocks. The Marquis was a prisoner in a psychiatric asylum, not because of the "presuntus" schizoid of his mind, just because of the ideas he promoted in his texts, related to scientific researches, sexuality, political and literature positions. He "reformed" a civil participation with emancipation's ideas as selfish discipline, a "daily" pleasure routine for living (extended not only to a sexual impulse in fact, to all human's capabilities), abolishment of mental slavism and invisible chains. He also destroyed the family as cell of and for the State. Those topics for Occidental "ethicology" were refutables, repugnant and cacophonous. How to punish those "new" ideas? How to forget those words? How to condemn that crime? Walls became the tool. Society was afraid of such monster that lived with them, but society was afraid also to kill him. (Society is always afraid and that’s why it assumes the chains. And freedom operates in those dimensions). The murs practice not was only avaible for monks. Prisoners were practicants: also writing and printing became an alias for them. In fact, Reformers are Protestants: they promote a direct confrontation face to face with a theory (or point of view) that is not longer available. If they exist, it is just to broker space, time and human condition (we must include Einstein's theories). Reformers too much: Each day they have glory for History. Insurrectors, few: They appeared in "history" as a black hole and history tries also to hide them as a chapter that must be burned in eternal flames. (Insurrectors can create, can transform, can also transgress a not "old" conception into a "new" one, by the interpretations of universe that they've done, man belongs not only to an homocentrus system of action, man acts with forces that rule not only one perception of space and time. They knocked in a silent word that they decided to cross, like a transfluvialis way of knowledge related not only to science, but in both cases, those phenomena (Reformers and Insurrector's-team had been punished for the other one: State's-team, just in the instant that they arrived to the surface. For our research on rocks, the material itself became a metaphorical way to express human conditions in aspects like adoration, as the link between human existence and universe -sometimes take the name of Gods or God-; and also as separation between life and death, (polis and necropolis), as representation of space: polis and necropolis, and as representation of time registered in pain, punishment, words and memory. But the smell of ashes, is still in our tongue, the one who talks without a voice: The Sphinx of Mind. We forgot to mention that crimes are not always murder or forbidden behaviors. We know about them because of the words and symbols that surround us. For the moment this information is printed for Boy-cut Day. We also assumed that the "first" printing was sculpted in rock by hands - made with out ink - in rock. Just whispers around the wall...