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<strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Werber</strong>


The Thanatonautes<br />

.Man has explored everything: the world of space, the<br />

underwater world, the underworld, yet it lacks the<br />

knowledge a world, the continent of the dead. This is the<br />

next frontier. Michael Pinson and his friend Raoul<br />

Razorbak, two young researchers without complex and<br />

want to meet this challenge, using the techniques medicine<br />

but also the most modern of Astronautics, leave to the<br />

discovery of paradise. Their name? The Thanatonautes.<br />

The Greek Thanatos (god death) and communities<br />

(browser). Their guide? The Tibetan Book of the Dead, the<br />

Egyptian Book of the Dead but the great myths and sacred<br />

texts of virtually all religions that seem to always have knew<br />

what the last trip and the “true” paradise. Little<br />

Thanatonautes little stand at the map of the world unknown<br />

and discover the vast and fabulous scenery. Ministry word<br />

terra incognita back together, day after day, learn what<br />

happens to us after releasing our last breath.<br />

<strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Werber</strong>, a young French novelist reflects the world<br />

world, is known for The Day The Ants and Ants (Price of<br />

readers of Elle, Readers’ Choice Award of the paperback).<br />

SA specialty: philosophical tales tinged adventure and<br />

humor. In modern Dante, we took this time in a breathtaking<br />

journey many of us will come back “changed”.


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Thanatonautes nm (Greek thanatos, death, and<br />

communities, browser). Explorer of death.


MANUAL OF HISTORY


DATES TO REMEMBER<br />

1492 Started in the Americas<br />

1969 First steps on the Moon<br />

2062 Started on the continent of the dead<br />

First 2068 ads on their way to the Queen


carnation<br />

Handbook of elementary classrooms second year.<br />

FIRST TIME: TIME-yourselfers<br />

1 - MANUAL OF HISTORY<br />

Formerly, all men were afraid of death. She was as a<br />

permanent background noise that no one forgot second.<br />

Everyone knew that after all his actions are was his own<br />

demise. And all this anxiety spoiled pleasures.<br />

Woody Allen, an American philosopher of the late twentieth<br />

century, had a phrase to describe the state of mind<br />

prevailed in those days ia: “As long as man is mortal, he<br />

can not be really relaxed. “<br />

History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

2 - DIARY OF MICHAEL FINCH<br />

Am I allowed to tell everything?<br />

Even now, in retrospect, I can not believe that what


happened really happened. I can not I believe that<br />

participated in this great epic. And I hard to believe that I<br />

survived to testify.<br />

Of course, nobody could imagine that everything would and<br />

so far so fast. Nobody.<br />

What pushed us into this madness? I do not know no.<br />

Maybe something stupid called the curiosity. The same<br />

curiosity that makes us want to We lean over the canyons to<br />

see us<br />

how our fall would be horrible if we did not have a<br />

more.<br />

Perhaps the need for adventure in a world of<br />

increasingly idle and dispassionate.<br />

Some say: “It was registered, it had to happen as well. “But<br />

I do not believe in pre-written destiny. I believe that men<br />

make choices and that they take. This These are the<br />

choices that shape the destinies and these choices men<br />

may draw the universe.<br />

I remember everything, every episode of every word, every<br />

expression of this great adventure.


Am I allowed to tell you everything?<br />

Battery: I tell. Front: I keep the secret.


Stack<br />

If I had to seek the origins of all events that are chained, I<br />

would have to go back far, far later in my own past.<br />

3 - FACT POLICE


Demand for basic descriptive information<br />

Name: Pinson Name: Michael Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown<br />

Size: 75 1 m Distinguishing features: None Comment: A<br />

pioneer of the movement Thanatonautes Weakness: Lack<br />

of confidence<br />

4 - AT DUPONT’S ALL GOOD<br />

Like all children, there was the day for me M, the discovery<br />

of death. My first death was just a man accustomed to living<br />

among the dead. It was Mr. Smith, our butcher. His motto<br />

was registered large print in his window: “At Dupont’s all<br />

good. ” One morning my mother told me we could not buy<br />

filet mignon at home tomorrow because Sunday<br />

10<br />

Mr. Smith was dead. He was crushed by a carcass<br />

Charolais beef that had unexpectedly stalled. I was about<br />

four years. At point-blank, I asked my mother what it meant<br />

the word “DEATH” My mother was as embarrassed as the


day I asked him if her birth control pills could cure my<br />

cough.<br />

She lowered her eyes.<br />

- Well, uh, being dead, it means “no longer there.” - As you<br />

leave the room? - Not just a room. It is also leaving the<br />

home, city, country. - Travelling far, then? Like when you<br />

hand in holidays? - Uh … no, not exactly. Because when<br />

one is death, it does not move. - It does not move and it<br />

goes away? It’s great! How is this possible? It is perhaps<br />

this clumsy attempt to explain the death of the butcher<br />

Dupont was born in me ground of curiosity which, much<br />

later, Raoul Razorbak able to germinate his delusions.<br />

Finally at least that’s what it seems.<br />

Three months later, when I was told that my arrièregrand-<br />

Aglaia mother was dead, too, I said, paraîtil “Even Aglaia is<br />

dead? So there, I’d be surprised she is able! “Furious, my<br />

great-grandfather rolled his eyes and uttered this terrible<br />

sentence I never forget:<br />

- But you do not know that death is the thing most horrible<br />

that can happen! No. I didn’t know the answer.<br />

- Oh … I thought … I stammered. - Do not mess with these<br />

things! added to it drive the point home. If there is<br />

something with which we were not kidding, it’s death! My<br />

father took over. Everyone wanted me to understand that


death was an absolute taboo. We do not talk about no, it<br />

does not mention it, if you pronounce his name, it is with<br />

fear and respect. Under no circumstances we can not<br />

pronounce the word in vain, it is bad luck. It shook me.<br />

- Your great-grandmother died Aglaia. It’s horrible. And if<br />

you were not heartless … you cry! It must be said that since<br />

the dawn, my brother Conrad, he, flowed like a mop<br />

bathrooms that drained. Oh, when people die, we must cry?<br />

We do I said nothing. Things that go without saying are<br />

better by saying.<br />

To help me cry, my father, exasperated by my arrogance<br />

juvenile, also gave me a pair of slaps. That way, he hoped, I<br />

remember: one, the sentence “Death is the most horrible<br />

thing that can happen” and two, that “we do not mess with<br />

these things.”<br />

- Why did not you cry? I insisted again father returning from<br />

the funeral of great-mother Aglaia. - Leave him alone,<br />

Michael was only five years, he knows not even what death<br />

is, I defended my softly mother. - He knows very well but he<br />

thinks only of himself, then the indifferent to the death of<br />

others. You’ll see, when we die, He will not cry either!<br />

There, I began to understand that no good not Mess with<br />

death. After that, once you told me a passage from life to


death, I forced myself to think very something very very sad<br />

… of spinach leaves boiled, for example. Tears came<br />

easily and it was nice to everyone.<br />

Then I had a more direct contact with death. In fact: to<br />

seven years, it was me who died. The event occurred in<br />

February, on a beautiful clear day. It must be said that we<br />

had had previously a very mild January and is very common<br />

that a mild January succeeding February 1 very sunny.<br />

5 - WHERE THE HERO DIES IN A ROW<br />

Look out! - Woe … - “My God!” - Beware! Do not you see<br />

that it will … - Noooo !!!!!! Long screech of brakes. And<br />

muffled thud. I run. after my ball that had rolled on the floor<br />

and bumper of the sports car I picked green just below<br />

knees where the skin is more tender. My feet took off the<br />

ground. I was catapulted into the sky.<br />

The air whistled in my ears. I flew above the ground. A fresh<br />

wind blew through my mouth open. Down there, further<br />

down, the onlookers peered me, terrified.<br />

A woman screamed when she saw me raise me. Blood<br />

escaped from my pants, forming a puddle on the asphalt.<br />

Everything happened in slow motion. I was flying at the roof,<br />

watching the silhouettes flapping in the attic. For the first<br />

time, then arises the question in my mind which obsessed<br />

me so often afterwards: “But what I’m doing here? “


Yes, at that moment, suspended in a fraction of the sky<br />

time, I realized that I did not understand.<br />

Who I am ?<br />

Where am I?<br />

Where i am going?<br />

Eternal questions. Everyone puts them one day. I<br />

I placed them in that moment when I died.<br />

I went up very high. I went down very quickly. My<br />

shoulder struck the hood of the green sports car. Th<br />

bounce and my head went up against the curb. Cra<br />

cally. Thud. Frightened faces bent over<br />

for me?<br />

I wanted to talk, but I could not do anything, or say, or move.<br />

Sunlight began to decline slowly. In February, the sun is still<br />

shy. We feels that April Showers will not be long. The sky


gradually died out. Soon I was in the dark, the with silence.<br />

More smell, more feeling, nothing. Curtain I was just seven<br />

years and I came to die for the first<br />

first time.<br />

6 - ADVERTISING<br />

“Life is beautiful. Do not listen to gossip. Life is Beautiful.<br />

Life is a product tested and approved by more seventy<br />

billion humans from three million years. This is proof of its<br />

quality irreplaceable. “<br />

This is a message from the ANPV, National Agency for the<br />

promotion of life.<br />

7 - MANUAL OF HISTORY<br />

Until the advent of Thanatonautes, death was considered a<br />

major taboo of mankind. To better fight against the image,<br />

the men had use of mental processes might be labeled<br />

superstitions. Some believed, for example, that metal<br />

medal with the effigy of Saint Christopher, hanging a<br />

dashboard, allowing to avoid fatal accidents of cars.<br />

Before the twenty-first century, and commonly joked: “In Car<br />

accident is the driver with the most large St. Christopher


who has the better chance of escape. “<br />

History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

8 - WHERE THE HERO DIES UNDER WE COULD<br />

BELIEVE<br />

Standby Nothing horrible happened.<br />

Great-great-grandfather was wrong. Dying was not so awful<br />

than that. There was nothing going on and that was it.<br />

The dark and silence lasted a long time.<br />

14<br />

Finally, I opened my eyes. A slender figure appeared in a<br />

halo of light opaque. An angel, surely.<br />

The angel leaned over me. The angel looked strangely a<br />

woman but a beautiful woman as never see on earth. She<br />

was blonde, with eyes browns.<br />

Her perfume smelled of apricots.<br />

Around us, everything was white and serene.


I must be in heaven because the angel smiled at me.<br />

- Wow … udéen … Eatua … uh. The angels had to speak a<br />

language to them. Jargon Angel incomprehensible to nonangels.<br />

- Fou … Nafha … ludéhen … éatuheu. She repeated this<br />

chant with patience and handed me his hands soft and<br />

fresh on my forehead smooth rough child.<br />

- You … do … more … temperature. I looked around,<br />

somewhat dazed. What’s up? Do you understand me?<br />

There are no more Truck Temperature Where am I?<br />

Paradise? No! In the ICU of the hospital Saint-Louis. The<br />

angel reassured me.<br />

- You are not dead. You have just a few contusions. You’re<br />

lucky that the hood of the car have amortized your fall. You<br />

do a big slash the knees. - I fainted? - Yes, for three hours. I<br />

lost consciousness for three hours and I do<br />

had no memory! Not the slightest idea or scrap of<br />

sensation. During these three hours, nothing happened.<br />

The nurse placed the pillow under my kidneys for I can sit<br />

more comfortably. Maybe I was death for three hours but<br />

that does me neither hot nor cold.<br />

What caused me to heated headache, however, this was


the arrival of my family. They were all very friendly and<br />

sobbing like I really gave up the ghost. They claimed to<br />

have made a lot of concern for me. “We<br />

We did a blood ink, “they said exactly. I felt that they<br />

regretted a little that I me am from. If I were dead, they<br />

would have so much regret. Suddenly, I acquired all the<br />

virtues.<br />

9 - FACT POLICE<br />

Subject: Psychological Inquiry


on a Michael Pinson<br />

The subject to be studied seem generally normal. However,<br />

we detect home some psychological fragility caused by a<br />

family circle too stuffy. The subject lives permanently in the<br />

doubt. For him, the last speaker is always right. He does<br />

not know what will. He does not understand his time. Slight<br />

paranoid tendencies.<br />

Please note that the parents never saw fit to reveal about<br />

above named he was an adopted child.<br />

10 - A VULTURE<br />

This first trip out of life had taught me nothing of really<br />

interesting about the death, if it was remain for a long time<br />

source of trouble with my family.<br />

Later, to my eight, nine, I’m more interested to death, but<br />

this time of others. Mus exhibited clear that television every<br />

night to News of the dead in twenty hours do you want in<br />

here. It First there was the dead of wars. Those were green<br />

and red uniforms. Then there was the deceased road<br />

vacation: colorful clothes. Had finally the dead famous<br />

dress with sequins.<br />

On television, everything was simpler than in life. We<br />

immediately understood that death was sad because the


images were accompanied by funeral music. The<br />

television, even children and the weak could Understanding<br />

The dead of war were entitled to Beethoven symphony, the<br />

deceased vacation “to a<br />

16<br />

concertino Vivaldi and stars to the victims of overdose<br />

Mozart slow cello.<br />

I did not fail to note that once a star died, his record sales<br />

soared, his films came and went on television and<br />

everyone spoke well of the deceased. As if death had<br />

erased all his sins. Even stronger: their death did not<br />

prevent artists to work. The best records of John Lennon,<br />

Jimmy Hendrix or Jim Morrison were appeared on the<br />

market long after their death.<br />

My next was the funeral of Uncle Norbert. A great guy, it<br />

was said in the funeral procession. This is there also I<br />

heard for the first time the famous expression: “It is always<br />

best to leave the first. “I was only eight years, but I could not<br />

help to think, “So there, all around, leaving only the bad? “<br />

At the funeral it, I showed impeccable. From the departure<br />

of the convoy, I concentrated on spinach branches boiled. I


sobbed louder than ever in adding to anchovies. Even my<br />

brother Conrad was unable to raise the height of my tears.<br />

Arriving at the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise, I added in<br />

addition to the menu of my tears broccoli and brains raw<br />

lamb. Berk. I almost fainted with disgust. In the small crowd,<br />

someone whispered, “I did not know Michael was so tied to<br />

Uncle Norbert. “My mother noticed that the fact was all the<br />

more surprising that I had, in a word, never met.<br />

Nevertheless, I discovered the recipe for successful burial:<br />

spinach branches, anchovies, broccoli and lamb brains.<br />

Memorable day it was because, in addition, I met<br />

for the first time Razorbak Raoul.<br />

We were gathered at the grave of my late uncle<br />

Norbert when I noticed a little further what<br />

first appeared to me like a vulture sitting on a sepulcher<br />

ture. It was not a bird of prey. It was Raoul.<br />

Taking advantage of a moment of inattention - after all I<br />

provided my quota of tears - I went to the dark


silhouette. A kind of big stakes sat alone on a tombstone,<br />

staring at the sky.<br />

- Hello, I say politely. What are you doing? Silence Up<br />

close, the vulture seemed a kid. He was thin, gaunt<br />

cheekbones jut left in horn-rimmed glasses. His hands<br />

were slender and refined put on his pants as two spiders<br />

quiet awaiting the orders of their master. The boy hung his<br />

head and looked at me with a calmness and a depth that I<br />

had never met in someone just about my age.<br />

I repeated my question:<br />

- So, what are you doing here? A hand-spider went up as<br />

fast as the North Slope his coat to file in a long straight<br />

nose.<br />

- You can tu me, he said solemnly. He explained at last - I<br />

am the grave of my father. I try to receive if he has things to<br />

say. I giggled. He hesitated before bursting out laughing in<br />

turn. It There was nothing else to do than make fun of a child<br />

lean spent hours on a grave to wait while scroll watching the<br />

clouds.<br />

What is your name? - Raoul Razorbak. You can call me<br />

Raoul. And you? - Michael Pinson. You can call me<br />

Michael. I gauge. - Pinson? For a lark, you seem a strange<br />

a bird. I tried to keep composure. There was a phrase


passepartout I had been taught in such a situation delicate.<br />

- He who says that is. He burst out laughing again. 11 -<br />

FACT POLICE


Demand for basic descriptive information<br />

Name: Razorbak<br />

Name: Raoul<br />

Hair: Brown<br />

Eyes: Brown<br />

Size: 90 1 m<br />

Distinguishing features: Safety glasses<br />

Comments: A pioneer of the movement Thanatonautes<br />

Weakness: Too much self-confidence<br />

12 - FRIENDSHIP<br />

Subsequently, Raoul and I took the habit of found in the<br />

cemetery of Pere-Lachaise every Wednesday afternoon. I<br />

liked walking along its long lean silhouette. In addition,<br />

there were always stories fantastic to tell me.<br />

- We were born too late, Michael. - Why? - Because<br />

everything has already been invented, everything has<br />

already been explored. My dream was to be the first man to<br />

invent the powder or electricity, if only to make the first a<br />

bow and arrow. I would merely nothing. “But everything has


already been discovered. The reality goes faster that<br />

science-fiction. There is more inventors, as followers.<br />

People who perfected what some have discovered long<br />

ago. The last to have known this fantastic impression of<br />

deflowering a new world, it has to be Einstein. You imagine<br />

the giddiness in the head when he understood that one<br />

could calculate the speed of light!<br />

No, I had imagined it. Raoul looked at me, sorry.<br />

- You should read more books, Michael. The world is<br />

divided into two categories of people: those who read<br />

books and those who listen to those who have read books.<br />

Better is belong to the first category, believe me. I replied<br />

that he spoke just like a book and we laughed together. To<br />

each his own role: Raoul recited<br />

truths, I was joking, and then we esclaffer together. In fact,<br />

we laughed about anything like hunchbacks.<br />

Still, Raoul had read Razorbak quantities of books. It was<br />

he also who gave me the love of reading let me know the<br />

authors, in his words, “No razors” Rabelais, Edgar Allan<br />

Poe, Lewis Carroll,<br />

HG Wells, Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Philip


K. Dick. - The writers’ no razors, “there is not much, Raoul<br />

explained. Most authors found that more they are<br />

incomprehensible, the more they seem intelligent. So they<br />

stretch their sentences of twenty lines. They get then literary<br />

prizes, and then people buy their books to decorate their<br />

living room and to convince people coming home they are<br />

able to read things as sophisticated. I even look at books<br />

where nothing was happening. Absolutely nothing. A fellow<br />

comes, sees a woman, the dredge. She tells him she does<br />

not know if she lies or not sleep with him. After eight<br />

hundred pages, she finally decides to announce that<br />

decidedly it is not. - But what interest is there to write books<br />

in which he does absolutely nothing happens? I inquired. -<br />

Lack of ideas. Poverty of imagination. Hence biographies<br />

and autobiographies, biographies and autobiographies<br />

romanticized … Writers unable to invent a world can only<br />

describe their world, so poor it is. Same literature, there<br />

are more inventors. So, for lack of substance authors lick<br />

their style, fignolent form. Described on ten long pages with<br />

your troubles and get a boil good chance of winning the<br />

Goncourt. Shared giggles.<br />

- Believe me, if Homer’s Odyssey was published for the<br />

first time today, not even appear in the lists of best sellers. It<br />

would be classified with the books of fantasy and horror.<br />

There would be kids like us who would read for the stories<br />

of Cyclops, the sorceress, siren and other monsters. Raoul<br />

was born with the rare ability to judge for himself


the same. He did not repeat learnedly made ideas<br />

serinées on television or in newspapers. I think that’s what<br />

attracted me as a home, this freedom of spirit, resistance<br />

to all influences. Gave thanks to him his father. He was<br />

professor of philosophy, he pointed out, and had taught him<br />

a love of books. Raoul read about a day. Mostly fantasy<br />

books or science fiction.<br />

- The secret of freedom is the library, he liked to say. 13 - IT<br />

IS NEVER ENOUGH SLEEP In her womb<br />

A Wednesday afternoon when sitting on a bench, we<br />

consider silence in the clouds above the fray cemetery,<br />

Raoul pulled out a thick book of his satchel. The opening,<br />

he showed me a page he had to cut in a book on ancient<br />

mythology before Paste<br />

There was a picture of an Egyptian boat and different<br />

characters. He commented:<br />

- In the center of the nave is Ra, the sun god. A deceased<br />

kneels before him. From both sides, stand two other<br />

deities: Isis and Nephthys. Of his hand left, Isis and<br />

indicates a direction in his right hand, she brandishing an<br />

ankh, the symbol of eternity that awaits the traveling the<br />

afterlife. - The Egyptians believed in an afterlife? Of course!<br />

There, on the far left of the image, it is recognized Anubis


with the head of a jackal. He is the guide accompany the<br />

deceased, who is holding a urn containing his stomach and<br />

intestines. I held a start-core. Raoul adopted a professorial<br />

tone:<br />

- “Any death must ensure that one steals his point guts,<br />

“says a proverb of ancient Egypt. He turned the page from<br />

other images.<br />

- Here the death climbing turn into the boat. It is<br />

is hosted by Ra in person or by a pig. Pork devours the<br />

souls of the damned in hell he led the curses rife cruel<br />

executioners that they will suffer a thousand torments<br />

through their crooked fingers terminated by long nails to a<br />

point.<br />

- What a horror! Raoul advised me early in my show less<br />

judgments.<br />

- If it is Ra himself who agrees to receive the death<br />

everything will be better. The deceased will move up<br />

alongside the gods, and the boat starts to slip, hauled<br />

along the shore by a long rope which is actually a living<br />

boa. Sweet. Raoul looked up to heaven. With my<br />

enthusiasm and my disgust alternating, I began to


exasperate him. It continued, however. After all, I was his<br />

only audience.<br />

- This is a nice boa snake away enemies of light. He did his<br />

best but it is another reptile, wicked one, Apophis, the<br />

incarnation of Seth, the god of Mali, It revolves around the<br />

boat to capsize. Sometimes it leaves the water and spits<br />

fire. He twirls the boat and jumped out of the water in the<br />

hope of the soul swallow terrified of the deceased. If this is<br />

correct, the nave of death moves on and slides along the<br />

underground river which crosses the twelve lower worlds.<br />

There are many pitfalls to avoid. We must enter the gates of<br />

Hell, around the aquatic monsters, demons to protect<br />

flywheels. But if the dead passes all his tests, he … To my<br />

dismay, Raoul stopped.<br />

- Will continue next week. It is already seven hours, my<br />

mother will worry. My frustration amused him.<br />

- All in good time. Do not be impatient. The next night, for<br />

the first time I dreamed that I flew, piercing the clouds. I was<br />

like a bird. No, I was a bird. And I flew, I flew … And then<br />

suddenly, at the turn of a cumulus cloud I saw a woman<br />

dressed in white. She was sitting on a cloud and was very<br />

beautiful. His body was young and slender. I approached<br />

and saw that she held a mask in his hand. I m’appro


cellar again and then I had a start of terror. The mask was<br />

only a skeleton, skull, death, with empty eye sockets, a<br />

mouth without lips frozen grin. I woke up perspiration. With<br />

one bound, I rushed to the bathroom, put my head under the<br />

tap for cold water to wash away this nightmare.<br />

The next morning at breakfast, I asked my mother:<br />

- Mom, you think you can fly like birds? My accident would<br />

have it a little disturbed? It gave me a look weird.<br />

- Stop talking nonsense and eat your cereal. 14 -<br />

Mesopotamian mythology<br />

“Where are you, Gilgamesh? The life you are looking for<br />

You will not find When the gods created men They<br />

destinèrent their death And for them they kept Eternal life. “<br />

The Epic of Gilgamesh.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

15 - Raoul is Maboul<br />

Every time we met at the cemetery Père-Lachaise, Raoul<br />

and I were talking about death. Come on .. Raoul spoke of<br />

death, and I listened. Nothing morbid dirty or macabre in<br />

these discussions. We discussing death as an interesting<br />

phenomenon, the same way that we could talk about aliens


or motorcycles.<br />

- I have a dream, ‘I said. I wanted to tell the story of the<br />

woman in satin white skeleton mask sitting in the sky but it<br />

does left me no time. From the outset, he interrupted me:<br />

- I too had a dream. I used to make a trolley<br />

fire. I climbed and horses of fire led me to the sun. I had to<br />

go through circles of fire get closer to the star and I crossed<br />

circles, better I seemed to understand things.<br />

I learned later that it was not by chance that Raoul was<br />

interested in death. One evening while returning from<br />

school, He came straight to the bathroom and there he<br />

discovered his father hanging from the toilet. Francis had<br />

Razorbak Professor of philosophy at the Lycee Jean<br />

Jaures in Paris.<br />

Francis Razorbak he had discovered something so<br />

interesting about the afterlife that he wanted to leave this<br />

world?<br />

Raoul was convinced. His father would not have killed by<br />

sadness or anger. He was dead for a better understanding<br />

Mystery… My friend was even more certain that, since<br />

several months, his father had set about writing a This<br />

thesis entitled Death unknown.<br />

No doubt he had discovered something essential because,


just before hanging himself, he had set fire to his work.<br />

Leaves still fluttered in the calcined chimney when Raoul<br />

had found the body. One hundred were still legible. There<br />

was talk of mythologies and ancient cults of the dead.<br />

Since then, Raoul had not stopped thinking about it. What<br />

that his father had found so important? What had gone<br />

search the dead?<br />

Raoul did not cry the day of the funeral. But he no one had<br />

scolded. No one had addressed the reproach. He had just<br />

heard: “Poor kid is so traumatized by the hanging of his<br />

father he is unable to cry. “If I had known more earlier, I<br />

would have passed on my recipe based boiled spinach<br />

and lamb brains and it would have spared him this kind of<br />

reflections.<br />

The father just buried, the behavior of the mother Raoul’s<br />

changed completely. She gave him all his caprices. She<br />

bought all the toys, all books, all newspapers claimed. He<br />

was free of his time. Tu mother said to me he was a<br />

spoiled child because the only son of his father and an<br />

orphan. Even if<br />

give up some of my family, me too I would have enjoyed<br />

being a spoiled child.<br />

At home, I can not do anything.<br />

- What you have to still hang out with this little Razorbak?


my father asked, lighting a cigar in his that stinks to thirty<br />

feet around. I protested fervently.<br />

- He is my best friend. - So you do not know choose your<br />

friends, I said father. This kid is not normal, obviously. What<br />

can’t we take anymore ? - Do not play the innocent. His<br />

father was a depressive point of suicide. With similar<br />

heredity, any What kid would have a lot to be cinoque. In<br />

addition, his mother not work and merely his pension. All<br />

that is unhealthy. You should attend more normal people. -<br />

Raoul is normal, I assured him with force. Always<br />

treacherous brother Conrad thought when the time comes<br />

to add his two cents.<br />

- Suicide is a hereditary disease. Children suicides are<br />

tempted by suicide as children divorced do everything for<br />

their wedding dark. Everyone pretended not to have heard<br />

remarks of my idiot brother. My mother did not take it less<br />

over.<br />

- You judge normal to spend hours sitting in a cemetery, as<br />

it appears Raoul? - Look, Mom, he is free to do what he<br />

wants time. As long as it does not bother anyone … -<br />

Defend it! Birds of a feather. The proof we saw you talking<br />

with him among the tombs! - While it’s true, so what? - So it<br />

is unlucky to disturb the dead. Mus let them rest in peace,<br />

declared peremptorily Conrad, always ready to plunge<br />

head when I was already in water. - Conrad, moron!<br />

Conrad, you moron! I cried, and I fired a punch. We drove


down. My father waited Conrad<br />

has responded to separate us. However, not long enough<br />

to give me time to take my revenge.<br />

- Calm down, the kids, or else it is I who will take charge<br />

distributing slaps. Conrad is right. It is misfortune to hang<br />

out in cemeteries. In a cavernous cough, spit it in the form<br />

liquid smoke from his cigar before adding:<br />

- There are places to discuss. Cafes, gardens, sports<br />

clubs. Cemeteries are for dead, not for the living. - But, Dad<br />

… - Michael, you bother me in the end. Cease to do evil<br />

otherwise I will not miss it. I was entitled to a new pair of<br />

slaps and I began whining immediately to avoid another.<br />

- You see that you know when you want to cry, noticed my<br />

father, sardonic. Conrad was radiant. My mother ordered<br />

me to earn my bedroom. Thus I began to learn how to work<br />

the world. We must mourn the dead. We must obey his<br />

parents. It should support Conrad. Do not make the<br />

malignant. Do not hang around in cemeteries. We must<br />

choose his friends among the socalled normal people.<br />

Suicide is a inherited disease and possibly contagious.<br />

In the darkness of my room, with, again in my mouth, the<br />

salty taste of my tears of pain I felt suddenly very alone. That<br />

night, a slap on yet printed my burning cheek, I regretted


eing born into a world, if binding.<br />

16 - THE WEIGHT OF A FEATHER<br />

- The deceased must pass the gates of hell, avoid aquatic<br />

monsters, demons flying protect themselves. If there<br />

succeeds, he will find himself facing Osiris, the supreme<br />

Judge, and that a court made up of forty-two divine<br />

assessors. It will then prove the purity of her soul by a<br />

negative confession in which he declared to have<br />

26<br />

never committed a sin or serious offenses during the life he<br />

just quit. He will say:<br />

I have not committed iniquity against men<br />

I ‘m not mistreated people<br />

I did not hide the truth<br />

I don ‘t have blasphemed God<br />

I have not depleted the poor<br />

I have not done what is abominable to the gods<br />

I have not served a slave to his master


I have not fornicated in the holy places of my city<br />

I ‘m not hungry


I did not cry<br />

I ‘m not killed<br />

I did not order to kill<br />

- He can say what he wants, even lie? I asked Raoul. - “Yes.<br />

He has the right to lie. The gods ask him questions, to<br />

deceive the deceased. But his task is not easy for the gods<br />

know a lot. Normally, they are gods. - Then what? - If winner<br />

in this test, it will face second part of the trial, this time in the<br />

presence of new gods. Raoul paused to better maintain the<br />

suspense.<br />

- There will Ma’at, the goddess of justice, and the god Thoth<br />

of wisdom and study-headed ibis. He will record the<br />

testimony of the deceased on a shelf. Then will come<br />

Anubis, the jackal-headed god, armed with a large balance<br />

to be used in the weighing of the soul. - How do you weigh<br />

a soul? Raoul ignored something as obvious, knitted<br />

eyebrows, turned a page and continued:<br />

- Anubis deposited on a platter the heart of the deceased<br />

and a feather on the other. If the heart is lighter than the<br />

feather, the death is declared innocent. If the heart is<br />

heavier than pen, it will be given as food to a god body of a<br />

lion<br />

and a crocodile head, responsible for devouring the souls<br />

of unworthy Eternity.


- And what is the fate of the … winner? - Freed from the<br />

weight of his life, he will join the light of rising sun. Sweet. -<br />

… Hence the wait Khepri, the scarab-headed god of gold.<br />

There will conclude his way. The soul will know the justified<br />

eternal bliss. To her to sing when the anthem of the winners<br />

successful their journey on earth and in the hereafter. Listen<br />

to this song. Raoul stood on a tombstone, faced a acne<br />

and moon, in a clear voice, began to declaim the ancient<br />

words:<br />

The link is settled I knocked down all the evil in me 0 Osiris<br />

powerful I finally born Look at me, I have been born.<br />

Raoul had finished reading the great book of mythology<br />

antique. He had accomplished his feat. Of sweat beaded<br />

his forehead. He smiled as if Anubis had just declare the<br />

winner of his own life.<br />

- Beautiful story! I exclaimed. You think up there, for the<br />

dead, it really happens like that? f). I dont truly know! It is an<br />

allegory. These Egyptians had obviously acquired a great<br />

knowledge of the issue but as they did not want to reveal it<br />

to abused, they have resorted to metaphors and poetic<br />

terms. A writer would have been unable to invent it all by<br />

one day of inspiration. These myths their origin in a kind of<br />

universal sense. Proof, all religions tell much the same story<br />

as this one, by using different terms. All religions claim that<br />

there is a world beyond death. There are tests, and after,


the reincarnation or release. More than two thirds of<br />

humanity believe in reincarnation. - But you really think that<br />

there is a boat with gods … Raoul motioned me to keep<br />

quiet.<br />

- Hush! We come from. It was nine o’clock already, and the<br />

cemetery had naturally closed its gates. So who could<br />

come and disturb His peace? And how others had they<br />

crossed the gates closed? We, we had found a passage<br />

by climbing the large plane tree in the northwest corner of<br />

the branches leaned over the wall. We were believe to be<br />

the only way to know this.<br />

We crept stealthily towards a muffled sound. We saw a<br />

group in black capes passing through a grid trompe-l’oeil.<br />

17 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS<br />

Our ancestors believed that death is a passage from the<br />

state any state of nothing. To further support this idea, they<br />

invented religions (set of rituals based on myths). Most<br />

assured that there was another world beyond it but nobody<br />

really believed. The religions were used mainly for signs of<br />

rallying for specific ethnic groups.<br />

History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

18 - FROM FOOL<br />

The band stopped in front of a tomb, lighted


torches, began to file all sorts of things straight<br />

clits on a tombstone. I could see pictures,<br />

books and even statuettes.<br />

Raoul and I dissimulâmes behind a burial<br />

occupied by the late actor-rocker-Playboy, a victim of<br />

fishbone swallowed wrong. For the record, the<br />

star coughed more than an hour, trying to free themselves<br />

of this strange invasion of his glottis. No one thought of<br />

help him in a crowded restaurant yet. All<br />

world imagined that the idol was in the process of engaging<br />

in a<br />

wild happenings, inventing new dances and a<br />

new way of singing. We applauded wildly his<br />

final burst of agony.


Anyway, from where we stood, we were<br />

able to follow the whole scene. The encaps donned<br />

black hoods and chanting strange now<br />

incantations.<br />

- They say prayers backwards, whispered Raoul. I<br />

understood that “sed Segna Erem, Eiram Eulas suov ej”<br />

actually meant “Hail Mary, Mother of the angels.”<br />

- Surely a Satanic cult, said my friend. Following the litany<br />

proved him right. 0 Great Beelzebub, give us some of your<br />

power O Great Beelzebub, let us glimpse your world 0<br />

Great Beelzebub, teach us to be invisible 0 Great<br />

Beelzebub, teach us to be as fast the wind O Great<br />

Beelzebub, teach us to revive the dead<br />

I shuddered, but Raoul Razorbak remained impassive. His<br />

calm and courage were contagious. We rapprochâmes<br />

group. Up close, fans were still more impressive. Some<br />

were tattooed on their front evil symbols: goats smiling<br />

devils twirling, snake biting its tail.<br />

After many prayers and incantations yet, they lit candles<br />

disposed in their five-pointed star. They did burn bone meal<br />

which is calcined in a purple cloud of smoke. Finally, a bag,<br />

they left a cock black struggled his best, not without leaving


some plumes.<br />

- This black cock, Grand Beelzebub, we sacrifice to you. A<br />

soul of a cock against soul amok! In chorus, all resumed:<br />

- A soul for a soul to cock amok! The poultry was<br />

slaughtered and its blood scattered to five branches of the<br />

star.<br />

They then exhibèrent a white hen.<br />

- This white hen, Great Beelzebub, we give you the<br />

sacrifice. A Soul chicken against a soul ghoul. In Unison:<br />

- A chicken soul for a soul ghoul. A soul Bird for a soul<br />

executioner. - Are you afraid? Raoul whispered in his ear. I<br />

tried to stay at its height, but just could more to control the<br />

tremor that was invading my members It was especially<br />

important to avoid chattering teeth. Ministry noise would<br />

alert the fans black mass.<br />

- When you have fear in life is because you never know not<br />

what decision to take, I said quietly young companion. I<br />

shook my head in incomprehension. Raoul took a two-franc<br />

piece.<br />

- In life, he continued, there is always a choice. Act or<br />

escape. Forgive or take revenge. Love or hate. Was this


the time to philosophize? He remained imperturbable.<br />

- We are afraid when we do not know which party take<br />

because so many factors come into account we end up not<br />

understanding what is really happening around us. How to<br />

choose when the world is so complex? What ? With a<br />

room. Nothing can influence a coin. It is insensitive to<br />

illusions, she does not hear the fallacious arguments, it fear<br />

nothing. It can give you the courage that you is missing.<br />

Having said this, he threw the piece in the highest two. I fell<br />

tails. Raoul posted a winning smile.<br />

Stack Stack, this means: Yes. Let’s go. Forward Ho! ”<br />

Stack it means “Green Light”. Come on. You and me<br />

against the fools, he told me. Nearby, the grim ceremony<br />

continued. On a larger bag, and pulled a small<br />

Belzébuthiens white goat who bleated sadly blinded by the<br />

candles.<br />

- We will sacrifice the white goat to you we<br />

opens a window of the land of the dead. A soul goat for a<br />

soul … A guttural voice heard in the cemetery.<br />

- A soul for a goat band vapid. The knife, already raised to<br />

decapitate the beast stopped. Raoul was erected next to<br />

me screaming with the assurance given him by the simple<br />

act of falling tails.<br />

- Out of my sight, servants of Beelzebub! Beelzebub has


een dead a long time. Those who is worshiped be<br />

damned. I Astaroth, prince of the ninth Darkness and I will<br />

curse. Do not come never sully unclean animal blood<br />

sacred tombs. You wake up in the dead and the gods get<br />

upset! The Belzébuthiens had frozen, dumbfounded. They<br />

are expensive<br />

chaient the source of the message, but saw nothing.<br />

Raoul had the voice. His voice was as the room<br />

currency had assured him of the action to be taken.<br />

Everything was<br />

become clear. For him, for me and “them” too. Raoul<br />

was the strength. They were just annoying. Raoul was<br />

a child but he was their master. Faced with this worrying<br />

burst, the masked men preferred to get out. The<br />

little goat spun in the opposite direction.<br />

It was easy to win a battle. Stack, I would the strongest.<br />

Face, I’d be a coward. Coin, decides to my place of my<br />

behavior.


Raoul shook my shoulder and told me the play by two<br />

Francs,<br />

- I will supply. Now, you no longer afraid of anything you will<br />

know and take the right choice. You will be with a friend that<br />

never fail. In the palm of my hand, the room radiated.<br />

19 - FACT POLICE


Psychological inquiry<br />

Raoul on Razorbak.<br />

It seems that the child is said Raoul Razorbak struck<br />

delusions psychotic. On several occasions, he went into<br />

violent anger and endangered the lives of those around<br />

him. His mother refuses<br />

32<br />

Yet while interned in a psychiatric clinic. Asked by a<br />

specialist, she said that her son was very affected by the<br />

death of his father. “It just needs to compensate, “she said.<br />

The young Raoul Razorbak not having at present engaged<br />

in any crime and did not seem about to fall into<br />

delinquency, estimated active service proceedings<br />

premature.<br />

20 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS<br />

THE DEATH OF OUR GREAT FATHER<br />

Leading causes of death in France in 1965 (to end of the<br />

second millennium), ranked in descending order the


number of victims. You will notice that some of diseases of<br />

the time are, nowadays, eradicated.<br />

Heart disease 98,392 Cancers 93834 Cerebrovascular<br />

lesions 62746 32,723 car accidents Liver cirrhosis 16325<br />

Respiratory 16274 Pneumonia 11 166 9008 flu Diabetes<br />

8118 Suicides 7156 Crimes and 361 murders Unknown<br />

causes 87,201<br />

History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

21 - I-MR-SEC DELIRIUM<br />

In the years after our first meeting in Père-Lachaise, our<br />

friendship became more more closely. Raoul taught me so<br />

much!<br />

- You’re so naive, Michael! You think the world So that is<br />

nice and the best way to put you there is to make yourself<br />

be nice. But you’re wrong. Just your brain active. The future<br />

does not belong to<br />

33<br />

gentiïs but innovators, adventurous, those who not afraid of<br />

anything.<br />

- You’re afraid of nothing, you? Don’t mention it. - Not even


physical suffering? - Just to want to avoid feeling it. To<br />

better prove it to me, he pulled out his lighter and plunged<br />

his index finger in the flame until the air is impregnated the<br />

smell of burnt horn. I was both disgusted and fascinated.<br />

- Wow! How are you doing? - I am making the first blank in<br />

my mind, and then I tell me that someone else suffers this<br />

pain and she does not concern me at all. - Are not you<br />

afraid of fire? - Neither the water nor land, nor the metal. He<br />

who does fears nothing is almighty and nothing will be<br />

denied. As was my lesson number two. The first was a<br />

piece two francs will be your best advisor. The second is<br />

that the fear is that if you allow him to exist. - Your father<br />

taught you that? - He said to never look back climbing a<br />

mountain. If you look, you may be dizzy, to panic and fall.<br />

But if you climb right to the top, you will always be safe. - If<br />

you are not afraid of anything, what leads you to forward? -<br />

The mystery. The need to unravel the mystery of death of<br />

my father and that of death in general. As he pronounced<br />

these words, his right hand still so similar to a spider came<br />

covering his face as to contain an indescribable torment.<br />

His eyes s’exorbitèrent as if his head was corroded from<br />

within.<br />

I was worried:<br />

- You do not feel well? It took a long time to answer me.<br />

Then, as showing breathing and minds:


- Only a migraine. It will pass, he said harshly. It was the<br />

only time I saw him facing a crisis. For I, Raoul was a<br />

superman. He was a master.<br />

Raoul impressed me. As it was my senior a year, I gave a<br />

push to skip a class and find me on the same bench as<br />

him. Then all became easy. It allowed me to copy his<br />

homework and, outside of course, he continued to tell me<br />

wonderful stories.<br />

Everyone in the class, did not share my enthusiasm. The<br />

French teacher had called the student Razorbak “Mr. I-secdelusion.”<br />

- Hold on tight. Today, “Mr.-Jedélire-dry “we send a copy to<br />

your sides laughing. Ministry subject that I gave you was, I<br />

want to remind you “Tell your ideal vacation. “Ah! Ndiaye, Isec-delusion<br />

“did not go for a walk on the side of Le<br />

Touquet, Saint-Tropez, La Baule, Barcelona or even of<br />

London. No, he was downright spun land of the dead. Et ..<br />

we shall send postcards. General chuckle.<br />

- I quote: “While my boat was heading towards the light, I<br />

clung to the boa, as a fiery serpent had arisen the front of<br />

the ship. The goddess Nephthys advised me to do not<br />

drove me wild and stay the course. Princess Isis, her, me<br />

extended his ankh to repel the monster. ” The students


laughed in while nudging concluded that the teacher, PhD:<br />

- “Mr. I-sec-delusion,” I can not you advise to use the care of<br />

a good psychoanalyst, or a psychiatrist. In the meantime,<br />

know that you escaped the zero points. I have a set of 20,<br />

only for making me laugh as much by reading. Besides, I<br />

still looking for your first copy as I am sure have a good<br />

time with you. Continue thus, Mr. Razorbak, and I laugh for<br />

a long time because you redouble no doubt that class.<br />

Raoul did not blink. He was impervious to this type of<br />

remarks, especially from a man like this teacher French for<br />

whom he felt no esteem. The problem came from<br />

elsewhere. The class itself.<br />

As in most schools, students in our high school adolescents<br />

were cruel, and it was enough that they<br />

pointed to a socalled “marginal” for they give the death. In<br />

our class, the gang leader was a cocky kid named<br />

Martinez. With his associates, they We continued to the exit<br />

and surrounded us.<br />

- Isis Princess, Princess Isis, they chanted. Want ankh in<br />

my face? I was very scared. To free myself, I threw a blow<br />

kick in the shin of the large Martinez and, in turn, it made<br />

me break the nose of a punch. My face was in blood. We<br />

were two against six but the problem was Raoul, however,


much larger and stronger than I seemed to have given up<br />

defending themselves. He fought no. He received the blows<br />

without returning them!<br />

I yelped.<br />

- Come on, Raoul! We will have them as the Belzébuthiens.<br />

You and me against the fools, Raoul! He did not move. We<br />

were not long for us to collapse under a barrage of punches<br />

and kicks. Faced with this lack of resistance, the band<br />

finally the big Martinez get tired and went with the V for<br />

victory. I got up when I massage bumps.<br />

- Were you afraid? I asked him. - No, he said. - Why did you<br />

not fight then? - What for? I do not have to waste energy for<br />

trifles. Anyway, I can not fight against the primitive minds,<br />

he added, picking up his glasses broken. - But you have<br />

been able to escape the Belzébuthiens! - It was a game<br />

And then they may have been bad but they were much<br />

more subtle than these morons. Face to cavemen, I am<br />

powerless. We soutînmes each other.<br />

- You and me against the fools, you said. - Sorry to<br />

disappoint you. It is also necessary for the fools have a<br />

minimum of intelligence so that I can go to war against<br />

them. I was terrified:<br />

- But then types the likes of Martinez us will break all the<br />

time the mouth. - Possible, he said soberly. But they will tire


efore for me? - And if they kill you? He shrugged his<br />

shoulders. - Bah! Life is but a passage. I was overcome<br />

with a dark premonition. Fools were capable of winning.<br />

Raoul was not always the a lot stronger. He had even be a<br />

height of weakness. I sighed.<br />

- Whatever happens, you can still always count on me to<br />

help in hard times. That night I dreamed that I flew back to<br />

in the clouds to meet a woman in white satin skeleton<br />

mask.<br />

22 - Pascal PHILOSOPHY<br />

“The immortality of the soul is important to us so hard we<br />

touch so deeply that we must have lost all feeling for be<br />

indifferent to know what it is.<br />

Our first interest and our first duty is to clarification on the<br />

subject on which depends all our conduct.<br />

And so, between those who are not convinced I am<br />

extremely unlike those who work every effort to educate<br />

them, to those who live without them to trouble, and without<br />

thinking.<br />

This neglect of a case where it is themselves,<br />

their identity, their all, irritates me more than it m’atten


DRIT. It amazes me and frightens me: it’s a monster<br />

for me? I do not say this by the pious zeal of devotion<br />

spiritual. I hear the contrary they must have felt this<br />

ment by a principle of human interest. “


Blaise Pascal<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

23 - DEVELOPMENT<br />

I was fourteen when Raoul came to me at the<br />

house ordered me to hurry. My parents bad<br />

gréèrent. Not only was the lunch hour but<br />

persisted to believe that Raoul Razorbak exercised over<br />

me<br />

a very bad influence. I like them<br />

time received excellent grades in math, copying<br />

my friend, of course, they hesitated to deprive me out.<br />

Yet they ordered me to take care and stay on the alert.<br />

While tying my scarf, my father whispered that it was our<br />

best friends were always our worst problems.<br />

My mother adds, treacherous:


- Me, that’s how I define a “friend”: it is whose betrayal<br />

caused the greatest surprise. Raoul took me to the hospital<br />

Saint-Louis, explaining we had to create a service involving<br />

dying and coma. “Service of the dying,” had they<br />

euphemistically called. It was installed in the left wing of an<br />

annex building. I asked what he intended to do in such a<br />

place. He replied bluntly that visit would be for us an<br />

excellent opportunity to learn more.<br />

- More? And on what? - On the death, of course! The idea<br />

of entering a hospital not excited me not. The place is filled<br />

with adults and I would be seriously surprised they let us<br />

play.<br />

Razorbak Raoul, however, was never short of arguments.<br />

He told me to read in newspapers coma after people woke<br />

up and told extraordinary stories. These survivors claimed<br />

to have attended performances strange. They had not seen<br />

snake boats or fire-eaters but attractive lights.<br />

- You speak of experience at the frontiers of death, the<br />

Americans call the NDE to “Near Death Experiences “? -<br />

That’s it. Of NDE.<br />

38<br />

Everyone knew what the NDE. They had been very


fashionable for a while. There had been several bestsellers<br />

on the subject. Had made the weekly on the cover. And like<br />

all fashions, this one also had eventually fade. After all, we<br />

did not have no evidence, no evidence of tangible, just a<br />

few nice stories collected bits and pieces.<br />

Raoul believe it to such fables?<br />

He spread before me several newspaper clippings and we<br />

We knelt down to look better. These excerpts were not<br />

taken from magazines known for their serious or the<br />

severity of their investigations. Titles in bold Slimy and the<br />

tone: “Travel beyond the death “,” Testimony of post-coma<br />

“,” Life After life, ”” I came back and I like it “,” Death and<br />

then After:<br />

For Raoul, these words seemed haloed with poetry<br />

Particular. After all, his father was there …<br />

To illustrate, there were only blurry photos superimposed<br />

with auras or reproductions of paintings Hieronymus<br />

Bosch.<br />

In the texts, Raoul had highlighted in yellow fluorescent<br />

some passages he considered essential: “A sound<br />

DAGE of the American Institute Gallup, eight million of


America<br />

Rican claim to have experienced an NDE. ” “A survey<br />

performed in a hospital shows that 37% of coma<br />

teux claim to have floated out of their bodies, 23% view<br />

a tunnel, 16% were caught up in a beneficial light. “<br />

I shrugged my shoulders.<br />

- I do not want to remove yourself your illusions, but … - But<br />

what? - I had a car accident. I have him flying in air and I<br />

knocked by falling. Three hours without knowledge. A true<br />

coma. And I did not notice the shadow a tunnel or any<br />

beneficial light. He seemed surprised.<br />

- You saw what then? - Nothing, exactly. Nothing at all. My<br />

friend looked at me like I was struck by a rare disease<br />

caused by a virus not yet identified.<br />

- You said he was in a coma and did not have retained no<br />

memory? - Affirmative. Raoul thoughtfully scratched his chin


and his face lit up<br />

- I know why! He spared its effects before imposing a<br />

sentence I meditated long:<br />

- You do not see anything because … you were not<br />

“enough” death. 24 - THE LAND OF THE WHITE MONKS<br />

An hour later we were at the hospital Saint-Louis. The<br />

entrance was lit. A uniformed guard watching the comings<br />

and goings. Taking advantage of his height, Raoul was<br />

wearing an overcoat worn in the hope of old. He took my<br />

hand. He hoped that together we would pass for a father<br />

and a son going to the bedside of a grandmother<br />

recovering.<br />

Las, the guard was not fooled.<br />

- Tell the brats, are better playgrounds in the corner. - We<br />

come to visit our grandmother, was Raoul, tearful voice. -<br />

What is the name she? Raoul did not hesitate. - Madame<br />

Saliapino. It is in a coma. She was put in the new support<br />

service for the dying. What a genius of improvisation! It<br />

would have launched or Dupuis During this would have<br />

been immediately suspect, but “Saliapino “It was just weird<br />

to seem true.<br />

The guard passed a wealth of circumstance. “Support the<br />

dying, “the term immediately caused the discomfort. He<br />

was certainly aware of the creation of this service had had


to talk in hallways. He changed his mind, motioned us to<br />

go, apologizing almost to have slowed our progress.<br />

We went into a glittering maze. The horn<br />

40€<br />

ridors, still corridors … We pushed several doors to<br />

discovering As an extraordinary world.<br />

It was the second time I entered a hospital but the effect<br />

was just as confusing. It was like to be broken into a temple<br />

where whiteness restless witches dressed in white and<br />

young priestesses naked under their blouse immaculate.<br />

Everything was set as an ancient dance. Of ambulance<br />

deposited offerings packed in of soiled linen. Young<br />

priestesses the unpacked before transport them in rooms<br />

where large tiled priests, recognizable by their square<br />

mask and the gloves transparencies, fiddling as if weighing<br />

them were able to read the omens.<br />

From this vision sprang the beginnings of my vocation<br />

medical attention. The smell of ether, nurses, tinsel white,<br />

the ability to dig my own way the bowels of my<br />

contemporaries, that was really interesting. There lay the<br />

real power! I too am a wizard white:


Ravi as a gangster who has finally found the room safes,<br />

Raoul whispered in my ear:<br />

- Psst … This way! We pushed a glass door. And we nearly<br />

beat a retreat before the show. The Most patients hosted<br />

by the escort service the dying were really in bad shape.<br />

Our right, a toothless old man, frozen speechless, stinks the<br />

air ten feet around. Nearby, an emaciated to be indefinite<br />

sex stared unblinkingly a brown stain on the ceiling. A<br />

transparent snot dripping down his nose without he thinks<br />

of the wipe. On the left, a bald woman had more than a tuft<br />

of hair dyed blond on his forehead wrinkled. She tried to<br />

suppress the tremor of his incessant compressing the right<br />

hand with his left hand. Obviously. she did not succeed and<br />

the member insulted rebel in an incomprehensible<br />

language made by his dentures off.<br />

Death, no offense to Raoul, this was not the gods,<br />

goddesses, monsters, rivers full of snakes. The death was<br />

this: people rotting slowly.<br />

My parents were right: the death was awful. I decamped on<br />

the spot if Raoul had not led to lady with the blond tuft.<br />

- Sorry to bother you, ma’am. - Bb .. … oon day, she<br />

stammered, trembling mind as the body. - We are both<br />

students at a journalism school. We would like to interview


you. - To … Why me? she said with difficulty. - Because we<br />

are interested in your case. - I … do … am … not …<br />

interesting. … By Tez! The brat, we obtained no response.<br />

We So our way to the grandfather stinking we considered<br />

these two pesky little mosquitoes. He got angry as if it<br />

bothered him in pressing occupations:<br />

- What, what, what do you want? Raoul continued his spiel:<br />

- Hello, we are a school of journalism and we do a story on<br />

people who survived a coma. The old man stood up, very<br />

proud:<br />

- Of course I survived a coma. Five days in coma and see,<br />

I’m still here! A glimmer lit up in the eye of Raoul.<br />

- And how was it? he asked, as if addressing a tourist<br />

returning from China. The man looked at him, puzzled:<br />

- What do you mean? - Well, what you felt while you were in<br />

a coma? Obviously, the other did not see where he was<br />

going.<br />

- I was in a coma for five days, I tell you. Coma, it is<br />

precisely when one does not feel anything! Raoul insisted:<br />

- You do not have a hallucination? You do not remember a<br />

light, a corridor of any thing? The dying man lost his temper:<br />

- No, but the coma is not cinema. First, we is very bad.<br />

Then you wake up and there suffer from everywhere. It’s not


a cakewalk. You write what ??? A nurse comes out of<br />

nowhere and immediately began to scream:<br />

Who are you? You have not to annoy my sick? Who gave<br />

you permission to enter here? You can not read? You did<br />

not see the sign: “Entry forbidden to anyone outside the<br />

service”? - You and me against the idiots! Raoul launched.<br />

And together, we went at a gallop. We lost in a maze of<br />

corridors tiled. We crossed a room reserved for severe<br />

burns, another aimed at handicapped eventually leading<br />

precisely where it should not. At the funeral home.<br />

Of naked corpses were lined up in twenty chrome trays, his<br />

face contorted in an ultimate pain. Some still had their eyes<br />

open.<br />

Armed with a clip, a young student was busy removing their<br />

rings or wedding rings. One of them did not sliding. The<br />

skin was swollen around the metal. So, without hesitation,<br />

the student’s finger jammed between the blades of the<br />

pliers and squeezed. Clack. It fell to the ground by a noise<br />

metal and meat.<br />

I almost fainted. Raoul dragged me out. We were<br />

both exhausted.<br />

My friend was wrong. My parents were right. Death was<br />

something disgusting. You should not look at it, not<br />

approach it, not talk about it and not even thinking about it.


25 - MYTHOLOGY Lapland<br />

For the Sami, life is a soft covering the skeletons. The soul<br />

is in the bones of the skeleton.<br />

So when they sin fish, they take much care to remove the<br />

flesh without breaking any edge. They reject Then the bony<br />

rods in the place where they sin live fish. They believe that<br />

nature be responsible for the replenishing and that when<br />

they return,<br />

few days, weeks or months later, a new fresh food will be<br />

waiting there.<br />

For them, the flesh is pure decoration around the bones<br />

imbued with the true soul. This same respect for the<br />

skeleton among the Mongols and Yakuts who strive to<br />

reconstitute intact, standing, they bear were killed. And not<br />

to risk breaking the delicate bones of the skull, they deprive<br />

themselves from eating the brains, yet food of choice.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

26 - Separation<br />

Shortly after our trip to the hospital Saint-Louis, the mother


Raoul moved to province and many years<br />

passed before we met again.<br />

My father died the same year of lung cancer.<br />

Cigars at ten francs had not missed. Spinach<br />

broccoli and anchovies, I poured a flood of tears to his<br />

funeral but no one seemed to care.<br />

As soon return of the funeral, my mother turned into<br />

a shrew tyrannical. She began to want to get involved<br />

any at all want to monitor and dictate my life.<br />

Without embarrassment, she was rummaging through my<br />

things and found<br />

my diary and I thought, however well hidden<br />

under my mattress. She immediately began to read high<br />

voice the best passages in front of my brother Conrad,<br />

delighted with this supreme humiliation.<br />

I took some time to get over this injury. My


newspaper had always been for me as a friend to whom I<br />

told me without fear of being judged. This was perhaps<br />

not his fault but that friend now, he had actually<br />

much betrayed.<br />

Conrad commented, always smart:<br />

- Well, I do not know you has a crush on this minx of<br />

Beatrice. It is downright ugly with duvets and all buttons on<br />

the face. You’re really Vicious. I tried to look good but my<br />

mother knew per<br />

44.<br />

tinent she had deprived me of an ally. She does I did not<br />

want friends. Not even objects friends. She considered it<br />

sufficient to meet all my needs communication with the<br />

outside.<br />

- Tell me everything, she said. I know keep all your secrets,<br />

remain silent as a tomb. Your notebook, anyone could find<br />

it. Fortunately again he did not fall into foreign hands! I<br />

preferred to avoid controversy. Retorted I do not that apart


from his, zero foreign hands would not Flood allowed to<br />

rummage under my bed.<br />

Can not increased the sneers of revenge Conrad by<br />

exhibiting her diary to him. But it was no. He did not need it.<br />

It had nothing to say to anyone and no more to himself. He<br />

was happy like that, to cross life without even trying to<br />

understand it.<br />

Having lost my confidant, the absence of Raoul became<br />

even more burdensome. No one else at school, did the<br />

slightest interest in ancient mythology. For my classmates,<br />

the word “death” did not have the any magic, and when I<br />

spoke of corpses, they tended to tap the front of the hand.<br />

“You gnognottes the mat, man, fuck you psychoanalyze the<br />

Greeks! “<br />

- You’re still young for the death t’obnubiler me lectured<br />

Beatrice. Wait sixty years. It is too early now. I told him tit for<br />

tat:<br />

- Okay, so talking about love! That’s a subject that suitable<br />

for young, right? She recoiled in horror. I tried to coax:<br />

- But I ask nothing better than to marry you? She runs away.<br />

She cried then all echoes that I was a sex maniac and I had<br />

the same attempted to rape her. In addition, I was probably<br />

a meurtriercriminel-assassin-persistent offender, if not why I<br />

am interested both death and corpses?


More journal confident, more friends, no girlfriend no atom<br />

hooked with my family, life seemed good<br />

bland. Raoul did not write. I was really alone on this planet.<br />

Fortunately, I had books. Raoul had not not mistaken in<br />

saying that the books, they were friends who will never<br />

betray. The books were familiar with ancient mythologies.<br />

They were not afraid to talk about death or love.<br />

But every time my eyes were reading the word “death” I<br />

thought of Raoul. I knew that the death of his father this<br />

obsession caused him. He wanted to know what could<br />

have told him before dying. My own father had said<br />

everything in life: “Do not be silly,” “Stand Right, that’s your<br />

mother, ”” Beware of those who claim you want good, ””<br />

Take example of Conrad, ”” You do not can not eat<br />

properly? Towels are not made for dogs, ”” Keep it up and<br />

you will take thee, ”” Give me my box of cigars, ”” Put not<br />

your fingers in the nose, ”” Do not cure teeth with metro<br />

tickets, ”” Cache your money well, ”” What you got to read a<br />

book yet? You better help your mother clear the table. ” The<br />

great spiritual heritage. Thank you, Dad.<br />

Raoul was still wrong to simply focus on death. Death need<br />

not be rocket scientist to understand: it was just the end of<br />

life. End of story. As a film that stops when you turned off


the television …<br />

In the evening, yet I dreamed that I still often and flew up<br />

there, I still believe the lady in satin white skeleton mask.<br />

This nightmare then, I had not written in my notebook.<br />

27 - Hindu Mythology<br />

“Those who know well and those who, in the forest, know<br />

that faith is the truth, those entering the flame, the flame in<br />

the day, the day in the bright fortnight of the fortnight in the<br />

six months during which the sun rises north of months in the<br />

world of the gods, the world Gods in the sun, the sun<br />

flashes in the region.<br />

46.<br />

Arrived in the area of lightning, a spiritual being occurs<br />

which transports them into the worlds of Brahman: in these<br />

worlds they inhabit distant unfathomable. For them, point<br />

back down here. “<br />

(Brhaddranyaka Upanisad)<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.


28 - RAOUL IS BACK<br />

At the age of eighteen years, I decided to become a<br />

doctor. I began studies as appropriate, and, was it really a<br />

coincidence? I choose specialties like anesthesia and<br />

resuscitation.<br />

I found myself in the heart of the temple, head of lives<br />

concerned about human survival. Maybe I had also wanted<br />

spawn of these priestesses were said in their bare white<br />

coat. Anyway, I was quick to check that was a myth. Nurses<br />

are often in a T-shirt.<br />

I was thirty-two when Raoul came without warning in my life.<br />

He telephoned and gave me obviously go to the cemetery<br />

of Pere-Lachaise.<br />

It was even bigger, skinny, skinnier than in my memory. He<br />

was back in Paris. After so long years of absence, I was<br />

very flattered that his first gesture was to renew contact with<br />

me.<br />

He had the delicacy not to talk to me right away death. Like<br />

me, he had matured. No question of laughter all,<br />

indiscriminately. More stupid puns, of puns or spoonerisms.<br />

He was now a researcher in biology at the CNRS, with title<br />

of professor. Yet he began his talk by Mistresses …”<br />

Women were only happen in his life because they did not


understand. They deemed it too … morbid. He raged:<br />

- Why are the prettiest girls they always more stupid? - Why<br />

do you not dredge the ugly? answered I<br />

We should have esclaffer but childhood had passed. He<br />

only smiled.<br />

- And you, Michael, you go out a lot? Uh. No. Not really. He<br />

gave me a big pat on the back. - Too shy, eh? - Too much<br />

imagination, perhaps. Sometimes I dream that there<br />

somewhere a charming princess and she waits for me, me<br />

and nobody else. - You believe in Sleeping Beauty? But if<br />

you go out with a girl before meeting her, it’s as if you<br />

wrong in advance. Exactly! That is the impression that I feel<br />

every a time; Arachnéides hands fluttered around Raoul<br />

me, enveloping me in their protective presence. What/how?<br />

could I have lived so long away from him and his madness?<br />

- … Ah, he sighed. You’re too prude, Michael. This world is<br />

too hard for dreamers like you. You have arm yourself to<br />

learn how to fight. We évoquâmes skirmish with our<br />

nostalgic the Belzébuthiens. He then spoke of his research.<br />

It currently working on hibernating marmots. Like many<br />

other animals, marmots were able to remain three months,<br />

the heart slowed to 90%, breathing, without food, without<br />

moving, without sleep. Raoul had pushed away the<br />

phenomenon. After sleep, he wanted graze the limbo of<br />

death. To induce hibernation Artificial even deeper in a


groundhog, it was enough the plunge in a bath cooled to 0 °<br />

C. The temperature Internal fell rapidly, the heartbeat<br />

slowed to the point of full stop but the beast did not die<br />

either. It was possible to revive a half-hour later, just by<br />

rubbing.<br />

I suspected my friend to describe what hibernation We,<br />

doctors, called “coma”. However, his experiences were<br />

successful, and in Congress international, some have<br />

called him “the awakener marmot frozen. “<br />

Point blank, I asked him if he had discovered other ancient<br />

texts of the afterlife. It soon became animated. It had not<br />

dared hope that I would approach her about so fast<br />

predilection.<br />

- The Greeks! he exclaimed with relish. The Greeks<br />

believed in the universe and concentric circles. Each<br />

universe contained a universe smaller than him, then<br />

another even smaller, like a target. In the center of it was<br />

the Greek world, one where people lived. Raoul was<br />

launched.<br />

- So, in the center, the Greeks in the first world. Then<br />

around, circling, the barbarians of the second world they<br />

are themselves surrounded by a third, the world monsters,<br />

including among others ugly creatures boreal land. I


summarize:<br />

- Men, barbarians, monsters, three layers, right? - No, he<br />

corrected much, much more. After world of monsters, just<br />

the sea is the island of Blessed, a paradise where the<br />

immortals live. There is also Island Dream, crossed by a<br />

river that flows only the IGHT It is covered with lotus flowers.<br />

At its center is located at the four city gates. Let in the two<br />

nightmares, dreams to open two more delicious. Hypnos,<br />

the god of dreams, the four control issues. - Ouaah! - After<br />

the sea continued Raoul, there is again a earth. It is the<br />

shore of the continent from the dead. The trees there are as<br />

dried fruit. This is where all the vessels fail and end all.<br />

There was a silence, furnished in turn sets paradise or hell.<br />

Raoul broke the spell in wondering about my job as<br />

anesthesiologist-intensivist. He multiplied the technical<br />

issues. He wanted to know what products I used for my<br />

people, saying they could both serve him for his marmots.<br />

29 - NOTICE OF DR PINSON<br />

A. Comas According to my friend Dr. Michael Pinson, there<br />

are three common forms of coma:<br />

A Coma: Coma vigil. Consciousness is abolished but the<br />

patient reacts to external stimuli. It can last from thirty<br />

seconds to three days.


Coma 2: The patient does not respond to stimuli outside,<br />

like it or clip it a picnic. It can last up to a week.<br />

3 Coma: Coma deep. Cessation of all forms )<br />

Decerebration movements. Limbs are higher as paralyzed.<br />

The heartbeat become irregular (defibrillation). According<br />

to Michael, he can not get out of this type of coma.<br />

B. External effects 1) Mydriasis (full dilatation of the pupil).<br />

2) Paralysis.<br />

3) Deviation of the mouth.<br />

C. How to take a patient’s coma? Methods used by<br />

Michael:<br />

1) cardiac massage.<br />

2) upper airway intubation.<br />

3) Electric shock from 200 to 300 joules.<br />

4) intracardiac injections of adrenaline.<br />

D. How to cause a coma? Used by Michael:<br />

1) Sodium.<br />

2) Thiopental (plan agitation on awakening), Propofol (Fast<br />

asleep, wake up with no problems).


3) Droperidol (less powerful effects, transient analgesia,<br />

sense of disconnection with a duration of one hour after<br />

waking up, risk of sudden cardiac arrest). Mus adjust the<br />

dose to patient weight.<br />

4) Potassium chloride (causes heart disease and<br />

ventricular fibrillation).<br />

50<br />

E. Heart rate in humans Normal: 65 to 80 beats minute.p><br />

To lowest: 40 beats minute.p><br />

Some yogis down to 38 but these cases exceptional.<br />

Minimum: below 40 heartbeats minute, lower net cerebral<br />

blood flow, risk of syncope (Brief loss of consciousness<br />

lasting less than two minutes). The subject usually keeps<br />

no memory of the incident.p><br />

Maximum: 220 beats minute under the age of the<br />

subject.p><br />

Working notes for research Thanatonautes. Raoul


Razorbak.<br />

30 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS<br />

The Thanatonautes was born of a chance incident. Most<br />

historians date from the day of the attack against President<br />

Lucinda.<br />

History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

31 - THE PRESIDENT LUCINDA<br />

Standing in his black limousine, President Lucinda greeted<br />

the crowd, smiling apologetically. In fact, he was in agony<br />

as he suffered from an ingrown toenail on his toe. It was no<br />

consolation to think that Julius Caesar had no probably also<br />

been tormented by such vicissitudes in its large military<br />

parades. And Alexander the Great with his syphilis? In<br />

addition, at the time, it was not the care …<br />

Julius Caesar was always behind him a slave in charge<br />

both brandishing his laurel wreath, and to repeat regularly in<br />

his ear: “Remember that you are a Male “Lucinda did not<br />

have to slave to the Remember, there’s enough ingrown<br />

toenail.<br />

He greeted the crowd that cheered the while wondering


how to get rid of. Her doctor advised a operation, but so far<br />

the leader of the Nation did never lie on a pool table. He did<br />

not like the idea to be asleep while hidden under unknown<br />

gauze masks and armed with pointed blades fiddling his<br />

palpitating flesh. Of course, he could also use his pedicure<br />

particular. The latter promised to come to overcome the<br />

problem without going through the operating room but it<br />

would have to cut the toe raw, without anesthesia. Nothing<br />

to write home about.<br />

What causes problems that the human cast-offs! Always<br />

something wrong somewhere. Rheumatism, caries,<br />

conjunctivitis … Last week, Lucinda had been tormented by<br />

an awakening of his ulcer.<br />

- Do not worry, Jean, had advised her wife. You are upset<br />

because of South America. You’ll ‘ll feel better tomorrow.<br />

There is a saying from my home, “being means to be<br />

healthy every day a patient different place. ” Very funny!<br />

Still, she had served a little milk hot and the pain had<br />

subsided. The ingrown toenail proved tougher.<br />

“Long live Lucinda! “They cried around. “Lucinda, President<br />

! “Chanted a group. Ah, the new term! It would have to worry<br />

about it soon. The election was close.<br />

Without this cursed toe, Lucinda had had a good time<br />

under these cheers. He loved the walkabouts. It kissed a<br />

girl with rosy cheeks a woman brandishing under his nose.


The girl handed him a bouquet of flowers one to cause<br />

every time an allergy.<br />

The car restarted. He tried to shake her a little toes trapped<br />

in her new shoes when a rigid tall man in three-piece suit<br />

rushed toward him, revolver in hand. Shots rang in his ears.<br />

- Here is murdering me! thought the President calmly. This<br />

was the first and the last, surely. Blood warm running down<br />

her navel. Lucinda smiled. It was a good way to go down in<br />

history with a capital H. His predecessor, President<br />

CONGOMA, had seen his<br />

mandate prematurely shortened by a prostate cancer. What<br />

fun to posterity.<br />

He was lucky, with its technocratic revolver black. The<br />

presidents were assassinated always entitled to honors<br />

textbooks. It boasted their visions grandiose audacity of<br />

their projects. Children recite his praise in schools. There<br />

was no other immortality.<br />

Lucinda saw her assassin who was based in the crowd.<br />

And his bodyguards who stood idly by! What lesson! You<br />

should not rely on these professionals the nuts.<br />

Who hated him and to the point of organizing his death?<br />

Well, he did not care now. Nothing was more important,<br />

including its cursed ingrown toenail. The death was the best<br />

remedy against all the little ills of life.


- A doctor! Quick, a doctor! shouted someone close to in<br />

front of him. These people are silent … There was no<br />

doctor able to help. It was too late. A bullet had pierced the<br />

heart. It was not a doctor need to fetch, rather a new<br />

president to replace him while he would join Caesar,<br />

Abraham Lincoln and Kennedy in the sky of great<br />

statesmen assassinated.<br />

Arms do not hoisted Lucinda least a bran-card. The locked<br />

him in an ambulance to unbearable sirens wailing. Invisible<br />

specialists placed a mirror on his mouth, massed his lungs.<br />

There were even a rather unceremonious to venture a<br />

word-of-mouth.<br />

He did not die less. Memories marched to any speed in his<br />

mind. Four years: his first blow undeserved first and<br />

aggressiveness. Seven years: the first honor roll by a<br />

neighbor who had left his copy composition. Seventeen<br />

years: his first daughter (he had seen since; it had been a<br />

mistake: it was awful). Twenty-one years: degree in history,<br />

without cheating this time. Twenty-three years: mastery of<br />

ancient philosophy. Twenty-five years: PhD of ancient<br />

history. Twenty-seven years came to the party Social<br />

Democratic relations with his father and already a<br />

slogan for his future career: “Those familiar with the past


are better able to build the future. “<br />

Twenty-eight years: marriage to the first “chick” (a actress<br />

he had forgotten the name). Twenty-nine years: first shots<br />

and first betrayals down to $ within the party apparatus.<br />

Thirty-two years: election mayor of Toulouse, fortune built<br />

on land sales municipal early paintings master, first ancient<br />

sculptures, mistresses galore. Trentecinq years in the<br />

National Assembly election, the first castle in Lozère. Thirtysix<br />

years with the divorce and remarriage second “chick”<br />

(German supermodel, chickpea for brains but damn a saint<br />

legs). Thirty-seven years: Mouflets outbreak in every corner.<br />

Thirty-eight years: short crossing of the desert caused by<br />

the case of bribery of wine on the sale of aircraft in<br />

Pakistan.<br />

Thirty-nine: dazzling return to the political scene with new<br />

wedding (the daughter of President CONGOMA, a good<br />

choice this time). Appointment to the Department Foreign<br />

Affairs and the first real action repulsive: the organization of<br />

the assassination of President of Peru, replaced by a<br />

puppet.<br />

Forty-five years: death of President CONGOMA.<br />

Campaign Lucinda President of the beautiful Republic<br />

French thanks to a campaign entirely financed by the in<br />

New slogan: “Lucinda has studied history at now he writes.<br />

” Failure. Fifty-two years: new election. Victory: Power.<br />

Finally the Elysee Palace. Hold on the Secret Service.


Private museum of antiquities quietly “Recovered” abroad.<br />

Caviar with a ladle. Fifty-five: Threat of nuclear war. The<br />

enemy gets scared, back, and Lucinda misses its first<br />

opportunity to enter history.<br />

Fifty-six years of the mistresses of younger and younger.<br />

Fifty-seven years meeting with his first real friend,<br />

Vercingetorix, a black Labrador, suspicion, he, careerism.<br />

Finally, fifty-eight years and concluded at the moment, this<br />

fine biography of the great man murdered in a walkabout in<br />

Versailles.<br />

More bubble mirrors. Life, even as President, this not more<br />

than that. Dust to dust you return. Ash, you return to ashes.<br />

Maggot, you end up in stomach maggots.<br />

If only he was allowed to die in peace! Same maggots are<br />

entitled to final peace. But no, we he raises his eyes,<br />

placed on a pool table … It is fiddles, we undressed, it<br />

connects to the device complicated and around him, it<br />

chatters, it chatters. “All do to save the President, “they<br />

repeat. Fools!<br />

What good is all this effort? He felt a great fatigue invade. It<br />

was as if life gradually left him. Exactly that. It came out. He<br />

felt that it came out. Not possible! Jean Lucinda felt … he<br />

left. He went out of his body. Yikes! He really went out of his


ody. in front of him. Finally it or what else? There was<br />

something else … how can you call it? His soul? His body<br />

heritage? Its ectoplasm? His thought materialized? It was<br />

he in clear and light. It is separated, it is scrub, it was split.<br />

What a feeling!<br />

He took off, left his skin, like an old garment Used. It rose,<br />

rose, rose again. He did not suffer more toes. It was so<br />

light!<br />

His … new “me” lingered a moment on the ceiling. Of there,<br />

he gazed at the corpse lying and all the experts full<br />

aggressive therapy. No respect for his remains. They<br />

opened his chest, he broke the coast, planted electrodes<br />

directly into the muscle heart!<br />

Needless to stay longer here, it was called elsewhere. A<br />

string transparent kind of umbilical cord, connecting still in<br />

its human carcass. She stretched, silver cord and elastic,<br />

as and as he walked away from it.<br />

He crossed the ceiling, passed through several floors filled<br />

of patients. Finally, it was the roof and then the sky. A light<br />

kindly called off. Fantastic! Other people, many other<br />

people, fluttered around him, like him stretching their silver<br />

cord. He felt to participate a great party.<br />

But suddenly his own silver cord stopped


to stretch, it hardens, tensed, pulled it from below! He<br />

wanted to shout it: “Close the door, there are currents had<br />

to go to the obvious: Lucinda did not die more. The air. ”<br />

ectoplasm other looked at him without understanding: for<br />

He was in pain, so bad in all his nerves. What does he<br />

continued further forward? Pulled the cord, the elastic Te<br />

So here again, my aching body. policy abruptly retracted.<br />

He recrossed the roof, | He opened one eyelid, there were<br />

plenty of people around<br />

ceilings, he returned to the operating room and saw the<br />

nurses who released her discharge several hundred volts<br />

directly into the heart. “It is forbidden to do that! “He had<br />

passed a law that, two years before, to limit aggressive<br />

therapy. The result remember, it was section 676: “When<br />

cardiac activity ceases, it will not perform any manipulation,<br />

abuse or operation that may force the failing heart to<br />

restart. “But as he was president, we obviously felt that his<br />

life was above the law. Ha! the bastards! Ah, the little<br />

manure! Once again he found the inconvenience of being<br />

the most important man of Country : .. In the second he had<br />

only one desire: to be a bum which no one cared. Tramp,<br />

beggar, worker, housewife, anything, but that he record the<br />

peace. That he be granted the peace of death. This is the<br />

first right of a citizen: to die in peace.<br />

“Let me die! Let me die! “He yelled to loudly. But his<br />

ectoplasm had no voice. The cord money dragged lower


and lower. He could not back. Floup, he returned to his<br />

former body. What a feeling unpleasant! Ouch, he felt again<br />

the already ingrown toenail! And we had broken his ribs for<br />

reach the heart. In addition he dropped a new landfill<br />

power, this time it was very, very badly.<br />

He opened his eyes. Of course the doctors and nurses<br />

shouted for joy and congratulating the each other. Fools …<br />

- We did it, we did it! - His heart is beating again, he<br />

breathes, he is saved! Saved? Who saved, saved from<br />

what? Not one of them, at any cases He suffered, he<br />

suffered. He stammered in a grimace something<br />

incomprehensible. “Stop landfills close the chest! “<br />

his bed.<br />

It was bad, so bad. All his nerves were raw. He closed eyes<br />

to enjoy a moment of respite and remember the great<br />

country light up there in the heaven.<br />

32 - FACT POLICE


Demand for basic descriptive information<br />

Name: Lucinda<br />

Name: Jean<br />

Hair: Black<br />

Eyes: Gray<br />

Size: 78 1 m<br />

Distinguishing features: None<br />

Comment: A pioneer of the movement Thanatonautes<br />

Weakness: President of the Republic<br />

33 - MINISTER MERCASSIER<br />

Fully furnished in Louis XV style, the Presidential Office<br />

was very broad. The room was dimly lit, but enough to<br />

discern and famous paintings naughty Greek sculptures.<br />

Art was a good way to impress the philistines. Benedict<br />

Mercassier, Minister Research, not ignorant. He also knew<br />

that even he could not see his face, President Lucinda was<br />

sitting there in front of him. The desk lamp that illuminated<br />

his hands, but the thick silhouette was familiar, the black<br />

labrador at his feet, too.


It was the first meeting between the two men since the<br />

attack that had nearly cost his head to the nation. Why the<br />

President had he contacted him, specifically, when there<br />

were so many issues of domestic policy or<br />

56 57<br />

foreign to regulate much more urgent problems<br />

researchers always looking for grants?<br />

As Mercassier could no longer silence the dragged on, he<br />

dared to break it first. He hesitated and chose few<br />

banalities of circumstances:<br />

- How are you, Mr. Speaker? It seems you’re recovering<br />

well from your operation. These Doctors have performed<br />

miracles. Lucinda thought he would gladly have such of<br />

miracles. He came into the light. Gray eyes, particularly<br />

brilliant landed on the speaker curled a chair of red<br />

brocade.<br />

- Mercassier, I have called because I need the advice an<br />

expert. Only you can help me. - I’d be delighted, Mr.<br />

Speaker. Which ? is it? Leaning back, Lucinda plunged<br />

into the penumbra. It was strange, his every move exuded a<br />

strange majesty. As for his face, he seemed becoming


suddenly more … (Mercassier surprised by the adjective<br />

which came to mind) more human.<br />

- You have training in biology, is not it? Lucinda issued. Tell<br />

me, what is your experience post-comatose? Mercassier<br />

stared at him, puzzled. President annoyed:<br />

- The NDE, Near the Deaîh experience, these people in last<br />

moment out of their body and then return to Because,<br />

finally, thanks to medical advances? Benedict Mercassier<br />

could not believe his ears. Behold Lucinda, so realistic<br />

usually interested in this to mystical phenomena. What it<br />

was like to have known death! He hesitated.<br />

- I think it is a fashion, a phenomenon company will like so<br />

many others before him. People need to believe in the<br />

marvelous, the supernatural, he are anything other than the<br />

material world down here. So… some writers, gurus,<br />

charlatans benefit into their business by telling nonsense.<br />

This need is always rooted in man. Religions are the proof.<br />

Just promise paradise in an imaginary future for people to<br />

swallow more easily the bitter pill now. Credulity, stupidity<br />

and naive.<br />

- That’s really what you think? Of course! What better than a<br />

dream beyond paradise? What more “fake” dream?<br />

Lucinda coughed:<br />

- And yet, if there was any truth in these … gossip? The


scientist chuckled:<br />

- Since the time, there are proofs. This is the story of the<br />

man who saw the man who saw the man who saw the man<br />

who saw the bear. Nowadays, everything works in reverse.<br />

It is the skeptics to prove that their doubts are founded. Just<br />

as anyone announces the end of the world tomorrow that<br />

requires specialists they prove it will not happen. Lucinda<br />

tried to impartiality.<br />

- No evidence, you say? Perhaps there are not because no<br />

one has tried? Are there only a formal study on the subject?<br />

- Uh, not to my knowledge, made Mercassier, troubled. So<br />

far, we stuck to record doubtful accounts. What’s going on?<br />

Interested in this topic there? “Oh! Yes, Benedict!<br />

exclaimed Lucinda. many Also, because the man who saw<br />

the bear, as you say, and even directly, well, that’s me. The<br />

Minister of Research looked at the President with unbelief.<br />

He wondered if, after all, the attack had not left to his vis-àvis<br />

irreversible sequelae. Its heart has been reached, the<br />

brain had not been irrigated for several minutes. Some<br />

areas they would necrotic? Is it now a victim of psychotic<br />

delusions ?<br />

- Stop and stare, Benedict! exclaimed harshly Lucinda. I<br />

just tell you that I lived a NDE, I will not establish a<br />

communist state! - I do not think so, replied the scientist by<br />

instinct. The President shrugged. - I would not have<br />

believed it myself if I was not


arrival: But then it happened to me. I glimpsed a continent<br />

wonderful and I would like to learn more about it.<br />

Qualitative Interviews Your own eyes? Off course ! Always<br />

rational, Mercassier offered an explanation: - Before his<br />

death, the body often produces morphine natural<br />

abundance. What the dying drunk before the departure, as<br />

a small indulgence chemical as an ultimate fireworks …<br />

Surely there is enough to cause some fantastic<br />

hallucinations, “Great continent” and others. This is<br />

probably what You arrived on the operating table. In the<br />

halo of the desk lamp, Lucinda had not hallucinatory air. On<br />

the contrary. His brain is it when even damaged? Was it<br />

necessary to alert other ministers, press, to the President<br />

out of harm’s way before he commits the country in any<br />

transaction insane? Benedict Mercassier wrung her hands<br />

under his seat. Corn in front, the speaker resumed already,<br />

very quiet:<br />

- I know the effects of the drug, Benedict. I already addicted<br />

and I know the difference between an early overdose and<br />

the real. How many times did you not reiterated that, in any<br />

scientific field, it Simply invest in abundance to reach early<br />

results? - Yes, but … - One percent of the budget of<br />

Veterans Affairs awarded in soft, okay? Mercassier was in<br />

agony.<br />

- I refuse. I am a true scientist and I can not lead to such a<br />

farce. - I insist. - In this case. I prefer to resign. Really? 34 -


HISTORY TEXTBOOKS


The death of our ancestors<br />

Classified by socio-professional categories (of time) Here<br />

is a table comparing the number of people exceeding the<br />

age of 50 on a thousand men each category. Statistics<br />

1970 (end of the second millennium).<br />

- Teachers: 732 - Senior Managers and professionals: 719<br />

- Engineers: 700 - Catholic Clergy: 692 - Farmers: 653 -<br />

Entrepreneurs and traders: 631 - Office workers: 623 -<br />

Middle management: 616 - Workers: 590 - Agricultural<br />

workers: 565 History textbook, second year elementary<br />

course.<br />

35 - NEW AUSTRALIA<br />

The empty mind, Benedict wandered long Mercassier on<br />

the Champs-Elysées. He was convinced of the absence of<br />

NDE and now he was commissioned to prove conclusively<br />

reality. Much to ask an atheist to demonstrate the existence<br />

of God or a publicist vegetarian boast the merits of the<br />

meat.<br />

He knew exactly why Lucinda had elected to this task. The<br />

President loved to force his men to practice paradox. He<br />

forced ministers from right to implement policies on the left,<br />

environmentalists for rent the all-nuclear, protectionist<br />

advocate free trade …


He had still to allocate two hundred thousand francs to her<br />

scarf “Project Paradise”. There he was no longer ignore.<br />

But to prove that flew out of his body at the time of his death<br />

to win a “wonderful continent<br />

“…<br />

61<br />

Lucinda was not the first head of state to engage in<br />

projects cranks. Mercassier remembered that There was<br />

already a long time in the seventies, a whimsical name of<br />

U.S. President Jimmy Carter had made up his mind to<br />

come into contact with UFOs. To UFOs, he thought as hard<br />

as iron. It launched a program cutting across all the<br />

accounts of the famous “Objects Unidentified Flying. ”<br />

Imagine the wealth of austere scientists forced to listen to<br />

the enlightened and hallucinated chain! He had squandered<br />

taxpayers’ money in building a gigantic transceiver<br />

supposed to capture messages and possible<br />

extraterrestrial intelligences communicate with them. And<br />

then he was not surprised not be reelected!<br />

Lucinda also ran his Berezina, but for his hand, Mercassier<br />

had no choice. It was either stroke the whims of the


President in the grain or abandon portfolio and, naturally,<br />

he held his little bit of power. Too bad for the Veterans! He<br />

would find how to use the famous two hundred thousand<br />

Francs,<br />

and? As always he was in doubt, Mercassier immediately<br />

thought to call her best and closest adviser: his wife, Jill.<br />

To his amazement, it seemed no surprise when, at dinner,<br />

he explained his problem NDE. All by sharing their plates<br />

with mashed broccoli it reflects:<br />

- What you need to get started is to invent a experimental<br />

protocol. Inventing a test meeting the question: “Yes or no,<br />

is there something after death? ” What did you like data as<br />

a starting point? - One, he sighed, but size. The President<br />

is convinced he had a NDE! As always, she comforted him:<br />

- Be positive. To succeed, we must be ahead confident of<br />

victory. - But, lamented there, we can not require me I<br />

believe the NDE. It would be to ignore everything that I<br />

taught at the Faculty of Science! She cut short her<br />

jeremiads:<br />

- You’re not a scientist, you’re a politician. Think therefore<br />

politician, otherwise we would never manage. That says it,<br />

then, your President? - He claims to have glimpsed a “great<br />

continent” … - A “great continent”? Jill frowned. - It’s funny,<br />

these are the exact words What employees the first


European navigators by discovering the continent I was<br />

born: Australia! - What relationship? he asked, pouring<br />

himself a glass of wine. - We gave you a new continent to<br />

explore. You have therefore adopt the spirit of the pioneers<br />

of the sixteenth century. They unaware that there was a land<br />

east of Indonesia. Those who would have said would have<br />

gone for friendly crazy as you treat the statements of<br />

nonsense the President. - Still, there was a palpable<br />

continent, with meadows, trees, animals, aborigines! -<br />

Easy to say, the twenty-first century, but at the time imagine<br />

yourself a little? Speaking of southern lands was equally<br />

strange to mention that today a continent beyond death. As<br />

if he had not wanted to keep the mind clear, Mercassier<br />

would gladly have emptied the whole bottle of Bourgueil. A<br />

good year, too. Jill continued his reasoning<br />

:<br />

- Put yourself in the shoes of a minister of that time. In<br />

during a sea voyage, your king and sank has featured a<br />

glimpse of “wonderful continent.” It was rescued by another<br />

vessel of his squadron before he could it forward, but on his<br />

return to his capital, he ordered his Minister of Transport to<br />

take steps to learn more about the mysterious island. From<br />

this perspective, of course … Jill Mercassier insisted:<br />

- You just baptize your land of the dead “New Australia “and


then adopt a mindset of an explorer. The challenge is<br />

worthy of our modernity. You imagine, in xxxf century,<br />

people sneer: “And to think that these arrears unaware of<br />

the continent from the dead! “In the year 3000, there<br />

will still look for a president to go further in back in time<br />

maybe. And Minister responsible for Mission Mercassier<br />

the envy of the past who received him, a term much easier<br />

to complete: just visit the country the dead …<br />

His wife was so convincing that Benedict could not help to<br />

ask:<br />

- But you believe, you, to this continent from the dead? -<br />

Does it matter? What I know is that if I was the wife of the<br />

Minister of Transport in the sixteenth century, I have advised<br />

to charter ships and to check whether There was an<br />

Australian. In any case, you will be the man who discovered<br />

this unknown continent, namely which has proved its<br />

nonexistence. In either case, you go winner. In turn, Jill<br />

grabbed the bottle. Fixing the green mashed potatoes, her<br />

husband grumbled:<br />

- Okay, but what a ship sent in such a place? Suddenly, she<br />

emptied her glass:<br />

- It comes back to the problem of experimental protocol. Do<br />

you want a salad? No. It was no longer hungry. Worries him


cut the appetite. It was not the case that Jill fetched cooking<br />

a bowl of lettuce and tomatoes. All his business, She sat<br />

down in a synopsis:<br />

- Well, we already decided to call your new continent “New<br />

Australia”. And we shipped to colonize Australia? Convicts,<br />

prisoners of law, thugs of the worst kind. And why them<br />

specifically? There Mercassier found himself in his<br />

element.<br />

- Because we thought that Australia might be a dangerous<br />

place and it was better not to send People whose loss<br />

would be a shortage for the company. Her face brightened<br />

as and as he spoke. As usual, Jill had not failed. She had<br />

provided a solution.<br />

- Benedict, you found what sailors storming your new<br />

continent. Now, we must pledge a Captain. The Minister of<br />

Research smiled, reassured:<br />

- With that, I have an idea! 36 - Aztec mythology<br />

Among the Aztecs, it is not the merits acquired during<br />

earthly life that determine the existence in the beyond but<br />

the circumstances surrounding the death.<br />

The best way to die is to die in combat. She led the<br />

Quantec (companions of the Eagle) to Tonatiuhichan,<br />

oriental paradise where the deceased will sit alongside the<br />

god of war.


Death by drowning or water-related disease (such as<br />

leprosy) induces a journey to the Tlalocan, paradise Tlaloc,<br />

the god of rain.<br />

Those who were not recognized by any god go to Mictlan,<br />

the place of hell where they undergo four years test before<br />

the final dissolution.<br />

This is the area of Mictlantecuhtli, the underworld. It enters<br />

the caves. The soul must cross eight stays underground<br />

before reaching the ninth world.<br />

First obstacle: the Chicnahuapan, a stream that the dead<br />

must cross by clinging to the tail of a dog Red previously<br />

sacrificed on his grave. Animals sacrificed at the funeral<br />

psychopomps serve, that is that they guide the soul through<br />

the land of the dead.<br />

Second obstacle: two mountains clashing with irregular<br />

intervals. The third hurdle to climb a mountain trail Steep<br />

covered with sharp stones. Fourth obstacle stand obsidian<br />

wind, storm cold sliced carting stones. Fifth obstacle<br />

passing between flags giants flapping in the wind out of<br />

sight. Sixth hurdle: under fire arrows seeking to pierce the<br />

deceased. Seventh obstacle: massive attack of wild<br />

animals willing to swallow his heart.


Eighth hurdle: a narrow defile where the risk of death get<br />

lost. He finally won access to the dissolution.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

37 - ABOUT<br />

Raoul Razorbak reminded me a few weeks later. He was<br />

eager to see me. His voice was strange and it seemed<br />

experiencing an emotion. For once, I stared go not to the<br />

Père-Lachaise, but at home, in his apartment.<br />

It was hardly recognized him when I opened the door. He<br />

was still thin and wore an expression I learned to recognize<br />

in schizophrenics in the hospital.<br />

- “Ah!” Michael, at last! He pointed to a chair in advising me<br />

to wedge myself comfortably. His presentation would<br />

surprise me. Would he obtained unexpected results in its<br />

research on the hibernation of marmots? But what they<br />

affect me? I was a doctor, not a biologist.<br />

- Have you heard of the attack suffered by the President<br />

Lucinda? Of course I had heard. No one in the country<br />

could not escape. The press, television, radio had their<br />

headlines. Our head of state was shot at close range during<br />

a walkabout in Versailles. The best specialists had fared in<br />

extremis. What this incident was it related to the bustle of<br />

my friend?


- The next day, President Lucinda asked its Minister of<br />

Research … He stopped and grabbed me:<br />

Follow me. 38 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS<br />

The first xenografts were established in the mid twentieth<br />

century, specifically in the years 1960-1970. Therefore, the<br />

sick man became like a car with it was enough to change<br />

the defective parts. As a result, the Death took mechanical<br />

figure of mere accident. If there was Death was due to lack<br />

of proper replacement parts. Of researchers conceived of<br />

pig hearts with characters DNA corresponding to the<br />

receptacles in which human they would operate.<br />

Techniques to support foreign bodies were constantly<br />

improved. Everything was replaceable, except the brain.<br />

And again!<br />

It became logical to think that someday we would be able to<br />

overcome all failures, including failure supreme death. It<br />

was only a matter of technology. At the same time, life fell.<br />

Having the appearance old age was synonymous with<br />

negligence. In each to properly maintain its biological<br />

mechanisms.<br />

We hid the old shriveled or unsavory aspect to better show<br />

off those who practiced, radiant, the tennis or running. At<br />

the time, it was thought that best way to fight against death<br />

was to hide the warning signs.


History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

39 - AMANDINE<br />

My friend Raoul pushed me in his old Renault 20<br />

convertible and drove off with a bang.<br />

- Where are you taking me? - Where it all happens. I could<br />

not get more out of him. The wind blew my questions as<br />

answers. Whatever it was, we went out of Paris. I shudder<br />

when it finally slows to an ominous sign, “Fleury-Merogis<br />

Penitentiary.”<br />

From the outside, the place looked more like a small city or<br />

in a hospital and a prison. Raoul parked in the parking<br />

adjacent to the entrance and led me. He presented a<br />

authorization me my ID card. We passed a sas, drove<br />

through a long corridor, knocked at a door.<br />

A man already upset we opened. His face frowned at the<br />

sight of Razorbak, for his part very a smile.<br />

- Greetings, Mr. Director. I wanted to you presented Dr.<br />

Michael Pinson. You will need to provide a pass in the<br />

shortest possible time. Thank you in advance. Before the<br />

director could answer, we were in new corridors. I felt that<br />

guards as we passed we saw in one eye bad.


We found ourselves in a courtyard. We were in the center of<br />

the town-prison. It was immense. Five blocks buildings<br />

stretched out of sight. Each harbored in the center of a<br />

football field. Raoul explained that inmates practicing the<br />

sport a lot, but at that hours they were still recorded in their<br />

cells.<br />

Fortunately, as many seemed to me very angry our<br />

presence. Clinging to the bars of the first floors, they<br />

roared:<br />

- Garbage, bastards, you will have your skin! Apparently,<br />

the guards did not put any zeal to to silence. A voice stood<br />

out:<br />

- We know what you make in the D2. Of People like you do<br />

not deserve to live! I was getting worried. What had been<br />

my friend Raoul, he went on his way recklessly to put these<br />

men in such a state of rage? I knew as passions could lead<br />

to the far, far away, beyond any reason.<br />

Building D2. I followed the reprobate, less desire to learn<br />

more than not to be alone, between angry prisoners and<br />

guards equally hostile. Still corridors, reinforced doors and<br />

unlocking. The stairs. Other stairs. Printing a descent into<br />

hell. From below came the laughter<br />

fat mixed with many complaints. Do we shut the crazy<br />

around here?


Lower, ever lower. Darker, ever more dark. I thought of the<br />

method invented by Aesculapius for treatment of madness.<br />

There was this more than three thousand years, care facility<br />

called Esclapion and which can be still see the ruins in<br />

Turkey, this pioneer of psychiatry had set up a maze of dark<br />

tunnels. After a long wait during which they had been<br />

conditioned Hopefully the supreme pleasure, there’s insane<br />

driving. Chants were heard at the entrance and it sank in<br />

the dark labyrinth, they became more melodious. When<br />

enchanted, stop the insane in the darkest place, is poured<br />

over him a barrel full of sticky snakes under which struggled<br />

while the poor, surprised at the height of bliss. Either he<br />

died on the spot fear, it appeared to be healed. In fact,<br />

Asclepius was invented the electric shock.<br />

Me, adrift in the basement of Fleury-Merogis, I wondering<br />

when I get my barrel of reptiles frozen.<br />

It was then that Raoul exhibited a rusty key that opened a<br />

big studded door. I found behind a large hangar-like<br />

disorder as Capernaum there was Grand There were three<br />

men in a tracksuit and a young blonde woman wearing a<br />

black blouse that gave me a déjà vu.<br />

The men rose and bowed respectfully my friend.<br />

-I present Dr. Michael Pinson, I have already mentioned. -<br />

Thanks for coming, Doctor, they exclaimed in chorus. -<br />

Miss Ballus, our nurse, continued Raoul. I bowed to the girl


and noticed it the look me up. The place had to be<br />

abandoned a lazaretto. On my right,<br />

a laboratory bench was littered with bottles smoking,<br />

probably liquid nitrogen. In the center of the room, sat an<br />

old dentist’s chair, in some places broken, and surrounded<br />

by<br />

electrical machinery overcrowded son of twisted and<br />

screens turn signals.<br />

The set looked like a garage tinkerer’s Sunday. To see the<br />

status of devices, controllers and levers rusted, I wonder if<br />

Raoul had not made garbage universities. The screens of<br />

oscilloscopes were cracked, the electrodes of the<br />

cardiographs blackened by age.<br />

However, I myself had used enough laboratories to<br />

determine the vision and impeccable immaculate in movies<br />

always give is generally wrong. In reality, no benches or<br />

nickel blouses just out of the laundry instead of the types<br />

mittees in sweaters in makeshift premises.<br />

A friend working on a subject just as important that the<br />

trajectory of thought through the complexities of brain had<br />

for shelter in a car park located basement of the hospital<br />

where all colliding at Bichat each passage of noisy subway.<br />

For lack of credits, he could gain support for its metal brain


wave receiver and had resolved to tinker thing of wood,<br />

glued with tape and consolidated with bedbugs. Yes, even<br />

in France, the search is over what it was.<br />

- My dear Michael, are performed the most daring<br />

experiences of our generation, said pompously Raoul,<br />

pulling me from my thoughts. Once, you remember, we<br />

were talking about death when we meet the Father-<br />

Lachaise. I mentioned then as an unexplored continent.<br />

Now here we are trying to plant flags. It was there. The<br />

barrel of snakes fell on me head. Raoul, Raoul Razorbak,<br />

my best and oldest friend, had gone mad. Now he was<br />

engaged in experiments the death! As I stood bewildered,<br />

he explained:<br />

- President Lucinda experienced a NDE at the time of his<br />

recent attack on Versailles. He therefore charged Benedict<br />

Mercassier, the Minister of Research, to launch a program<br />

Studies on beyond the coma. It turns out that he had read<br />

my articles on “put in hibernation Artificial surges marmots’<br />

in international journals. He contacted me and asked if I<br />

could reproduce such experiments on humans. I jumped the<br />

occasion. My marmots may have been parties to a another<br />

world, but they were unable to tell me what they had seen.<br />

The men themselves would know. Yes, my dear, I have the<br />

green light for government Research on NDE, using<br />

volunteers, also common-law prisoners. These gentlemen<br />

are our pilots of the afterlife. These are, um …


He thought for a moment as if searching for inspiration.<br />

- They are … Then his face lit up: - … of tha-na-tonauts. Of<br />

Greek thanatos, death, and communities, browser. Of<br />

Thanatonautes. Nice word indeed. Thanatonautes. - He<br />

repeated again. - Thanatonautes: a word of the same<br />

family, therefore, that cosmonaut or astronaut. This will<br />

become the generic reference. Finally we have coined the<br />

term. We use Thanatonautes to make tha-na-to-water. He<br />

listened to himself, to his own delight.<br />

- Consequently, our hangar is a thanatodrome, since by<br />

taking off our … Thanatonautes. A new vocabulary was<br />

born in these depths of Fleury-Merogis. Raoul beamed.<br />

The blonde girl produced a bottle of sparkling wine and<br />

biscuits. Everyone aims to baptism. great whole. I<br />

remained dark and pushed the flute that Raoul handed me.<br />

“Excuse me.” I do not play spoilsport but I understand, here,<br />

we play with life. These gentlemen have mission to conquer<br />

the land of the dead, ca - Yes, Michael. Fabulous, no?<br />

Raoul raised his hand, pointing to a stained ceiling Tasks:<br />

- And what a tremendous challenge for our generation and<br />

future generations: the exploration of the afterlife. I freed<br />

myself.<br />

- Raoul, Madame, gentlemen, I said very calmly, I see<br />

myself obliged to leave you. I do not need


crazy suicidal or not they enjoy the support of their<br />

government. With that, I salute you.<br />

I walked quickly toward the exit when the nurse grabbed my<br />

arm. For the first time I heard the sound of his voice.<br />

- Wait, we need you. She did not beg, she had worn in a<br />

cold almost indifferent. That it should be used in the<br />

exercise of his profession to demand cotton wool or scalpel<br />

to-end chrome.<br />

I met his gaze. She had eyes of a color rare: navy blue with<br />

a little beige in the center, an iris like a lost island in an<br />

ocean. I immediately plunged like a black abyss.<br />

She continued to stare at me, smile without me, without<br />

really amenity. As if the mere spoken to me was already the<br />

largest concessions. I drew back. I could not wait to escape<br />

this place mortal.<br />

40 - FACT POLICE


Demand for basic descriptive information<br />

Name: Ballus<br />

Name: Amanda<br />

Hair: Blond<br />

Eyes: Black<br />

Size: 69 1 m<br />

Distinguishing features: None<br />

Comment: A pioneer of the movement Thanatonautes<br />

Weakness: Very focused on sex<br />

41 - MYTHOLOGY AMAZON<br />

Principle creator of the world once decided to make<br />

immortal men. He ordered them: “Go on<br />

banks of the river. You will cycle through three canoes. Do<br />

not stop<br />

certainly not the first two. Wait for the third and<br />

embrace the spirit is there. “


Before the first boat, responsible for rotten meat<br />

72<br />

covered with vermin and odors exhaling, the Indians<br />

retreated, disgusted. But when there appeared the second,<br />

they saw a dead human form and they rushed to comfort<br />

him. It was too late when occurred the spirit of creative<br />

Principle in the third vessel. It noted with dismay that the<br />

men had embraced the death. So they had made their<br />

choice.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

42 - gradual shift towards CRIME<br />

For two weeks, I had no new my ex-friend Professor<br />

Razorbak and its thanatomachin. I admit, I was very<br />

disappointed. Raoul, the idol of my youth had managed to<br />

make his fantasies and I was revulsion. I thought even to<br />

report to the police. If conducting experiments “fatal” in<br />

guinea pigs humans, it had to be put out of harm’s way.<br />

On behalf of our old friendship, I did not though. I repeated<br />

to myself that if he had received, as he claimed, the


Support the Head of State was that he was able to provide<br />

adequate safeguards.<br />

“We need you,” said the young nurse and the phrase<br />

haunted me. What would they need me to kill people? A<br />

little cyanide or mortal-rats, and presto! Me, I had taken the<br />

Hippocratic Oath and one of the major rules of my job was<br />

to save lives, not to shorten.<br />

When Raoul reminded me, I wanted to tell him that I wanted<br />

never heard of him and his experiences but something held<br />

me back, perhaps our old friends, perhaps the words of the<br />

nurse who rang in my ears.<br />

He visited me in my studio. He seemed to have old and still<br />

read his nervousness in his eyes, h probably had not slept<br />

for several days. He lit the chain of fine cigarettes<br />

eucalyptus say “Bidder” he breathed into a few puffs.<br />

- Michael, do not judge me.<br />

- I do not judge you. I try to understand you and I will not not<br />

understand. - No matter the individual Razorbak. Only the<br />

project account. He transcends being. It is a challenge to<br />

live up to our generation. I will shock, but all the precursors<br />

were deemed objectionable by their contemporaries.<br />

Rabelais, the jovial writer Rabelais, was traveling at night in<br />

cemeteries dig up the corpses and studied anatomy in<br />

order to advance medicine. At the time, such actions


constitute a crime. But thanks to him we understood by<br />

following the bloodstream and it has saved lives through<br />

transfusions. Michael, if you had lived Rabelais and if so<br />

asked you to help him on his expeditions night, what would<br />

you say? I weighed the matter.<br />

- I said okay, I said finally. Okay, since its … patients were<br />

already dead. But your guinea pigs, Raoul, because your<br />

famous Thanatonautes are just guinea pigs, they are living<br />

them! And do all your manipulations purpose than to pass<br />

from life to death, I right? Yes or no? Raoul fiddled with his<br />

lighter from his long rough hands. No flame springs. Either<br />

he was shaking too much for activate the mechanism, or<br />

the stone was worn.<br />

- You are not mistaken, he says, is controlling. At first, we<br />

had five and two are already Thanatonautes died. They<br />

died stupidly, because I am not a doctor and I have not<br />

been able to revive him. I know how to place and<br />

hibernating marmots back to life, but in terms of human<br />

beings, I can not. I do not know how accurate dosing the<br />

anesthetics. Also, to stop this mess, I called in to help, you<br />

and your mind to both imaginative and resourceful. I<br />

handed him the matches.<br />

- Anesthetize people, it is certainly my job. The put in a<br />

coma, is another matter. He rose and paced the room.


- Think. Innove! I need you, Michael. I missed said one day<br />

that I could always count on you. - Eh! Well, that day has<br />

come. I need you, Michael, and I will<br />

request your help.<br />

Of course I wanted to help. Like old time! He and I against<br />

the fools. But this time, it there were no fools in the face. It<br />

was facing something cold and unknown called death. At<br />

the mere mention, people crossed themselves. And sent<br />

him ad patres the poor unfortunate who trusted him. By<br />

pure curiosity. To solve problems with his father. For satisfy<br />

his pride as an explorer of a new world. Raoul, “my friend<br />

Raoul,” coldly murdering people that he had interfered in<br />

any way … He killed them in the name of science.<br />

Everything in me screamed “In crazy! “.<br />

He looked at me with a great affection for his brother cadet.<br />

- Do you know the Chinese proverb: “He who asks a five<br />

minutes of question may seem silly, the one who does not<br />

question remains stupid all his life “? I remained on his<br />

land.<br />

- There is a phrase best known Hebrew one: “Thou shalt not<br />

kill thy neighbor.” This is one of the Ten Commandments. It<br />

is found written in the Bible. He interrupted his wanderings<br />

to grip firmly my wrists. His hands were warm and spider<br />

moist. He plunged his eyes into mine to help me convince.


- We should have added an eleventh commandment: “You<br />

shall not die in ignorance. “Five, ten, fifty people may have<br />

to spend, I admit. But what challenge! If we succeed, we<br />

finally know what death and people will stop being afraid of<br />

dying. All of these type in a tracksuit that you saw in our<br />

laboratory are prisoners, you know, and they are all<br />

volunteers. I’ve picked. They all have one thing in common:<br />

have been sentenced to life imprisonment and writing the<br />

President to demand the reinstatement of the death of<br />

death rather than life to rot in their jail. I interviewed fifty of<br />

these exceeded. I retained those who seemed sincere in<br />

their desire to<br />

give up their lives as their fate was reluctant. I told them<br />

about Project “Paradise”. They immediately ignited.<br />

- Because thou hast deceived, I say, shrugging shoulders.<br />

They are not scientists. They know they have 99.999%<br />

chances to let their skin in your little experiences. They also<br />

fear death, even if they provide the opposite. At the last<br />

moment, everyone is afraid! He grabbed me even more<br />

firmly. It hurt me but he ignored my efforts to free myself.<br />

- I have not deceived. never. They know all the risks. They<br />

know that many will die before a day someone manages to<br />

come back after an NDE voluntarily provoked. This one is a<br />

true pioneer. It will have completed the first step in<br />

conquering the world the dead. Basically, it’s like a lottery,<br />

many losers for only one winner … He sat down, took the


ottle of whiskey I filed with the glasses on my coffee table<br />

and poured himself a swig of alcohol. With my matches, he<br />

revived one of its thin cigarettes bidder.<br />

- Michael, even you and me, we will die one day, and Then,<br />

just before he died, we ask that we have made our lives. So<br />

many try something original! Frayons a track. If we fail,<br />

other will continue. The Thanatonautes is still in its infancy.<br />

Appalled me so much stubbornness.<br />

- You’ve set an impossible task, I sighed. - Impossible, this<br />

is said to Christopher Columbus when he asserted able to<br />

take an egg right. I had a bitter smile.<br />

- In this case, it was easy. It was enough to tap the base of<br />

the egg. - Yes, but he had discovered the first. Here, I will<br />

you submit a problem that seems likely as not that of the<br />

egg of Columbus in his time. He went out of his pocket a<br />

notebook and a pencil.<br />

- Will you draw a circle and the center point of its axis<br />

without lifting your pen? To better show me the figure to<br />

obtain, he traced luimême a circle with a dot in the middle.<br />

- Do the same, but without lifting your pen, should order-it.<br />

- It’s impossible and you know it! - No more than one egg to<br />

fit right. No more than to conquer the continent of the dead.<br />

Looking at the round point, I had a dubious frown.


- You possess really a solution? - Yes, and I’ll prove it right<br />

away. This is the moment chosen for my dear brother<br />

Conrad occur without warning in my apartment. The door<br />

was open and he had obviously not bothered to knock.<br />

- Hi, the company! he shouted cheerfully. I did not want to<br />

continue this conversation my idiot brother. I tried to put a<br />

definitive end to this debate scabrous.<br />

- Sorry, Raoul, but the case that you propose does not<br />

interest me. As for your problem, unless you cheat, there is<br />

no way to solve it. - Men of little faith! he exclaimed, very<br />

sure of himself. Launching a business card on the table, he<br />

added: - You will find me at this number if you change your<br />

mind. On this final arrow, he disappeared without a<br />

goodbye. - I think I know this person, noticed my brother.<br />

Much to change the subject:<br />

- So, Conrad, I said, jovial and happy as if I seen, then,<br />

Conrad, what have you been? It would be endless and<br />

bored to about in advance. I knew perfectly well what had<br />

become of Conrad. It was in the import and export of “all<br />

you can cram in containers. ” He had enriched. He was<br />

married. It had two children. He had a beautiful sports car<br />

Korean. He played tennis. He frequented the salons where<br />

one because his partner and he had a mistress.<br />

Conrad spread out to enjoy the latest episodes of its<br />

successful existence. He had acquired a master paintings


idiculous price, bought a house on the coast of Brittany<br />

and I would be welcome in case I want to help the<br />

retapisser. Her children excelled in school. I display a nice<br />

smile, but a couple of good news in this genre and I could<br />

not hold my growing desire send him my fist in the face.<br />

Nothing is more annoying than the happiness of others.<br />

Especially when it is Gauge your own demise …<br />

Three, four times a week, my mother called me:<br />

- Hey, Michael, when do I get you too something good to tell<br />

me? It is time you’re thinking about starting a family.<br />

Conrad looks like it is pleased him. But my mother was<br />

satisfied, moreover, not to make me to marriage. She<br />

acted. I had surprised one day by train write a matrimonial<br />

ad for a newspaper: “Great doctor, rich, intelligent, beautiful<br />

and spiritual seeking women the same level. “Finally, this<br />

was about the spirit of the text. I pricked one of those<br />

tantrums!<br />

While I m’obnubilais on the enigma of the circle and its<br />

axis, Conrad continued to expose all the details of its<br />

happiness. It detailed every room in his mansion and<br />

Breton explained how he had driven to get the native a<br />

quarter of its price.<br />

Ah, that smile above! The more he talked the more I


discerned pity in her voice. “Poor Michael, he thought, so<br />

many years of study to reach this solitary life, sad and<br />

miserable. “<br />

It’s true that at that time my life was not terrible.<br />

I was living alone, single, in my little studio Rue Reaumur.<br />

Most of all, loneliness weighed me, and I longer found any<br />

satisfaction in my work. I arrived morning at the hospital. I<br />

examined the records of future operations. I was preparing<br />

my products, syringes planted, watched the screens.<br />

Luckily I had never experienced an accident as but my<br />

anesthetist existence of high priest in white coat was far<br />

from meeting all the promises My short stay in hospital of<br />

old St. Louis. The nurses were not naked under their work<br />

clothes. Some were easy but they certainly s’aban<br />

gave in the hope of marrying a doctor in order to finally stop<br />

working. My job does finally brought me that<br />

disappointments.<br />

I did not enjoy the esteem of my superiors, or<br />

one of my subordinates and my equals ignored me. Th


was just a patch, a cog with a function<br />

tion precise. It brings you a patient, you hypnotize me, I<br />

and operates the following. No hello and no goodnight.<br />

Conrad chattered, chattered forever, and I thought it there<br />

was something other than my current life and his socalled<br />

happiness. There were certainly some alternative<br />

!<br />

And how to draw a circle and its axis without lifting the pen?<br />

Impossible, not necessarily.<br />

I was unhappy and Raoul had left, taking with him his<br />

madness, passion, adventure, leaving me to my solitude<br />

and my dislikes.<br />

On the coffee table, card shone like a mirage. A circle and<br />

its axis … Impossible!<br />

43 - BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY<br />

“What do you think, O disciples, that is the greatest:<br />

The waters of the vast ocean or the tears that you have paid


while in the long pilgrimage Erri you, you precipitating new<br />

birth into new dead<br />

States that you hated,<br />

Separated from what you love?<br />

Thus, for many ages, you have suffered the punishment,<br />

misfortune, pain, and stuffed the ground cemeteries,<br />

Long enough to be tired of life,<br />

Long enough to wish to escape from it all. “


Discourse of the Buddha<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

44 - This is done<br />

It took several weeks of little exasperation, small<br />

humiliations and immeasurable boredom so I decided to<br />

switch on the side of Raoul and his madness.<br />

Persistent phone calls from my mother and visits<br />

unannounced to my brother played for many in this for. Add<br />

a slight disappointment in love (a colleague work that had<br />

refused to leave me eventually stomatitis with a moron), not<br />

even a good book for comfort me and you will understand<br />

that I was ready for Fleury-Merogis.<br />

It was not, however, the accumulation of shabby setbacks<br />

that determined my choice, but an old lady all shriveled<br />

awaiting a crucial operation.<br />

I was there, anesthetic injection in hand, when an assistant<br />

came to tell me that the surgeon was not ready. Th knew<br />

what that meant. That fool was in the process to engage,<br />

just to relax, to part of leg in the air with his nurse in the<br />

dressing room. Once they would have done with their<br />

antics, I could sleep my patient so that he takes away his


tumor to the bladder, with a two chance that she wakes up.<br />

It was so … no! Five thousand years of civilization to<br />

get to wait until a surgeon well wishes<br />

we are trying to ejaculate five minutes later to save<br />

the life of a sick!<br />

- Why are you laughing? inquired the old lady. - It’s nothing.<br />

Is nervous. - Your laugh reminds me of my husband before<br />

his death. I liked to hear him laugh. It was won by a break<br />

aneurysm. He was lucky, him. He did not have time of being<br />

decrepit. He died … in good health. Her laughter, her, rang<br />

like a bell fatal.<br />

- With this, I’m finally going to join him. - What are you<br />

saying! Dr. Leveau is an ace. The grandmother shook her<br />

head. - But is that I intend to stay there. I have more<br />

80<br />

enough to live alone. I want to find my husband. There. In<br />

Paradise.<br />

- You believe that there is a heaven? Of course! It would be<br />

too awful if everything stopped with this life. There must be


an “after” somewhere. I get my Andrew, here or in another<br />

life, I do not equal. We loved each other so much and for so<br />

long! Don’t talk like that. Dr. Leveau you will treat your little<br />

bobo. I exclaimed with even less conviction that I had many<br />

times witnessed the incompetence of this practitioner.<br />

She looked at me with eyes of loving faithful dog.<br />

- And then I would return to live alone with my memories in<br />

my apartment too … What horror<br />

!<br />

- But life is still … - A damn way, eh? Without love, life is<br />

really a valley of tears. - But it’s not just love, there is also …<br />

- There are what? Flowers, small birds? What nonsense!<br />

Me in my life, there was Andrew and I lived only for him. So<br />

this story to my bladder, what chance! - You do not have<br />

children? I asked. - They expect Si legacy in stamping.<br />

After the operation, Surely they will call you doctor to see<br />

immediately if they can order their new car or if they will<br />

have to wait a little longer. Our eyes met. In themselves, the<br />

words formed on my lips.<br />

- Do you know how to draw a circle and its center point<br />

without lifting the pen? She giggled.<br />

- What a question! We learn all this in kindergarten. On a<br />

used tissue, she showed me how to proceed. I rave. It was<br />

so obvious that was natural that I do not think ale.


The old woman gave me a wink fun. She was<br />

one to understand how I could attach importance to such<br />

trifles.<br />

- It was enough to think about it, she said. Having finally<br />

understood, I thought that was really Raoul a genius. A<br />

genius who can make a circle and its center without lifting<br />

the pen could perhaps defy death …<br />

Thereupon, two strong orderlies entered Caribbean<br />

pushing a cart of instruments followed by the surgeon<br />

perky.<br />

Five hours later she had passed from life to death. Leveau<br />

viciously threw his gloves transparent rubber. He cursed.<br />

Blame the obsolete equipment at the patient who had<br />

waited too long, the fault of bad luck …<br />

- Let’s go have a beer? offered me there. The phone rang.<br />

As expected, children were the little old lady. I hung up on<br />

them. My hand already searched my pocket in search of the<br />

business card Raoul.<br />

45 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS<br />

It is unclear how the movement began Thanatonautes.


According to some historians, originally there was a group<br />

friends who want to try a new experience. According to<br />

other sources, the first that had Thanatonautes purely<br />

economic motivations. They wanted to get rich quickly with<br />

a new mode.<br />

History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

46 - Let’s go<br />

I was aware that Raoul offered me to become the<br />

accomplice to his crimes in the future. Crimes in the name<br />

of the science or I did not know what dreams of conquest<br />

the afterlife.<br />

The idea of sending people to death by curiosity always<br />

shocked me as much but at the same time, while I longed<br />

for a little spice in my life.<br />

82<br />

To my mind, I still use three parts two francs. I improved the<br />

method of Raoul now using not one, but three coins. I had<br />

and a more nuanced view. Cell-cell battery meant:<br />

absolutely yes. Cell-cell-face: rather yes. Face-face-stack:<br />

rather not. Face-face-face: absolutely not.


The pieces flew to go ask the sky. Then they landed one<br />

after the other.<br />

Cell-cell-face: rather yes.<br />

I picked up my phone. That evening, a Raoul Enchanted<br />

spoke at length of the project. In my studio, his hands flew<br />

over his head like two pigeons happy.<br />

He was intoxicated with words.<br />

- We will be the first! We will conquer this “Wonderful<br />

continent.” Wonderful continent against the Hippocratic<br />

oath. Th tried one final last stand. Later, when occurred the<br />

worse, and I could always convince me that Raoul had<br />

forced the hand.<br />

He used new arguments:<br />

- Galileo also was called a fool. After Columbus, Galileo!<br />

Certainly, poor Galileo has served as an alibi for the<br />

number of delusional fantasies. Well practice, the scope of<br />

Galilee …<br />

- Okay, Galileo was called a fool and he was perfectly of<br />

sound mind. But for Galileo, unfairly accused, how many<br />

real insane? - The death … began there. - Death, I see<br />

daily in the hospital. The burst type and they do not seem to<br />

Thanatonautes. After a few hours, they begin to stink,


members take a rigor mortis. Death, it stinks. It’s a lot of<br />

meat that is necrosis. - The body rots the soul off, spoke<br />

philosophically my friend. - You know I had a coma and I did<br />

not off. He seemed sorry.<br />

- Poor Michael, you’ve never had a chance.<br />

I should remind Raoul I knew very well why he was<br />

interested in death. Always his father and suicide. He had<br />

more need of a good psychoanalysis as its “Paradise”. But<br />

cell-cell-face, I already chosen.<br />

- Well, let’s get to the point. You already told me I missed<br />

the two first flights due to bad mix anesthetic substances.<br />

But what did you used to cause coma? His face lit up with a<br />

big smile. He took me in her arms as before. He laughed.<br />

He knew he had won.<br />

47 - CHINESE PHILOSOPHY<br />

“Do you want to learn to live well? Learn first die. ”<br />

Confucius<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

48 - Amandine is so pretty<br />

The eyelids of the pretty nurse lowered its blue eyes but his<br />

silence seemed to me this time a deaf congratulations.


I seemed to know her as long she looked like Grace Kelly<br />

in the Hitchcock movie, Rear Window. In much more<br />

beautiful, of course.<br />

In the hangar Fleury-Merogis, everyone seemed<br />

glad to see me. The presence of a physician,<br />

anesthesiologist<br />

moreover, had to reassure both the crew and the can<br />

didates suicide.<br />

Raoul made the introductions. The nurse responded to<br />

name of Amandine, future Thanatonautes were key<br />

ment, Marcellin and Hugh.<br />

- Initially, we had five Thanatonautes me reminded our<br />

captain. Two have died, victims of<br />

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medication error. One does not become anesthesiologist.<br />

So welcome among us! The three prisoners in tracksuits<br />

greeted me when I mark with suspicion. Raoul took me to<br />

the laboratory bench and vial.<br />

- You will learn along with us. All Overall, we enter uncharted<br />

territory. We have no predecessors. We are like those first<br />

men who once rested their feet in America or Australia. To<br />

us to discover our “New Australia “And to plant our flag!<br />

Professor Razorbak had regained all its seriousness. In his<br />

eyes, passion for work well done was replaced madness.<br />

- Let’s show Dr. Pinson way we conduct a coma, he said.<br />

Without hesitation, Marcellin, the smallest of the volunteers<br />

moved the antiquated dentist’s chair. The nurse busied him<br />

to place electrodes on the chest and forehead, more all<br />

kinds of heat detectors, humidity, speed the pulse. Son all<br />

these were connected to monitors or scrolling green lines.<br />

I examined the scene.<br />

- Remove me all this stuff! It was there. I was involved in<br />

their fantasies. I studied the contents of the bench, shelves<br />

above, decipher labels, reflecting on the best mix can<br />

cause a coma.<br />

Saline to dilate the veins of thiopental to anesthetize and<br />

potassium chloride to slow cardiac movements …<br />

Some U.S. states once the preferred method cyanide or


the electric chair to eliminate their sentenced to death. For<br />

my part, I was hoping that thinner more potassium chloride,<br />

the heartbeat without ceasing to decrease, allowing and<br />

slowly poured into a coma, possibly controllable by the<br />

brain.<br />

And me …<br />

With the help of Raoul and the three other candidates<br />

Thanatonautes, I built a device clever enough: a small<br />

plastic stem eight inches high at which I suspended the<br />

saline in his great bottle and thiopental in a smaller and<br />

finally chloride potassium. I tied an electrical system timer<br />

pipes with taps so that each substance to be delivered at<br />

the time considered by me as the most suitable. Thiopental<br />

is powered twenty-five seconds after injection of saline and<br />

potassium chloride, three minutes later. All this would be<br />

administered through a single pipe, terminal precedent,<br />

leading to a single hollow needle.<br />

I called boost the whole system chemical. Ministry<br />

Thanatonautes himself by pressing a trigger electrical<br />

switch pear shaped which operates the timer. Without<br />

realizing it, I had to invent first “death machine” to win<br />

official the land of the dead. I believe it is now the<br />

Smithsonian Institute in Washington.


My address and my insurance impressed the audience.<br />

Raoul was right. Every technical problem, its technical<br />

solution. I was mostly happy with my switch. I would not<br />

have a button to operate. So no direct responsibility. I do<br />

not want to be an executioner.<br />

The individual decides himself to the moment of his<br />

departure and, if unsuccessful, it would be a suicide again.<br />

I asked Amanda to drive the needle into the vein Marcellin<br />

arm. With a gesture sure she pinched inside<br />

Thanatonautes the elbow, pulled the big needle or beading<br />

was a tiny drop of blood. Man not even winced.<br />

I put the bulb while the electric switch in the Marcellin’s<br />

sweaty hand and told him:<br />

- When you press this button, it will trigger the electric<br />

pump. For a moment I almost said “it will trigger your<br />

death,” Marcellin displays a knowing look, as if I spoke<br />

mechanics for a car engine.<br />

Everything is fine. asked Raoul. - At the hair. I totally trust<br />

the doctor. I tried not to let me win this frenzy Raoul, which<br />

made so nervous.<br />

What comes next? he asked. I stared at the child clinging to<br />

naive any cost to the existence of Santa Claus, the<br />

sandman and the possibility of reaching the top three in


order.<br />

I m’empêtrai.<br />

- Well, uh … - Do not worry, Doc. After, I improvised. He<br />

gave me a wink. Nice guy. He wanted to avoid me even<br />

guilt. It knew he was going to meet insurmountable<br />

obstacles and wanted to relieve me of all the seeds that<br />

could occur. For a moment I wanted to tell him “go away<br />

quickly, while there is still time. ” But Raoul, seeing my<br />

embarrassment, cut with a …<br />

- Bravo! Bravo, Marcellin, well said! Everyone applauds,<br />

including me. We applauded what? I do not know … Maybe<br />

my device “Boost to the afterlife,” perhaps the courage to<br />

Marcellin, perhaps the beauty that had nothing to Amandine<br />

to do here. True, a doll like that should be mannequin.<br />

“Accomplice to murder” is not really a profession of the<br />

future.<br />

- We will now proceed to launch a … soul, Raoul<br />

declaimed.<br />

And he put out his cigarette.<br />

Marcellin was smiling like a mountain climber Sunday<br />

tackling Everest with new dress shoes. He made a little<br />

hello that had nothing to do with the salvation of a<br />

convicted. All, we replied with a smile and encouraging it.


- Go, bon voyage! Amandine our tourists covered with a<br />

blanket cooling while I make the final adjustments<br />

computers.<br />

Loan Loan Amanda set off the video camera filming the<br />

scene. Marcellin crossed himself. Closing his eyes, he<br />

undertook the Slow count:<br />

- Six … five … four … three … two … a … Off! Then he<br />

pressed hard switch. 49 - THE MAYAN MYTHOLOGY<br />

Among the Maya, death signified the start to Hell hell<br />

named Mitnal. There the demons tortured soul by cold,<br />

hunger, thirst and misery.<br />

The Maya had established nine lords of the night, probably<br />

corresponding to the nine stays underground Aztecs.<br />

The soul of the dead had to cross five rivers of blood, dust<br />

and thorns. Reached a crossroads, she faced Then the test<br />

houses: the house of amber, house of knives, home of the<br />

cold, the house of jaguars and the house of vampires.<br />

Extract from the thesis coat Death Unknown by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

50 - MARCELLIN human guinea pigs, AMANDINE DIVINE<br />

WOMAN


All eyes fixed intently screens -Monitoring Marcellin’s heart<br />

beat may be weakly but it was still beating. His pulse was<br />

staying with well below that of a person diving into a sleep<br />

in-depth His temperature had fallen by nearly four degrees.<br />

- He has been gone for how long? asked a detained.<br />

Amanda looked at her watch. I knew myself, there was<br />

more than half an hour that Marcellin had made great<br />

jumping. For more than twenty minutes, he was in a deep<br />

coma.<br />

His face was that of a sleeping man.<br />

- I hope he succeeds, provided it succeeds! psalmo88<br />

dierent Hugh and Clement, the other two Thanatonautes<br />

future. I wanted to feel better Marcellin realize the state of<br />

his body but kept me Raoul:<br />

- Do not touch him again. Do not wake up too before. - But<br />

how will we know if it was successful? - If he opens his<br />

eyes, he will have succeeded, soberly told the Head Project<br />

“Paradise”. Every ten seconds, the ping of the<br />

electrocardiogram sounded like the sonar of a submarine<br />

atomic Road to unfathomable depths. The body of


Marcellin was still sprawled on the dentist’s chair. Corn<br />

which could well be his soul?<br />

51 - AND A<br />

For over an hour, I struggled to carry a cardiac massage.<br />

As soon as the ping of the electrocardiogram had stopped,<br />

it had been the general panic.<br />

Amanda rubbed her arms and legs Marcellin, while Raoul<br />

himself donned an oxygen mask. Total we had “one, two,<br />

three,” and I pressed the cage chest, both hands on the<br />

area of the heart. Then Raoul air breathed into the nostrils<br />

to revive the pump respirator.<br />

The application of electroshock had no other result that<br />

make him at once open the eyes and mouth. Empty eyes<br />

and a mouth silent.<br />

By dint of our fencing on the lifeless body of Marcellin we<br />

were swimming.<br />

I repressed in my mind the question “What do I doing here?<br />

“. But the more I watched it I had to call corpse interrogation<br />

became more obsessive. “What am I doing here?”<br />

Yes, what was I doing here?<br />

I wanted to be somewhere else, doing something else.<br />

Have never participated in this operation.


It was too late to bring to life Marcellin. He was<br />

too late and we all knew, but we refused to admit it.<br />

Especially me. In my case, it was my first “murder” and I can<br />

swear that you moves the guts to hear a guy tell you alive<br />

see you! “And to contemplate a little later as stiff as a dry<br />

tree!<br />

Raoul disengaged.<br />

- This has gone too far, he muttered angrily. There is gone<br />

too far and he has been able to come back. Amandine had<br />

exhausted rub Marcellin. Of drops of sweat on his forehead<br />

smooth, flowing all Throughout his cheeks dotted with<br />

freckles, slipped Finally, in her blouse too modest. The<br />

moment was dramatic and yet I knew, perhaps, the moment<br />

the most erotic of my life. What is the vision that beautiful<br />

young woman struggling against death, armed with his only<br />

soft hands! Always close to Eros Thanatos! Th then<br />

realized where I had this impression of known for a long<br />

time. It was not like just Grace Kelly, but also the nurse at<br />

my present clock, after the car accident of my childhood.<br />

Same appearance of an angel, even skin texture, even<br />

scent of apricot.<br />

A guy had just died, and I ogled a nurse. I sickens me.


- What shall we do with the body? I cried. Raoul did not<br />

answer right away. He lingered first Marcellin to<br />

contemplate an improbable hope. Then with detachment,<br />

he explained:<br />

- President we cover. Each prison is experiencing a<br />

suicide rate of 4%. Marcellin will be part of the lot, that’s all.<br />

- It’s criminal insanity! I shouted. What/how? I allowed<br />

myself to embark on this adventure disaster? Thou hast<br />

deceived me, Raoul, you have deceived me, you have<br />

betrayed our friendship to melt in your dementia. You<br />

disgust me every one of you. A guy is dead because of<br />

your unconsciousness. You have deceived me and you did<br />

wrong. Raoul stood up, very dignified, and suddenly he<br />

grabbed me by the neck. His eyes flashed fire, I postillion<br />

face.<br />

- No, I did not deceive you. But the stakes are so huge it is<br />

mandatory that we knew before the failure success. Rome<br />

was not built in a day. We are more children, Michael. This<br />

is not a game We have to pay a high price. Everything has<br />

a price, otherwise it would be too easy. If it were easy,<br />

others are already come before us. This is because it is<br />

hard as we have the merit of success. I protested feebly.<br />

- If we succeed one day. And it seems more increasingly<br />

unlikely. Raoul released me. He considered Marcellin<br />

whose mouth was still wide open. The gaping was<br />

unbearable to see, so he placed a screw clamp between


Marcellin jaw, squeezed and screwed to force them to<br />

closer to closure, and then being able to close accusing the<br />

mouth, he turned to the other.<br />

- Maybe you also think like Michael. If you want to give up,<br />

there is still time. Raoul faced each waiting for a response.<br />

We looked at the corpse of Marcellin and it impressed us<br />

because, due to the clamp jaw, his mouth like Now a bird’s<br />

beak, lost in her cheeks Hollow.<br />

- I give up! exclaimed Clement. I thought with the doctor,<br />

everything would be safer but he too is not strong enough to<br />

fight against death. If you need to kill ten thousand poor<br />

guys before they succeed, I prefer not not find me among<br />

them. No need to remember our AGREEMENT I promise<br />

never to speak to anyone your project “Paradise”. I am too<br />

afraid. - And you, Hugh? Raoul asked an equal voice. - I<br />

remain, proudly launched the volunteer. - You want to be our<br />

next Thanatonautes? - “Yes. I’d rather die than go back to<br />

my which Chin, he pointed to the body of Marcellin.<br />

- At least he is no longer locked in a cell pathetic! - Very<br />

well, ‘said Raoul. And you, Amanda?<br />

- I remain, she announced without showing the slightest<br />

emotion. I could not believe my ears.<br />

- But you are all crazy, I swear! Clement Reasons It may kill<br />

ten thousand people before getting any results. In any case,


count on me. I took off my white coat and threw it on the<br />

bench, thus breaking a few bottles left, who immediately<br />

exhale the smell of ether.<br />

Then I left, slamming the door hard.<br />

52 - ADMINISTRATIVE NOTE<br />

From: Benoît Mercassier To: President Lucinda<br />

In accordance with your instructions, the experiments<br />

started. The research team consists of Professor Raoul<br />

Razorbak, a biologist specializing in the development<br />

hibernating rodents, and Dr. Michael Pinson, anesthetist,<br />

nurse-assisted Amandine Ballus.<br />

Five prisoners were brought guinea pigs volunteers. The<br />

project: “Paradise” is launched.<br />

53 - STATE OF SOUL<br />

I returned to my apartment quite shaken. great whole.<br />

home, I screamed as the coyotes howl in the night full<br />

moon, but failed so far to deliver me from the stress caused<br />

by the death of Marcellin. What should be done? Continue<br />

was wrong, give the next Thanatonautes was poorly find So<br />

I yelled. Neighbors clapped with brushes against my walls.<br />

They obtained the desired result. I tus but calmed myself


not to say.<br />

I was torn. I was unable to waive review Amandine. I did not<br />

want to send more people in a coma. Raoul’s ideas<br />

fascinated me. I refused<br />

92<br />

to have other bodies on his conscience. I did<br />

live in eternal solitude. Return to the routine<br />

my work in the hospital discouraged me. Raoul was right<br />

least one point: the project may have been terrible, but<br />

How great adventure!<br />

He was mad and obsessed with the suicide of his father.<br />

Corn Amanda, what he could push a creature lovely to<br />

embark in this mess? Perhaps étaitelle also believes to be<br />

a pioneer of a world New Raoul was so slick.<br />

I swallowed glass of white port on a small glass of port<br />

white to be drunk. I tried to sleep in reading a novel. Once<br />

again, I was alone in my bed and, to boot, with a death on


his conscience. My sheets were frozen as a cooling<br />

blanket.<br />

Taking my little cream the next morning to the pub the<br />

corner, I thought that maybe it was an excess of chloride<br />

potassium which caused the death of Marcellin. The<br />

product was highly toxic, it was necessary to reduce dose.<br />

Unless this is a problem of anesthetic.<br />

Normally, we use three kinds of anesthetic. Narcotics,<br />

morphine and muscle relaxants. I preferred narcotics habit.<br />

But for a “good death, “it was better a curare.<br />

Hum. No. I would continue with a narcotic.<br />

Gradually, I was no longer obsessed by problems . My<br />

reflexes are triggered professionals After sending the<br />

image, the data will be stored automatically. My chemistry<br />

class came back to me memory.<br />

Hum. Maybe I should have used propofol, I thought. This is<br />

a new drug with a better alarm clock. Normally the alarm is<br />

done in five minutes and is very Bright. No, surely Propofol<br />

interact poorly with the chloride. So as to keep the<br />

thiopental. But what quantity? Usually, it takes five<br />

milligrams per kilo. Five milligrams lowest ten milligram<br />

dose. I have given 850 milligrams


Marcellin who weighed 85 pounds. It should perhaps be<br />

lowered the dose …<br />

At 14 hours, I called Raoul. At 16 hours, we were all<br />

together again in our thanatodrome Fleury-Mérogis. As<br />

usual, we had inmates copiously insulted in the process. To<br />

them, no need to make them believe that Marcellin had<br />

voluntarily committed suicide. The Director We crossed the<br />

penitentiary not greet us, avoiding even look at us.<br />

However, Hughes welcomed us with kindness.<br />

- Do not worry, Doctor, we’ll do it! It was not for me that I<br />

was concerned, it was more For him . I lower my doses.<br />

600 milligrams for Hughes which weighed 80 kilos. This<br />

should be enough. Raoul wrote down any of my<br />

manipulations. Th suppose he wanted to be able to<br />

reproduce them in case I decide for good to abandon.<br />

Amanda handed her a glass of cool water to Hugh.<br />

- The glass of the condemned? he quipped. - No, she<br />

replied seriously. The Thanatonautes took place in the<br />

dentist’s chair. We proceeded with the formalities: setting<br />

up the sensors taken pulse, temperature measurement,<br />

cover cooling.


Loan Loan - Ready! adds Amandine by connecting the<br />

camera of video Hugh muttered a prayer. Then he made a<br />

great sign cross and pronounced at high speed as to get<br />

rid of<br />

- Six, four, five, three, two, one, liftoff! He winced as if he<br />

swallowed a bitter pill and pressed the switch.<br />

54 - NIPPON MYTHOLOGY<br />

:<br />

The Japanese Yomi called the land of the dead. We said<br />

that the god Izanagi went one day to the land of Yomi to<br />

search Izanami, his sister, who was also his wife. When he<br />

recovered, he begged her to return to the world of alive.<br />

“Oh, my husband, why are you so late? said the goddess. I<br />

tasted the dish of baked gods of Yomi and I belong to them<br />

now. However, I will try to convince them to release me.<br />

Pray for that time and especially do not look at me. “<br />

But Izanagi wished to see his sister-wife. Violation his<br />

order, he took his comb, used it as a tool to break a tooth<br />

and the tooth turned into a torch it inflamed. He was then<br />

able to discern Izanami. He discovered a corpse eaten by<br />

worms, including the eight deities of the Thunder had taken<br />

possession. Frightened, he ran away screaming<br />

accidentally falling into a place of horror and decay. Furious


that he evicted without the wait, Izanami is said humiliated.<br />

She sent the hideous harpies of Yomi in pursuit of Izanagi,<br />

but he managed to escape.<br />

Izanami plunged itself in pursuit. The Izanagi trapped in a<br />

cave. When the two deities had to pronounce the sentence<br />

of divorce, Izanami said: “Every day I strangle one thousand<br />

people in your country make you pay for your package. -<br />

And I, I will be born every day 1500 people, “replied Izanagi<br />

without disconcerting.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

55 - and ten<br />

Hughes never returned. He stood midway between the<br />

continent of the dead and the living. He did not die,<br />

emerged from the coma but prostrate, staring, the<br />

encephalogram almost flat and very spaced<br />

electrocardiogram. He had become a vegetable. His heart<br />

and brain functioning, yes, but he was unable to move or<br />

speak.<br />

I did admit to the escort service dying in my hospital. He<br />

fitted out a room special. Several years later, Hughes was


transported with all possible precautions at the<br />

Smithsonian Institute Washington Museum section of<br />

death. Everyone could See what happens to those who<br />

remained trapped between two worlds.<br />

Looking back at the second attempt at takeoff I think it<br />

could very well succeed. The experience was In any case,<br />

valuable as it allowed me to determine the amount of<br />

thiopental and potassium chloride in a reasonable range.<br />

Anyway, we had exhausted our five guinea pigs. Three<br />

dead, one resigned, one vegetable. Nice review!<br />

Raoul immediately began lobbying the Minister Mercassier<br />

to provide us with a new topic. Ministry Minister obtained a<br />

second ahead of President Lucinda. Began a ruthless<br />

selection. We wanted prisoners for life, desperate to<br />

escape the prison. They could feel the desires of suicide,<br />

but not too much. We had men sane or drugged or<br />

alcoholics.<br />

Above all, it was essential they are in good Health to<br />

support the potassium chloride. We do died although in<br />

good health, it was obvious.<br />

By the merest chance, most Martinez, the head of the gang<br />

of thugs who attack us at once out of high school, came to<br />

us. We do recognize him. I thought the sentence of Lao Tzu:<br />

“If anyone offended thee, do not seek to take revenge. Sit


on the banks of the river and Soon you will see his body<br />

move. “<br />

Martinez had led to jail after a dark history of bank robbery.<br />

As it became almost obese, it does not run away as fast as<br />

his accomplices. He was good at boxing but nobody in the<br />

race. The police officer who caught up with him as he<br />

gasped, breathless, had to be better than him in the gym.<br />

Alas, two people were killed on the occasion of this sad<br />

news item. The jurors recognized no mitigating<br />

circumstances. Life for Martinez.<br />

He passed the tests brilliantly selection thanato<br />

nauts. He appeared very much interested to participate in a<br />

experience that could bring him fame. He believed in his<br />

lucky star that would allow him to survive to our<br />

manipulations, so dangerous they are.<br />

- You know, gentlemen of the doctors, he yelled, Martinez,<br />

there is nothing that scares him. I remembered that, indeed,<br />

when he threw on us<br />

with his associates to five against two, it did not seem<br />

fear my little fists.<br />

Raoul said felt no grudge against Martinez and he would


make a good guinea pig. For my part, I preferred scratch<br />

from the list of our candidates. I remembered enough of his<br />

beatings for not being afraid of getting lost with him in my<br />

sensitive assays. Martinez, I reserved a dog of my dog.<br />

Unable to keep the mind cold I preferred to exclude it.<br />

The gangster flunked bellowed that we agree that pistons,<br />

which denied him any chance to get rich and famous. We<br />

insulted.<br />

Fortunately though it we had not recognized! In his fury, he<br />

was able to file complaints favoritism and arbitrary<br />

treatment.<br />

Martinez therefore not included among our next five guinea<br />

pigs. Or rather, I should say, our next five died. The death<br />

had ceased to move me. My sensitivity was blunt. I felt like<br />

ship rockets in space. If they exploded on takeoff, to us to<br />

make the necessary adjustments for the firing following a<br />

success.<br />

Third series of guinea pigs. Among them, one named<br />

Marc. Sensors, taking pulse, temperature measurement,<br />

cover refrigerant. Raoul launched:<br />

Loan We answered in chorus. Loan - Ready! Provided that<br />

the man does not die of fear. He was sweating and<br />

shivering at a time. He kept making sign of the cross.


- Six … five … four … three … two … one and a half … a<br />

and quart … a … of … off? Well, took off … ge! balbutiat-it,<br />

not really convinced. And it took two times to press the<br />

switch which his finger sweat had slipped.<br />

56 - Mesopotamian mythology<br />

In Mesopotamian mythology, the land of the dead called the<br />

“land of no return.” Song:<br />

Those who enter will receive more light. Dust and earth are<br />

their only food. They are dressed in the manner of birds.<br />

Dust covers everything, doors and locks.<br />

One day, the lovely Ishtar, goddess of love, went to<br />

Underworld. Queen Ereshkigal ordered the guard to treat<br />

according to ancient usages. Each time the goddess cross<br />

one of the seven gates of hell, it would turn stripped first of<br />

his robe and his crown, then her earrings, her necklaces,<br />

her breastplate, from his belt, his bracelets, his rings ankle<br />

and finally his underwear. Ishtar came to pass naked before<br />

Ereshkigal who inflicted sixty torture on different parts of his<br />

body.<br />

Yet it was the humans who suffered the consequences This<br />

captivity because without Ishtar, the earth had lost its<br />

fertility. Song:


Since that Ishtar descended into the land of no return The<br />

bull does not fruitful over the cow, man mates more with<br />

women.<br />

The men despatched a eunuch to Ereshkigal. When asked<br />

for permission to drink in addition to contains the water of<br />

life, she curses him. Song:<br />

98<br />

Your food will be the sewer of the City,<br />

You will stay in the shade of walls


You dwell on the doorsteps<br />

And drunkards and thirst strike your cheek.<br />

It seems that the eunuch was sent to Hell to be exchanged<br />

against Ishtar. In this place, sterility could be exchanged<br />

against fertility. In fact, Some time later, Ereshkigal ordered<br />

Ishtar is sprayed with water of life, and then escorted to the<br />

gates of Hell. As and when it crosses the seven gates in the<br />

sense Conversely, all his possessions were returned. Thus,<br />

on Earth, things returned to normal.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

57 - ERROR MANIP<br />

Frictions. Warming. Electric shock.<br />

Mark opened his eyes and we écarquillâmes ours.<br />

Is it that we finally managed?<br />

Our hero we drew from our stupor, rising to a<br />

sudden, waving, breaking all around him and pushing<br />

screams.<br />

- I saw them! Here they are…. They are everywhere. Not<br />

possible to escape them, they are everywhere! - Who? But


who then? asked Raoul’s tone firmer. - The devils! There<br />

are devils everywhere and they want me grow in a large pot<br />

and put me to cook. I not want to die. I never want to see<br />

them again. They are too horrible. He stared at me from his<br />

eyes opaque and shouted:<br />

- You also are a devil. The devils are everywhere. He gave<br />

me a bottle in his face. He continued Amandine with<br />

syringes and him stuck one in the buttocks. It I cut on the<br />

forehead of a surgeon’s knife when I tried to interject. I still<br />

has the scar.<br />

This behavior began a little enthusiasm. After the<br />

vegetable, a lunatic! Even Raoul was<br />

impressed by the violence of Mark. At the same time, we<br />

we asked. And if we succeed? If Marc Us brought a real<br />

testimony to the hereafter? It was not his fault that he only<br />

reflected the horror.<br />

We do not destroyed them not least the video and Marc<br />

was locked in an insane asylum. Yet it was our first guinea<br />

pig to experiment a NDE. He did may not be brought back<br />

fond memories of corridor lighting but it was nevertheless<br />

returned the body, otherwise the mind free.<br />

That night, I was driving Amanda to her in my car The nurse<br />

kept crossing and uncrossing his nice legs. Injury to his


uttocks was benign. Me? I needed twenty-five stitches.<br />

The black dress Amandine - she was always dressed in<br />

Black - emitted screeching very sensual.<br />

She had not wanted to take the RER after session eventful<br />

and, moreover, neither she nor I wanted after that to spend<br />

the evening alone.<br />

While driving, I murmured:<br />

- Maybe we should stop there? Amanda and her perpetual<br />

silence. I always said, “She must think of the wonderful<br />

things so it is beautiful and so she said nothing. “But now I<br />

was tired of his silence. It was not an object decorative.<br />

She had seen like me the people who died or went crazy<br />

for an experience of more random.<br />

I insisted:<br />

- So many unnecessary deaths! And for which poor results<br />

… What do you think of t I’ve never heard speak any<br />

sentence of more than three words since we know. We<br />

work together. We need to talk. We need your help to stop<br />

Raoul. This case has gone on long enough. Without you, I<br />

do not convince again. She finally consented to look at me.<br />

She looked at me long, intensely. His mouth opened. It was<br />

finally Speak?<br />

On the contrary. - What, on the contrary? - Instead, we have


an obligation to continue. Exactly for all these deaths were<br />

not useless. Our Thanatonautes all knew what they risked.<br />

They all knew that their death would give the following<br />

somewhat more likely to succeed. - It’s like a poker game<br />

where they would build ever to recover its losses! I<br />

exclaimed. Thus it runs to ruin. Fifteen victims! No research<br />

project, a shooting, yes! - We are pioneers, replied she,<br />

icy. - I know a good proverb about it: “It is easy to recognize<br />

the true pioneer. He who lies in the middle the plains of the<br />

Wild West with an arrow in his back. ” She got angry even<br />

more:<br />

- You believe that all these dead to me not undermine me,<br />

find All Thanatonautes were wonderful people, with so<br />

much courage … Her voice broke. But it was her first time<br />

fielded two sentences in a row. Much benefit from the<br />

windfall. I cause:<br />

- It was not courage, it was a behavior suicidal. - Suicidal<br />

behavior! And Columbus, it was not completely suicidal to<br />

go so far in a nutshell? And Yuri Gagarin, with its box sheet<br />

in his rocket, it was not suicide? Without the suicide, the<br />

world would not advance … Ah! Galileo, Columbus, and<br />

now Gagarin, the previous do they not fail to justify the<br />

slaughter! Amandine was now launched. She persisted to<br />

me Vou


voyer.<br />

- I think you do not understand, Dr. Pinson. Can not find it<br />

strange that is so easily volunteers? The detainees are all<br />

aware of our setbacks, so why do they come? Let me tell<br />

you. me because, in our thanatodrome, this waste of<br />

society have suddenly felt to become a hero! - If so, why the<br />

other we spit they over each time? - Paradox. They resent<br />

the death of their friends,<br />

and yet they too are ready to die. And one day, one of them<br />

will succeed, I’m sure.<br />

While Amanda fascinated me. His coldness, his silence,<br />

mystery and now his fervor …<br />

The blonde in black was like a burning presence in my car<br />

is so distressing to complete my senses. “Maybe! that by<br />

attending the death, my life instincts had exacerbated! For<br />

once I was alone with Amandine, Amandine and a moving<br />

and emotional. I tried everything for the whole. The<br />

opportunity was unique. My hand left the shifter and took<br />

advantage of a bump and landed on his the knee. Her skin<br />

was silky and smooth off a incredible.<br />

She pushed my palm as an object unhealthy.<br />

- Sorry, Michael, but really you’re not my kind of man. And<br />

what was his type of man?


58 - still nothing<br />

On Thursday, August 25, the Minister of Research made us<br />

incognito visit our thanatodrome Fleury-Merogis. Benedict<br />

Mercassier was to attend in person at a “takeoff “. He had<br />

the worried face of a man who asks if he is not committing<br />

the folly of century. In this case, was there still time to save<br />

furniture before an inevitable interpellation in the House?<br />

He shook my hand, congratulated me with no real<br />

conviction and especially encouraged Thanatonautes five<br />

of the new Team He asked quietly Raoul on the number of<br />

our failures and jumped when it slipped to the number the<br />

ear.<br />

He then returned to me and took me away in a corner of the<br />

room:<br />

- Maybe you are too toxic boosters? No! I also thought it<br />

first. But the problem is not there. - Where is he? - Well,<br />

after so many experiences, I now<br />

102.<br />

the impression that once in a coma, they are faced,<br />

how to say in front of a … choice. Leave or return. And they


prefer all go away.<br />

Mercassier frowned.<br />

- In this case, you can not recover them by force, with more<br />

powerful electric shocks by For instance: You know, they<br />

have not taken gloves President Lucinda back down here.<br />

They told him bluntly planted electrodes in the heart! I’m<br />

thinking. We discussed among scientists who include a<br />

mutual esteem. I weighed my words.<br />

- It’s not that simple. Should be able to determine exactly<br />

when they are “pretty party” but not yet “Too many parties.” It<br />

is also a timing issue. These types have been lucky with<br />

Lucinda, they had to bring it back just the second minute<br />

when everything was still possible. Surely a chance. The<br />

minister sought to show in an intelligent area where, in fact,<br />

he did not know much.<br />

- Try anyway to increase the voltage, reducing the amount<br />

of narcotic, to lower the dose of chloride potassium. To<br />

wake up earlier, maybe. We had already tried everything,<br />

but I nodded as if he had finally revealed to me the recipe.<br />

Th But do not want to deceive, so I added:<br />

- Should they choose to return voluntarily when they still can.<br />

I’ve been thinking, you know. We know nothing of what<br />

keeps them going on the way to death. What they are<br />

offered, up there? If we knew the carrot, we can propose


more attractive! - Your Thanatonautes remind me of those<br />

sailors sixteenth century who preferred to stay on the<br />

paradise islands Pacific, with beautiful women and fruits<br />

fragrant, rather than returning to their painfully Europe<br />

home! It was true that the situation had many points<br />

common with the Mutiny on the Bounty, for example. Our<br />

Thanatonautes were ex-convicts as sailors<br />

of the time and just as eager as they to escape to the new<br />

lands.<br />

- How to remember the dead? Mercassier questioned.<br />

What causes people to fight, the sick wish their healing? -<br />

The taste of happiness, I sighed. - Yes, but what makes you<br />

happy? What/how? influence your people when they are<br />

faced with the dilemma “Leave or return”? The motivations<br />

are so different! I had already seen at the hospital, that the<br />

human will was speaking to a large extent in cases of<br />

healing spontaneous. Some simply refused to die and they<br />

managed to stay alive. In a study of community Chinese in<br />

Los Angeles, I read that the rate of mortality dropped to<br />

almost zero the day of festival New Year and dying elders is<br />

programmed to stay alive and still enjoy that day. The Day<br />

After! the number of dead was again normal.<br />

The capacity of human thought are endless. MySelf, I had a<br />

little fun to develop opportunities my brain opens the


program to the eyes eight hours, without using an alarm<br />

clock. It worked at all the blows. I also knew that I had<br />

stored quantities information in the meanders of my brain<br />

and I Simply open the drawers in my head for disposal.<br />

There would certainly exciting research to perform on its<br />

own system of self-programming nervous.<br />

So why not come back from coma due to its single<br />

will?<br />

The Thanatonautes the day, at least, does not opt for Back<br />

Frightened by his convulsive movements when of his death,<br />

his four companions renounced in unison. We decided to<br />

do now count the effects of emulation group. Now our<br />

pioneers take off one by one and in our presence. But<br />

perhaps it was too late. Even Fleury-Mérogis, it became<br />

increasingly difficult to recruit of volunteers.<br />

59 - TIBETAN MYTHOLOGY<br />

According to the Tibetans, the Buddhist pantheon is<br />

populated nine groups of demons:<br />

1. The God-sbyin: Guardians of the temples. At the origin of<br />

major epidemics. 2. The bDud: Demons of the highest<br />

levels. They can take the form of fish, birds, grass or<br />

stones. Their leader is housed in a castle high nine black<br />

storeys. 3. The Srin-po: Ogres giants. 4. The Klu: Gods of<br />

the underworld in the form of a serpent. 5. The btsan: Living


Gods in heaven, forests, mountains and glaciers. 6. The<br />

Lha: white celestial deities. Benevolent and supposed to<br />

reside on the shoulders of everyone 7. The DMU: Poor<br />

devils. 8. The Dré: Messengers of death, often held<br />

responsible for deadly diseases. Everything that happens<br />

to bad men is caused by ERD. 9. The Gan-Dre Group<br />

malevolent deities. Extract from the thesis that unknown<br />

Death, by Francis Razorbak.<br />

60 - FELIX KERBOZ<br />

Strictly speaking, Felix was not someone Kerboz we would<br />

like to have as a neighbor. But he could be given the<br />

benefit of some extenuating circumstances.<br />

First, it was not a wanted child. When the consumer<br />

magazine We test for You had shown that brand of<br />

condoms used his father was only 96% reliable, Felix could<br />

not have doubt that would be part of the 4% failure. His<br />

father not more. The fact that he had left thirty-five years<br />

purchase cigarettes shows how this betrayal had<br />

disconcerted.<br />

From the outset, Suzette, the mother sought to have an<br />

abortion but, just fetuses, Felix already clung to life as a<br />

moth on the hairs of a dog. Repeated efforts of


makers of angels had no other result than only damage the<br />

face of the unborn baby.<br />

Twice thereafter, his mother tried to drown him. Under<br />

Rinse the pretense of shampooing, she had pressed head<br />

under the water in the bathtub. She had miscalculated his<br />

stroke and had gone up too soon. Later, she gave in the<br />

river the toddler who was barely on his feet. Corn Felix<br />

already had the gift to get out of the worst situations. He<br />

narrowly avoided the propeller of the barge, which had<br />

caused a large scar on the cheek, and he managed to<br />

regain the bank with the help of the umbrella that her mother<br />

handed her awkwardly in the lid on his head.<br />

His youth, Felix wondered why Kerboz Everyone wanted<br />

him so much. Because he was ugly? Because that he<br />

envied his mother beautiful?<br />

He clenched his teeth a long time but when Suzette died he<br />

burst out. He found he had lost the only person he love on<br />

this planet. Now it was hate.<br />

It first manifested by the attack of the tires in good standing<br />

of an innocent car that bacon with a knife. Not enough to<br />

appease! He teams up with a gang of thugs and<br />

proceeded to extort money from the rich kids who had<br />

mothers alive, lucky! He killed three who were reluctant to<br />

pay and thus became the executor of the dirty work of his


and. But when, about six years, his friends began to show<br />

some interest in sex Conversely, Felix refused to<br />

participate in the rape. What excited him, it was to land in<br />

the bourgeois and their plant the Superintendent in the ribs.<br />

It was his way of avenging his beloved mother who had<br />

always worked so hard to raise him. When, at twenty-five<br />

years, he appeared before a court Assize, he failed to<br />

convince the jury of fun unspeakable it is to drive a good<br />

knife long and sharp in the soft underbelly of his neighbor.<br />

His passion for blows to the pretty knife was not<br />

communicable. According to the indictment of the attorney<br />

general, was sentenced to two hundred eighty-four years in<br />

prison crime, reduced to two hundred and fifty-six years in<br />

for good conduct. Felix’s lawyer explained that this<br />

amounted to a life sentence, “unless the<br />

Advances in medicine will prolong the life human beyond<br />

the current average of four-vingtdix yrs<br />

Working all day to make hair brushes Wild boar is not<br />

enough for happiness of the prisoner. He had sworn legally<br />

released from prison. Already good behavior earned him<br />

the report two hundred and fifty-six. How to further<br />

accelerate the process?<br />

The institutional head was no lack of ideas. Of Nowadays,<br />

everything was for sale. That was the modern society.<br />

Releasing his years, had only Kerboz the “buy”.


- But with what money? worried about the poor. - Who is<br />

talking about money here? Have a good healthy body, for a<br />

big guy like you, it’s already a great Equity Then began a<br />

terrible accounting.<br />

To win the years, Felix was testing of pharmaceuticals not<br />

yet approved, which was not known the side effects.<br />

Since, under pressure from animal lovers, experiences the<br />

animals had been banned, industrial had no recourse other<br />

than prisoners.<br />

He received three years and remission for testing of a<br />

cardiac defibrillator, which gave him arrhythmias and let<br />

insomniac. Fluoride toothpastes him too deteriorated the<br />

liver (five years of remission). Soaps too much detergent it<br />

took away fragments of skin joints (three years of<br />

remission). An overactive aspirin caused an ulcer (two<br />

years reduction of sentence). A special lotion corrosive to<br />

the left half bald (four-year reduction trouble). Felix Kerboz<br />

kept morale and even surprised sometimes that some<br />

products were actually perfectly harmless!<br />

When mutinies, he made the punch alongside guards (two<br />

years of remission). He denounced the drug dealers who<br />

were operating inside the prison (Three years of remission<br />

at the cost of the aggressiveness of Many inmates in need).<br />

- What you got to always beans like that, Felix?


106 107<br />

- Not bother me. I’m not fayot or barge, guys. I ambitions,<br />

me. I want to get out of here head held high. We were<br />

wrong! Continue with all those crap chemicals and you<br />

come out feet first. Every Saturday, he gave his blood (one<br />

week remission quarter-liter). On Thursday, he smoked ten<br />

packs of unfiltered cigarettes for the purposes of a study<br />

Ministry of Health on the dangers of smoking (one day<br />

remission inhaled per pack). Monday and Tuesday, he<br />

underwent tests of sensory deprivation. It spent all day in a<br />

white room soundproof, without moving or eating. At night,<br />

men in blouses white checked how the test was concussed.<br />

Misery after misery, Felix was able to reduce its hardly a<br />

period of one hundred forty-eight years. He had no Valid<br />

only one kidney. An anti-inflammatory effects particularly<br />

evil had made him deaf in one ear. It eyes blinked<br />

constantly due to contact lenses so flexible and so<br />

adhesive that once they had registered proved impossible<br />

to remove. Still, he was convinced one day he would come<br />

out.<br />

When the director told him about the project “Paradise” and<br />

eighty years of remission that led it


did not think for a moment to call for more infor<br />

mation. We never offered him so beautiful gift.<br />

Of course, a rumor ran that the prison<br />

Hundreds of detainees have left their skin in the room<br />

in the cellars where they attended the experiment. Felix did<br />

cure. After all he had swallowed without dying, he had<br />

confidence in his star. The others had failed to<br />

Luckily, that’s all! After all, there are no free lunches and<br />

eighty years of remission, it was you<br />

claim a solid effort.<br />

He settled voluntarily in the chair. He held out his chest to<br />

the electrodes. He pressed against him cover cooling.<br />

Loan - Ben, I’m at your orders, said Kerboz. Loan - Ready!<br />

No prayer. No sign of the cross. No fingers crossed. Felix<br />

merely stalling though he kept chewing still in his right<br />

cheek. Anyway, he had nothing included in all scientific and<br />

roll he did not care completely, only focused on the


stupendous premium that would follow. Eighty-year<br />

reduction worth it!<br />

As we had ordered, he counted slowly.<br />

- Six … five … four … three … two … a … off. Then he<br />

pressed the switch innocently. 61 - CHIPPEWA INDIAN<br />

MYTHOLOGY<br />

Chippewa Indians, who live in Wisconsin while near Lake<br />

Superior, think life after death continue exactly as before,<br />

without end and without any progress in one direction or<br />

another. It is always the same film that is repeated, with no<br />

goal, no morality, no sense.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

62 - FACT POLICE


Message to the services concerned<br />

Raoul Razorbak helped a team of scientists is currently<br />

engaged experiments on death. Over a hundred people<br />

have already been victims. Is it necessary to react quickly?


Response services affected<br />

No. Not yet.<br />

- NEW ATTEMPT Raoul, Amanda and I had made the<br />

usual array recovery post-comatose. We did not believe<br />

anymore. Only Raoul stared closely at the body become an<br />

object<br />

by repeating a prayer: “Wake up, please, Wake up! ” We<br />

started réanimatoires manipulation, scanning vaguely<br />

electrocardiogram and electroencephalogram F.<br />

- Wake up, wake up! Raoul chanted. Mechanically, I<br />

performed all the gestures of use. It was a loud cry to get<br />

out of my torpor. - He moved a finger! Raoul yelled. Step<br />

back, Stand back everyone! He moved!<br />

I did not want any illusions, but I drew back.<br />

Suddenly, F electrocardiogram whined. A small table shy at<br />

first. Then a ping, ping. Finally a ping, ping, ping resolved.<br />

Rebougea finger. Then all fingers.<br />

On the chair, after the hand was the arm, shoulder and that<br />

moved. As long as we have not yet deal a lunatic. In


anticipation of a new misadventure like this, I wore<br />

constantly in my pocket a small rubber baton.<br />

The cilia vibrated. The eyes were opened. The mouth<br />

twisted into a grimace which turned into a smile. Ping, ping,<br />

ping, brain and heart had found their rhythm normal,<br />

Our guinea pig seemed neither vegetable nor denies. And<br />

he was safe. The Thanatonautes had regained<br />

thanatodrome safe and sound!<br />

- Yaaaaaaaaahouuuuuuuuhhhhhhk! We have re-u-ssi! roars<br />

Raoul. The hangar resounded with cries of joy. Amandine,<br />

and Raoul We hugged me frantically. Naturally, the first<br />

Raoul pulled himself together:<br />

- So how was it? he asked, leaning to Felix. We watched<br />

eagerly the first word that would arise from the traveler<br />

extraordinary. Whatever word, it was likely to enter the<br />

history books, one of the first man who passed a return to<br />

the country the dead.<br />

All of a sudden, complete silence reigned in the room. We<br />

were so waiting for this moment. Until then we<br />

had always failed, and it was this madman-like<br />

of Pithecanthropus that held the answers the world<br />

always dreamed.


He opened his mouth. He was about to speak. No, he<br />

closed the word. Then her mouth opened for a second<br />

attempt of issue. He blinked. Hoarsely articulated difficulty:<br />

- Oh … fucking. We set for ourselves in surprise. He rubbed<br />

his forehead. - Wow, damn, the trick! Then he looked at us<br />

as if he was surprised that he gives equal attention.<br />

- So I j’ies, my eighty-year remission sentence? We would<br />

have rocked our patient to congratulate but we understood<br />

the need to give him time to regain his senses. Raoul<br />

insisted anyway:<br />

- What was it like? The man rubbed his wrists, blinked. -<br />

Ben, how do you say? I’m out of my barbaque. At first, I was<br />

spun the chips. I was like a Little zosieau. Damn! I flew out<br />

of my body … I went up up there with all the stiffs fresh daily.<br />

There’s that had these cum! Stolen a time like this, and<br />

then we got a great ring of light. ca resembled those hoops<br />

of fire in which we blew Tigers, like the circus Pinder on<br />

television. He took a breath. We listened avidly each word<br />

out of his mouth. Delighted so much attention, it continued:<br />

- It was unbelievable. In the middle, as there was a<br />

flashlight. A circle with a neon light the middle, and the light,<br />

looked as if it caused me. She told me to come near me.<br />

So I’m coming, I’m entering the ring of fire like a tiger<br />

circus. I approached the light of the flashlight … Raoul could<br />

not help cut:


- So a circle of fire and light in the center? - That’s it. As a<br />

target. I do not know if I told you<br />

it spoke directly to my brain. It told me to move forward<br />

again. That all was well.<br />

- And you have suggested? inquired Amanda, passionate.<br />

- Yeah. I saw then as a kind of cone or funnel with things<br />

that were running. - What things? - Ben, stuff, whatever!<br />

Stars, vapors, spurts of weird stuff swirling to form this<br />

damn funnel large as a hundred houses stacked. Raoul<br />

tapped his right fist against his left palm.<br />

- The continent of the dead! he exclaimed. He saw the<br />

continent the dead! - Go on, please, I begged. - Ben, I still<br />

advanced and I advanced, the more light bothering me so<br />

much that I felt that I could never turn back. It would have<br />

been good looks, me and my remission! And light serine in<br />

my head that it did not matter, that at the bottom was only<br />

futility and stupidity … Ha! that, she spoke well. In addition,<br />

it was like a cave of Ali Baba, full of treasures, at least not<br />

for gold and silver, but filled with good feelings. It was good<br />

and hot and sweet and soft. Like I found my mom. Z’avez<br />

not a glass of water? My mouth is all dry. Amandine fetched<br />

a cup. He drained it before to resume:<br />

- J’pouvais no choice but to go forward, damn! But then I<br />

saw a kind of transparent wall. Not a brick wall, not a wall of<br />

buttock skin. As gelatin. I even thought I am an asshole


translucent. I realized that it got dicey. If I through the wall, I<br />

could never go back and farewell My eighty-year reduction.<br />

I put the brakes. This was happened to solve my problem<br />

“Choice”. He had found reasons to stay alive. I do not<br />

believe it.<br />

He sighed:<br />

- It was not easy, know. The I had to really take on me to<br />

turn around with my soul. Then after a time, there was a<br />

kind of long string silvery white, which at once brought me<br />

here and I opened my peepers.<br />

It was as if we were three, Raoul, Amandine and I, who had<br />

visited the seventh heaven. Thus, all these sacrifices were<br />

not in vain. Our efforts were finally off. A man had crossed<br />

the barrier of death and he returned to tell us about the<br />

afterlife. And what was there even further than this world<br />

bright and intangible?<br />

After the cool water, Felix demanded a swig of rum.<br />

Amanda ran again. My turn-ons:<br />

- We must organize a press conference. People need to<br />

know … Raoul quickly calmed me.<br />

- Too soon, he said. For now, our project must remain what<br />

it is top secret. 64 - Lucinda<br />

President Lucinda patted the neck of Vercingetorix. It


exulted.<br />

- They have managed, Mercassier? - “Yes. I saw with my<br />

own eyes, the videotape showing launch and réatterrissage<br />

this … Thanatonautes. - Thanatonautes? - That’s the word<br />

they invented to describe their guinea pigs. It means<br />

“traveler of death” or some something like that, in Greek.<br />

President screwed up his eyes and smiled<br />

- Very pretty, very poetic. Finally, I like that name. A bit<br />

technical, sure, but some serious night does not our<br />

experience. In fact, Lucinda was jubilant. Any designation<br />

would have enchanted macchabophiles, mortopilotes,<br />

visitors of paradise … He would esbaudi well.<br />

Mercassier sought to bring his attention to him. After: all, he<br />

was the organizer of the project, and it was legitimate<br />

he is proud of its success. Always faithful to the line drawn<br />

by his wife, he ventured:<br />

- In short, they are like pioneers exploring a New Australia. -<br />

Yes, Mercassier. You finally understand my thought. The<br />

Minister would seek to ensure the merit of this discovery<br />

but it would be him, the President at the grand vision, who<br />

would enter the history books. Lucinda thought he had won<br />

immortality. He would have his statue in squares, streets<br />

bearing his name … He had took risks. He had paid the


price: dozens of dead, a hundred, so it seemed … But he<br />

it! Mercassier interrupted his dreams of glory:<br />

- Now, what do you, Mr. Speaker? 65 - HISTORY<br />

TEXTBOOKS<br />

From the first launches Thanatonautes the results<br />

exceeded all expectations. First volunteer, Felix Kerboz<br />

reached immediately take off and land. The pioneers were<br />

surprised to have reached as quickly to success.<br />

History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

66 - Celtic mythology<br />

According to Celtic mythology, the afterlife is an area mys<br />

térieux that knows no death, nor work, nor the winter. It<br />

is inhabited by gods, spirits and people to eternal Thurs<br />

ness. The Welsh call this country Annwn. There is hole<br />

Wind the cauldron of the resurrection and the cauldron of<br />

abundance


dance. The cauldron of the resurrection gives life to<br />

dead warriors and the abundance provides the substance<br />

which will forever those who consume it.<br />

For the Welsh and Irish, the Annwn, the afterlife, is<br />

with the same reality as the material world. A few<br />

114<br />

So magical practices are sufficient to switch from one to<br />

the other.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

67 - After the party<br />

- I want to be Felix. Amandine, usually so reserved, no<br />

longer concealed his glee. After every session, I take her<br />

home. That evening, we were a little tipsy. In thanatodrome,<br />

lack of resources that we could not celebrate Sparkling our


secret triumph. Plastic cups had flown too high.<br />

- What a fantastic time we lived! As I want to be the first<br />

man, first Thanatonautes to have set foot on the continent<br />

and to be supreme Income! Oh yes, I want to be like Felix! I<br />

tried to hand down to earth.<br />

- Not so simple. You have to be motivated. You have heard,<br />

himself was attracted to the light. He was reluctant to return.<br />

It there has come because he had first planned to obtain<br />

the remission of sentence in this world. I accelerated.<br />

Behind the glass, a dreary landscape of suburban marched<br />

in the dark. I cast a look of Amandine side on which the<br />

nose carefully repoudrait despite the bumps.<br />

I began to know it better. Raoul told me about her. The<br />

pretty woman was a nurse very conscientiously. Too<br />

careful, even. She had bear to see her die in hospital<br />

patients entrusted to it. At school now, she could not bear<br />

bad marks. At the hospital, for each death was She pointed<br />

to another zero. When his patient died on the operating<br />

table, she felt responsible for it.<br />

Colleagues constantly ask him that it was not his fault, but<br />

she did not believe it. It remained convinced that each<br />

death was further evidence of his incompetence.<br />

Amandine imagined that people were dying for lack


of love. For her, even someone with terminal a generalized<br />

cancer had chosen. And if he had done what choice was<br />

that his entourage had been unable to him to enjoy life. As<br />

a result, she had tried to love even stronger each patient.<br />

And as they were dying anyway, she reproached herself for<br />

not not have been able to pour over them enough affection.<br />

Needless to say, under these conditions, Amandine<br />

Ballus would have been better to change jobs. But,<br />

as Raoul, failures always urged him to recommend<br />

dementia, to perfection or self-destruction. When?<br />

she read an ad by accident on a draft<br />

associated with the dying and in need of<br />

motivated nurse, she hastened to reply. Only<br />

Raoul Razorbak had he spoken of the project “Paradise”<br />

she had already decided to devote himself body and soul<br />

to this<br />

business of bringing the dead to the world of


alive.<br />

And as surprising as it may seem, that victims<br />

the project are first so many do not scruple.<br />

Amanda did have a strange logic: it was all<br />

willing to kill a few people away in the hope<br />

to save many others in the indefinite future.<br />

- I would be Felix, she repeated. He is so brave and even<br />

beautiful. I made a face. It does still had not exaggerated.<br />

Brave, perhaps, but beautiful, this Pithecanthropus?<br />

- He has faced terrible trials up there. It was she who was<br />

beautiful when she spoke of Felix. - What we do now? I<br />

asked for change the subject. - We will increase the<br />

number of takeoffs. Raoul already announced the good<br />

news to the Minister Mercassier. Ministry He wished to<br />

congratulate us personally. It has already contacted the<br />

director of the penitentiary that he selects one hundred new<br />

candidates Thanatonautes. She was as happy as if it were<br />

to organize nice surprise parties.<br />

- We won, she muttered, holding his bliss. 68 - FACT<br />

POLICE


Demand for basic descriptive information<br />

Name: Kerboz<br />

Name: Felix<br />

Hair: Blond and rare<br />

Size: 95 1 m<br />

Characteristics: tall, scarred face<br />

Comments: First Thanatonautes to have regained the world


the living<br />

Weakness: low IQ<br />

69 - READ IN THE PRESS<br />

SCANDAL: THE PRESIDENT LUCINDA sacrificed PRI<br />

Prisoners of LAW for alleged EXPE


SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE<br />

We had many inquiries for us Lucinda convince the<br />

president was none other than the one the greatest<br />

criminals of our time. More perverse than Landru or a<br />

Petiot, President Lucinda, our chief of State, elected by a<br />

majority of the French, was murdered coolness of the men<br />

he did not even know.<br />

Its victims: the common law prisoners who asked to serve<br />

their sentences in all serenity. His excuse or rather mobile,<br />

as you will: the study of death! 7aR, indeed, our president<br />

loves a particular hobby: not golf, cooking in butter or<br />

numismatics, but death!<br />

Assisted by a few accomplices related to its cause, the<br />

Minister Research Mercassier, Professor Raoul Razorbak,<br />

crazy biologist, Dr. Michael Pinson, médecinanesthétiste<br />

crooked, Amandine Ballus nurse pushy, President killed<br />

with a vengeance.<br />

An estimated one hundred twenty to three the number of<br />

prisoners already passed to death thanks to the care of this<br />

“commando programmed death “and that just to satisfy the<br />

morbid curiosity of a head of state despot.<br />

It’s like back to the Dark Ages where Roman emperors had<br />

power of life and death over of powerless slaves. Some<br />

were killed one after


of the other fellows at random to see if the tunic Jesus<br />

Christ came to revive them.<br />

However, nowadays there is no longer an emperor (even If<br />

Lucinda is taken sometimes for a Caesar!), there is no of<br />

slaves. Or so we thought until now. We believed to be<br />

headed by a president democratically elected by his fellow<br />

citizens. A president who Its first duty to ensure the good<br />

health of its administered and not to slay!<br />

Only the director of the prison of Fleury-Merogis, revolted<br />

by all the corpses accumulate every day the cellars, he had<br />

revealed the terrible truth exclusively to our editorial, the<br />

opposition was quick to claim the lifting of presidential<br />

immunity. Parliament immediately appointed a commission<br />

of inquiry to ascertain the facts.<br />

Most of the ministers interviewed refused to surrender<br />

clearly but some already announcing that if the Committee<br />

would provide evidence of these serial murders, soon they<br />

will offer their resignations.<br />

For its part, the minister did not wait for Mercassier results<br />

of this additional information in order to escape Australia<br />

with his wife and thus escape prosecution Judiciary.<br />

70 - APPOINTMENT with the pack


In the euphoria, followed bitterness. We had soared with<br />

the success of Kerboz, we fall back from the shovelfuls of<br />

insults and pursued by the opprobrium.<br />

The Director of Fleury had managed its effect. the project<br />

was every day more important. The newspapers outdid in<br />

the offensive. Editorialists suggested that make us suffer<br />

our own experiences. Surveys revealed that 78% of the<br />

population we wanted set as soon as possible out of<br />

harm’s way behind solid bars.<br />

A judge opened an investigation. We<br />

called in turn. He promised favorable treatment<br />

If I load my accomplices. I suppose it began<br />

118<br />

the same for others. When in doubt, I preferred to stay<br />

coi.<br />

The judge ordered a search and police probe


ent my apartment, my floor batten by removing<br />

latte like I could hide the bodies under there!<br />

The meeting of owners I summoned kindly<br />

to clear out before the end of the quarter. The concierge<br />

told me that my presence in the building was<br />

lower the price per square meter.<br />

I hardly dared to leave my house. In the streets,<br />

children run after me, shouting: “The butcher<br />

Fleury-Merogis, the butcher of Fleury-Merogis! “Us<br />

keep warm each other, we took the habit, with<br />

Amandine, to get together regularly at Raoul. in front of him.<br />

seemed to take things nonchalantly. These cons<br />

time passengers would not impede the march of history,<br />

he thought.


However, he deserves to remain as the serene. It was fired<br />

from his job as a researcher at the CNRS. Its Renault 20<br />

convertible exploded in an attack claimed by a “Committee<br />

of the surviving prisoners’ unknown to this day. On the door<br />

of his building was bulging in big red letters: “This remains<br />

the deadliest 123 innocent people. “<br />

As we went up another morale reminding us of the rise of<br />

Kerboz, a man in the hat pulled down over his eyes rang the<br />

doorbell. President Lucinda in person. It was the first time I<br />

saw. After quick introductions, we passed the latest<br />

information on our business. It was not very encouraging.<br />

Planting himself at the table as if it was meeting, he<br />

declaimed:<br />

- My friends, are preparing us to weather the storm. This we<br />

have experienced so far is nothing compared to what<br />

waiting for us. Friends and political enemies have<br />

conspired to I set up my account. They do not care to some<br />

prisoners shipped ad patres but many would like become<br />

Caliph instead of the caliph. I am wary especially my<br />

friends, they know how to reach me. I regret you have<br />

dragged into the turmoil, but after all<br />

we knew the risks we take. If only this ungrateful Mercassier<br />

and that idiot director of Fleury-Mérogis we were missing<br />

betrayed!<br />

President to give up. I was on the verge of panic. Raoul,


true to himself, did not blink, even when came a stone<br />

smash a window of the salon.<br />

He served whiskey around.<br />

- You are all mistaken. Circumstances do not have been<br />

better, he said. Without these leaks unexpected, we would<br />

still be tinkering in the basement the prison. Now we will<br />

work in the open. President, the world will bow to your<br />

courage and your genius. Lucinda seemed skeptical.<br />

- Come, come, I am nothing. It is no longer trouble to flatter.<br />

- But if my friend insisted. Michael was right when he said<br />

he had to disclose as soon as our results to the campaigns<br />

Felix is a hero. He deserves fame and recognition. The<br />

President did not understand where Razorbak wanted<br />

come. Me, I seized immediately. In its place, I threw<br />

- We must tackle instead of confining the defense. All<br />

together, united against the idiots! At first we had the<br />

impression of being a group of conspirators about to be<br />

trapped. Then little by little, we looked at. We were few, but<br />

we had guts. We were not specifically gifted, yet we tried all<br />

change the world. You should not give up. Amandine,<br />

Raoul, Felix, Lucinda. Never had I felt so accessory to other<br />

humans.<br />

71 - Greek Mythology<br />

Left for dead on a battlefield, Er the Pamphylian found


himself in a room pledged four openings: two out of the sky,<br />

two on Earth. The virtuous souls ascended to heaven. The<br />

shadows down to Earth.<br />

120<br />

Criminal souls to descend through a slit, and the other souls<br />

went back covered with dust.<br />

Er saw the punishment inflicted on the wicked. He<br />

succeeded in the wonderful place where stands the column<br />

that is the axis of world. Accompanied by souls, he went to<br />

CETH which flows Amelia River, whose waters provide<br />

oblivion.<br />

There was a rumble and Er revived at the stake funeral to<br />

the chagrin of humans around him. It described how he had<br />

seen the land of the dead and was free income. Nobody<br />

believed his story. He turned back angrily.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

72 - AS BEFORE<br />

The scandal took proportions senseless. Photos of what


they called our “laboratory of the programmed death “Were<br />

displayed on the cover of every newspaper. At the bright<br />

light flashes, the play seemed a sinister room of torture.<br />

Journalists malicious had even added at the forefront of<br />

scalpels bloody and clamps still covered with sticky hairs.<br />

Then came the discovery of “mass grave presidential”. In<br />

fact, the crematorium of the prison in Fleury-Merogis. As<br />

there was no trace of the bodies of our Thanatonautes<br />

unlucky, the journalists had imagined fixtures with models<br />

reddened.<br />

They were photographed so blurred to give a side even<br />

more dramatic and more realistic. As if these photographs<br />

were taken by a spy in our business. One reporter even had<br />

the luck to shoot a real suicide Fleury-Merogis. The guy had<br />

hung himself well after we were denied access to<br />

thanatodrome. This does not changed nothing. His portrait<br />

swollen, protruding tongue and eyes bulging, quickly made<br />

the cover of every magazine. “They have dared! “Was<br />

soberly registered under the picture of this unfortunate that<br />

we had never seen. Just below popped our portraits to us:<br />

the killers. We carried her for defamation but to no avail.<br />

Like rats leaving the ship, the ministers resigned one after<br />

the other. A government crisis was formed. President<br />

Lucinda was removed from office at the head of the state


until more information.<br />

From Australia, Mercassier accused Lucinda of have<br />

forced him to act without regard to its refusal. He did<br />

However, no reference to our successful experience.<br />

Lucinda took care to replicate piecemeal. It content to a<br />

television appearance in a program popular to declare that<br />

all the pioneers were maligned in their time. He spoke of<br />

unimaginable progress, conquest of the afterlife, of an<br />

unexplored continent.<br />

The journalist who questioned remained unmoved. It rap<br />

pela that even common-law prisoners were<br />

men, not guinea pigs, even a President violated<br />

law by allowing deadly experiments.<br />

Jean Lucinda ignored his remarks. As a conclusion<br />

sion, he faced the camera and announced bluntly:<br />

- Dear viewers, fellow citizens, yes, I confess that we killed<br />

in the name of knowledge, to overcome our human


condition. And we did it! One of our volunteers went to the<br />

afterlife and returned unscathed. His name is Felix Kerboz.<br />

It’s sort of a pilot a traveler of death. We call a<br />

Thanatonautes. We are ready to start over with him the<br />

experience Yeah right now ! If it fails, I am ready to submit<br />

for your decision and I understand very well its hardness.<br />

Tomorrow, at Tomorrow, I suggest you start with my team<br />

an attempt to take off for the afterlife. All television of the<br />

Hexagon and the world will be present, Event will be held at<br />

the Palais des Congrès in 16 hours. 73 - MYTHOLOGY<br />

Amazonian Indians<br />

Traditionally men did not die.<br />

One day, however, a young girl met the god of<br />

Old age. He exchanged his skin wrinkled and hoary against<br />

the<br />

his, which was soft and supple.<br />

122<br />

Since then, the men grow old and die.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis


Razorbak.<br />

74 - ALL FOR EVERYTHING<br />

16 hours. The Palais des Congres, Paris, teeming with<br />

world. Spectators exchanged newspapers and<br />

how new overwhelming evidence, EMA<br />

ing of the tireless and relentless Mercassier Director<br />

Fleury-Merogis, becoming a star.<br />

Front row, two members did not hide their<br />

impressions:<br />

- Poor Lucinda, it is finished. He wanted to know the land of<br />

the dead, it will be served! His death is political Anyway<br />

irreversible. - Still, said the other dubiously, the whole set<br />

scene … He must stay a few biscuits. This is an old fox. -<br />

Do you? This is his swan song. It does more than 0.5%<br />

favorable opinion! Normal Surely there 0.5% of the<br />

population crazy to believe in supernatural and NDE. They<br />

shrugged their shoulders. Brightly lit by two spotlights, a<br />

beautiful journalist red face speaking to a camera:


- Eight scientists are in the room to monitor all the<br />

operations and avoid special effects. Some experts have<br />

expressed concern that the President Lucinda uses twin<br />

brothers, killing one to help revive the other. It’s an old<br />

conjuring trick well-known. But with so many looks and<br />

targets fixed on the scene, such scrambles will impossible.<br />

It is hard to imagine a head of state, already battered in the<br />

opinion, willing to try! In anticipation of the “spectacle” of<br />

groups formed. We discussed, we wondered:<br />

- You read the article in the Morning? A scientist there<br />

explains very well why it is impossible to survive death.<br />

“When a brain ceases to be irrigated, it<br />

necrosis. Once a nerve cell dies, it loses its physiological<br />

faculties, so his powers of representation and memory. “<br />

- And this Faribole overdose of liquid natural endocrine that<br />

would cause hallucinations travel, you believe it? There<br />

were chuckles.<br />

- I do not see why a body would use the agony his last<br />

energy to produce images! exclaimed someone. The two<br />

deputies calèrent in chairs in the first Rank<br />

- Lucinda wanted to go down in history with a large H, ‘said<br />

one. He no longer has to worry. He will return. And the front<br />

door, again! One hundred twenty-three murders on arms,<br />

it’s not every day a head of state is a this hat. - Beau trial in


perspective! The spotlight lit. On the stage sat a simple<br />

dentist’s chair. There were also lots of son electrically<br />

connected to giant screens flashed as many blind eye.<br />

The event will be broadcast in sixty duplex of countries. A<br />

president is ridiculed Live, the show was as good a rock<br />

and roll concert or a football game!<br />

Of Machinists settled eight chairs around the fau<br />

Auteuil dentist. There sit the eight experts appointed by<br />

the committee. Four doctors, three biological<br />

gists, and even a magician.<br />

They emerged to applause. The hall was unleashed. She<br />

cheered the old beards of the Academy like so many<br />

matadors down together the arena to overcome a big bull<br />

twisted. They had a little nervous. They had never been so<br />

popular in their previous work. Some held out even their<br />

hands to the crowd. If they could promise the ears and tail<br />

of the President, they would not lose it. credit As a<br />

banderillas, they drew their pens and comments


Cerent note on notebooks rigid variety<br />

observations of actual hardware.


A famous TV presenter hair<br />

slicked mounted in turn on the stage, accompanied by a<br />

cameraman and a soundman. After some tests tests<br />

voice and image, the red light of the camera flashed.<br />

- Ladies and gentlemen, good evening and thank you for<br />

watching RTV1, the string that shows you more. Here in this<br />

hall of the Palais des Congrès, the atmosphere is<br />

supercharged. Ministry President Lucinda prepares to play<br />

his entire career on a great gamble: show the world that it<br />

is possible to visit the afterlife as if it were only a continent<br />

away. In the audience, the excitement is at its Attic Will we<br />

watch helplessly as a new killing online? Or, conversely, the<br />

experience of century? The suspense is intense … 75 -<br />

MYTHOLOGY GREENLANDIC<br />

To the people of Greenland, paradise is at bottom of the<br />

ocean. Y reigns perpetual summer of the midnight sun.<br />

Those who have toiled in this world can finally relax and<br />

enjoy the fruits of their efforts. There is a realm of<br />

abundance, where lack neither dogs nor deer, nor fish, nor<br />

the bears. The seals are there all cooked and ready to be<br />

eaten.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.


76 - FAMILY<br />

It was first my mother called me:<br />

- My son, do not go! Conrad, He advised me to steer<br />

quickly in Argentina. All right-thinking people who wanted<br />

my property sickened me and strengthened my will to the<br />

contrary bury myself in my marginality.<br />

I assured them there was no question for me to abandon<br />

to my friends in trouble. I had my share of responsibility in<br />

current events. I would assume.<br />

- Well, if you go I will go too, ‘said my mother. I will defend<br />

still my son, tooth and nail, no matter what! And that’s what<br />

she did. Indicated by the journalist RTV1 which sought to fill<br />

the air in anticipation of the great moment, my heart<br />

progenitor emptied his live before millions of voyeurs.<br />

- You see, Michael has always been too nice and ready to<br />

be of service to everyone. It certainly has its flaws, but this<br />

is not a criminal. If the President of the Republic got carried<br />

away by these enlightened, why not my son? It is because<br />

of loneliness if my boy found involved in this story. Living<br />

alone all the time, it gone to your head! If only he had<br />

listened to me, if only he had married, we would not be<br />

there! My little Michael has never had much control. He


always thank you to those who speak loudly and clearly. As<br />

this Razorbak. (Then, below:) Oh, tell me, I a question. Do<br />

you think I can make it send packages in his prison cell?<br />

The reporter recognized slicked his ignorance on this<br />

subject and politely thanked my mother.<br />

77 - biblical mythology<br />

According to the Bible, Adam’s life comes down to twelve<br />

steps:<br />

In the first hour, gathered dust.<br />

In the second hour, the dust turned into a<br />

shapeless mass.<br />

At the third hour, members were shaped.<br />

At the fourth hour, a soul was infused.<br />

At the fifth hour, he stood.<br />

At the sixth hour, he was able to describe his surroundings.<br />

At the seventh hour, he received Eve for a companion.<br />

At the eighth hour, two on a bed they went to<br />

four they descended.


At the ninth hour, he received orders not to taste<br />

fruit of knowledge.<br />

126<br />

At the tenth hour, he made the mistake.<br />

At the eleventh hour, he was tried.<br />

At the twelfth hour, he was driven from the Garden of Eden.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

78 - TO BE OR NOT TO BE<br />

First to enter the arena - comprising: a mount scene - I did<br />

not was leading off. The expert committee refused to shake<br />

hands with me and behind me, I guessed Amandine,<br />

steeped in fear.<br />

Assistance burst into boos.<br />

A man in jacket and cap, stood out:<br />

- Crapule! You killed my son! My best, I clung to the


microphone: - We have murdered someone! I cried myself<br />

to break the throat. Nobody! All inmates who participated in<br />

project “Paradise” had volunteered for the experiment. They<br />

knew the risks and they each themselves pressed the<br />

button triggering the process of flight. - On the fly? Death,<br />

yes! Who can volunteer to die? There is a voluntary here?<br />

yelled someone. - Death to the killers in white coats! Death<br />

to the killers in white coats! chanted the audience<br />

unleashed. The whistles were redoubled when President<br />

Lucinda in turn approached the microphone. Tomatoes<br />

landed at his feet. The police cordon placed in front of the<br />

stage enlarged by emergency reinforcements.<br />

Of his hands, the President made gestures of<br />

appeasement. SA long accustomed to political meetings<br />

had disrupted learned to hold sway over a rough room.<br />

- Ladies and gentlemen, my friends, he said, calm down!<br />

The experience we will try before you has already<br />

successful, but in the absence of any official expert may to<br />

testify. Now, I submit to the ruling the nation, the planet<br />

itself. If the man we send to you in the afterlife can not<br />

believe I<br />

agree to appear before any court proper to answer for my<br />

failures.<br />

Some insults were heard yet but very soon a heavy silence<br />

replaced the tumult. Felix had Kerboz to appear. The


spotlight soon braquèrent on him and who was his<br />

impeccable tuxedo new uniform of Thanatonautes. His<br />

head bandit contrasted with clothing dandy. He arrived<br />

between two gendarmes. In tormented figure of Felix, I<br />

realized that something was wrong.<br />

The TV host rushed:<br />

- And here is Felix Kerboz, one man, according to<br />

President Lucinda, having accomplished the impossible<br />

return between world of the living and the dead. This feat, it<br />

will attempt it a second time before the cameras of the<br />

world full and exclusive national RTV1, the chain shows you<br />

more! Our team exchanged worried glances. All we know<br />

enough to perceive his agitation Felix. Was it the crowd<br />

intimidated?<br />

The President gave him a big pat on the back.<br />

- In form, Felix? A face disfigured further the face of Felix.<br />

Viewers who joined the program in progress Road<br />

wondered if they had not zapped by mistake a horror film.<br />

- Well, it could get better, our Thanatonautes murmured. -<br />

Stage fright? - Ah, that’s not it, Felix yelled. I have an<br />

ingrown toenail that bothers me, and damn, I have not slept<br />

a wink all night. Lucinda started.


- An ingrown toenail? Why do not you tell us more early!<br />

Lucinda was the yelling but it was not the time.<br />

- An ingrown toenail? I know that. It is very painful but can<br />

be treated easily. - I have taken aspirin but it hurts when the<br />

same. What crap! I suggested to postpone the operation<br />

later. If Felix<br />

suffered, he sucked the light rather than return to his aching<br />

frame. The President implored him:<br />

- You will come back to life, Felix, you promise me? I have<br />

already signed your amnesty decree. If you succeed, you<br />

will be free, finally free. Do you understand? Felix? You will<br />

now be a respectable citizen. The man did not seem<br />

convinced.<br />

Assistance was hesitating between new insults or<br />

applause but still retained his breath.<br />

The facilitator explained that the President encouraged his<br />

foal like a coach before a boxing match. We, the gloomy,<br />

we prepared our instruments. Now, Lucinda shook Felix<br />

bluntly:<br />

- You will be free! We will call you Mr. Kerboz and you will<br />

be rich and famous! We will put you in a open car and<br />

people will applaud you and you launch confetti as Neil


Armstrong after his first steps on the moon! - Yeah, I ‘m<br />

pleased if there were not that damn nail incarnate. - Damn,<br />

after all the toxic potions you have ingested, your ulcer, your<br />

blisters and skin gap, it is still not an unfortunate painful toe<br />

that will make you give up your hopes of a life better! - But<br />

it’s so up there, it feels so light, are more no worries …<br />

Lucinda grew angry:<br />

- Felix, the life,. is still not the blank! - I was wondering c’qui<br />

is good in this life. Ministry problem is that j’m’en<br />

remember. - Money, women, perfumes, sunsets sun on the<br />

sea, cars, palaces, enumerated Lucinda. Then put in the<br />

end politics, in the skin of his guinea pigs, he added:<br />

- And if you like alcohol, drugs, violence, proper speed.<br />

Come on, Felix! We need you. You have friends now, a<br />

president, scholars remark<br />

remarkable, the most delightful of nurses! So many people<br />

have your chance! And we are all counting on you.<br />

Felix looked down and blushed like a guilty child:<br />

- Yeah, I know all that. But the top, they m’veulent of well,<br />

too. I have not been so lucky in this world and the ingrown<br />

nail and more people hostile before … In this world I have<br />

not had much satisfaction. I’ve never had to think twice.<br />

Lucinda looked with amazement the Colossus:<br />

- No satisfaction, Felix? You mean … never. You never …


Our wardrobe was now scarlet.<br />

- Yeah. I’ve never liked to share my mother, and my mother,<br />

in fact, it is up there. The crowd was growing impatient.<br />

- Death to the monkey! launched a joker. The host furnished<br />

after a fashion: - Felix Kerboz measuring 1.95 m and<br />

weighs 100 kg, measurements rather smooth for a man of<br />

his age. According to the press, the weight and size<br />

n’influent not affect the quality of the passage from life to<br />

death but it is better yet the subject is in good physical<br />

condition. Amanda had lost none of the conversations<br />

between Felix and the President. It went:<br />

- You are a virgin, Felix? Is that it? He turned to burgundy.<br />

The blonde nurse hesitated, thought for a moment, then she<br />

whispered something into the ear of the patient. All of a<br />

sudden, the face of Felix passed through several colors<br />

Arcen-heaven. He stretched his lips into a caricature of a<br />

smile. Coast by side, they looked like Quasimodo and<br />

Esmeralda. A Quasimodo about to go on the rack …<br />

He never left eye Amandine. He said.<br />

- Well, let’s go. My fucking nail is telling me left alone for a<br />

moment. Lucinda suggested that I add to my pain<br />

medication boosters for Felix no longer feels his toe. But I<br />

refused. This was not the time to experiment with new<br />

blends. 800 milligrams of thiopental would


my dose and there would be no other medication apart<br />

the usual potions.<br />

President Lucinda unhooked the bow tie of smoking of<br />

Kerboz. He lifted his sleeve and put the electrodes. It could<br />

have sworn he had done this all his life.<br />

- Lucinda, go and get dressed, you’re a murderer! I came<br />

to give him a hand. After all, now, we were all in the same<br />

boat.<br />

Amanda was busy with diligence.<br />

She felt all the jokes like so many spears.<br />

But she preferred to play all out. It regulates ECG, EEG and<br />

me dedicated a knowing smile thin while the insults<br />

continued to rain.<br />

- Assassins! Assassins! The motto was taken over by the<br />

whole room who chanted in rhythm. Felix Kerboz breathed<br />

slowly, more slowly, as Raoul had taught him to do so. He<br />

inspired with the nose, blowing with the mouth. This method<br />

of artificial respiration had been invented, it seems to help<br />

women to give birth without pain.<br />

- For me, everything is ready! said President Lucinda, who<br />

had finished with a final electrode the hairy chest of<br />

Thanatonautes. - Ready too, said Raoul tightening sensors


pulse. Loan I said. - Ready! Amanda adds. The scientific<br />

committee came to better examine the whole system. They<br />

checked the electrodes were consistent with the standards.<br />

They took also the pulse of Felix. The magician gave of his<br />

heel into the floor of the stage, the looking for a door or any<br />

device toggle. He stuck a needle into the foam of the chair,<br />

which delighted the audience discovers that he expected<br />

perhaps a secret corridor in our dental chair. When had<br />

finished, he nodded to the others. They noted with rush all<br />

kinds of information. Then they flush<br />

Sirente, satisfied for now, and we made a gesture that<br />

meant that we could proceed. Silence<br />

In the vastness of the convention center, we could have<br />

hear a soul to steal.<br />

- Let’s go! Raoul growled, somewhat annoyed by this<br />

hostile crowd. - Ben, ciao, friends! Felix said, waving his fat<br />

fingers Twisted. Amanda stroked her hair and placed his<br />

few small kissing on the corner of his lips, just as he was<br />

close her eyes.<br />

- Come back! she murmured. Felix smiled with: - Six … five<br />

… four … three … two … a … Off! And quickly he pressed<br />

the switch and is propelled out of this life.<br />

79 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS


Towards the end of the twentieth century dictionaries and<br />

encyclopedias<br />

pédies death gave the following definitions:<br />

DEATH: termination of life.<br />

Current definition: We say that someone has died<br />

when his heart stopped beating and he stopped breathing.<br />

American definition, adopted in 1981: An individual is<br />

declared dead after irreversible cessation of all<br />

brain function.<br />

Medical definition: Stop irreversible contraction as<br />

cardiac. Of artificial respiration maintained by<br />

lung mechanics. Total abolition of reflexes. Dispa<br />

pearance of any electroencephalographic signal.


Destruction<br />

Total brain structures.<br />

Formalities in case of death: Notify the death<br />

the local city office. The medical examiner district<br />

verify the death and will prepare a statement that it will<br />

deliver to<br />

family of the deceased or funeral attendant.<br />

Accompanied by the family book of the deceased, this<br />

finding should<br />

be submitted to the register office of the town hall will issue<br />

in<br />

sharing a burial permit and authorization of farm<br />

ture of the coffin. In case of violent or suspicious death, the<br />

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medical examiner notifies the public prosecutor can require<br />

an autopsy. The family is not obliged to make public the<br />

cause of death. It is mandatory to wait twenty-four hours at<br />

least before the funeral.<br />

Price of the concession: Variable, depending on the length,<br />

the reputation<br />

the cemetery and the land price. The square meter is<br />

obviously<br />

ment more expensive in cities than in rural areas.<br />

3000 F for an ordinary coffin of white wood. Count<br />

supplements ebony, mahogany, upholstered integrated<br />

Procedure.<br />

1800 F for the funeral, over by the number<br />

of undertakers available.<br />

3000 F for hire of the hearse.


4800 F for morticians, flowers and decorations<br />

varied situations.<br />

700 F for marble.<br />

F 1000 a year for cleaning and restoring the<br />

burial.<br />

200 F for announcements. Plus postage.<br />

1000 F VAT.<br />

F 1300 municipal tax.<br />

200 F for religious service (additional fee depending<br />

confessions and the services requested: Mass choir etc…<br />

A total of 17,000 F minimum, not lease included.<br />

History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

80 - HOLD<br />

For the past ten minutes, a continuous scrolling<br />

electrocardiogram and still no any ping!<br />

As usual, Raoul Razorbak noted on his notebook all the<br />

parameters: time, temperature, activity heart, brain,<br />

electrical, personal impressions, etc…


Raoul returned, looking concerned.<br />

“So what?” I ventured. He shrugged his shoulders.<br />

The crowd was silent, staring at the man lying in the<br />

spotlight. Revolving around the chair like flies around a<br />

corpse, experts also took their notes, their pen crunching<br />

loudly on the graph paper. They always had to consider a<br />

new dial. They were this mainly to stretch the legs but took<br />

the air heard suggesting the worst.<br />

The magician was the best actor, he had all sorts of<br />

dubious expressions.<br />

The presenter did not know how RTV1 furnish time vacant.<br />

He spoke of the weather is conducive to such experience<br />

and history that the Congress had seen to take place under<br />

one roof so many striking events.<br />

Clasped hands and face of Madonna, Amanda prayed with<br />

silence. Me, too.<br />

81 - Scandinavian mythology<br />

Balder was a benevolent god Scandinavian. Son of Odin,<br />

He was renowned for his compassion and beauty. One<br />

night he dreamed of his own death. The gods conceived in


a large concern and his mother, the goddess Frigg, virtually<br />

forced everything and everyone never to harm her son. She<br />

swore of good will to the earth, iron, stone, trees, diseases,<br />

birds, fish, snakes, all animals.<br />

Noting that Balder was invulnerable now, the<br />

gods amused themselves by launching him on all kinds of<br />

items<br />

dangerous does not hurt yet.<br />

It happened, however, jealous of the power of Balder, the<br />

evil god Loki disguised himself as a woman and went to<br />

Frigg to wrest from him his secret. He learned that the<br />

Goddess had failed to swear in a plant<br />

Mistilteinn called because it considered too frail and too<br />

fragile<br />

in order to cause any harm to her son.<br />

Loki then convinced Hödr, the blind god of<br />

seize the plant and hit Balder. Guided by


134<br />

Loki, Balder Hödr mortally wounded because the plant had<br />

transformed into a spear. Loki then announced to all that<br />

we can not escape death, even when you are blessed by<br />

the gods.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

82 - at the convention center<br />

The plainclothes officers who had slipped into the room on<br />

the request of the judge hearing the case approached<br />

Gradually the scene. They did not want us to run away after<br />

the failure of our representation.<br />

It was now five minutes we rubbing Felix and electrocution<br />

without result. The silent crowd became increasingly less<br />

silent.<br />

Scientific experts stretching knowing smiles after each<br />

shock, approached learnedly to caress the wrist of Felix<br />

and check his pulse. They were very satisfied because we<br />

do not perceive.


I took off my white coat, and vest, dripping with sweat, I<br />

continued to practice massage heart. We had all “one, two,<br />

three,” I pressed on the chest with my hands flat in the area<br />

of the heart, and Raoul blowing air into the nostrils with a<br />

hand pump to boost the activity respirator.<br />

The police approached again.<br />

- One, two, three! Come on, you believe, you believe,<br />

repeated my friend. He ava; t right. We had to believe it.<br />

Hand in the fire can stay if believed invulnerable. I had<br />

shown. We jostling without any consideration for of our<br />

maneuvers. And the more pessimistic we gained more we<br />

rushed. They did not seem to pay attention. It is normal that<br />

the bull is trying to hurt the matadors prior to his death.<br />

In the room, the slight background noise, had succeeded in<br />

gossip and rumors. Were perceived even laughs<br />

content.<br />

A moment, and it would be the kill.<br />

Other officers took faction behind us so to deny us a leak<br />

behind the scenes.<br />

Faith moves mountains, why would it not capable of


eproducing a small miracle of nothing, only make life in this<br />

big bag of skin filled with blood and viscera?<br />

- If a living cell in the meat must be it responds to my call,<br />

said Raoul. What is it?” What is it?” we there, we wait. One,<br />

two, three, one, two, three. And he urged the chest of Felix.<br />

- Damn, wake up, Felix. No kidding! I cried to myself. A<br />

policeman came up on stage. It would appear to dangerous<br />

lunatics let off steam in a body for all viewers according to<br />

our deeds.<br />

- One, two, three! Wake up, Felix, damn! A policeman<br />

came out of the handcuffs. - One, two, three! Felix, God, do<br />

not leave us up! The eight experts came to see the death<br />

with the air heard. Flies on a crushed fruit. A police officer<br />

grabbed my wrist. I heard a snap sec of handcuffs and a<br />

voice said: “On behalf of the law, I arrest you for murder by<br />

poisoning. “<br />

Already Raoul and Amanda were also handcuffed. We<br />

dared not touch Lucinda, who crowned his status of the<br />

President of the French Republic, was untouchable.<br />

- Death! At death Thanatonautes! screamed the room too<br />

happy to see his boss in trouble. Nothing is more enjoyable<br />

for people to see its masters dragged through the mud.


- The death penalty for Thanatonautes! Front row, my<br />

brother shouted: “I had you well said. “My mother tried to<br />

calm itself throughout the room. It began with its immediate<br />

neighbors. Then she spread in the aisles.<br />

- My son has nothing to do, stop, you are mistaken, my son<br />

has nothing to do, he got carried away. She had already<br />

thought of everything. Later, at trial, it apparent good points<br />

of my book from kindergarten to prove that I had been a<br />

good boy. She had also bought a dress in advance of the<br />

hearing.<br />

The police took us by the arms to take us across the room<br />

fevered. Already people approaching to insult us and we<br />

spit. What a horrible feeling of having her hands cuffed<br />

while people You booed. Someone threw a rotten egg,<br />

which came crashing on my forehead. Amanda received a<br />

tomato. Raoul was also entitled to its egg, greener and<br />

stinking the mine.<br />

President Lucinda sat down again, collapsed. He did not<br />

help us or help Felix, he thought only that was wrong, he<br />

had a delusion and regretted it. in front of him. who wanted<br />

to be famous, now it was over. He did not able to achieve<br />

victory at Alesia, like Caesar. The last time of death,<br />

supreme bastion, had proved impregnable.


The journalist RTV1 motioned to his cameraman multiply<br />

the close-ups on the impassive face of Felix. He stuck the<br />

torch a few inches of the face and is filming his every pore<br />

still, the slightest of hair under the grilling too much light.<br />

Goodbye, Felix.<br />

The police pulled me by the handcuffs.<br />

It happened then something unexpected.<br />

There was a resounding “Ouch.”<br />

All breathing stopped. We all stayed<br />

frozen. I recognized the voice that said “Ouch.” This voice,<br />

that voice … The man responsible for the light and had<br />

stumbled dropped his flashlight on the eye of Felix. Already<br />

presenter exulted.<br />

- It’s amazing, ladies and gentlemen, just incredible,<br />

amazing and huge. The man, the one can be called from<br />

now on “the first man to<br />

officially putting the feet in the afterlife and to be income “is<br />

… alive. Felix Kerboz is alive!<br />

Order of the experts, the police took away dazed us quickly<br />

handcuffed. The room had become silent. We heard only<br />

the inexhaustible host of the television which delivers the


meter’s comments, too happy to have Finally, in the<br />

spectacular show. He knew he was playing career and he<br />

did not intend to leave Missed opportunity as rare. He too<br />

had now have his name inscribed in the history books, the<br />

worst in the history books of journalism.<br />

- I can tell you that emotion is universal. Once the first table<br />

began to ring in the electroencephalogram, First there was<br />

a moment of disbelief and then a clamor rose in the room.<br />

A shout of terror, ladies and gentlemen, as we all aware<br />

that it was a death that came back from the alive. RTV1, the<br />

string that shows you more, you will board of a slow first<br />

movement of eyelids Felix Kerboz. Eye movement<br />

occurred long after stopping his heart. And a movement of<br />

eyelids occurred, it must be said, thanks to us, thanks to …<br />

RTV1 the TV that revives even the dead. I’ll try immediately<br />

to have an exclusive interview with Felix, and just after we<br />

pass an advertising page. We However, remember that the<br />

whole evening was sponsored Black Dragon by waxing.<br />

Waxing Black Dragon, the only you out of coltar. Lucinda,<br />

Amanda, Raoul and I were between laughter and<br />

the tears. We ran to get back on stage. The show<br />

must go on. Doctors and scientists received<br />

laient stunned and shook their heads as if they n’arri


Vaienti not believe their own eyes, their own<br />

ears, their sense of touch.<br />

They continued to feel Felix, check the machines<br />

of control. There was even a scientist to look at<br />

under the chair. If you would still be substituted<br />

a twin brother’s corpse.<br />

I took the pulse of Felix, listened to his heart, examined its<br />

retina, his teeth.<br />

But everyone knew, saw, was forced to recognize<br />

birth to irrefutable. We succeeded. Raoul, Felix, Aman<br />

dine, Lucinda and me against the fools.<br />

Felix mumbled.<br />

- Damn, the trip, shit, I never had it like that. A… then I and I<br />

not, my amnesty? Amanda hurried and whispered


something to the ear. As soon as his eyes took eureka. He<br />

leaned toward the microphone and journalist RTV1 fully<br />

articulated:<br />

- It’s one small step for my soul, but a big step for humanity.<br />

All of a sudden the tension fell. Standing ovation on the<br />

hero. It is impossible to overstate the importance of a good<br />

slogan. Applause rang out. No one was holding his cheers.<br />

- RTV1 Dear viewers, this is a historic moment and a<br />

historic phrase that comes to deliver us our Thanatonautes<br />

national. One small step for my soul, but a giant leap for<br />

mankind. The nod to history is superb. This man has<br />

managed a Near Death Experience Live in front of us.<br />

What has traveled? For lack of best, Felix has appointed<br />

this his “soul.” The image is poetic. It remains to find the<br />

scientific explanation. It is with great … We hugged Felix<br />

Kerboz fervently.<br />

- All right, here? Uh … and for my pardon, it is still OK? -<br />

You did. You did, you’re free now! announced the President<br />

Lucinda. - Not too soon. Damn, you have to give a lot of our<br />

days to be bourgeois! Amanda never left him.<br />

- You are there! You are here: alive. - Ben … yeah, you see<br />

I came back. Chuis income friends. This time, I have<br />

watched, I have everything looked at. If you want I can draw<br />

you a picture for show you how it is. Damn, it’s not croyab ‘I<br />

can tell you. Raoul Razorbak approached nervous.


- A map! We will draw a map of the continent death and<br />

every time we move, we will defer new details on this card.<br />

The room was unleashed. The presenter RTV1 we<br />

continued by claiming:<br />

Hep! Mr. Kerboz is for RTV1. Our viewers have a right to<br />

know what it was like up there! Ndiaye, Kerboz, you are the<br />

hero of the century, Mr. Kerboz! Felix stopped, looked and<br />

then uttered his words:<br />

Beni I can tell you that death, damn it Incredibly, not at all<br />

what one believes are plenty of color, full of scenery, full of<br />

… it moves A LOT! Oh, and I do not know how cause is too<br />

much. The journalist RTV1 we stuck to skirts. He must fill a<br />

quota of time for the waxing and he did not yet fully<br />

achieved. He begged the least Comment<br />

Raoul gave me a blow in the ribs.<br />

- Come on, Michael, do them a speech! Without even<br />

thinking I stepped on the podium. All m’illuminèrent flashes.<br />

- Ladies and gentlemen, we had the best rewards. We<br />

managed to send and retrieve a Thanatonautes. There was<br />

a silence. A reporter asked me a Question


- Dr. Pinson, you are one of the greatest craftsmen of<br />

victory today. What do you do now? I went a little<br />

microphone.<br />

- Today is a great day. Everyone listened. - We have<br />

conquered death. As of today, nothing not the same. We<br />

must completely change our points of view. We just switch<br />

to a new world There will always be a before and after<br />

today. Me? I even find it difficult to believe. Yet we have to<br />

prove that … That’s when the phrase reappeared again<br />

only curse tific.<br />

(But, in fact, what am I doing here?)<br />

- We have to prove that … Suddenly I became aware of<br />

being in the here and now having accomplished something<br />

historic. Once this weird thoughts in my head, nothing could<br />

hunt.<br />

The crowd continued to listen, television zoomed on my<br />

face. Millions of people watching me Live, open mouth and<br />

saying nothing.<br />

- Dr. Pinson? I could not utter a syllable. Ministry journalist,<br />

very embarrassed, tried to move on.<br />

- Hum … And you, Mr. Speaker … you able to prove your<br />

good faith, is that this will change your policy before the<br />

next general election? President Lucinda did not pay<br />

attention. We murmured:


- Come, my friends, we do not deal with the mob. We are<br />

now out of the woods, continuing the effort. Will draw the<br />

foreground of the continent from the dead. Where?” - In<br />

thanatodrome Fleury-Merogis. Only where we will have<br />

peace. Our little group became more and more welded.<br />

83 - Persian mythology<br />

“The fish said to the duck in the pan:<br />

“Do you think the water will rise one day during the river? “<br />

The duck said, “When we roasted<br />

No matter that the world sea mirage “?<br />

From the Earth to Saturn,<br />

I solved all the problems,<br />

I avoided the traps and ambushes,<br />

I have defeated every node, except that of death. “<br />

Omar Khayyam (1050-1123), Rubai Yat.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.


84 - A MAP<br />

A clamor of praise ascended cells. The Prisoners had<br />

followed live on RTV1 the “traveling” Félix. Our<br />

Thanatonautes hailed around and his eyes blinking, this<br />

time as if to say “I knew it, I told you so. “<br />

In the lazaretto turned into thanatodrome, Raoul picked up a<br />

card stock and colored pens. We FIMES circle around him<br />

while trying to describe Felix accurate visions of the<br />

afterlife.<br />

It was touching to behold the brute, dear<br />

singing his words, searching his mind in search of the term<br />

accurate, so keen to satisfy us, we, his<br />

first friends.<br />

He scratched his head, he scratched his back, he<br />

scratched his<br />

armpits. He frowned. The cartographer grew impatient:<br />

- So how was it? - Well, first there is the funnel with the<br />

edges a sort of crown of foam or cotton, something just like


that. Raoul began a sketch:<br />

- No, ‘said Felix. Wider the funnel. He closed his eyes to<br />

see the magical image. - As a tire neon scattered in<br />

Filoche lace. Something liquid … How to tell? Of great<br />

waves of powder blue stars, bursts of light water. We really<br />

feel to be suspended in the air in the open ocean, an ocean<br />

turn on itself to form a ring Light and sparks. The<br />

Pithecanthropus became a poet. Amandine was touched.<br />

Raoul erased, began a pattern that resembled a slightly<br />

thinned lettuce:<br />

- It’s better, Felix approved. Understand? It floats in a kind<br />

of frozen fire, yet we feel a feeling fresh marine. It really<br />

recalled the first time I saw the sea - What color exactly, all<br />

this?<br />

142<br />

- Ben, white and blue … But in addition to fluorescent and<br />

turning as a carousel. It sucked a lot of other stiffs around<br />

for me? They all had white son clinging to their navel which<br />

broke when they were racing net farther inside the cone. -<br />

Who broke net? Lucinda was surprised. - Well, yeah. So<br />

they were released from below and they could further<br />

accelerate a good shot. - Who were these people?<br />

Amanda asked. - The stiffs in all countries, all races, young,<br />

old, big, small … Raoul intima us to keep quiet. Questions<br />

we might to decentralize the explorer. We provide the latest


details we wanted.<br />

- Continue with your white-blue funnel. - Well, it narrows a<br />

little to become a gigantic tube. There, the colors of the<br />

walls and then darken turn turquoise. The turquoise, I did<br />

not go far but I saw where it took this color. - The funnel is<br />

running all the time? - Yeah, very slowly at the edges and<br />

more As soon as we advance. Then it narrows and<br />

becomes brighter. There in the crowd corridor turquoise,<br />

and even I changed shape. - You were what? Felix stood up<br />

proudly. - I still have my body but it was Thanatonautes<br />

become transparent, so transparent that I saw through of<br />

myself. It was great fun. I had completely Forgot my body. I<br />

felt even my fingernail incarnate. I was like … - … A pen? I<br />

suggested, thinking of the Book of the Dead Egyptian city<br />

that had Raoul. - Yeah. Or a current of air a little hardened.<br />

Raoul was busy on his paper. Its design took shape. The<br />

funnel, the corridor, people cutting their transparent long<br />

umbilical cords … Death she finally revealed her<br />

appearance? It looked like from afar a large head<br />

disheveled.<br />

- It was great? I asked.<br />

- Immense. The narrowest point I saw was well have a<br />

diameter of several tens of kilometers! Think of all the stiffs<br />

of the world engulfed at sixty miles an hour in there! And, oh


yes! There was no high and there was no bottom. We could<br />

have walked on p’t’être walls but it was not worth it, since<br />

we flew. - There were animals? Amandine inquired. - Nah,<br />

no cattle. That of humans. But there were complete in<br />

herds. Must be a war somewhere which provides a lot of<br />

barbaque. And all slipped into the hall quietly, without<br />

crashing, despite the speed. We were all attracted to light<br />

like moths. Raoul raised his pencil.<br />

- All these deaths will therefore necessarily transparent<br />

collide at some point, I remarked. - Where did you order<br />

exactly? asked Lucinda. On paper, Felix pointed to a<br />

location on the flared edge of the funnel white-blue.<br />

- Here. Precision as we stunned. - J’pouvais not go any<br />

further, explained Felix. One centimeter over and my silver<br />

cord is cut too and was “ciao the company.” - But you said<br />

that the cord was elastic to infinity, remarked the President.<br />

- It is in the head as it happens. The more one is<br />

magnetized by light, the cord becomes more dry and brittle,<br />

the more weakens. Damn, one more inch and I had more<br />

than just want to see this world. This point, it was my limit.<br />

He put his finger in one place. In black felt, Raoul Razorbak<br />

be traced a long dotted line: “Wall comatose “He wrote<br />

below.<br />

- And that means what? I said. - I think that’s the sound<br />

barrier in his time. This is a limitation that we can for the<br />

moment pass without Potential Danger Now that we have


the beginning of the map, we also have a goal beyond this<br />

line. So wrote Raoul behind the line marking the wall<br />

comatose, in thick letters: Terra incognita.<br />

Unknown land.<br />

We considered the paper with respect. And was beginningis<br />

exploring a new continent. A first contact, the first beach,<br />

and then at progressively the pioneers in advancing the<br />

land, mountains, meadows, lakes took place on the map<br />

Terra incognita receded ever further towards the edges the<br />

paper. Thus was he went to Africa, America, Australia.<br />

Gradually, the men had cleared the two words, a label of<br />

ignorance.<br />

Terra incognita … Witnesses to the experience of the<br />

Palace Congress had hoped to attend the culmination of a<br />

political-science project. We four, Lucinda, Amanda, Raoul<br />

and I knew that, on the contrary, was not an end but a<br />

beginning.<br />

We had to explore this tunnel which became purple<br />

turquoise. We had to complete the map and reduce the two<br />

words:<br />

Terra incognita.<br />

Raoul joined his hands.


- All right, straight into the unknown, he muttered, not<br />

repress a smile of glorious conqueror. It was a new slogan<br />

to motivate us. We looked at all with the same light in the<br />

LAYLA. The adventure was just beginning. Forward<br />

towards the unknown.<br />

SECOND PERIOD: The Pioneers<br />

85 - PRESS<br />

Journal de Paris: FEELING THE CONVENTION CENTRE:<br />

A FRENCH PUT THE FOOT ON THE CONTINENT OF<br />

THE DEAD<br />

The first man to officially set foot in the afterlife is French<br />

and is called Felix Kerboz. We has long argued in our<br />

editorials, our confidence in the ambitious projects of our<br />

president Lucinda. Thanks to his efforts is a national team<br />

has trumped all of our global competitors, advancing<br />

pioneer on the mainland of the dead. Our magazine<br />

decrees already Kerboz Felix Man of the Year, and<br />

launched a petition that he be awarded at the earliest<br />

Legion of Honor.


London Journal: A EUROPEAN IN THE BEYOND<br />

Death can be visited. A team of researchers Europe has<br />

managed to put a man in the afterlife and bring back safe<br />

and sound. As too often, alas! success has been preceded<br />

by many failed attempts. It is estimated that hundreds of<br />

human guinea pigs have suffered in France casts of this<br />

unconventional project. Felix Kerboz, He survived this<br />

massacre gloriously despite sarcasm of French opinion,<br />

unanimous in condemning this she described as<br />

“laboratory of the programmed death.” A British team is<br />

about to launch its<br />

147<br />

turn in this adventure. A case to follow, therefore, in our<br />

columns.<br />

Journal of Tokyo: IN SEARCH OF HIS ANCESTORS<br />

A man wanted at all costs from seeking his ancestors. A<br />

Westerner named Felix tried to Kerboz join his ancestors<br />

by committing suicide in potassium chloride, particularly<br />

toxic product. He woke up twenty minutes later, absolutely<br />

free. Researchers Japan is now trying to answer the most


daring Question: Can we visit the land of our ancestors<br />

(And possibly shoot) as well as any What other country<br />

tourism in the Earth?<br />

New York newspaper: FRENCH SACRED<br />

A small team of French researchers has craft embarked on<br />

a bizarre experience: poisoned to visit the afterlife. In<br />

recent weeks, the French informed of the project, spat their<br />

president, Jean Lucinda, accusing him of being a murderer<br />

in series, the project carried out under his patronage that<br />

caused a hundred victims to complete. As for inventive<br />

researchers, they were threatened with legal action As is<br />

common in France that scientists have the wings clipped by<br />

red tape. (It also the reason why the best scientists French<br />

have become accustomed to emigrate to the United States<br />

where they can work in peace for their future Nobel Prize.)<br />

This time, four brave citizens were able to prove the value<br />

their work to a nation and even hostile to experts, and this<br />

before the cameras of international television, present to<br />

testify that Felix left for Kerboz continent of the dead and<br />

returned without damage. T a former criminal, sentenced to<br />

life imprisonment and pardoned in reward for this feat and<br />

is now entering a career of my self-made. Several U.S.<br />

companies it have already offered large sums of money so<br />

that he interprets herself in a big budget film. It has not yet<br />

given its response but is already thinking about Carol<br />

Turkson for the role of the nurse Amanda and Fred


O’Bannon for the French President Lucinda. Soon on your<br />

screens.<br />

Journal of Rome: POPE FURIOUS<br />

The French, having made up his mind to conquer the<br />

continent the dead, the Pope expressed his indignation that<br />

science seeks to exceed his rights. “Death belongs to God<br />

and God speaks through the voice of the Vatican, “recalled<br />

the Holy Father, adding: “We can not encourage these<br />

shipments of people in the afterlife. We urge the French<br />

authorities to contact the Archdiocese of Paris before any<br />

new shipment of this type. “A papal bull is expected from<br />

one moment to another.<br />

Journal of Madrid: IF LUCINDA<br />

The President of the French Republic Jean Lucinda spent<br />

several weeks in his country for a perfect madman. But now<br />

it turns out to be a particularly enlightened mind we should<br />

perhaps follow the example. Certainly, Lucinda has often<br />

failed of humor and never showed much compassion with<br />

respect to nations in need. Moreover, we already criticized<br />

in our columns the protectionist policy and short-sighted.<br />

We do not bear witness so that more admiration for the<br />

great purpose he maintained in the greatest secret: the<br />

conquest of the continent from the dead! Against all odds,<br />

the guinea pig is French Felix Kerboz managed to visit the<br />

Continent and ultimate return. Our government thinks launch


a program of study who seek to better understand this<br />

phenomenon.<br />

Journal of Berlin: a diversion<br />

The French are certainly resourceful. While that their<br />

economy is in trouble, that strikes succeed with hostile<br />

demonstrations, they seek in vain to stem the spread of<br />

drugs and immigration waves illegal, their president, Jean<br />

Lucinda tries to divert the minds of the crisis by engaging in<br />

experiments of death. It would come, they say, to send a<br />

man in the afterlife. A team of German experts will check<br />

soon this dubious experiment.<br />

Journal of Beijing: DEATH LAST COLONY<br />

Green light for the conquest of the continent from the dead.<br />

As at the time of gunboat diplomacy, great powers do not<br />

hide their colonial appetites. in the past .. ” few days and<br />

despite the discretion and denials surrounding their<br />

operations, U.S. experts, English, German, Italian and<br />

Japanese have begun to thanatodromes build. Reliably, we<br />

learned that the French Kerboz Felix has already reached a<br />

kind of zero, invisible and impossible to cross. This<br />

boundary-limit would be located in coma more than twenty<br />

minutes.


86 - AFTER THE VICTORY<br />

More doubt. The scientific community, the public and the<br />

press hailed the success of the project “Paradise”. The<br />

expert panel came to the convention center to overwhelm<br />

us, gave a report to Parliament recognizing On the contrary<br />

our merit and our seriousness.<br />

No one dared to mention the “laboratory of death<br />

programmed “or” mass grave presidential “.<br />

“What is death? What is death? What is death? What is<br />

death? What than death? What is death ?…»<br />

I could write this sentence in twenty pages. It fau<br />

drait to restore at least that degree of eagerness to know<br />

within me.<br />

When we do not know, we do not ask too many questions,<br />

but when you start to have a beginning of explanation<br />

tion is desperate to know everything, understand<br />

everything.


Death became a mystery within range of my<br />

my brain neurons and demanded more information<br />

tion.<br />

The fact of having approached, almost controlled, should<br />

have<br />

reassure me. “Death, this is it. A country that<br />

can make a round trip! “Hercules, precursor, was<br />

150<br />

already made in hell to deal with Cerberus. Why not? we?<br />

Raoul had pulled it off, I was now tormented by the desire to<br />

know what happened to people after they Death. What<br />

happen to me, to me, when all was over? After all, if life<br />

were a soap opera, as knowing when would end the last<br />

episode.<br />

For my part, I was still in shock. Questions multiplied in my


head. The iiomme could he, by dint imagination and<br />

conviction, winning all dimensions? What were its<br />

limitations? Above all, What was death, death, death …?<br />

President Lucinda We met in conference the Elysee<br />

Palace. He received us in his work room, a place packed<br />

computers and monitors, almost austere, very in any case<br />

far from the splendid ceremonial office where he usually<br />

received its official visitors in a luxury Louis XV.<br />

The Head of State told us that we should now into<br />

overdrive. We had finished with the Skeptics. We were now<br />

faced with new opponents copiers. Indeed, as the price of<br />

our fame throughout the world were built of thanatodromes.<br />

- No way to let the Americans doubled or the Japanese. It<br />

has already been in aviation, he railed. The Wright brothers<br />

claimed to have made the first plane as we all know that the<br />

first to have a set point was Clement Ader! You have<br />

successfully completed a off, beware, there will certainly<br />

claim have gone before you in the afterlife. After our victory<br />

at the convention center, found by a large audience, I can<br />

not imagine some obscure team foreign presenting for us<br />

to challenge the primacy of the research.<br />

I protested.<br />

- We have the chemical formula accurate booster a


“champion” to present to the whole world, We even<br />

invented the vocabulary of travel between the two worlds.<br />

Our historical precedent is indisputable<br />

table and our lead so great that the other will time to catch<br />

up.<br />

Lucinda raised her arms to heaven.<br />

- Do you? While our members on chipotent our credits,<br />

American universities are the sums considerable available<br />

to researchers. And they work not in the shallows of a<br />

prison, them! With a dentist’s chair more worthy of a<br />

museum room as a place of experimentation! No, they will<br />

swim in the luxury, with all the most modern equipment in<br />

the world! Moreover, we will also pass to the next level. I<br />

see only one way to meet your needs: Razorbak professor,<br />

Dr. Pinson, miss Ballus and Mr. Felix Kerboz, you are now<br />

directly attached to the Presidency. I called senior of State.<br />

It was Conrad who would make a head when I announce it.<br />

It was perfect. We can improve our lab is congratulated<br />

Raoul. Lucinda interrupted<br />

- Oh no, Razorbak over yourself! It’s competition it is<br />

international. Our country has its place in take over the<br />

world. In addition, we have no reason to hide. On the<br />

contrary, we must operate in big day. So we will build a new


thanatodrome, more modern and spacious. We must build<br />

a be “historic.” A new triumphal arch. The arc of triumph of<br />

the conqueror of death. Like many politicians, Lucinda<br />

would<br />

vrait his own words. At the same time, he took<br />

pleasure to galvanize a company that he considered his<br />

own. We<br />

Constitutions his elite troops, a commando personnel<br />

explorers do anything to help him get into the His<br />

tory.<br />

However, we do not share the same ambitions. Yes<br />

he was in search of immortality, we, we were looking<br />

adventure and wanted to pierce a mystery as old as<br />

humanity itself.<br />

A bailiff, golden necklace around her neck, opened the<br />

door to


loud noise. The hearing was over. Other Business called<br />

the President. It was time for us to clear out.<br />

- Our specialized services will keep me informed of<br />

progress of our opponents, he says (and, in parting, he<br />

added:) And now, miss, gentlemen, trust and at work! 87 -<br />

Jewish philosophy<br />

“The life we are accustomed to death by sleep Life tells us<br />

that there is another life in the dream. “<br />

Eliphas Levi.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

88 - FAMILY AFFAIR<br />

After the excitement of the convention center, I spent one<br />

week alone in my apartment. I found that the Loneliness is<br />

more bearable than in the euphoria defeat, but yet I do not<br />

suffer less. Sum: all, I expected what? With hordes of fans<br />

watching my comings and goings at the bottom of the<br />

building? I always was Michael Pinson, and man alone,<br />

photo in the press or not, Michael Pinson, lonely man I<br />

stayed.<br />

As an epitaph, I imagined very well on my stone tombstone:<br />

“Here lies Michael Pinson, simple, and only as to everyone.<br />


I consoled myself with white port and spend hours<br />

rereading old books of mythology.<br />

Tired of these texts often tedious, I leafed through the some<br />

random magazines. All of these were filled articles on the<br />

happiness of players so beautiful and smiling who marry<br />

and make mistakes as I snapped his fingers. Each page<br />

spread out the obscene image of a beaming couple the<br />

happiness of marriage or childbirth. The scribblers ensured<br />

they were great, unique, award-winning small still, relaxed<br />

and friendly at all times. They often<br />

kept the fight against polio, they adopted children third<br />

world, they spoke of love as the only irreplaceable value,<br />

they presented their new friends, great and smiling too. The<br />

Thanatonautes were all happy now. Felix was a star. Raoul<br />

found the path of his father, President Lucinda was famous,<br />

Amanda thought he could save men, and for me?<br />

Me, I was idle. One to talk to, nobody to to give my pain and<br />

my joy mixed.<br />

Again, I want to scream at the moon as coyotes in the<br />

desert. Aouuuuuu! I stopped as soon as neighbors showed.<br />

I forced myself to read each rabies articles speaking of the<br />

happiness of actors, artists, Politicians


We had to take. I was too impatient.<br />

He was 30 and 10 h, at that moment, I could not help<br />

to issue a wish. That of being surrounded by people with<br />

whom<br />

discuss it.<br />

- Hi, the company! No luck, it was my mother and brother.<br />

They threw me.<br />

- My boy, my toddler, I am so proud of you. I always knew<br />

you would succeed! A mother feels that … - Bravo, brother,<br />

for a good shot it was a good time! They took possession<br />

of my couch as if they were home and my brother laid<br />

hands on what I had white port. Conrad then proceeded to<br />

tell me about my interests Financial now that I would<br />

manage with the help of a advice. My mother pointed out<br />

that with the reputation that was now mine, I could probably<br />

marry a beautiful actress or an heiress of high flying. She<br />

had articles cut from magazines on several char-praying<br />

young people who might suit me.<br />

- All women will fall at your feet, Declarat-her greedy eye. -<br />

But is … I have a girlfriend, I said to Just in case, just my<br />

desire to protect its cumbersome solicitude. My mother<br />

was indignant at once:<br />

- “What? How? she belched. You have a girlfriend and you


hide it from your mother! - Because … - I guess that is,<br />

jubilant Conrad. The friend Michael is the nurse! The<br />

beautiful little blonde chick eyed Marine who was with you<br />

on the set of the Palace Congress! Hat, bro, it looks like<br />

Grace Kelly but better. It’s funny, though. By the way it threw<br />

herself into the arms of your guinea pig, I would have<br />

thought she was in love! As usual, my damn brother had put<br />

his finger on my most egregious weakness and he took<br />

pleasure in driving the knife in the wound. My mother<br />

stopped him:<br />

- A nurse? Why not? Don’t worry. Job When you marry her?<br />

I’d be really happy see you married. You really need to put a<br />

woman order in your life. Looks like you’re bundle! You’ll<br />

catch a cold if you do not cover enough. In addition, you<br />

probably eat all the time at the restaurant. Restaurants, they<br />

save as much as possible about customers, they serve only<br />

the remains and product category. I hope you never eat<br />

meat? - I know, Mom, I know, I admitted in an effort to<br />

contain the avalanche. - So much the better. Your nurse will<br />

teach you to feed and clothe you. Listen to me, at least.<br />

Begins not to play the proud pretext that saw you on TV! -<br />

No, Mom, I said. - No, what? - No, I do not play the proud. -<br />

Ah, I warn you, you will not begin to snub because you have<br />

become an international star! None of that with us, huh?<br />

Rather surrendering that entering an empty discussion!<br />

Conrad sneered, mocking face that it took for the bid.<br />

Leafing through the books placed on my coffee table, it<br />

exclaimed:


- Hey, you give in mystical literature, now?<br />

- I read what I like and I have to be accountable to person, I<br />

got on my nerves. I was willing to bow to bow, but my<br />

mother to Conrad, it was too ask. This colt:<br />

- The Popol Vuh or Book of events is a grimoire a<br />

sorcerer? I snatched the precious work of the hands.<br />

- This is the bible of the Mayan Quiches Mexican spat I<br />

face. Really? And this: I Ching, The Book of Changes, and<br />

then that, the Bardo Thödol, The Book of the Dead. And<br />

this, Ramayana. Hey, there is everything here. It does you<br />

lack more than the Kama Sutra! - Conrad, if you came to<br />

provoke me, the hell before I break your face! Returns show<br />

off with your money, your cars and your wives and leave me<br />

in peace! - The peace of the graveyard! Conrad sang. I<br />

rushed, fists up, when my mother intervened. - Do not talk to<br />

your brother in that tone. Him, he brought me that<br />

satisfaction. Him, he got married, he gave me<br />

grandchildren. He did nothing wrong! Him, he does not play<br />

the proud because he went on television. What tear his hair<br />

with an oyster knife! I breathed slowly to regain my<br />

composure.<br />

- If you are from as exasperating me, I prefer not keep you<br />

any longer. You were afraid I be happy? You want me to<br />

spoil my fun? My mother had noticed that, as is my habit, I<br />

had left open the top button of my shirt be more comfortable


and, as usual, she quickly to close, pinching my neck in the<br />

process. She took advantage of I was suffocating to take<br />

over the monopoly of conversation.<br />

- How dare you talk in that tone? indignant-her We thee<br />

always encouraged. Even when you spend your time<br />

hanging out in cemeteries with Razorbak, I’ve never been<br />

to blame, and yet I know many mothers who have not<br />

allowed their children to attend small nuts. - Raoul is not<br />

crazy! - It is still a bit special, you admit it and … - They talk<br />

about me? One of these days, I would have thought to put<br />

strong locks on my door. We came here as in a mill. Locks,<br />

a peephole, a bell, and hello privacy!<br />

Meanwhile, never mind if Raoul had heard about<br />

disparaging of my mother! He too did not arise<br />

unannounced.<br />

- Hello, Raoul, ‘I said coldly. - Yes, Professor Razorbak,<br />

admitted my brother’s full respect for the voice, we were<br />

just talking about you. We believe, as you are now rich and<br />

famous, you need a financial adviser to look your interests.<br />

After all, you two and the girl, you form like a rock band. You<br />

need an impresario, someone who manages your image,<br />

which takes care of your contracts, which … I expected that<br />

Raoul dry fly that wag. Not at all, he listened attentively.<br />

- It’s your brother? asked he. - Yes, I admitted ruefully. - And<br />

I’m his mother! trumpeted proudly said progenitor. Raoul


had landed one of his hands on his chin. - He has ideas,<br />

your brother, he admitted, yes it will We have to manage<br />

our new thanatodrome at the end. Conrad is bridled, saying<br />

his plans:<br />

- Exactly, I thought it would be interesting to open a gift<br />

shop next to your new thanatodrome. We could sell Tshirts<br />

as it. “Dying is our business” could be read on that he drew<br />

from his pocket. I was appalled. Not Raoul. He examined<br />

the fabric.<br />

- Good idea! It shrinks in the wash? No! It is guaranteed<br />

colorfast, I checked, my mother said. Raoul, willing to sell<br />

off our projects sacred merchants Temple? I could not.<br />

- “But …” He imposed his silence.<br />

- Your brother is right, Michael. A shop would increase<br />

awareness of our work to establish our image brand to the<br />

general public. - And I’d be your press agent! exclaimed My<br />

loving mother. And like that, I could see Michael more often<br />

about her. I’ll take care better of him. I rubbed my eyes. No,<br />

I was not dreaming. We started by wanting to unravel the<br />

mysteries of death and So change life, change the world,<br />

change humanity … And now we find ourselves in the<br />

process of organizing opening a store “memories thanas.”<br />

We live a really wonderful time! Maybe if Jesus Christ<br />

returned to earth, also would have to popularize his<br />

message, “Love one another” on tshirts purple. And


“Blessed are the pure of mind, the kingdom of heaven<br />

belongs to them, “on sweatshirts White 70% cotton 30%<br />

acrylic wash with warm water. It should perfectly Conrad.<br />

I imagined the same Lao Tzu popularized in a shop for<br />

gadgets. “He who knows does not speak. Which speaks<br />

does not know. “A bikini string of thunder!<br />

Finally, if Raoul, my friend Professor Raoul Razorbak, there<br />

was nothing wrong, who was I to oppose it?<br />

My brother would open the store, would command the Tat<br />

and cheap wholesale to Taiwan and my mother would take<br />

the boutique.<br />

I shrugged, repeating to myself that at least the ridicule him,<br />

did not kill anyone.<br />

- And your nurse, when will you me this? took my mother to<br />

finish me off. 89 - MYTHOLOGY AUSTRALIAN<br />

The mythology of Australian Aborigines suggests<br />

Numbakulla, the “Ever-Existent,” from scratch. Numbakulla<br />

is coming out of nowhere that suddenly appeared on earth<br />

naked. He heads to the north and mountains, rivers,<br />

ancillary plants and animals are born on their passage.<br />

158


While walking, he spreads the spirit children who are all<br />

of immortal souls from their bodies. In a cave, he<br />

serious sacred signs, called Tjurunga, with the power<br />

to radiate. The First Ancestor was born of the union<br />

a Tjurunga and child-mind.<br />

Other ancestors were generated later in the same<br />

way and are responsible for educating the first men.<br />

One day Numbakulla planted a pole in the middle of a<br />

Field He smeared his blood before climb and then made<br />

signed to the First Ancestor to join him. But the blood has<br />

given the post too slippery, the grandfather fell on the<br />

ground.<br />

Numbakulla was therefore only reach the sky and pulled the<br />

pole behind him.<br />

Plus we never saw him again.


Men have known that immortality them<br />

escaped forever. The sacred pole is the axis around which<br />

running order of this world as the wanted Numbakulla.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

90 - THE THANATODROME Buttes-Chaumont<br />

Thanks to the special funds of the Presidency of the<br />

Republic, We modern building, a beautiful thanatodrome. It<br />

was not an arch but a small building aspect modern, in a<br />

quiet neighborhood. We chose site thoroughly. It was in the<br />

Rue Botzaris, at the top of the Buttes-Chaumont.<br />

Raoul had thought it amusing to study the death near the<br />

site where once stood the gibbet of Montfaucon, of evil<br />

memory. There were hanged in the name of the king,<br />

innocent and robbers the Middle Ages.<br />

In two months, everything was ready.<br />

We had seven floors overlooking the park Buttes-<br />

Chaumont. The top four floors included twelve apartments,<br />

three increments. We Cassam walls at higher levels. We<br />

set and a laboratory of 220 square meters in the fifth and a


oom off of the same dimensions, in the sixth. Ministry<br />

seventh floor was converted into a penthouse, fully<br />

enclosed by a glass translucent in winter, outdoor terrace in<br />

summer.<br />

Amandine accommodate with a lot of green plants a<br />

reception room for his taste. In this colonial decor, it added<br />

a Steinway piano white and a black bar. The place was<br />

really the biggest chic!<br />

At the bottom of the building, a plaque sober was<br />

“Thanatodrome de Paris “and, in smaller type,” Access<br />

personnel only. ” Raoul had proposed the addition also:<br />

“Attention, flight of Thanatonautes” as it says: “Attention<br />

runways” in the vicinity of airports. The idea we had lots of<br />

fun.<br />

President Lucinda opened typically the building by<br />

smashing a bottle on his door. The true Champagne, This<br />

time, not fluffy. We do not skimp more.<br />

A presentation evening was held in the<br />

penthouse, for the press. The head of state pro


nounced a short speech welcoming of our efforts and we<br />

encouraging them to maintain the lead in the race to<br />

conquer<br />

the “Ultimate Continent.” Standing on a platform surrounded<br />

by<br />

succulents, he enumerated sadly lost colonies<br />

by France, Canada, India, West Africa, only<br />

ment because she had not kept his lead.<br />

- This time, we remain the first, he concluded with force.<br />

Then, under the flash of reporters, we all decorated four of a<br />

distinction he had specifically devised for us: the Legion of<br />

Honor Thanatonautes. The medal was a man with angel<br />

wings rushing to a circle of fire. Perhaps, at this very<br />

moment where we warmed Heat the success and fame,<br />

she was dead now we look from above, like piranhas fun to<br />

see from the river muddy children a lakeside village in the<br />

process of making a diving board fortune patched with<br />

boards. I drove these thoughts and returned to the noisy<br />

environment of our reception. The journalist RTV1 was still<br />

there, Amanda asked questions but it seemed little<br />

inclined to answer him. Amandine’s dumb. It had to be look,


that’s all. But the reporter did not know look at. He asked<br />

questions and did not listen to answers, he was filming<br />

without seeing. By dint of using the senses artificial micro<br />

and camera, he had atrophied senses : However, Amanda<br />

was so beautiful. She wore what evening a black lamé<br />

sheath but I avoided his eyes blue marine attracted me as<br />

two sinkholes.<br />

My mother took advantage of a respite from the reporter<br />

RTV1 for the watering of answers to questions that had not<br />

thought to ask. “Yes, a store Thanatonautes would open “,”<br />

Yes, this store would offer Tshirts and gadgets recalling<br />

experiences Thanatonautes ”” No, there would be no<br />

balances before the summer. “<br />

The President continued his spiel on the platform, gargling<br />

its own findings.<br />

- The badge, uttered Lucinda, brandishing his medal is to<br />

reward those who contribute to Thanatonautes progress,<br />

including our colleagues foreigners who come here will<br />

work with us. Bonne luck to all! Sacred Lucinda. He was<br />

really ready for anything to have his name in history books.<br />

Be president who had encouraged experiments on death<br />

enough for him. To make sure you make an impression in<br />

time and space, he also had to invent his Medal, the “Medal<br />

Lucinda” and thanatodrome. A place which, no doubt,<br />

would one day name Lucinda thanatodrome as airports<br />

JFK or Roissy-Charles de Gaulle.


As for his idea to come here every Thanatonautes<br />

victorious, she would never be exceeded by foreigners.<br />

Well played.<br />

I gave him a toast.<br />

91 - TIBETAN MYTHOLOGY<br />

“Know more: Outside of your hallucinations<br />

There is no judge of the dead Lord And Monsters No<br />

winners of death, Majusri. Understand it and be released. “<br />

Bardo Thodol, The Tibetan Book of the Dead.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

92 - WORK<br />

The day after the official opening, we sat with arms and<br />

baggage in our palace death.<br />

The President had planned for private apartments all of us.<br />

Plus a laboratory multiple access so that we can work at<br />

night. Indeed, as All we had problems in neighborhood the


smear campaign that preceded the meeting of Convention<br />

center, we moved in with jubilation this environment new.<br />

I opted for a home on the third floor. Then I joined the lab a<br />

very tormented Raoul by the desire to go for the President<br />

Lucinda.<br />

- Americans, Japanese, English … It has only these words<br />

in his mouth. He understands nothing. This is a long-term<br />

task. We can not argue that step, and we are surrounded<br />

by the greatest precautions, Moreover. I was surprised to<br />

see my friend take on such a suit moderator, he who had<br />

always encouraged to go forward in spite of all hazards.<br />

- Do not confuse speed with haste. First calm the Felix who<br />

wanted to increase the flights. Our Thanatonautes had<br />

changed since his victory the convention center. He gave<br />

interview on interview. He was constantly invited on<br />

television to games or debate and, whatever the issue, he<br />

loved it.<br />

After thirty years he had been treated as a<br />

162.<br />

less-than-nothing, I understood this appetite for revenge. A


plastic surgeon had reshaped her face scarred. A<br />

renowned ophthalmologist had managed to get rid of these<br />

contact lenses that forced him to blink. For his bald head,<br />

he had used the implants. The most covering the couture<br />

clothing as advertising. Beautiful and elegant, Felix Kerboz<br />

embodied the perfect hero of death.<br />

He was seen everywhere. He was first of all, of all<br />

openings, all major parties in the nightclubs in fashion.<br />

Invite the world’s only Thanatonautes at his table was a<br />

privilege fought the teachers house the most exclusive.<br />

Felix had also entered in the Guinness Book of Records as<br />

a man known for having advanced the farthest in the world<br />

post-vital. Among the most powerful spitting cherry pits and<br />

biggest beer drinker, there appeared dressed as<br />

Superman, alongside a beautiful supermodel wielding a<br />

scythe.<br />

Felix was really become very fashionable.<br />

On the one hand, we were delighted, as this would<br />

encourage the return this world rather than be dragged up<br />

there by who knew what a temptation too. On the other, we<br />

annoyed of perpetual delays inevitably engendered its<br />

sleepless nights. He sometimes spent whole days to<br />

recover in bed instead of coming to thanatodrome his<br />

office in a way. In addition, he was so used the admiration<br />

he lent an ear more distracted our advice and our work.


Still, Felix Kerboz preserved a remnant of<br />

conscientiousness. The first week of our installing the<br />

Buttes-Chaumont, he managed two other back and forth.<br />

He confirmed the existence of a wall “coma over twenty one<br />

minute. ” A kind of hazy that membrane compared to a<br />

transparent and thin lips.<br />

“After the wall, the silver cord that holds the world broken<br />

and will no longer want to turn back, “thought-it. All the<br />

newspapers took up the phrase “Wall comatose. ” Some<br />

also called “wall of death”<br />

or even “a Moloch” or “Moch a” parallel with the sound<br />

barrier, Mach 1.<br />

Moloch, it reminded me of Baal, the Phoenician god<br />

Carthage. On a trip to Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, I saw its<br />

representation. A large statue of hollow metal. We lit a fire<br />

in his belly. Were thrown in children and sacrifice virgins in<br />

his gaping mouth.<br />

Just down on the ground floor, my mother had opened her<br />

shop and sold as agreed tee-shirts, key chains and caps.<br />

His shop was modestly called “In conquerors of death. “<br />

There were all sorts of miscellaneous items: the beer mugs<br />

on which was written: “Death is our Job An inscription in


old letters was part of all other gadgets, “Ash, you return to<br />

the ashes” on ashtrays, “The last kills” on watches, “Nothing<br />

is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed “on<br />

paper hygienic “I am dying and I like it” on the candles “The<br />

Heaven will not wait “on kites. There were also Felix the<br />

array of small, videotapes of off the convention center, the<br />

perfect little boxes anesthetist Thanatonautes with my<br />

photo.<br />

It was a taste … Finally … we choose our friends, we do<br />

not choose your family.<br />

93 - FACT POLICE


Message to the services concerned<br />

The movement Thanatonautes is poised to take<br />

proportions impossible to suppress the normal channels of<br />

intervention. The Thanatonautes has become a fact of life.<br />

Failure to possibility of action on the movement itself, we<br />

can But its main bench players (see identification cards)<br />

Razorbak including Raoul, Michael and Amanda Pinson<br />

Ballus. Consider dangerous to leave it longer. They may<br />

give rise to serious disorders. Ask permission to act.


Response services affected<br />

Advised to wait and see. Too early to intervene.<br />

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94 - theological problems<br />

- It’s fine, your “wall coma,” but if you do not offer a logical<br />

explanation to the public, it will soon take you to the<br />

charlatans and me too by the bargain! In his office filled with<br />

computers and screens control, the President Lucinda was<br />

very excited. He had right: discourse resulting experience<br />

is often more important than the experience itself. Pasteur<br />

was also not private time to interpret its results before they<br />

have really checked. We made a fantastic discovery. To us<br />

to explain the concept to the public.<br />

The long hands of Raoul lit one of his cigarettes bidder. He<br />

blew smoke thoughtfully before report:<br />

- I may be interpreted to suggest to your public. The<br />

President himself comfortable in his chair with wheels. It<br />

triggered a small automatic massage system back.<br />

- Go ahead, he said sympathetically. Raoul inhaling and


exhaling with pleasure to a smoke ring eucalyptus.<br />

- There is a first explanation would be: death is a biological<br />

regression. In a “classic death “After the neocortex is<br />

blown, the conscience falls into the rhinencephalon and at<br />

that time can be observe an NDE. There are still chemical<br />

relations between the neocortex and rhinencephalon, which<br />

makes that people can remember this tunnel. Then the<br />

awareness falls into the reptilian brain. There are still<br />

relations between the neocortex and rhinencephalon, but<br />

more between the neocortex and the reptilian brain. It does<br />

not store no longer. Nobody told this phase. On the other<br />

hand, were stimulated this reptilian brain, which caused<br />

dreams, hallucinations, outdoor shows at home with<br />

Lilliputian characters. Consciousness is then the reptilian<br />

brain cells and cells to the nucleus<br />

of DNA. DNA is made up since the beginning of the world<br />

So this time we perceive, in a kind of state second<br />

conscience, the original world.<br />

Lucinda raised her hand and turned to me.<br />

- I did not understand. And you, Michael, you have a<br />

interpretation? - A recent theory speaks of “tachyons”. They<br />

are any new particles that have just been discovered in<br />

atomic accelerator in Saclay. The tachyons are<br />

extraordinary property: they are faster than light. This could<br />

be what is in the field of - onsciousness - When the morning


is a bit vasouillard it Apparently it is the tachyons of<br />

consciousness that are not yet returned to our skin.<br />

Theorists tachyon think it is a particle that has no past or<br />

future. It could be tachyons that make up “the matter “of the<br />

soul. Lucinda stroked his dog.<br />

- It’s attractive, your history of particles conscience, but the<br />

word “tachyon” does not seem very the media. And enough<br />

of this scientific mumbo jumbo. What’s up? shave all. You,<br />

Raoul, I think you interested in the mystical. What is the<br />

mystique that gives to the most “credible”? - Well,<br />

according to the Bardo Thodol, The Book of the Dead<br />

Tibetan, we would actually consist of three bodies. - Are<br />

you kidding? You want me to tell this to my constituents?<br />

gasped the head of state. - I repeat the assertions of the<br />

Bardo. So we have three bodies. The first is “physical body<br />

“. It is made of matter, solid, physical and gas, all make up<br />

our body. Connected to the five senses, we provide all our<br />

visual perceptions, auditory, sensory, etc.. In our death,<br />

matter rots and falls to dust. The second body would be the<br />

“Vital body”. It is a magnetic envelope that surrounds the<br />

physical body and which determines the lines of force and<br />

lines of weakness. Here are the meridians energy<br />

mentioned by the Chinese and the chakras indicated by<br />

Indian yogis. Here our natural energy flows, that we issue<br />

and that we receive from outside. This energy, the Indians<br />

call it Prana and Chinese Ki.<br />

Vercingetorix yawned by releasing a trickle of drool. I


noticed Only when he was at least curious that President<br />

who thought he was Caesar has named his dog<br />

Vercingetorix. Dominate a labrador, poor victory!<br />

Faced with the mystical-scientific discourse my friend<br />

pragmatic elected by the people seemed uncomfortable.<br />

Continue intima there though. - From our “vital body”<br />

depend on our outreach, our vibration, our charism.<br />

Everything that we like or they dislike people for no<br />

apparent reason. In addition, the disease is after all an<br />

imbalance between our physical body and our body vital.<br />

Where acupuncture Chinese releases energy and makes<br />

some points movement in other … Physical body, vital<br />

body … I guessed the thoughts of Lucinda. Should we get<br />

rid of as soon as this scientist crazy that this was through<br />

with the dirty work and replace any more leading scientists<br />

“Presentable”?<br />

For a moment the eyes of the President got lost on me as<br />

on a possible successor. After all, I was in on it from the<br />

beginning and my mind still seemed healthy.<br />

All his explanations, Raoul does not doubt perceived of his<br />

interlocutor. Undaunted, he continued:<br />

- Descartes, however, did not something else stating: “The<br />

difference between the body and the soul is that the body is<br />

divisible, while the soul is indivisible. ” As if everything fits


together … Okay, so it may happen that vital body and<br />

physical body from separating. - Under what<br />

circumstances? - Hum, under the influence of drugs, for<br />

example, or when it vanishes, we experience an orgasm, or<br />

that psychological trauma suffered very strong. - Or if you<br />

find yourself immersed in a coma? Exactly! My father, who<br />

worked on the lot question, felt that some mystics and<br />

psychics are perfectly able to separate voluntarily<br />

vital body of their physical body. He was professor of<br />

philosophy, but he had a very scientific approach things …<br />

He said it would be like getting rid of a glove transparent<br />

stuck to our skin.<br />

The President patted his dog.<br />

- I also found writings by a teacher Rupert Sheldrake at the<br />

end of the twentieth century. The physicist ensured that the<br />

objects had independent forms their field. The tree was<br />

already registered to come in seed, the old man was<br />

buried in the fetus and forms circulating such mobile<br />

databases. Sheldrake had provided evidence of the<br />

existence of such intangible forms without giving a<br />

convincing explanation so far. An electromagnetic<br />

phenomenon, perhaps? After: all, we all have our own<br />

electromagnetic fingerprint. This energy is only if we feel by<br />

bringing the palms of our hands. Yet it is there, small ball<br />

sometimes we perceive as a small sun in us taking the<br />

hands from the front, or by touching the skin of a stranger


suddenly and receiving like an electric shock. We toyed<br />

with a shell invisible. In fact, maybe we have touched a soul!<br />

Lucinda grew impatient:<br />

- And the third body? he asked. 95 - INTERVIEW<br />

Read in the women’s magazine.<br />

MF: The soul, you say? KERBOZ: Yes. It’s like an invisible<br />

glove to us covers and removed.<br />

MF: Be more specific. KERBOZ: There, my body looks like<br />

a transparent cloud, filled with reflections of different colors.<br />

He married the normal contour of my body but it has neither<br />

consistency or weight and it moves as fast as he wants. It<br />

can through the objects as objects can pass through.<br />

168<br />

MF: It’s an ectoplasm? KERBOZ: I do not know what an<br />

ectoplasm. I speak my body became transparent. Humans<br />

can to see him, he can not communicate with them. credit<br />

However, it can capture the thoughts of the living. What a<br />

feeling strange!<br />

MF: What about travel? KERBOZ: It travels at the speed of


thought. When I ‘m transparent [mimicking a swimming<br />

motion], I Can you pass that way. I remain, however,<br />

connected to my physical body by a silver cord, a kind of<br />

lifeline light and elastic.<br />

MF: And it’s nice to fly with his “transparent body “?<br />

KERBOZ: Yes. It feels not to have Limitations We no longer<br />

afraid of injury or fatigue. There is only one thought in<br />

suspension, capable of travel at the speed of ideas.<br />

MF: We do have a lot of courage to return Then his body in<br />

pain! KERBOZ: Right. Especially when you have an<br />

ingrown toenail!<br />

96 - Japanese philosophy<br />

“Death is the Way of the Samurai. If you have to choose<br />

between death and life, without hesitation opt for death.<br />

Nothing is simpler. Gather your courage and do it. Are to<br />

believe Some die without having accomplished his mission<br />

would be futile. This is an infringement of ethics samurai,<br />

who betrays Calculator arrogant spirit merchants of Osaka.<br />

In such a situation, it becomes almost impossible to make<br />

the right choice. We all prefer to live.<br />

Nothing more natural than to seek a reason for survive. But<br />

he who chooses to continue living while he has failed in its<br />

mission, this one will incur the contempt deserve the<br />

cowardly and miserable. “


Hagakure, the samurai code of honor, seventeenth century.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

97 - The mental body<br />

President Lucinda focused on what the Professor<br />

Razorbak. Myself, I was once again impressed with my<br />

friend. Raoul knew so much! How many volumes had he<br />

stored in his<br />

skull?<br />

When you listen to Raoul, we say that a good library worth<br />

all the gurus and all the sages of the East world!<br />

- Three bodies, you say, ‘said Lucinda. The physical body,<br />

the vital body, and then? - The mental body. It provides us<br />

with our thoughts, ideas, our consciousness. Somatization<br />

and the mental body imbalance at the energies of the vital<br />

body. He makes me talk to you right now. It analyzes and<br />

summarizes all information from our senses and gives<br />

meaning intellectual. It is the mental body which falls love,<br />

laughing and crying. The head of state was now fascinated.<br />

- Physical body, vital body, mental body. Not that simple ….


yes, but that’s would explain why we won the beyond while<br />

pretending to sleep! 98 - DINNER BY CANDLELIGHT<br />

We discovered in front of a small restaurant thanatodrome<br />

Thai gradually became our canteen. He was held by Mr.<br />

Lambert, a pure Thai Chiang Mai, a specialist noodles<br />

sauteed with basil. As we discussed with Amanda and<br />

Felix of our conversation with President, and new<br />

objectives Thanatonautes, a boy stuck to our table.<br />

- You are Mr Felix Kerboz? asked it to Félix. Our hero<br />

nodded, smug, always happy to be recognized. The child<br />

asked for an autograph and we were immediately<br />

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ment surrounded by a body of admirers, all swearing that<br />

Felix was even more beautiful in reality than on television.<br />

I paid the bill in a hurry and we fought a retreat.<br />

Felix, He would have gladly lingered. It shone in the sun<br />

compliments. He signed his name on menus, paper towels,<br />

tickets, restaurants and his eyes sparkled of happiness. He<br />

finally felt loved.


99 - MYTHOLOGY KENYAN<br />

For the Bantu, the origin of man was immortal. To confirm<br />

it, God first sent a chameleon. Then, on reflection, God<br />

changed his mind and appointed a second messenger, a<br />

bird this time, to inform him that, not at all, man had to die.<br />

The chameleon had happened long before the bird.<br />

Unfortunately, it stuttered and had not yet finished its<br />

message to men. The bird had no difficulty in make known<br />

his: men die and never return to Earth in a form similar to<br />

that taken during a previous life.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

100 - FELIX goes too far<br />

A month after the inauguration of the Buttes-thanatodrome<br />

Chaumont, Amandine solemnly announced his<br />

engagement with Felix. I, poor fool that I was, I did not see<br />

anything or I did not want to see.<br />

But we talked about Amandine, Raoul and me. We had<br />

agreed that, to please this girl was the only way to die.<br />

There was only Thanatonautes to interest. Still, what could<br />

she find this brute of Felix? Okay, it was famous, and after?<br />

In any case, once again our mysterious Amandine escaped<br />

me completely.


When the couple moved in, I admit I felt a<br />

small twinge of regret. I tried not to let the jealousy<br />

dominate my friendship.<br />

Side work, Felix had great shout throughout the press Soon<br />

he would cross a Moch, there still could no. Worse, he<br />

hesitated more to take off. Now it Amanda was and had<br />

become the darling of All-Paris, he had little desire to<br />

venture back into artificial coma.<br />

We could not let sit longer our hopes on this one and<br />

capricious Thanatonautes. We be reconstructed as soon<br />

as a stable. Felix was the first conviction. Just in case, we<br />

passed a small advertisement in newspapers, “the Paris<br />

Thanatodrome looking for volunteers. “<br />

We thought that candidates for the big jump to count on the<br />

fingers of one hand. Surprise: more than one thousand<br />

hotheads appeared. The selection was draconian. Raoul,<br />

Amandine, Felix and I spent the literally on the grill. All of us,<br />

Felix was the most ferocious reviewer. Of course, he knew<br />

the risks and he preferred to cool the enthusiasm rather<br />

than their Counselor: “Go ahead! Do you send in the air!<br />

You will see breath away like that! “<br />

The top athletes and movie stunt proved to be best<br />

equipped to pass our test of selection. These boys were


familiar with their bodies and, moreover, they knew what it<br />

was like to take risk until close to death. Daredevil, but not<br />

too much!<br />

For the second official Thanatonautes, we chose Jean<br />

Bresson. This stunt took off and landed with experienced<br />

ease. It comes close to that of a Moch far, but according<br />

the description he gave, Felix himself admitted that he had<br />

successful.<br />

Reached Bresson “coma over eighteen minutes.” three<br />

Other Thanatonautes then stopped “coma over seventeen<br />

minutes “. We still had not pushed the limits of Terra<br />

incognita, placed “over twenty-coma one minute, “but we<br />

knew now perfectly what was around: a large multicolored<br />

gas corridor and swirling.<br />

For these four relative success, we knew twenty-three<br />

failures. We stepped up precautions and yet young and too<br />

impatient boiling had passed between mesh of our net. We<br />

further affinâmes Our test battery selection. It was important<br />

to retain that people are mature enough and have a<br />

strength of character large enough to resist the lure of the<br />

light lethal.<br />

Outside the show-off saw, who sought only to impress their<br />

boyfriends or girlfriends entering our noble brotherhood!<br />

Outside the desperate, who considered Thanatonautes as<br />

the latest in suicide! Out the evil-in-their-skin, who wanted


whether there was better than here! A good Thanatonautes<br />

is a happy man, healthy in body and mind, and that would<br />

everything to lose by dying.<br />

We finally selected preferably fathers family! By dint of<br />

experience, we have still to present several certainties:<br />

1. The body remained. Only the soul traveling. 2. In<br />

escaping, the soul took the form of an ectoplasm white,<br />

able to pass through all materials and fly at least at the<br />

speed of light. 3. At the time of death, was in the ectoplasm<br />

sky until you reach a blue funnel ending in a Bright. 4. The<br />

ectoplasm was connected to the mortal coil by a silver<br />

cord. 5. If the cord was cut, any return to life was<br />

impossible. 6. In “coma over twenty-one minutes,” there<br />

was a wall. Science journalists divulguèrent few information<br />

and we began to count thousands of DIYers who attempted<br />

takeoff boosters by using more or less craft. Some shoots<br />

for thiopental, other chloride. But they did not know the<br />

correct dose. Each week brings a lot of accident victims<br />

Thanatonautes. Some send each in the hereafter with<br />

barbiturates, and even weeding. Of erotomaniacs were<br />

using orgasm.<br />

Everything was good as a fuel: red wine, mushrooms<br />

hallucinogens, vodka, cocaine, jump elastic seafood


adulterated, electric shock … In short, everything that could<br />

be a disconnect human reality! Nothing was more<br />

fashionable than “Thanatonautes.” “You’re not even done<br />

for you in decorporation “Became the most trivial insults. It<br />

will involve consultation that the individual was a physical<br />

body. It was not even able to let his body speak vital or<br />

mental body.<br />

To stop the slaughter, President Lucinda passed a law<br />

punishing prison sentences who seek to practice in<br />

Thanatonautes outside the confines of official<br />

Thanatodrome Paris.<br />

After a period of green, Felix decided to return<br />

to attack its own record. On several occasions he<br />

summoned reporters and cameras, but despite attempts<br />

repeated he was unable to cross a Moch. In strength,<br />

Press tired. In each of his return among the living,<br />

Felix saw shrink the crowd of his admirers. Not to<br />

it is quite discouraging, Amandine, Raoul and I<br />

went to pay for extras to fill the forum<br />

the press. Felix was not fooled: he had learned to know


who<br />

who was in the media.<br />

As it became increasingly sad and melancholy,<br />

We advised him to retire. After all, it<br />

had already done enough for the growth of Thanatonautes.<br />

But he does not swerve, he would retire after<br />

Moch exceeded 1. It turned home at the obsession.<br />

101 - Vedic mythology Advance advance by the ancient<br />

paths where it went to my first fathers! The two kings, and<br />

the Yoma<br />

174.<br />

god Varuna, who delight in the funeral rite, thou ‘ll see.<br />

Rig-Veda X, 14<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

102 - A LITTLE REST


Suddenly everything went wrong. Felix became more more<br />

irascible. He put his marriage to Amanda indefinitely.<br />

Suspicious bruises we learned he beat her. Moreover, in<br />

the evening, the shards of their domestic squabbles<br />

resounded in the apartments neighbors.<br />

Lending him his own greed, Felix accused Amandine of not<br />

wanting to pay for. It was true that he enjoyed excellent<br />

income, especially since President Lucinda had allocated<br />

a grant in thanatology. Its interviews are still negotiating a<br />

good price. He had hired a literary agent to sell souvenirs<br />

to the editor the highest bidder, lucrative contract to boot.<br />

My brother was willing a percentage of all Tshirts bearing<br />

his image. In fact, there was enough food for a big account<br />

banking<br />

Amanda wiped the blows and insults but clenched teeth.<br />

His admiration for the Thanatonautes was the strongest. It<br />

was only when Felix began to appear with women of easy<br />

virtue that its veneer of stoicism cracked. She came crying<br />

on my shoulder.<br />

I comforted my best. From the first moment I was madly in<br />

love, but I avoided, however, to issue any dubious about her<br />

fiancé. She would have no not forgiven the derogatory<br />

remarks she poured Yet in abundance in the Thai<br />

restaurant of Mr. Lambert.


Two glasses of rice wine, mineral water flowed sinkholes<br />

navy.<br />

- Pull yourself. - It is so unfair. He seems to blame myself for<br />

me to be<br />

unable to get past the first wall of death. I do not mind help,<br />

but it would still tell me to consent to HOW:<br />

- We must understand, I said. She would not talk. Amandine<br />

was all a world of things learned, hidden things. The day<br />

this girl would open the closets of his brain, one discovers<br />

probably quite a mess. For now, she preferred to<br />

accumulate and show nothing. Only this crisis and these<br />

tears showed a moment of weakness.<br />

I offered to walk a little. An hour later, we found ourselves in<br />

the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise.<br />

- This is where I met Raoul. - You are real friends, it’s<br />

beautiful, Amanda sighed. - When we were little, one was<br />

beaten up by the Huskies in the class. She went<br />

imperceptibly me.<br />

- I think I do not want to marry Felix she said. - Are you<br />

kidding, it will never recover. - Do not worry. He has a court<br />

females revolve around him. It will not long remain alone.<br />

Felix was a virgin, I told him what a woman. He visited the<br />

love and death together. Now he can stand on its own. I


have been an initiator. - Do you regret it? No! But I know<br />

that we are not made to Living together - You are mistaken.<br />

While Felix runs left and right, there than you he really likes.<br />

You’re so audessus other. You have a class that … She<br />

laughed a little miserable.<br />

- Hey, what do. would not you who would be telling me<br />

dredge? My turn to close the lips of my secrets. She<br />

pressed herself against me, confident, and we stayed<br />

there,<br />

in the cold garden graves, not far from the grave Nerval, to<br />

contemplate the stars. His warm little heart beat against my<br />

chest. A breath sweet singing in my ears.<br />

I would gladly have spent my life well, my nose buried in<br />

the golden fur of her hair.<br />

From a brutal blow torch, a guard in search of vandals we<br />

drew me from my enchantment, it’s torpor. She shook<br />

herself:<br />

- You are right, Michael. He must not let myself impressed<br />

by some disputes or by transient one-night stands. I am<br />

unfair to Felix and I will marry her when he wants. In the taxi<br />

back, we did not want to talk neither one nor the other.<br />

103 - mayhem


The next day at thanatodrome Buttes-Chaumont, the<br />

atmosphere was stormy. Felix was drunk as back end<br />

usual, and with a prostitute over the Farmer’s Market They<br />

had slept on the carpet after it had vomited on the throne of<br />

launch.<br />

Arriving at dawn, Raoul had driven the girl before<br />

Amandine does surprise which was cleaned and cleaned,<br />

assisted by Jean Bresson.<br />

Despite several cups of hot coffee, Felix had always the<br />

hangover.<br />

- Me not make the moral mess! You know who I I? The first<br />

Thanatonautes the world. World Village. Cram you that<br />

much in the skull. The other, they are as assistants, subdrivers<br />

junk. Pure chance, I survins along Amandine. Felix<br />

once we settled on one finger.<br />

- And these are our two lovebirds! If you believe that I not<br />

understand your little game is that you take me for the king<br />

idiots! Raoul gave a sigh of exasperation.<br />

- The farm, Felix! I have bad news for us all. A fax has fallen<br />

this morning, the British were able to Moch join one. They<br />

are “coma over nineteen minutes.” So, Felix, you stop your<br />

nonsense and we went back to work with the rigor of the<br />

beginning. Up, seven o’clock. Lunch:<br />

fruits and cereals. Check-up before each takeoff. Discipline


and more discipline, only then that we will avoid being<br />

overtaken by these types.<br />

- On behalf of roasts, I’d be surprised, stammered Felix.<br />

Tomorrow, I get a “coma more than twenty-three” to small<br />

onions. “Oh, really…” Meanwhile, the first Thanatonautes<br />

the world, you fit in you sober up, curtly Raoul. When he<br />

took and his tone of command, even Felix stopped playing<br />

and the stars obeyed the undisputed leader team. Bending<br />

the spine, he made off on a final rot.<br />

That evening, we convened Raoul, Amanda and I in the<br />

penthouse. In this tropical setting, among the plants fat, our<br />

problems often seem trivial. But here, Raoul was serious:<br />

- Felix wrong, he says immediately. Look out! both of them.<br />

I know perfectly well that there is nothing between you but<br />

he has put ideas in mind and it disturbs him! I did not get<br />

into a debate painful for Amandine, I was eager to create a<br />

diversion.<br />

- It’s true what thou hast told this morning? Of English has<br />

really touched Moch 1? - It is quite formal. A Bill Graham<br />

heels Felix with his “coma over nineteen minutes.” You you<br />

understand that the situation is serious. He lit one of his thin<br />

cigarette and continued:<br />

- The stakes are too high. We are in a global race. There is<br />

no room for errors. So, Amanda, you will do me the


pleasure of having a frank explanation with Felix. Show him<br />

you support him and that, even if it is drunk, it disgusts you<br />

not. The applicant began by defending themselves.<br />

- But … but … - Do that for Thanatonautes, if you do not do<br />

it by passionate love. The young nurse accepted with<br />

resignation. The Day After! morning at dawn, the couple<br />

explained. This was especially Felix, who apologized for<br />

his behavior the night before. They<br />

decided to maintain the marriage and we resumed the<br />

flight procedures. While Felix was on the throne of launch,<br />

Raoul begged to be careful.<br />

- Do not worry, brother. As you say, “All right, straight into<br />

the unknown. ” He settled himself boosters in the veins.<br />

Then the count shatter.<br />

- Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off. Before<br />

closing his eyes, he threw another little phrase towards<br />

Amanda.<br />

- Forgive me. 104 - Chinese mythology<br />

“In the distant island of Ku-chee, live men transparent, white<br />

as snow, fresh as children. They do not consume any kind<br />

of food but suck the wind and drink dew. They walk around<br />

space, clouds serve as their tanks and dragons mounts.<br />

They do not care or disease monsoons. They are<br />

indifferent to everything. A Flood do not overwhelm it. Fire


world’s avoid. They have risen above it all. They go up in<br />

the air as if they were climbing the stairs and extend the<br />

empty as on a bed. The theft of their soul is everywhere. “


Chuang Tzu<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

105 - period<br />

Felix never returned in this world. He never married not and<br />

never told what he had seen behind Moch 1. The Grim<br />

Reaper had not allowed to ask new banderillas. Cerberus<br />

had devoured. Baal had snapped up. The death … killed<br />

him.<br />

Up there, he removed the mask of the Gorgon. He had<br />

may have seen the face behind the face of skeleton<br />

Women in white satin. He had seen and had not returned to<br />

tell us what he saw. This had not been possible, or he did<br />

not perhaps sufficiently desired. The light attracts the<br />

bottom of the blue hall had been stronger our friendship.<br />

She was stronger than the celebrity, stronger than the love<br />

of Amandine, stronger than alcohol, prostitutes, adventure<br />

Thanatonautes. Death kept its mystery.<br />

There was some scandal sheet to imply I manipulated the<br />

boosters to get rid of a troublesome rival. I’m madly in love<br />

with our nurse, I would never have been able so far to kill<br />

voluntarily anyone, especially not Felix.


However, I wondered if Felix had not voluntarily missing. He<br />

knew he had died the pitfalls of fame and he destroyed little<br />

by little. More than anything, I think mainly he feared losing<br />

Amandine. Despite her sleeping around, he really loved, its<br />

first and only woman.<br />

In the end, he felt unworthy of her. With prostitutes, He was<br />

at ease. He found himself in poor environment of origin.<br />

The so beautiful and cultured Amandine impressed. Felix<br />

thought not worthy wife as gentle and kind.<br />

“Forgive me. “These were his terrible past words to<br />

Amanda.<br />

The man of the year and even decade was entitled to a<br />

state funeral. His mortal coil was buried the cemetery of<br />

Pere-Lachaise in a sumptuous marble mausoleum. A stele<br />

was engraved: “Here lies the first Thanatonautes the world.<br />

“<br />

106 - Native mythological<br />

The Trickster, or god Coyote, is one of the characters the<br />

most curious of Indian mythology of America North. Both<br />

clown cynical and god lecherous and murderous is often<br />

represented with a huge penis and intestines wrapped<br />

around the body.


180<br />

In the jokes Indian god Coyote is often wind fall guy. The<br />

Great Spirit allows generally to commit all the follies and<br />

evil that wishes and intervenes to fix things. Most often<br />

Trickster thinks he is being hurt, but in fact, his actions raise<br />

exactly opposite effects to those he had planned. So,<br />

Trickster, the little devil rival of the Great Spirit, which is far<br />

less evil would have thought.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

107 - BILL GRAHAM<br />

Jean Bresson was the second major Thanatonautes<br />

French. After the death of Felix Kerboz he inspired<br />

procedures security he had developed for its cascades film<br />

before attempting a new plunge.<br />

He had the idea to bring the chair off a timer electronics for<br />

instant feedback. It worked in the manner of a seat belt.<br />

Before off, the program for example its Thanatonautes<br />

Timer “coma more than twenty minutes.” It triggered Then at<br />

the appointed time a small electric shock that forced to<br />

retract the cord quickly and thus reducing Thanatonautes<br />

the earth.


Jean Bresson was a true professional. He stated on map<br />

precisely the area that was then brought us highly accurate<br />

sketches of his observations.<br />

I took advantage of reliable drivers try to improve the<br />

makes boosters. I tested a new process.<br />

Instead of dumping the narcotic of a sudden, it was sent at<br />

a lower dose and continuously. I used the Propofol (100<br />

micrograms per kilogram per minute) associated with the<br />

morphine and a gas (desflurane, between 5 and 10% at the<br />

beginning, but I got better results with isoflurane between 5<br />

and 15%). Finally, to stabilize the organic activity, a<br />

derivative of Valium: the Hypnovel (0.01 mg kg). These new<br />

tools that make the flights a little more secure.p><br />

We were now convinced that anyone could out of his body<br />

and engage in a decorporation. Matter of dosage. But Jean<br />

Bresson cashed well all my concoctions.<br />

He advanced at different rates. He explored “coma over<br />

eighteen minutes and twenty seconds, ”” coma over<br />

eighteen minutes and thirty-eight seconds, ”” coma over<br />

nineteen minutes and ten seconds. ” He treated his fitness,<br />

nutrition and studied its biological rhythms. It took into<br />

account all factors that may affect a decorporation, y<br />

including room temperature. (The best takeoffs


s’effectuèrent to a heat of 21 ° C, with humidity below the<br />

average.)<br />

His takeoffs were spotless. He carefully checked its<br />

boosters and focused for long minutes of the objective, in<br />

accordance with our maps.<br />

- Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off! We were<br />

waiting his return eyes on the dials electrocardiograms and<br />

electroencephalograms. Then put the timer on and gear<br />

Control warned us of its imminent arrival.<br />

- Six, five, four, three, two, one! Landing. Jean Bresson was<br />

meticulous and methodical. Step by step with rigor and<br />

discipline, he progressed on the continent dead. He<br />

refused any interviews to the press. He had given any love<br />

life to devote himself entirely to his professional activities.<br />

Every day, he recorded his progress in a notebook, and a<br />

small calculator decided a reasonable goal for the next day.<br />

Across the Channel, Bill Graham appeared with a same<br />

kind. He had already reached “over nineteen coma minutes<br />

and twenty-three seconds. “<br />

The two men were now embedded in a terrible and<br />

dangerous race. Any misstep could their be fatal and they<br />

were aware. A satirical magazine London Bresson and<br />

Graham represented in the form of two little birds trying to<br />

clean out the teeth of a crocodile. “Hey, Bill, you think he will


keep the mouth open much longer? “, asked the French.<br />

And English replied, “No. And to you I give up. “<br />

But inch by inch, every day two chicks sank deeper into the<br />

throat of the formidable reptile.<br />

“Coma over nineteen minutes and twenty-three seconds”<br />

for Graham. “Coma over nineteen minutes and thirty-five<br />

seconds” for Bresson.<br />

“Coma more than twenty minutes and one second” for<br />

Graham.<br />

The British had now reached the same level as Félix. He<br />

was facing the wall. Moch 1. And hard as it was, no doubt,<br />

to its next flight, it would exceed the first door.<br />

Raoul was furious:<br />

- We will be doubled by the British on the line arrival, we,<br />

the pioneers! It’s too stupid. His fears were well founded.<br />

Bill Graham was not anyone. For Thanatonautes, he had<br />

experienced good school, that of the circus. Former<br />

trapeze artist, he knew how to programmed to go into the<br />

air without a net. Interview The Sun had also learned that he<br />

attributed his talent a good control of drug taken. Himself a<br />

former addict, he believed in itself, the drugs were not good<br />

nor bad but simply generating a Energy it was enough to<br />

control.


Graham explained in an article: “Why not enter the correct<br />

use of marijuana, hashish or heroin on the agenda of<br />

universities? In societies called primitive, each drug with<br />

plants in ceremonies to give a sanctity to the absorption of<br />

drugs. In the West, are drug addicts destroyed by drugs<br />

because they use any HOW: Now there are rules to follow:<br />

never use drugs to overcome depression by simple<br />

idleness or to escape reality. Always require a ceremony!<br />

Then study the effects of each product on his body and the<br />

dose according to his expectations. Ultimately, we could<br />

imagine a permit to take drugs available to insiders. “<br />

I gathered that the former British trapeze artist must surely a<br />

decoction is tinkering with its position before each<br />

off. The hypothesis exasperated Jean Bresson who<br />

regretted Thanatonautes that is not declared an Olympic<br />

sport. One would then exclude Graham for doping.<br />

Amanda ran a tender arm around the shoulders of Jean.<br />

- If there is doping, you’re the most talented. You’re only<br />

twenty-six seconds of Bill and no prohibited substance! -<br />

Twenty-six seconds, you know what it is, twenty-six second,<br />

the stuntman replied, annoyed. Raoul always displayed the<br />

map of the line marked Terra incognito, with the large<br />

funnel.


- Twenty-six seconds at the top, it must mean a territory the<br />

size of France. Geography of the continent Ultimate is<br />

surely ahead of ours! Amanda pressed against Bresson.<br />

Suddenly, my eyes dessillèrent. Amanda loved<br />

Thanatonautes all Thanatonautes and nothing but the<br />

Thanatonautes. Personalities Felix Kerboz own or Jean<br />

Bresson did not interest no. Only quality of the pioneers of<br />

Death passionate about. While I would not get myself<br />

Thanatonautes, it does not lift his eyes on me. I had a score<br />

to settle with death and it reserved its Love her brave<br />

fighters.<br />

Stimulated by the soft contact Amandine, the stuntman<br />

announced:<br />

- Tomorrow I’ll go to “coma more than twenty minutes.” -<br />

Only if you are confident enough of you … Raoul corrected.<br />

The British magazine had gone to a new cartoon. The two<br />

chicks still in the busy teeth of the crocodile. “What will<br />

happen to me if I plunge too deeply into her throat? ” asked<br />

John the bird. “You’re going to reincarnate,” replied the bird<br />

Cenetrline “No, it swallow me and I turn into a big turd. -<br />

Exactly, John. This is a … reincarnation<br />

! “<br />

The design gave me an idea. The outcome of the duel was


not necessarily fatal.<br />

- Why engage in a competition at all costs mortal? If this is<br />

so Fortich Graham, regardless of the means it uses, we<br />

have only to invite here. President Lucinda did not he<br />

wished that we welcome<br />

the foreign Thanatonautes to share our knowledge<br />

knowledge?<br />

Raoul’s face lit up:<br />

- Great idea, Michael! That evening, Amanda Jean<br />

accompanied her to my place. alone. in my apartment, I<br />

struggled on my computer to develop a new chemical<br />

formula booster.<br />

We all guessed that the English were on the point we comb<br />

the post. And indeed, the next day we learned that Bill<br />

Graham had passed a Moch.<br />

According to the morning papers, he had accomplished<br />

this prowess in the night, just when we consider to invite our<br />

thanatodrome. The problem was Bill Graham had failed to<br />

brake in time. Moch one had swallowed.<br />

108 - MYTHOLOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA


At a time when all animals were still human beings humans,<br />

there was once a little hare crying death of his mother.<br />

The moon came down to comfort: “Do not worry, your<br />

mother will return. See, myself, I appear, I disappear, I<br />

believed dead but I always reappear. It will be the same for<br />

your mother. “<br />

The little hare did not believe her. He even went so far as to<br />

fight with the moon crying for her to leave in peace. It the<br />

scratched so hard that she still bears the trace. Then the<br />

moon became angry and split his lip: That being the case,<br />

and Hare does not believe me, it does not like me reborn<br />

moon, but it will remain dead. “<br />

As for the hare, in fact, was a human being, she turned into<br />

a frightened animal only fit to be hunted. But we should not<br />

eat a specific area because of the hare this piece points<br />

out that it was once a person human.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

109 - 1 MOCH<br />

Bill Graham gone, we remain always at the top of the<br />

Thanatonautes world. But behind, while a platoon brought


together to catch up and perhaps overtake us.<br />

Jean Bresson toiled against the first wall. If what he There<br />

was still behind the Terra incognita, corolla the funnel,<br />

however, was better known. The Thanatonautes the world in<br />

the clawing walls inch by inch as sperm a hurry.<br />

The magazine went on to represent London pioneers of<br />

death as the little birds pecking jaws of a crocodile lessor.<br />

“Come, little, I’m always hungry, “said the legend of a third<br />

drawing, showing the reptile, mouth open, some covered<br />

with scales of blood and feathers meant to represent the<br />

poor Cenetrline<br />

Jean Bresson did not lose his cool so far.<br />

As Raoul, he thought it was only gradually that<br />

we would come to nibble on the wall comatose.<br />

Advertising or desire to encourage science, President<br />

Lucinda created a trophy together with payment important:<br />

cut “Moch 1” and 500 000 F for the champion<br />

cross the first free and would tell his<br />

trip.


Vocations were born.<br />

Time for “sports” had arrived. These were young<br />

people convinced of the hopelessness and the futility of<br />

thana<br />

todromes officials too timid. And they proposed<br />

leave and return as they saw fit. After all,<br />

rewarded with a cut, resembled Thanatonautes<br />

now in pole vaulting or hurdles. We<br />

then went into what I call phase “gymnastics<br />

policy “.<br />

Clubs, private companies worked out their own<br />

runways, with boosters copied ours. A<br />

ingenious mind conceived the idea of<br />

a newspaper, Le<br />

Petit Thanato


Naute illustrated, providing practical advice and offering<br />

the latest plans of the continent from the dead. Fans<br />

samples<br />

186<br />

geaient revenue from ads to better off, selling vials of<br />

Propofol or chloride potassium stolen from hospitals, and<br />

even chairs dentist.<br />

There were obviously included the most famous posters<br />

Thanatonautes Felix Kerboz, Bill Graham and Jean<br />

Bresson.<br />

And every day the monster snapped his dose of “sports”<br />

unwary. The activity was not Thanatonautes like everybody<br />

else. It fell only once. We rehearsed in every key in our<br />

interviews, but it was precisely the risk that excited youth.<br />

For them it was the ultimate thrill. A bit like This Japanese<br />

martial art, the Yai, where both wrestlers are placed face to<br />

face cross-legged, the winner being the first to arrive to<br />

draw his sword and split into two of his skull opponent.


Accidents do not deter the pioneers in grass. As for the<br />

bonus, it attracted many crooks.<br />

We received a multitude of phone calls.<br />

A man claimed to have spent a Moch and saw a corridor<br />

blue which continued in the direction of white light. But when<br />

we convoquâmes and it was examined under truth serum,<br />

he acknowledged to have invented this story the reward.<br />

Many other jokers tried to simulate a successful flight. In the<br />

stories the most crazy that we received, there was the case<br />

of one who lives Moch behind a stepmother, who<br />

discovered that other Jesus Christ without a beard, the<br />

Apollo 13, a junction with the Bermuda Triangle, aliens, and<br />

even … no. It made us laugh a lot. “Behind the death there<br />

a… nothing he said. - And what’s not? - Well, nothing it’s<br />

nothing, “he replied boldly …<br />

Many honest people are left as their lives.<br />

For his part, Jean Bresson, without making waves,<br />

progressing second by second and millimeter by<br />

millimeter. He was now “coma over twenty minutes and one<br />

second.”<br />

His departure was more impeccable. His heart I slowed<br />

down and gradually developed a for-mule boost much<br />

softer, which allowed a best action of the will (with a new<br />

product:


vecuronium, but not bore you with the formulas chemical,<br />

know that Vecuronium 0.01 mg per kilogram is still not<br />

bad).<br />

- Today I will try to pass a Moch, announced Jean Bresson<br />

seriously when he settled for umpteenth time on the chair<br />

off. - No, no, do not do that! Amanda replied that longer<br />

concealed his affection for the young stuntman. She took<br />

her hand. They kissed at length. He grabbed by the<br />

shoulders.<br />

Don’t be afraid. I am well prepared, I know my case, I know<br />

now I can do it. His voice was calm and determined.<br />

Nothing in his behavior betrayed not the slightest hesitation.<br />

That night he made love to loudly Amandine and the next<br />

morning, he seemed in good shape. He planted himself in<br />

the veins and needles control displays as a pilot engaged<br />

in a check-up of the cockpit before takeoff.<br />

- Wait, I say, if you succeed, and I think you’re going<br />

Success requires that the press is there. Jean Bresson<br />

reflects. He did not care and projectors the glory. He had<br />

seen that these illusions led the poor Félix. Yet he was<br />

aware that without advertising, our credits were dwindling<br />

and that, anyway, in concerned the future of Thanatonautes,<br />

it was important have a maximum of witnesses.


So he removed the needles and waited.<br />

At eight o’clock, all the international press pressed on the<br />

launch area on the sixth floor. We installed barriers<br />

between the throne and the launch zone “Visitors”,<br />

complete with cinema seats for comfort of our guests.<br />

Some had come for assist firsthand the death of a<br />

Thanatonautes.<br />

In a second here, someone was going to shed its mortal<br />

coil to perhaps never to find her! Excitement reigned in the<br />

bays. Since the time immemorial, death has always<br />

fascinated people.<br />

I recognized very agitated, the facilitator who RTV1<br />

officiated at the convention center and more serene, Villain,<br />

the journalist representing the Little Thanatonautes shown.<br />

Raoul, Jean and I had put on the tuxedo of the great<br />

occasions. With Amanda, we cleaned throughout fills our<br />

thanatodrome beginning to take gaits garage neglected.<br />

On his throne, Jean Bresson seemed very focused. All<br />

breathed in him the strength, confidence and determination.<br />

We was placed above him a map of the Continent Ultimate<br />

and the fixed length as if to save his Moch a goal. Moch a<br />

cross. He clenched his teeth.<br />

“Moch 1, I will pierce” escaped his lips.


He blew several more times.<br />

He adjusted the timer to “coma exceeding twenty-five<br />

minutes “and then he sat on the dentist’s chair and always<br />

calm, plunged the needle into the hollow of elbow.<br />

All cameras marched while reporters were whispering their<br />

comments so as not to interfere Jean Bresson in its<br />

concentration.<br />

“… yes, ladies and gentlemen, Jean Bresson will try the<br />

impossible, through the first wall comatose. If there<br />

succeeds, he will receive the cup plus the premium of 500<br />

000 F. For several days the athlete is prepared and its<br />

concentration is intense … “<br />

- OK, ready, Jean announced in a dry tone. We vérifiâmes<br />

last time all screens -Monitoring<br />

- Ready for me, I said. - Ready, Amanda continued. -<br />

Ready, said Raoul. He held his thumb as a pilot ready for<br />

takeoff. - All right, straight into the unknown, whispered<br />

Raoul. Jean Bresson ginned slowly<br />

- Six … five (eyelid closure) … four … three (Head tilt back)<br />

… two (closed fists) … one. Off! We passed the fingers.<br />

Good luck, John. “Plague! I said, this lucky will finally<br />

discover what’s behind


death. He will experience the greatest of all secrets.<br />

Ministry great mystery, one we will all face. It will find it and<br />

it will say: “Death is this,” or rather “The death that was it.”<br />

Lucky. Amandine the swallows her eyes. Lucky. I might<br />

have to leave in its place. Yes. I should have, “thought I,<br />

while the cameras rolled to high speed to avoid losing a<br />

millisecond of scene.<br />

110 - police files<br />

Name: Bresson<br />

Name: Jean<br />

Hair: Brown<br />

Size: 78 1 m<br />

Distinguishing features: None<br />

Comment: Pioneer of Thanatonautes<br />

Weakness: No weakness<br />

111 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS<br />

Once the path opened by Felix Kerboz, flights to the land of<br />

the dead continued unabated. The rate failure had fallen to


insignificant levels because the path the afterlife was now<br />

direct and safe.<br />

History textbook, Basic Course 2 years.<br />

112 - Beyond a MOCH


Standby<br />

I looked at my watch: Jean took off for twenty<br />

minutes and forty-five seconds. Now it should be<br />

there, to see what was happening beyond a Moch. He had<br />

successful, it had crossed the barrier, and it was in the<br />

process of accu<br />

formulate a completely new knowledge. He saw it<br />

knew, he discovered. We look forward to seeing everyone<br />

back<br />

for he tells. What could well exist after<br />

the wall comatose? Who or what is death?<br />

190<br />

Coma more than twenty-one minutes. He was always there,<br />

the cord was not cut and he was still recoverable. it was so<br />

great!


Coma more than twenty-one minutes and fifteen seconds. It<br />

information was gorging splendid. Happy type.<br />

Coma more than twenty-one minutes and sixteen seconds.<br />

The earthly body was shaken by a jolt. Reflex nervous - “No<br />

.<br />

Coma more than twenty-four minutes and thirty-six<br />

seconds. The jolts were increasing. It was as if the body<br />

whole was shaken with electric shocks. The face until you<br />

do not have winced a horrible grin pain<br />

- He wakes up? asked one journalist. The<br />

electrocardiogram showed me that the Thanatonautes was<br />

still there. He had passed through the first wall of the death.<br />

The activity of his brain had increased while that his heart<br />

was always at least.<br />

It must have been surprised by so much mystery unveiled.<br />

Because he always walked in the door. He had always just<br />

including He was possibly going to die of pleasure of who<br />

was the Grim Reaper. Death, he knew necessarily all. Had<br />

he been surprised by the revelation of the mystery?<br />

Coma more than twenty-four minutes and forty to two<br />

seconds He twitched and grimaced like a nightmare.


Hands clenched the arms of the chair. Lifts, the tuxedo shirt<br />

sleeves unveiled one goose bumps.<br />

It was little things dry. As if mimicking a fight with a<br />

ferocious monster. He pushed the rails, the slime moss<br />

dripping from his mouth, he gave shots hand, hip shots.<br />

Fortunately a belt Security kept him off the chair, if not with<br />

all these gestures, it would have fallen, winning the same<br />

time pipes and electrical which linked him son to Earth.<br />

Journalists saw the scene in amazement. All dévirginiser<br />

suspected that the continent was the dead risky, but there<br />

seemed to face the Thanatonautes<br />

terrifying phenomena. His face was more horror Fully<br />

responsible:<br />

Coma more than twenty-four minutes and fifty to two<br />

seconds He struggled less. We all had declined to avoid<br />

his hands. This agitation did not seem very positive. Raoul<br />

was biting his lower lip. Amandine wrinkled mouth and<br />

eyes.<br />

I rushed to the machine control.<br />

Coma more than twenty-four minutes and fifty to six<br />

seconds The electrocardiograph was transformed into a<br />

seismograph in full eruption. In a moment I Jean realized


that Bresson would soon die if we do doing anything. The<br />

lights flickered. The machines whined. But already his<br />

electric timer was activated and a high discharge him back<br />

sharply his body. He started again. Then everything<br />

returned to normal. The electroencephalogram softened.<br />

The LEDs went out. The machines subsided.<br />

Bresson was saved. We had recovered from the alive. It<br />

was like a man hanging over vacuum, we would be able to<br />

raise a blow to the solid cliff. Recall his rope, in fact the<br />

cord ectoplasmic, as luck had held out.<br />

He had spent the wall of the spell.<br />

Slowly we approached.<br />

- He did it! shouted the man behind RTV1 who had to take<br />

advantage of waiting to write his report. First-run, the string<br />

that shows you more did you watch the takeoff and landing<br />

of the first Thanatonautes to have exceeded 1 Moch. Live,<br />

you witnessed a historic moment which, upon awakening,<br />

Jean Bresson will deliver the sensational story. Normal<br />

pulse. Almost normal nerve activity. Truck Temperature<br />

depreciation charge, Normal electrical activity.<br />

Jean Bresson opened one eye, then the other.<br />

Nothing on his face reflected the normality which testimony


gnaient screens. Where was the quiet legendary stuntman?<br />

His nostrils quivered, his face was covered sweat, its<br />

expression was only terror. In a snap,<br />

he undid his seat belt and we consider in turn as so many<br />

foreigners. The first, dominated Raoul:<br />

Are you ok ? Bresson was trembling in every limb. It did not<br />

at all.<br />

- I spent a Moch … The room fills with applause slowed<br />

much quickly to the man whirled on itself, distraught.<br />

- I spent a … Moch, he continued. But what I saw next is …<br />

terrible! More ovations. Nothing but silence. Jean hustled<br />

us to rush to a microphone. Taking possession, he<br />

groaned:<br />

- It … It … do not die. Up there, after the first wall is<br />

despicable. Despicable. You can not know what extent. I<br />

beg you all, please: do not die more! 113 - Italian poetry<br />

“Cerberus, the cruel and monstrous beast Barking and<br />

barking out of his triple head Against the poor plunged into<br />

this hell.<br />

The eye on fire, the mane foul and bloody, Having trouble


wearing her throat gasping, It is the tearing of his irons.<br />

They howl in the rain, and all allegiance, They present a<br />

side then the other suffering. The poor often turn sinners!<br />

When Cerberus saw us come in dark asylum He showed<br />

us his fangs, the snake! Rage and fury all his limbs<br />

trembled. “<br />

Dante: The Divine Comedy, “Hell” Song sixth<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

114 - a step too far<br />

Needless to say, this funny “success” cast a cold<br />

Thanatonautes all our activities.<br />

John always haunted terror, told reporters that behind the<br />

first wall, was a country of pure terror. The total terror.<br />

- Is this hell? asked one journalist. - No, hell has to be more


sympathetic, he said with a cynical despair. President<br />

Lucinda organized as planned a small party to put its prices<br />

to John F 500 000 and its cut, but it did not come looking<br />

for them.<br />

It spread in interviews booing us. We had baptized “birds of<br />

evil.” He said he had stop to explore the continent of the<br />

dead, we had a not too many. He advised all to never die.<br />

He himself confessed terror of having to return one day<br />

there.<br />

- I know what death is and nothing makes me more afraid<br />

than to die. Ha! if I could avoid this. He shut himself up in a<br />

small house he transformed into bunker. He no longer<br />

wished to meet anyone. He wear a bulletproof vest. Twice<br />

weeks, he went to the doctor just in case. For avoid all<br />

sexually transmitted diseases, it abandoned women.<br />

Because deaths from accidents were so numerous on the<br />

roads, he abandoned his car in a vacant lot. For fear of a<br />

disaster air, he renounced any conference abroad.<br />

Amandine hammered in vain at his door armored. When<br />

Raoul begged him by telephone to provide at least some<br />

pointers for his card, he launched “It’s black, very dark and<br />

there is suffering terribly, “then hung up dryly.<br />

The episode was unfortunate consequences. So far, the<br />

public was fascinated enough to conquer beyond our


ecause everyone hoped that we would discover the land<br />

of eternal happiness. It was not for nothing that Lucinda and<br />

Razorbak had called us from the start<br />

194<br />

Mission Project “Paradise”. The human race had convinced<br />

that after the blue hall of ecstasy, we find the light of<br />

wisdom. But if the corridor wonderful leading only to the<br />

pain …<br />

About the desperate Bresson produced quickly their effect.<br />

The anxiety became general. Physicians vaccinating with a<br />

vengeance. Arms sales climbed steeply. The<br />

thanatodromes were deserted.<br />

Before, death was certain simple termination life, a lights<br />

out, in fact. For others, it was the promise of hope. All now<br />

knew it was the ultimate punishment. The existence<br />

became ephemeral paradise which we should all pay one<br />

day the heavy bill.<br />

Life was a party. In addition, there was only darkness!<br />

Great success as the achievement of Bresson! Our<br />

experiences confirmed the two terrible truths I had serinées<br />

father: “Death is the most horrible thing” and “we do not


mess with these things “…<br />

115 - Mesopotamian mythology<br />

“I traveled tous.les countries I crossed the steep mountains.<br />

I crossed the seas And I found nothing happy<br />

• I am condemned to a life of misery And I filled my whole<br />

body pain. ” The Epic of Gilgamesh.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

116 - THANATOPHOBIE<br />

After the case Bresson, we crossed a large and long<br />

period of stagnation. Everyone feared the death and<br />

unspeakable nightmares which John had spoken.<br />

There was, however other Thanatonautes to cross the<br />

wall. But their stories were not more reassuring. Some<br />

spoke of their encounter with the Grim Reaper, a skeleton<br />

wielding a scythe that was his whistle weapon to cut the<br />

umbilical cords of reckless who had ventured too far.<br />

A Thanatonautes-African witch doctor reported to have<br />

avoided a giant snake that spat fire. A shaman Icelandic


claimed to have encountered a grinning dragon teeth<br />

smeared with blood.<br />

- What is strange is that the vision of death varies different<br />

cultures, merely muttering Raoul, and he pretend to engage<br />

in calculations with the scissors. But I knew that his remark<br />

did not even reassured.<br />

The testimony became the new Thanatonautes more and<br />

more frightening. They spoke of hundreds giant spider<br />

venom spitting putrid rat Flying with long sharp incisors. It<br />

was like in full story of Lovecraft. The descriptions of<br />

monsters accumulating ever more demented.<br />

A Thanatonautes Portuguese still bewildered by his landing<br />

recounted having crossed a bat whose head was adorned<br />

with a necklace of human skulls. The stories became most<br />

horrible day.<br />

Myself I began to fear death. I won<br />

by what he had to call the “thanatophobie”<br />

ambient. The Little Thanatonautes illustrated with<br />

representative<br />

tions hyper-realistic, adding in the bloody and reputation


Gnant. Death, really, it was you die a<br />

again for fear of your death! Where was the rest<br />

hard earned eternal, if we had to face as soon as<br />

deceased,<br />

all these monsters lurking behind Moch 1? Because,<br />

according to<br />

the testimony of the International Thanatonautes they sem<br />

blaient all there, hidden, waiting for us after Moch 1, which<br />

called the Devil’s cloven feet, Chtulu vaporous,<br />

Dragon sticky Griffon flaming Chimaera sneering, Incubus,<br />

Succubus, Minotaur, devourer of souls.<br />

Death is a trap. The light attracts us and demons arise from<br />

its first curtain. Needless to say, the number of suicides fell<br />

the day the next day. All Sports deemed dangerous - race<br />

automobile, boxing, skydiving, motorcycling, jumping<br />

horseback, skiing or bungee - were gradually abandoned<br />

by thrill seekers less number The dealers could no longer


peddle their cam. The tobacco merchants closed their<br />

doors. The pharmacies prospered.<br />

For added security, power sockets was lowered.<br />

Many balconies were screened. Multiple lightning bristling<br />

roofs. The designers put in fashionable clothes stuffed that<br />

gave the look puppets of their holders, but proved to be<br />

protective a fall. Were built along the rails Breton cliffs.<br />

In the laboratory, Raoul, who was trying to remain calm in<br />

this storm, drew on the map behind the first a corridor wall<br />

adorned with a black question mark.<br />

- What may well be behind that has so frightened Bresson<br />

and others? Our experiments were suspended for the time<br />

being, for lack of lower Thanatonautes voluntary. We meet<br />

regularly to the Père-Lachaise, just to get some fresh air<br />

and to think together.<br />

- What is Lucinda? Amanda asked. - It simply repeats<br />

“what if Bresson was right? ” said Raoul. He was delighted<br />

with the afterlife from a distance. He now says that, up<br />

close, it could be much less interesting. - But all the people<br />

who were flying around him seemed eager to rush out<br />

there, I insisted. - Smoke and mirrors! When it is close we<br />

understand that we should never have to go. Lucinda not at<br />

all convinced that death is part of pleasure. Amandine,<br />

Raoul and I were in disarray. We we worked so hard to


uncover a horror should have remained forever the most<br />

ultimate surprises.<br />

All our actions, good or bad, does driving at this final<br />

abomination. Perhaps it was inevitable that this Hell, this<br />

zoo teeming with snakes and tortuous<br />

grinning vampire that all religions of the world had sought to<br />

conceal?<br />

What a Pandora’s box did we open? What adverse forces<br />

had we paid with our curiosity unhealthy? We wanted to<br />

know the mystery of death … it gave us a hell of a lesson.<br />

- Lucinda wants to give up everything, said Raoul. He thinks<br />

even resign. He would prefer that history books avoid<br />

mentioning its small incursions creepy. And you? Raoul<br />

was equally at home on a tombstone on a couch. He<br />

leaned against a pillar.<br />

- It would be too easy to give up the first seed. credit<br />

landing in Africa, Australia or Indonesia, Early explorers<br />

faced cannibal tribes, hostile to forests full of scorpions and<br />

deadly other wild animals and unknown. They have not<br />

fallen so far. Each operation has its share of danger. This is<br />

not going to walk in a garden of roses, with the side swings<br />

for children. Adventure is synonymous with danger! The<br />

fertile mind of Raoul had forged reasons to persevere. He


did not abandon the Thanatonautes. He waved the birds<br />

that served as his hands.<br />

- All these visions of the post-Moch a mismatch not them,<br />

and that all evidence be negative does not mean much.<br />

Jean Bresson remains in the vague. He who had<br />

accustomed us seriously and method, There is<br />

accumulating adjectives: awful, awful, vile … Accuracy with<br />

only that everything is black! Conclusion He lit a cigarette of<br />

his bidder, got up, stretched his long legs and exhaled<br />

smoke eucalyptus:<br />

- Conclusion: we can allow some cowards to stop our work.<br />

- John is not a coward and is incapable of lying, declared<br />

the Amanda always fair. - His senses were able to abuse,<br />

Raoul noticed. “Maybe! also that a phase of seduction<br />

succeeds another of repulsion … - I also believe sincere,<br />

but what bothers me, what are all these different visions. It<br />

seems that after the first wall, the afterlife is personalized.<br />

Do you remember the Egyptian Book of the Dead,<br />

Michael? He told that the dead had to face the monsters<br />

but if he succeeded in the win, then he went his way quietly.<br />

A initiation test, in fact, that John was unable to overcome!<br />

Hence his deductions rather simple that all was one horror<br />

after Moch. I considered Amandine. His vision was my<br />

paradise, its blue eyes my journey. Why look far. It hides the<br />

gaze frozen by me under thick opaque glasses.<br />

- So, Raoul? - So we put our work on hold and we let pass


the time. Another after another. The People forget the<br />

thanatophobie. And we will continue to love of science!<br />

Meanwhile, Lucinda abolished the law prohibiting the hard<br />

therapeutics. No longer wanted to risk disconnecting a<br />

patient for the ship to no one knew where. Before: to enter<br />

an operating room, patients left large checks guaranteeing<br />

the longest maintenance vegetable in the state of failure.<br />

Amanda never saw Jean Bresson. No one saw him, too.<br />

He had finally cashed premium Lucinda he had used to<br />

build a shelter fallout. He was buried there between shelves<br />

full cans and mineral water reserves and no never heard of<br />

him.<br />

117 - TEACHING YOGI<br />

Four behaviors define the dark interior and human<br />

suffering:<br />

- The sense of individuality. Due to the success: “I am smart<br />

“… Given the failure: “I’ll never. ” - Attachment to pleasure:<br />

the search for perpetual contentment as a single objective.<br />

- Complacency in depression: the obsession unhappy<br />

memories that incites revenge and to oppose his<br />

entourage - The fear of death: the craving to cling its<br />

existence, proof of his individuality. Rather than to accept to<br />

live until death and enjoy life here below to better develop<br />

his being. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by


Francis Razorbak.<br />

118 - STEFANIA<br />

The thanatophobie lasted nearly six months. Six months of<br />

idleness forced discussion and questions to hackneyed<br />

Thai restaurant of Mr. Lambert, wanderings of the Father-<br />

Lachaise, dust accumulated in our thanatodrome. In the<br />

penthouse, plants invaded the piano. We almost could not<br />

see Lucinda. Even Vercingetorix, the dog, was gloomy.<br />

Amanda began to cook and tried to comfort us as we<br />

prepare spicy dishes. We played cards. No bridge,<br />

because no wanted to do … death.<br />

The glimmer of hope that arises from watching Raoul where<br />

we the least expected. Not the United States where we<br />

knew that NASA was engaged in top secret research, or<br />

Britain where Bill Graham had yet left behind emulated<br />

willing to follow his traces. Our salvation came from Italy.<br />

We were aware of the existence, in Padua, a thanatodrome<br />

very powerful but we thought that, like ours, it was now<br />

dormant. Now, if the Italians put their program on hold, they<br />

do had not abandoned completely their takeoffs. On April<br />

27, they announced that they too were managed to send<br />

someone beyond the first wall comatose and that they had<br />

regained its envelope Thanatonautes carnal bringing a<br />

much more reassuring testimony that of Jean Bresson.


Paradoxically, the journalists who immediately<br />

lent credence to the horrors reported by Jean Bresson is<br />

my<br />

200<br />

milking skeptical of the exuberance and optimism of<br />

Italians.<br />

The Thanatonautes Italian was actually a thanatonautesse.<br />

Her name was Stefania Chichele.<br />

Raoul looked at length his portrait on the front of Corriere<br />

della Sera. The smiling young woman explained in article<br />

devoted to him after she had an Moch discovered a large<br />

black moor dark and she had struggled against bubbles of<br />

memories especially Aggressive. Surprised his colleagues<br />

had made him repeat his About as truth serum, and the<br />

story remained the same.<br />

- It does not lie not, I say. - Of course not! Raoul jumped.


What she said is perfectly consistent. I remained pensive.<br />

- Thus, Bresson has just faced its past and found it so<br />

terrible that he could not stand it. Amanda knew that we had<br />

never experienced stuntman of psychoanalysis. At times,<br />

she thought it needed it as he seemed reticent about his<br />

past. We decided to investigate and discovered that<br />

indeed Jean had experienced a particularly traumatic<br />

childhood. It had buried under a blanket of silence, but all<br />

protections were detonated in a Moch. As horrible<br />

memories of him that he had returned in memory could not<br />

take the shock.<br />

Amanda wanted to comfort him. But, once for all, Bresson<br />

had renounced the world. He did not answer the repeated<br />

drumming on the door of his fortress and he finally picked<br />

up his phone.<br />

Curious, we invited the Italian to come to receive Paris<br />

medal of the Legion of Honor Thanatonautes created by<br />

Lucinda. The ceremony took place without drum or<br />

trumpets. We preferred to avoid any time noise the media.<br />

Stefania Chichele was a plump little woman in the very<br />

chubby face. Long wavy black hair fell to him to the lower<br />

back. His jeans and his shirt appeared always about to<br />

burst, but it did not fail


of charm with its fresh round cheeks and smile Childish<br />

From the airport she hugged us, like we mean that we all<br />

belong to the same family, that of “who are not afraid<br />

Thanatonautes not death. ” Then she burst out laughing,<br />

and pest<br />

surprising. We entraînâmes the Thai restaurant. In<br />

expectation, Lucinda had preferred to be excused.<br />

Having lived several years in Montpellier, by Stefania-milk<br />

impeccable French, just a delicious sunny emphasis Alps.<br />

She began to engulf the plates of noodles with black<br />

mushrooms. Mouth full, she interspersed his sentences of<br />

his booming laugh. I had never Raoul saw as attentive.<br />

While listening to him, ignoring his own plate, he practically<br />

devoured the eyes.<br />

Stefania recapitulated. Behind the first wall, there was a<br />

dark and pestilential area where it was not good<br />

linger. Bubble memories assailed as you<br />

and as many devils trying to turn away from the beautiful<br />

Bright. However, as it was mounted with the firm<br />

intention to back down, Stefania did captivated


nor by the wonderful light nor by demons of the past.<br />

Always interested in the techniques of off - after<br />

while it was my part - I asked her what she used<br />

to fly.<br />

- Tibetan Meditation more light boosters chloride<br />

potassium. I do not want to m’esquinter liver! - Tibetan<br />

Meditation! exclaimed Raoul. He failed to choke, spit<br />

politely behind his hand three young yellow bean sprouts<br />

and asked:<br />

- You are … Mystical? - Of course, the burst<br />

thanatonautesse. Go to death is an act deeply religious,<br />

spiritual, while at least. A toxic product, but allows take off<br />

how to get far without discipline of the soul? What/how? off<br />

cleanly without faith in God? We remained speechless. So<br />

far we had come not to mix religion with our scientific<br />

experiments<br />

cific. Raoul and I were interested in all natural ancient<br />

mythologies and beliefs of various world but, in practice, we<br />

did not want add to superstitions, whatever their origins.


Moreover, fundamentally, Raoul was an atheist. The result<br />

boasted, considering that atheism was the only attitude<br />

possible for a modern man want to keep in while a<br />

scientific attitude. For him, skepticism was an improvement<br />

over mysticism. God did not been demonstrated, so it did<br />

not exist.<br />

For my part, I was rather agnostic. In fact, I confessed my<br />

ignorance. Atheism seemed like a very religious behavior.<br />

Assert the nonexistence of God, is already profess an<br />

opinion on the matter. I never had so much pride. If ever a<br />

God deigned to appear with us miserable creatures earth, I<br />

would change probably attitude. Meanwhile, I remained in<br />

the expectation.<br />

My agnosticism correspond to my worldview, which was a<br />

huge question mark. Because if I had no opinion on God, I<br />

do not claim Nor have more about the world or men. I never<br />

understood the people around me, what was happening<br />

seemed always occur by chance. However, I sometimes<br />

feel that nature was endowed with an intelligence beyond<br />

me clean.<br />

Raoul pressed Stefania of questions:<br />

- What are you? - Tibetan Buddhist! - Buddhist? - And then<br />

it bothers you? - No, no, not really! he apologized, anxious<br />

not not irritate our opulent colleague. On the contrary, the<br />

Tibetan mythology fascinates me. But I never imagined


Tibetan Buddhists not like … like you! - I know nothing<br />

about Tibetan Buddhists. You are the first that I meet,<br />

Amanda said softly. Stefania stuffed full ranges of three<br />

chicken coconut milk and coriander.<br />

- We, the Tibetan Buddhists, we do not have expected to<br />

care about death. It’s been more than five thousand years<br />

that focuses on the subject. The Bardo Thodol, Our Book of<br />

the Dead, is a perfect little manual engage in a Near Death<br />

Experience. I decorporation already into the next world that<br />

no one had heard of Your Kerboz Felix! Suddenly I heard<br />

some irritation under the mask Amandine suave. For the<br />

first time, in our small circle, it was not the center of<br />

attention. I was not the only woman among us, and jealous,<br />

she saw Raoul fall in love, captivated by the unusual About<br />

this Italo-Tibetan.<br />

The meal went on, however, in a good mood. Raoul<br />

Razorbak posted a joy that I did not know. He had finally<br />

found a woman who like him, had only one real subject of<br />

interest: death.<br />

119 - police files<br />

Name: Chichele<br />

Name: Stefania


Hair color: Black<br />

Eyes: Black<br />

Size: 63 1 m<br />

Distinguishing features: None<br />

Comments: First woman Thanatonautes<br />

Weakness: overload weight<br />

120 - Japanese philosophy<br />

The Naoshige said:<br />

“The Way of the Samurai is made of a passion for death.<br />

If a man is inhabited by such passion, ten men can not deal<br />

with them.<br />

You have to be taken fanaticism and passion for the death<br />

to perform exploits. If it is invaded by the discernment, it is<br />

too late to use that force.<br />

204


According to the Way of the Samurai, loyalty and filial piety<br />

are<br />

unnecessary, one has the passion of death. Loyalty and<br />

filial piety will then live for themselves. “<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

121 - Stefania HISTORY<br />

Stefania loved to chat. She told us her happy History Small,<br />

it was proportionally thicker even now. His parents were<br />

restaurateurs and do not skimp on food. In the evening he<br />

had to finish the remains that could not be kept overnight.<br />

Matter of simple economics. Still, the seventh of fourteen<br />

children, she was the biggest and the laughing stock of his<br />

brothers and sisters.<br />

It is nicknamed “Pear Caramel.” His own mother did<br />

nothing to take away his complex. She bought her in<br />

advance of clothes that are too large. “In anticipation of<br />

future, “she said, fatalistic.<br />

Further if these clothes, so vast, it floated there also for<br />

long. Soon, her body was conquering the Volume


At school, everyone was making fun of “pear caramel” and<br />

the more she laughed, the more she was hungry. It was,<br />

however, the impression of eating normally, merely pasta<br />

with bread, butter with his bread and sauce Bolognese with<br />

butter. But when anxiety to stay ugly and fat forever<br />

suddenly burst upon her, she did not even have time to<br />

warm plates. She swallowed its raw spaghetti, opened at<br />

full speed boxes sauerkraut or cassoulet swallowed it<br />

immediately.<br />

She represented her body like a giant trash she could<br />

never fill to the brim. In a phase of greater anxiety, she<br />

came to weigh more hundred and thirty pounds.<br />

Of course, she had begun at least a hundred times a diet,<br />

but his need to eat was stronger than that to please lean.<br />

At the period of “eating raw food,” was followed by a<br />

time of trouble over the food. She ate it ate, and then she<br />

forced herself to vomit to empty his stomach.<br />

Simultaneously, she gorged laxatives. Including she put her<br />

health in danger, his parents tried to reason, but if the<br />

weight of their child’s unusual overwhelmed, they were in<br />

awe of his mind so agile. For the small Stefania had in<br />

kindergarten, shows real intellectual gifts. She jumped a<br />

class of two, obtained the highest marks in all subjects of


mathematics to philosophy through geography and history.<br />

The Chichele gave up a daughter to think clearly smarter<br />

than them, “If she behaves well, that it must have<br />

motivations that escape us, ” sighed his father after spitting<br />

out the surprise couscous raw sugar syrup grenadine.<br />

His obesity prevented Stefania course to move freely in<br />

space. Concerned at puberty, seduce the opposite sex<br />

despite her weight, she began to acquire a sensual<br />

approach. So far, she advanced legs spread in the manner<br />

of a duck to ensure a good grip on the ground without his<br />

extra pounds do do fall. It is therefore forced to keep his<br />

calves many parallels to be able to wear high heels heels<br />

without fear of losing his balance or twisting ankles. She<br />

thus acquired a swagger.<br />

The men began to regard with envy. While standing in the<br />

art of moving his body. After the march, she learned to sit<br />

with grace, to lie voluptuously half on a sofa, to keep the<br />

neck straight instead head back into the shoulders. No<br />

movement was anodyne.<br />

To better control his actions, Stefania acquired a kitten she<br />

imitated all the movements. She understood a good<br />

technique would allow it to better manage its disability.<br />

The cat knew not only beautifully moving<br />

but adopted a natural resting position


of great elegance.<br />

Stefania then devoted himself to yoga and sports Expense<br />

Claim<br />

ming an important physical strength such as<br />

mountaineering. Certainly, his bones still bore one hundred<br />

pounds of fat but covered themselves powerful muscles<br />

and a skeleton now and with great flexibility.<br />

Compensate. She was going to compensate.<br />

Yoga was not enough. A Tibetan Buddhist arises timely<br />

and she knew it to a friend. It was not very difficult. The man<br />

liked the big ones. In many Third World countries, large are<br />

envied for their wealth allowing them to eat in abundance<br />

and considered as demigods. But as he also felt Stefania’s<br />

mind and he saw that the forms made unhappy, the Tibetan<br />

told him that the body was not a prison and was<br />

hermetically sealed easy to escape. Through meditation,<br />

we could leave and return at will this “envelope” ephemeral.<br />

He taught the girl some techniques of decorporation it<br />

assimilated more easily it was already accustomed to<br />

master a discipline Physics<br />

Finally, Stefania was released from fat! By allowing to


decorporation, meditation had saved.<br />

To avoid any expression of skepticism of our hand, she<br />

said laughing whether we believe or No We rassurâmes<br />

soon: what interested us really, it was mainly to understand<br />

how she was taking.<br />

With a laugh, she consented to enlighten us.<br />

At a time when the inhabitants of the peninsula are<br />

engaged usually nap, Stefania sat in position lotus and<br />

focused on flight. A large storm then invaded his room,<br />

tearing his ectoplasm and taking the outside. She usually<br />

went out the window, more rarely through the roof and not<br />

through the door.<br />

- The doors are designed for entry and exit of physical<br />

bodies, we explained it. It should not be any mix. At first,<br />

she felt some fears. Immediately taken the window, she<br />

went into effect in contact with all<br />

kinds of spirits, flying too. But there were good and there<br />

were bad. It was important to distinguish between them.<br />

- In general, bad shave the ground, but if you do unable to<br />

remain high enough above the roofs, they can become<br />

threatening and attack you. From it loses altitude, we must<br />

quickly regain its body to escape. What exactly were these


evil spirits? Stefania declared himself unable to define. He<br />

had to think about speech. However, through meditation,<br />

she asserted able to travel the world at a prodigious rate.<br />

Well, his mind had become lighter but his body was still<br />

heavy. She fled her problem, she faced the no. She was,<br />

however, constrained by a terrible day of February.<br />

Resident, she found herself at school, stuck deep in a tub<br />

with an air bubble imprisoning her rolls of fat. She struggled<br />

like a turtle on its back.<br />

Encouraged by his bullying gym teacher<br />

gymnastics, her friends took advantage of his pension<br />

inability to dump it on all kinds of im<br />

mondices.<br />

When they finally get tired and leave it to<br />

his fate, shivering in the icy water now, its<br />

progress in meditation served to him at all. She was<br />

beautiful


struggle, his body was trapped in a shell of iron<br />

White and his soul too distraught to rise.<br />

A housekeeper’s delivered several hours<br />

later. With the help of several colleagues, she used to brush<br />

as a lever to uncap Stefania’s bathtub.<br />

This marked the humiliation for life. Stefania decided<br />

it is revenge, and with his secret weapon: his ecto<br />

plasm!<br />

If through the walls, it might as well cross flesh! Each night,<br />

so she began to hunt, determined to hitting all those who<br />

had mortified. She took advantage of their sleep to invade<br />

his victims, starting with their toes and then back to their<br />

head. They awoke experiencing excruciating migraines,<br />

after living in appalling nightmares.<br />

She saved the best for last. Finally, it would<br />

took his gym teacher, the only adult present at


of his ordeal, and who had joined her torturers in<br />

instead of hunting. Stefania penetrated the depths of his<br />

heart, leading to arrhythmias. At times, the muscle<br />

heart was beating very fast, in others it almost died out.<br />

The woman awoke in a sweat. She made vain<br />

she knew some exercises to calm the own pal<br />

Pitate. Understanding that it occurred in a phenomenon<br />

conducts strange, she knelt and prayed fervently strongly<br />

to be delivered from the ghost had possessed.<br />

Stefania went before a heart attack does terrassât<br />

permanently unhappy. She returned, however, regularly<br />

rately persecute.<br />

She reveled in the power that gave him control


its ectoplasm. She used it for revenge and<br />

So for evil in many religions, it is called<br />

black magic.<br />

She boasted to his friend Tibetan begged to give up. Black<br />

magic, he said, you always end up snap and dominate you<br />

so that you can more under control.<br />

Stefania had to permanently waives revenge. Revenge<br />

against his enemies. Vengeance also against his own<br />

body.<br />

She persevered. All her classmates were on aspirin. The<br />

gym teacher had a miscarriage. And Stefania was under<br />

more and more black! No one left? dared to face.<br />

Obscurely, everyone felt she was the cause of mysterious<br />

facts. Once we would have been accused of witchcraft.<br />

Right in the twenty-first century, such a assertion would<br />

have covered its authors to ridicule.<br />

Some girls gave him an apology. Stefania’s rejected a<br />

shrug. And she continued to strike. Attacking the digestive<br />

system, it caused ulcers in the stomach hated.<br />

Ultimately, understanding that might Stefania permanently<br />

switch on the side of the “great anger”, the Tibetan<br />

Buddhist friend gave him the secret of reincarnation.


Religion ensured that everyone in his life<br />

future, paid for the good and bad deeds accomplished<br />

during his present existence. Every life should used to<br />

teach us something. Love. Passion. Art. This is what we<br />

had to devote his energy to improve rather than destroy.<br />

Blame to others, it was really give them too much!<br />

Stefania stopped her ears. Then an event occurred which<br />

upset and forced him to listen. Its classmates all together<br />

attacked the woman household who had saved. They knew<br />

it was the only friend “Pear Caramel.” Although they had<br />

wanted a little upset, but the neck of the unfortunate hit the<br />

corner of a wall. Whiplash. Death was instantaneous.<br />

- It’s your fault she died, said his friend Buddhist Tibetan.<br />

It’s your fault if their children are now orphans. You have<br />

damaged your karma. If you do not decide immediately to<br />

give up your vengeance, you will pay in thousand times the<br />

price! And on this final warning, exasperated, he left.<br />

Dismayed, Stefania realized it was time to wash<br />

the soul of all the darkness that had invaded. After the<br />

bulimia, anorexia occurred. She always hated her


ody, even now that he founded in the famine.<br />

To find peace of mind, Stefania decided to move forward<br />

further in the Tibetan Buddhist wisdom. A Lama<br />

series welcomed in Padua. She hoped that once the quark<br />

ity found his friend reappear. But she never saw him<br />

again. And regrossir.<br />

She was married to please his family and fulfill<br />

Italian woman of his destiny. But she never would<br />

a woman like any other. She had gone too far<br />

on the path of meditation.<br />

Several years passed before she heard about<br />

of the French who invented the Thanatonautes. I<br />

wanted, too, to discover the continent of


dead. If only to find that the housekeeper<br />

who had saved.<br />

His friends knew his story lamas, knew as she had first<br />

given up to evil to return to<br />

Good. They gavèrent and polenta lasagna for him<br />

give the energy of the journey.<br />

And so she crossed Moch 1!<br />

We considérâmes with admiration. She examined in turn,<br />

then announced:<br />

- I see your perfect karma. To me, you are all like open<br />

books. Raoul, thou art a warrior. You find yourself in the<br />

middle of your cycle of reincarnation. You’re angry because<br />

you started in your previous life, something you do not have<br />

time to finish. Where your impatience to succeed in this lifeit.<br />

- You are right, recognized Raoul. But it is in this This life<br />

that I have something to settle. Stefania decreed that I was<br />

a young and pure soul, unable to do wrong because I could<br />

not see any interest. I was at the very beginning of my cycle<br />

of reincarnation and thus affecting ignorance.<br />

- You’re smart enough to have taken consciousness, she<br />

stressed. It’s a lot. Also did you chosen the path of<br />

knowledge and it is the right path. - Possible, I retorted,


annoyed that sums up my Personality in three sentences to<br />

the punch. Stefania people still felt a little too quickly. She<br />

turned to Amanda:<br />

- You, what you love most is to make love, indeed Amanda<br />

blushed to the ears.<br />

So what? She asked him. What you’re interested there? - I<br />

know, the calm Stefania. It only looks at you. Corn you see,<br />

you give to others too. Can you imagine not being able you<br />

fully realize that through physical love. What Error Sexual<br />

energy is the most powerful energy. If you’re not using that<br />

to orgasm, you will exhaust the avail. You must learn to<br />

manage the capital and to channel this energy.<br />

122 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS<br />

The Thanatonautes people were strong, cold-blooded, to<br />

stare. They knew where they went. “All right, straight into the<br />

unknown, “was their motto, engraved on a medal that all<br />

wore around his neck.<br />

History textbook, Basic Course 2 years.<br />

123 - TEACHING YOGI<br />

How to learn to think about:<br />

- By disciplining the body and exercising to stay still; - By<br />

disciplining his breath; - By disciplining the mind. Just to be


alone in a room, to take a comfortable and set his mind on<br />

a point between the two eyebrows.<br />

All negative thoughts will disappear then. Your mind will<br />

become vacant, listening to the world around. You can<br />

make the difference between what is and what you belongs<br />

to the world. Your “self” will only have to escape from your<br />

body to explore the universe.<br />

Rajaz meditation technique of Yoga.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

124 - ENCORE STEFANIA<br />

Stefania was like that.<br />

Raoul was silent, while his contemplation, sensitive single<br />

ment to its presence. For the first time I saw my<br />

friend love. And the magic seemed to operate in two<br />

sens Their eyes were seeking and fleeing as a<br />

pair of doves in spring. On the other hand,<br />

Raoul’s hands did not show, though pressed


in the pockets of his trousers.<br />

Apparently, Amanda did not share our enthusiasm<br />

212<br />

ment for the Italian. She did not appreciate his allusions her<br />

sexuality. A stranger had no right to throw that kind of<br />

remark in figure and in the presence of others, still In his<br />

eyes narrowed, the ocean was blue engulfed the black<br />

abyss.<br />

In addition, Amanda has always been the only<br />

representative female in our group. She had accustomed to<br />

this exclusivity. Stefania represented labor taking a more<br />

dangerous competitor that it had crossed the first wall of<br />

death. And then, in addition Raoul, Raoul cold, let himself<br />

be seduced!<br />

We had left, satisfied, the Thai restaurant<br />

Mr. Lambert to make us in our penthouse we were more<br />

comfortable to talk. I asked Stefania to show us how she<br />

did it to meditate. She sat cross-legged, spine straight. His<br />

eyes closed and ten minutes in, she stood there, Still,


without the slightest movement. Finally she opened her the<br />

eyelids.<br />

Yes. she laughed. I interrupted the flow turbulent of my<br />

thoughts and I have been sucked into a column blank. I<br />

have not had to let me wear off the window. - How did you<br />

feel? - It is not defined, it is felt. It’s like ask me what is the<br />

taste of salt. I would be embarrassed to describe to<br />

someone who would know that the mellitus. What words<br />

used to define it? You must try to Salt to know what it is. We<br />

must meditate to learn about meditation. The answer was<br />

vague to say the least.<br />

- But in practice? I insisted. - You have seen me do. Me and<br />

take a take. To focus on an image and nothing else. You<br />

You can start by thinking only lead the flame of a candle. It<br />

waltz behind your eyes closed until you breath turn it off and<br />

leave. - And go where? - In heaven. The mainland of the<br />

dead. The problem, of<br />

course, is to accept the idea of dying. You hesitate to give<br />

your wife, your children, your friends. You think necessary,<br />

what a mistake and what pride! Such state of mind makes<br />

it unsuitable for meditation as meditation, is take a step<br />

towards death. But of course we must accept death since it<br />

is perhaps what is most interest in life.<br />

Raoul’s eyes sparkled.


- I do not understand a word you say, Amanda grumbled<br />

sullenly. Again, the infectious laugh of the Italian.<br />

- In fact, it would be best to show you how we Tibetan<br />

Buddhists have learned to die. For us, and for millennia,<br />

death is a science and not a inevitability. I’ll take you<br />

tomorrow at the Tibetan temple Paris for a practical<br />

session. Fortunately we have almost all our local branch!<br />

125 - CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY<br />

“Just as the spirit, fell under the bondage of flesh, flesh<br />

deserves to be called, so the body deserves rightly be<br />

called spiritual when obeyed perfectly the mind. “<br />

Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

126 - ALWAYS STEFANIA<br />

A wake was held at the Tibetan temple in Paris. Among the<br />

wreaths of incense creamy, large statues obese<br />

mischievous look in watching us, Stefania, Raoul, Amanda<br />

and me. I understood how this faith had seduced our Italian:<br />

the Buddhist religion doomed worship big laugh.<br />

I learned later that I had delivered to reasoning overly


simplistic. These Buddhas are Buddhas<br />

214<br />

Chinese. and non-Tibetan Buddhas. The Buddhas Tibetans<br />

are much leaner and more serious. This would be a<br />

mistake of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, but as Tibetans<br />

were not home, they had not dared challenge and had<br />

gradually accustomed to living among the Chinese<br />

Buddhas. The Buddhas of their terrifying invaders. Of their<br />

persecutors. Of those who had destroyed their people.<br />

The skull of bald men rough, like rubbed sandpaper,<br />

greeted us without knowing us. They were draped in saffron<br />

robes were spinning cylinders of woodcuts. They chanted<br />

texts I did not perceive its meaning.<br />

Then they gathered around a recumbent. Stefania we<br />

suggested to join them. A lama began to recite a poem that<br />

the Italian multilingual, we translated simultaneously.<br />

“O son, our son, what we call death is now arrival: You leave<br />

this world but you are not alone in this case, the Death<br />

comes to all.<br />

Does not remain attached to this life of weakness.


And even if, through weakness, you’ll stay attached, you do<br />

not have the power to stay down here. You’ll get nothing<br />

more than to wander in the Samsara. Not Be not attached,<br />

do not show low. Remember the valuable Trinity.<br />

O noble son! Any fear or terror that can Chonyid overcame<br />

you in the Bardo [Moch area after which a You assaulted<br />

bubble memories?], where you will meet reality, remember<br />

these words and keep them meaning in your heart: moving<br />

forward. In them is the secret life of Knowledge.<br />

Alas, when the experience of reality will weigh on me, all<br />

thoughts of fear, terror, fear of appearances denied, may I<br />

assume that any occurrence is only reflection of my own<br />

conscience, may I recognize appearances as the Bardo.<br />

When so essential to accomplish a great purpose<br />

May I not fear the forces of peaceful deities and irritated<br />

that are my own thoughts.<br />

O noble son! If you do not recognize your own thoughts,<br />

despite the meditations and devotions that you’ve comes<br />

here, if you have not heard this teaching, the lights captivate<br />

you, sounds fill you with fear, rays terrify you.<br />

If you do not know the absolute key to all learning, unable to


ecognize sounds, lights and rays, you wander in Samsara!<br />

“<br />

Lama’s words provided a perfect explanation<br />

to what had happened to John and Stefania Bresson, after<br />

the<br />

first wall comatose. He had fallen into the Chonyid<br />

Bardo. She had learned to escape.<br />

A monk approached the dying man, and indulged in the<br />

curious<br />

touching.<br />

- It compresses his carotid until they stop beating and sleep<br />

occurs, please specify Stefania. When the breath was<br />

withdrawn from the central channel of the flow and he can<br />

not take the side channels, he is forced to rise and exit<br />

through the hole Brahma. - Clearly, this type is in the<br />

process of being murdered in our eyes! I exclaimed,<br />

bewildered. Amanda made a grimace of disgust. Stefania<br />

looked at me gently. I suddenly thought<br />

I, too, had served as the lama. On behalf of the<br />

Thanatonautes, I killed people for sending in the continent<br />

from the dead. Hundred twenty-three human subjects died<br />

by me brought me back to silence.


- What is the hole of Brahma? asked Raoul. - The hole of<br />

Brahma is the door through which the soul leaves our<br />

bodies. In fact it is a point at the top of the skull, eight<br />

fingers of the hairline, continued our guide. Raoul noted the<br />

location of a “hole of Brahma” on his little notebook. All in<br />

all, it was a port of departure for the Continent Ultimate.<br />

Faced with the dying, the lama spoke of the first Bardo, the<br />

first world of death where it would come soon. He he<br />

described as “the world of truth in itself.”<br />

- Now, in the interval between the cessation of external<br />

respiration and cessation of internal current that the breath<br />

rushes into the center channel, we whispered Stefania.<br />

There is more awareness in this body it. The more the<br />

subject is healthy, the phase is long. Fainting can last up to<br />

three and a half days in a man in good health. For this<br />

reason we n’enterrons nor dissect any corpse before to<br />

four days elapsed since his death. However, if the death is<br />

overwhelmed by sins, and that these subtle channels are<br />

impure, the moment will only last a second. - What are<br />

these four days? I asked. - To recognize the light gradually.<br />

Tibetan Buddhism was definitely an answer for everything.<br />

For my part, I remembered with horror stories of people<br />

who woke up, locked in their coffin buried deep under the<br />

ground. They were buried too soon! Some banged on the<br />

walls of a long, desperate, before succumbing to the lack of<br />

real air. Other had a chance to hear from their guardian or


calls and were regarded as miraculous. Some Some even<br />

demanded to be buried with a bell possibly to signal their<br />

wake. And if you woke up in the middle of the furnace of a<br />

crematorium? It would be really best to wait four days …<br />

Formerly, one poorly differentiated the death of the coma.<br />

This is why there were many buried alive. And As of today: I<br />

know firsthand that sometimes remained still in doubt.<br />

Heart failure, stop the brain, cessation of sense, what was<br />

the true sign of tipping complete in death?<br />

On leaving the Tibetan temple, we walked the cemetery of<br />

Père-Lachaise to relax. Raoul went before and Stefania<br />

jokingly. Amandine and I trailed behind.<br />

- This way to entice Raoul, it’s obscene! railed my pretty<br />

blonde. A married woman, and more! I do not know<br />

that her husband is over there in Italy, but he’d better watch<br />

his wife.<br />

I had never seen so displeased Amandine. Was like for her<br />

to conquer the afterlife had suddenly lost all its importance,<br />

as if there were only its only jealousy!<br />

She was out with Felix. She was out with John. In Now she<br />

wanted and Raoul told me, bluntly, to me who dreamed of<br />

her and she did not see!<br />

But my love was so strong that I tried to to reassure


- Do not worry, I said. Raoul has his head on his shoulders.<br />

She put her arm through mine. - Do you think he feels<br />

something for me or that do not consider myself as just a<br />

worker? Why is it that women always choose me as a<br />

confidant? And women that I want, and more! Of course, I<br />

uttered the worst phrase:<br />

- I think that deep down, Raoul … love you. You have to be<br />

stupid like me to say such insanities. Immediately she was<br />

exhilarated.<br />

- Do you really think? she said in a cheerful air. I plunged<br />

further. At the point where I was, it was difficult to do worse.<br />

Yet I succeeded.<br />

- I am very confident. But … he does not dare you admit it.<br />

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128 - HISTORY OF HEART<br />

I languished in my apartment thanatodrome Buttes-<br />

Chaumont, so alone in my tiny studio of yesteryear.<br />

Stefania had momentarily returned to the Peninsula.<br />

Amandine, Raoul and I took advantage of his absence to<br />

check our equipment and allow it to return the best possible<br />

booms.<br />

The common meal had become a serious test. Amanda<br />

slid steadily against any and Raoul fixed with more greed<br />

than his plate. Of course, Raoul was still under the spell of<br />

thanatonautesse Italian, but day by day, catteries Amandine<br />

prove to be paid.


To my dismay, both were eager to tell me constantly<br />

changing feelings. I was choking, boiling bitterness in my<br />

role man’s confidence.<br />

- Did you see, ‘said Raoul, I find Amandine dress better<br />

and better. - It is in black … He did not listen. - It becomes<br />

more and more beautiful, is not it? - I always found sublime,<br />

I replied sadly. That evening, I learned that they both dined<br />

in face-to-head. They did not return to sleep thanatodrome.<br />

I remained great whole. All alone in the sacred building. I<br />

sat on the throne of flight, and there, at the crossroads<br />

all the energies of thanatodrome, I tried to Stefania<br />

practical advice. I wanted a successful meditation<br />

transcendental to leave my poor skin type unhappy.<br />

I closed my eyes, I tried to empty in me but my eyes just<br />

closed, the sweet face of Amandine appeared to me like a<br />

widescreen. She was an angelic beauty, she looked at me<br />

indulgently and her blond hair concealed her full lips.<br />

What I used it and found to be famous if I was not even able<br />

to have the woman of my desires?<br />

I was furious. Think Amandine slept easily except me who<br />

loved her, was too stupid. I opened her eyes. I imagined<br />

trying to make love in a Hotel … “Not to upset the poor


Michael” … I had a nervous little laugh. “Damn the<br />

Thanatonautes! ” Felix looked like. What a pity that Stefania<br />

is party alone could have prevented the couple from<br />

forming, while I … in fact, I had only to help committing the<br />

worst. Was it necessary for me to be unconscious my best<br />

friend to help out with the wife of my desires!<br />

No, I knew it would happen anyway, so I had said earlier<br />

this is done, the sooner I’d be set.<br />

From where I was in the chair, I could see the gallows<br />

where the vials were hung product boosters. What’s the<br />

point live? And if I tried myself to pass the second wall<br />

comatose? After all, I did not have much to afraid of my<br />

past. At worst I would find Felix. Th began to roll the sleeve<br />

of my shirt. One moment, I tell myself that I was killing myself<br />

for love like a common pimply teenager …<br />

It was so stupid.<br />

I pushed the needle into the large vein in my wrist<br />

throbbing like to try to avoid this ordeal.<br />

“Here, take this, large vein, that’ll teach you not to sending<br />

enough blood in my brain to find words that could seduce<br />

Amanda. “<br />

I plugged all the equipment. I take the small bulb the switch.


Amandine Thanatonautes admired, she slept with<br />

the Thanatonautes, she wanted to know what death<br />

Thanatonautes approaching, it was necessary that I be tha<br />

natonaute for more interest to him.<br />

Say that in this adventure, I had so little advantage<br />

pated. I was probably like the Spanish sailors who<br />

saw the boats leave and return to America and<br />

were never parties themselves. We can not, however,<br />

know something by hearsay. You had to<br />

go there.<br />

Pear in the electric switch was sticky in<br />

the palm of my hand as she was drenched in sweat<br />

of anxiety.<br />

What was I doing? Tibetan priest’s words came back to me


in the ears as a childhood rhyme. “O son, O Noble son,<br />

what we call death is labor taking here! You leave this world<br />

but you are not the only one in this case, death comes for<br />

everyone.<br />

Does not remain attached to this life of weakness. “<br />

Do not stay attached to this life of weakness … My Karma<br />

was very poor during this existence. In my next life, I would<br />

try to be licensed by a dredger crack all the girls. A lifetime<br />

to learn to control love, another to enjoy it. Yeah, I’m dying<br />

shy I shall be born playboy.<br />

I looked again the bulb of the switch. I swallowed and,<br />

without insurance, began the counting ritual:<br />

- Six … five … four … three … two … one. Deco … The<br />

room lit up. - He is there, Mom! cried Conrad. What are you<br />

doing in that chair? You’ve looked everywhere. - Leave your<br />

brother alone, said my mother. Surely it checks his stuff. Do<br />

not bother us, Michael, goes on. We just wanted to do with<br />

you an overview of the activity Economic shop. But that can<br />

wait. Conrad was being played all the buttons<br />

potentiometers. I usually could not stand<br />

it touches on everything and I get angry quickly. That<br />

evening, I do not know why, Conrad, Conrad the detestable,<br />

suddenly appeared to me as the perfect example of the


good guy.<br />

Imperceptibly, my finger left the switch off.<br />

- We would also like to have drawings of what is after the<br />

second wall to prepare for the new season of tee-shirts!<br />

precisely my brother. My mother came down on my<br />

forehead and a big wet kiss.<br />

- And if you have not taken the time to eat - you always<br />

forget to feed you - there’s home-Potau fire with a marrow<br />

bone, as you like. In force dinner at the restaurant, you<br />

t’esquintes health. They are the remains and products of<br />

last choice. It is worth not the kitchen of a mom! I had never<br />

felt much affection for these two. I had never been so glad<br />

to see them. Suddenly, I pulled the needle in my wrist.<br />

Blood perla they did not notice.<br />

I was no longer inhabited by only one anxiety: y Would it<br />

really hot enough marrow for spreading on a slice of fresh<br />

bread with lots of salt? And a little pepper. Not too much,<br />

otherwise it will spoil the taste.<br />

129 - Christian mythology<br />

“Then the angel showed me the river of life, clear as crystal,<br />

flowing from the throne of God and the Lamb. In the middle<br />

of the square of both sides of the river, there Tree of Life


which bear fruit twelve times, once a months, and their<br />

leaves can heal the nations. “<br />

Apocalypse of John, 22.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

130 - THERE IS STEFANIA<br />

Forget my personal problems. The days that followed, I<br />

tried to ignore my individuality. Not desire, no suffering. I<br />

knew that my desire to Amanda could very well turn into<br />

obsession. Obsession even more dangerous now, it was<br />

out of reach.<br />

Stefania returned to Florence and I think that now Raoul<br />

was interested in another, we should perhaps put our<br />

solitudes together. Moreover, the Italian seemed I find its<br />

taste. It gave me great slaps on the back, giggling and<br />

calling me his “stupido Michaelese. ” A local compliment,<br />

no doubt.<br />

The problem is that I was wondering how to go take it. I’ve<br />

always been a flirt zero. I certainly had a dozen women so<br />

far but it was always they who were scrambling to train their<br />

bed and not vice versa. In addition, I knew that Stefania<br />

was married, even if it never failed to address this issue.<br />

Curiously, Raoul and Amandine left nothing reflected their


idyll. They never stood by the hand, did not exchange<br />

kisses stolen. Only a certain serenity in their behavior<br />

indicated they had temporarily found peace of mind, one<br />

from the other.<br />

Stefania noticed nothing. She continued to appear even<br />

provocative with Raoul. Normal, a man happy households<br />

still emerges a kind of aura that makes it even more<br />

attractive to other women. Me, with my constant anxiety and<br />

my perpetual solitude, I could not that push.<br />

I had the job. I threw myself headlong. For our<br />

thanatonautesse, I dreamed of all the exploits.<br />

Plus I missed my relationship with love, the more I wanted<br />

successful one with death. Besides my recurring dream of<br />

women in satin white skeleton mask was made for this<br />

even more this time. I was perhaps not reached Amandine<br />

strip, but I intend to deflower the Grim Reaper.<br />

Death, I’ll know what’s behind your mask!<br />

Death, get ready to be your last secret.<br />

My backbone is also a woman, Stefania.<br />

Stefania, my ram down the door of the castle black.


I better still boosters, the throne of flight, I added new<br />

sensors. At the same time, I learned maps yogis chakras<br />

and meridians of acupuncture. I tried to trace the shape of<br />

the vital body which spoke Tibetan books around the<br />

human figure. In force to study the envelope, I found myself<br />

at the same flush around me.<br />

I studied some physiological phenomena related to<br />

meditation. I always had this concern to legitimize the<br />

mystique of science. Some books, brain emitted at<br />

different wavelengths depending on its activity. They could<br />

be picked up by a routine electroencephalogram.<br />

When we reflect “common” for example, emits thirty to sixty<br />

vibrations per second, this is called being phase rate of<br />

beta waves. The more we are awake, more it is<br />

concentrated, the more vibrations are numerous.<br />

When you close your eyes, we get immediately a wave<br />

emission amplitude slower but sometimes more high It<br />

oscillates around twelve vibrations per second. We are<br />

then in alpha stage.<br />

In the phase of dreamless sleep, we are issuing<br />

delta waves. Between half and three vibrations per second.<br />

I check on Stefania, my guinea pig. I had filed


sensors on the forehead, occiput, the parietal and I<br />

spotted during the flight activity of alpha wave emission.<br />

This meant that the entire surface of the brain was in<br />

a quiet sleep state.<br />

But this discovery could be exploited. The fac<br />

to see Stefania in alpha waves just informed us<br />

it controlled perfectly meditation.<br />

During this period, our strengthened team worked wonders.<br />

Stefania divorced her distant husband and moved to Paris<br />

to better work with us. He found the third<br />

floor apartment next to mine.<br />

Every morning, she took off the penthouse deal falsely<br />

than simple meditation to recognize by far the<br />

places the result in the same evening meditation, assisted<br />

this time a little chemistry. She was beautiful, luscious and


concentrated among the green plants, near the piano.<br />

I watched from there and then I discussed at length with her<br />

before the ultimate map of the continent. I added erasures,<br />

coloring areas, playing with Terra incognito words, as if he<br />

itched to do back.<br />

Stefania done in two weeks three incursions beyond the<br />

first wall and we could well complement our map of the<br />

afterlife with some accuracy, although it was obvious that<br />

the bubble-memories of the past Stefania were not<br />

universal and that under no circumstances they could serve<br />

as a benchmark to another Thanatonautes.<br />

Pending reliable results, we now waived any advertising. In<br />

any case, since the revelations Jean Bresson terrifying,<br />

most thanatodromes the world had closed and we no<br />

longer had to fear their competition.<br />

- Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off. Little off the<br />

evening. The young Italian was lying on the red chair lined<br />

with black metal. Her long hair corrugated rolled down her<br />

blouse. She looked like a Renaissance painting by Titian.<br />

I drank strong coffee. Flights from Stefania were more and<br />

longer. For nearly thirty-four minutes, it was immersed in<br />

her coma-meditation.<br />

“What do we do now? I asked Raoul, who had just entering<br />

the laboratory, closing his shirt. He looked at the timer clock


electric saw she had planned for more coma thirty-eight<br />

minutes! He jumped.<br />

- This is pure madness! She never could wake up. I do not<br />

realize it was. He turned the switch on the timer to recover<br />

at once to zero. Immediately, the electric current triggered<br />

by small saccades increasingly supported as holding an<br />

appropriate braking system ABS.<br />

- Go back, Stefania, you went too far! We were worried. Yet<br />

all went well. The return takes place gradually. Stefania at<br />

once opened his eyes, blinked as if she tore a dream. She<br />

looked at us, smiled and announced firmly:<br />

I did see him. - You saw what? - I was at the bottom. And I<br />

saw him. There is a second wall! Moch 2. Our<br />

thanatonautesse took a breath while Raoul took<br />

possession of the map of the continent Ultimate.<br />

- Tell, he said. She spoke. - At first, as usual, I ended up in<br />

a corridor black light bubbles when attacked me. In each<br />

bubble was a painful memory, things that I had incorrectly<br />

adjusted. If you want to know, I saw a girl who had stolen his<br />

briefcase, I saw my mother crying because I had bad<br />

grades, I saw a young man I had pushed and committed<br />

suicide in Despite. Obviously I saw when I was a turtle on<br />

the back and the day I learned of the death of wife cleans


the school. “I have to face all these bad memories and each<br />

I explained my actions. I stole the briefcase of the small girl<br />

because my parents were not rich enough buy me one, I<br />

had bad grades in school because my mother left me no<br />

time to work my homework, she always asked me to do the<br />

dishes or sweep, the man I had pushed me was dragging<br />

when I was already taken by another young man I liked. I<br />

was not responsible for the death the woman who cleans<br />

the school.<br />

“Around me I saw the rest of the dead to fight against their<br />

memories without coming to be justified. Then the<br />

memories gradually submerged, such as white blood cells<br />

attacking a microbe. Those killed were receiving shots<br />

from their victims, those who had been negligent received<br />

slaps. Sloths were thrown<br />

in the mud. The anger was washed away by the waves.<br />

This show reminded me also strangely Divine Comedy of<br />

Dante.<br />

“Those who sin by greed saw their eyes sewn. Those who<br />

had sinned by lust saw their burning flesh. Death is still<br />

terrible.<br />

“When I had overcome my demons and attended fights of<br />

my neighbors, I continued down the hall black which was<br />

now purple. All around me, evoked two words: fear and<br />

darkness. The walls had a powdery consistency and an


earthy smell that comes from plowing.<br />

She said the huge hall was reduced continuously but its<br />

diameter was still hundreds (perhaps thousands?) of<br />

kilometers.<br />

It was shaped like a bowl or a funnel. The people were<br />

fighting with their memories on ledges steep. It was like a<br />

“cliff cylindrical.” The light continued to throb at the bottom<br />

of the bowl. But there was neither high nor low.<br />

She took the card Raoul and bowed so the tip of the funnel<br />

is directed toward the floor.<br />

- The cone is not horizontal but vertical, certifiat-her The<br />

walls are reduced progressively as one down ledges<br />

sandy. She scribbled:<br />

1. Off. 2. Off any sign of normal life. 3. Coma. 4. Out of the<br />

world. 5. Eighteen minutes into the flight into space. 6.<br />

Appearance of a large circle of light spinning on itself, the<br />

first image of the continent Ultimate. Diameter Approximate<br />

thousands of miles in its area clear. Limbo. Blue beach. 7.<br />

Landing on the beach of light. Arrival on the territory 1.<br />

AREA 1<br />

- Location: coma over 18 minutes. - Color: blue. Turquoise<br />

veering gradually blue violet. - Sensations: irresistible, blue<br />

water. Zone Fresh and enjoyable. Light attractive. - Ends:


on Moch 1 (diameter slightly reduced). AREA 2<br />

- Location: coma over 21 minutes. Black - Sensations:<br />

darkness, fear, earth. Cold zone and terrifying where, on<br />

ledges increasingly steep, the deceased confronts her<br />

fears and memories more painful. The light is always<br />

present but the fear away Expectations - Ends on: Moch 2.<br />

- Leads to perhaps … Territory 3 (?). Stefania gomma a<br />

line, drew another, pushed the words Terra incognita. Our<br />

new frontier is called Moch 2. Now we could call the press.<br />

The announcement had an international impact.<br />

The thanatonautesse explained that Jean Bresson had no<br />

certainly been defeated by her past. For journalists tried to<br />

contact him for questioning, he refused all access. In his<br />

confinement, the poor man can never what had really<br />

happened up there.<br />

He still had to overcome thanatophobie he aroused. We<br />

looked for his family, friends of old. They told that in fact<br />

Jean had experienced childhood terrible in a boarding<br />

school run by a suspicious character who abused students.<br />

To prove that he had dominated his fears, Jean became<br />

the first stuntman and Thanatonautes. He had done<br />

everything possible to forget his early years but the first wall<br />

comatose arose for him to recall and the plunge into his<br />

hell.<br />

The director of the school was exposed, arrested, and the


establishment Closed But the fear of death had not<br />

completely disappeared<br />

so far. We knew now that death was not a Pure paradise or<br />

a total hell. It was “something else”. Ministry mystery<br />

persisted.<br />

Forward Ho! ” Straight ahead, straight into the unknown!<br />

Next goal: Moch 2.<br />

131 - Jewish mythology<br />

When Adam appeared on earth, he was the first day, very<br />

surprised that the light changed. When the sun declined<br />

and darkness invaded the sky, Adam thought it was all<br />

over. His life and the world were coming to end. “Woe on<br />

me! cried he. No doubt I sin that the world gets dark as well.<br />

We will return Now the original chaos. Here’s death to<br />

which the Heaven condemn me. “He stopped eating and<br />

crying the night.<br />

When came the dawn, he exclaimed: “Such is therefore the<br />

world! He goes out then comes back. “So overjoyed to that<br />

all was not finished, he got up, prayed and made offerings<br />

to God.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.


132 - DIY<br />

As we progressed slowly, inch by centimeter in the<br />

hemisphere Ultimate, around the world’s thanatodromes<br />

began to wake up. It pushing even like mushrooms.<br />

The subject was again in fashion. Once it was known as<br />

Stefania had the idea to combine the mystical science, is<br />

built the thanatodromes next to the temples and after the<br />

prisoners, after the stunt, emerges a new generation of<br />

Thanatonautes mainly composed of clerics and monks of<br />

all faiths.<br />

Meanwhile, after the skeptics and enthusiasts, we had to<br />

deal with the laity who saw this mixture of superstition and<br />

research as explosive.<br />

They nicknamed the “conquistadores of faith” because we<br />

were going to conquer a territory in the name of principles<br />

spiritual predetermined.<br />

In fact, every priest who was the first wall claimed seeing<br />

the symbols of his religion. Was normal since in the territory<br />

black, Thanatonautes was assailed by his own memories.<br />

Benedictine monks claimed to have discovered the origin<br />

the halo of saints. They felt it was a representation of the<br />

ectoplasm in his early exit from the top of the skull. The


painters of the time would thus wanted to point out Faculty<br />

of Elect to decorporation.<br />

The anti-religious s’emportèrent, saying that all this was<br />

that advertising for the crown.<br />

There was so much interest, both sacred and so taboo<br />

Thurs Amandine, Stefania, Raoul and I knew we handling a<br />

bomb that could have exploded in the face. Already an<br />

“accident” John should have been for us a warning<br />

But curiosity was always the strongest. We wanted both<br />

know what he was after Moch 2.<br />

Stefania we spoke to each flight. She had affected, the<br />

famous second wall, but it did not feel currently able to<br />

cross it. Still lacked something she could not define.<br />

She was not alone. If other Tibetan Buddhists, then the<br />

Taoist monks and the whirling dervishes, the Zoroastrians,<br />

Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Trappist the abbey of Mont-<br />

Louis, the Jesuits of the Abbey of Saint-Bertrand passed<br />

without too much difficulty the first wall coma, none could<br />

pass the second.<br />

We visited their various places of worship and learned<br />

many of their ceremonies. All religions have actually stored<br />

in their memory techniques off. What did it matter if their<br />

servants called them “eternal prayer “Or” contact with the<br />

divine world. “


133 - ASTROLOGY<br />

To change the fate of a man must go through the twelve<br />

signs of the zodiac. According to some traditions East, it<br />

must incarnate at least twelve times in each of these signs,<br />

one hundred forty-four times in all. This is a minimum. It will<br />

thus turn all ascending of each sign and know all the figures<br />

available during a human life. To deserve to become a pure<br />

mind, it is necessary to test all forms of nature, all forms of<br />

existence.<br />

But one hundred forty to four reincarnations are not enough<br />

to most people. The Buddha would have been five hundred<br />

before understanding the world and the vast majority of We<br />

are somewhere between our thousand and two thousand<br />

human reincarnation.<br />

Astrology provides that the twelve zodiacal signs are<br />

comparable to noon included in the face of a clock. The big<br />

hand points to this sign, that of minutes indicates our<br />

ascendancy. Together, they determine the contract to<br />

perform at our reincarnation present.<br />

What time are we of our lives “total”?<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

134 - Internationalization


Lucinda visited us and advised us not to complacency too<br />

fast. Many religious were in full effervescence. The Pope,<br />

as well as some communities fundamentalists saw a dim<br />

view of the interference Thanatonautes in the monastic life.<br />

Raoul protested when we were there for nothing, the<br />

President replied that, nevertheless, over a hundred clerics<br />

from all walks of life had already passed to death by trying<br />

to continue our experiments. My friend said they should<br />

focus more on decorporation of scientific conditions rather<br />

than to only rely on their faith. Lucinda accepted the<br />

argument but we felt ourselves preoccupied.<br />

Could it be that full-xxi century he fears the power the<br />

church?<br />

In our thanatodrome Buttes-Chaumont, we oeuvrions for us<br />

to make takeoffs always more secure. Stefania had found<br />

that the flight was going better when she held her spine<br />

straight, the propped back, chin pressed against the chest<br />

and shoulders unobstructed. We therefore conçûmes a<br />

copy throne line seats Swedish imposing this ergonomic<br />

position.<br />

We sat around a glass bubble chair sound insulation of the


outside world. In fact, many accident had occurred because<br />

someone had inadvertently disturbed a Thanatonautes in<br />

full flight. Ministry silver cord driver caught before he had<br />

broken could retract. A phone call untimely, a door<br />

slammed by a single draft, and it was sometimes death<br />

Insured One does not trifle with these things.<br />

To further promote the development, we put in place a<br />

polyphonic sound system, high quality so that the soul flies<br />

nicely to the sound of liturgical music and sacred.<br />

A fashion designer and a scholar electronics collaborated<br />

to develop a suit really comfortable.<br />

Now, the uniform of Thanatonautes no longer a tracksuit or<br />

a tuxedo. It would look like an outfit man-frog. In Paris, we<br />

chose a textile white:<br />

The idea was very successful. Fashion dress made<br />

entering the various thanatodromes the planet. The<br />

Japanese opted for black Americans purple, British red.<br />

The press photographers were thrilled: finally, they had a<br />

strong visual.<br />

It was logical that suit follows the crest. Ours represented a<br />

phoenix through circles of flame from in narrowing.<br />

Each thanatodrome, its special religious and Cultural.<br />

Africans went in ceremonial dress among beats of drums.<br />

They had to patch elephants, cheetahs, and parrots. The


Jamaicans prefer reggae and marijuana. The Russians<br />

appreciated the Orthodox chants and vodka. The Peruvians<br />

chewed coca leaves and flew in love with the panpipes.<br />

They had to shield the death mask of the Great Inca.<br />

The international champions were the headlines. Each had<br />

his favorite. The Paris were given free course bookmakers<br />

in London. Who would be the first to pass through the<br />

second wall comatose? The Spaniard (Bull’s head crest)<br />

was given to twelve against a to American (shield-headed<br />

eagle). The testimony the bubble-memories accumulated,<br />

all different, all exciting. Sales of Small Thanatonautes<br />

shown climbed sharply.<br />

In their shop, my mother and my brother commercialisèrent<br />

thrones flight made in Buttes-Chaumont and boosters (I had<br />

developed a very good formula placebo tolerated by the<br />

liver and kidneys) as well as combinations with electrical<br />

sensors. The money returned to sea.<br />

The Thanatonautes did not spread throughout the world, it<br />

also became more comfortable, more convenient, more<br />

accurate. Thanks to chair protective glass bubble and<br />

costume, seemed beyond the reach of any one each.<br />

135 - Celtic mythology<br />

According to Celtic mythology, the Thuat De Danann, tribes<br />

dedicated to the goddess Dana, ran the islands of northern


World to invade Ireland. They also fought Fomoiré battle to<br />

the gods and demons with blind one member. They had to<br />

take refuge in the depths Lakes, sinkholes, well. They lived<br />

in the world from below, a parallel universe they called Si<br />

(peace) or Tir na nog (Land of Youth). From there, they<br />

helped humans to flourish. As a druid came to consult them,<br />

they gave the four magical talismans: the cauldron of<br />

Dagda that fills forever those who relish the lance of Lugh<br />

killing even if it only graze the enemy,<br />

the sword of Nuada makes its holder invincible, and Finally,<br />

the stone of Fal which, through its “art,” says the royalty of<br />

anyone who places his feet.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

136 - SECOND WALL COMAT<br />

Despite attempts multiplied, Moch 2 was inviolable.<br />

Sukuma Yuka, Zen monk, however, managed to touch and<br />

claimed to have distinguished something behind red lights<br />

he described “similar to geishas. ” Strange words for a<br />

man dedicated to spirituality! He refused to provide further<br />

details, simply to repeat that he was eager to leave for find<br />

her!<br />

He did not have the opportunity to say more. His second


growth was the last. He lay in a pool of semen, body tense<br />

as a loving embrace, when her companions resolved to<br />

unplug it.<br />

The information was kept strictly secret. If people were<br />

found dead in the eternal pleasure sex, the cause still new<br />

Thanatonautes slaughter!<br />

We watched the pioneer who, for a first round trip, We bring<br />

in a more accurate testimony. It was a yogi India, Rajiv<br />

Bintou. He described what had occurred in a book that<br />

soon became an international bestseller, Closer to the end<br />

(editions of the New World).<br />

Like Felix of old, Rajiv Bintou fell into the trap of success.<br />

He could no longer focus on his abilities spiritual. To take<br />

off, he had to use herbs hallucinogens and, in return, he did<br />

not remember anything.<br />

Unfortunately, the thanatodrome of Paris never had the<br />

opportunity to welcome Rajiv Bintou. In a final experiment,<br />

his team waited in vain more than forty-five minutes before<br />

deciding to admit the loss of his soul. They entrusted his<br />

mortal coil at the Smithsonian Institute Washington where it<br />

is carefully preserved in formalin.<br />

234


We had to content ourselves with poetry that permeated his<br />

book to mark the area beyond Moch 2 a red color erotic.<br />

Excerpt from Closer to the end:<br />

“O confusing world stagnated after the second wall


comatose<br />

The beads of your enjoyment are like water lilies.<br />

They announce the erection of the Thanatonautes!<br />

Each flight will be like an orgasm in love.<br />

The conquest of the Dead will write the result of<br />

Kama-sutra.<br />

This book is the first chapter of a universe of<br />

pleasure that promises death one hundred volumes.<br />

O confusing world of the afterlife.<br />

Thus, our souls end up in ecstasy.<br />

It is only logical since we were born in pain. “<br />

Three months later, the list of the dead lie down. All<br />

religions recruited monks and Thanatonautes sacrificed on<br />

the altar of the knowledge of the afterlife. While a matter of<br />

pride. It was important to prove that its interpretation of the<br />

world was only true. All means were good to surround the<br />

takeoffs of all the ceremonial required a religious act.


What action could be considered more religious off since it<br />

was precisely the approach beyond?<br />

They entered the phase “mystical monumental” with<br />

departures from the Sacred Heart in Paris or the pyramid<br />

of Cheops in Egypt. And we, all we knew of country after<br />

Moch 2 was that it was “red and filled of pleasure. “<br />

Stefania could no longer wait to get there.<br />

Many meditation exercises control breath and heartbeat<br />

and finally, to August 27 seventeen hours, hard work and<br />

determination, she succeeded.<br />

With uncontrollable giggles, all scarlet and exciting, she<br />

awoke bathed in sweat in his chair.<br />

- Wow! she exclaimed, still exhilarated. As Raoul leaned to<br />

better hear his story, She grabbed him by the neck and<br />

kissed him full on the lips. My friend did not resist with little<br />

debate while storm blackened the eye of marine<br />

Amandine.<br />

- Well, tell us, ‘said Raoul, recovering himself with sentence.<br />

- Waw, waw, waw, she says, it was fabulous. After second<br />

wall is sex, pleasure, enjoyment, is the great foot, the big


foot, the great Roman orgy, fuck it Super It was hard to<br />

understand. She spoke only by impressions. The word<br />

“absolute pleasure” was the one who came back Most<br />

often: “Pleasure, enjoyment, ecstasy” and above all will<br />

almost obsessive to return to get laid.<br />

We tried to ask him more.<br />

She said it was like an orgasm power miles. A feeling of<br />

fullness. Even with the drug, even with his best lovers, she<br />

had never, it seems, never felt as much strength and<br />

diversity in the swoon.<br />

I blushed.<br />

That night again I dreamed of the woman in white satin with<br />

his skeleton mask. Death. She put the garter belt and<br />

promised me things not possible. Ministry pleasure beyond<br />

all imagination.<br />

137 - STEFANIA get laid<br />

We were at the Thai restaurant and we had fine—<br />

helping to prevent ill Stefania always coaxing<br />

talking too loud and contain his excitement. It dega


geait moreover such an aura of sexuality that all<br />

male eyes were fixed upon her.<br />

Those of women, for that matter. Even Amandine does<br />

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longer able to remain indifferent to the harsh accents, to<br />

ecstatic words of Stefania.<br />

She spoke only of fun!<br />

Fun! After all, what is our main motivation<br />

vation here? What are we looking for in this life? For<br />

how we work, we interested to others,<br />

what makes us run? Fun!<br />

It took several plates of basmati rice to calm the Italian and,<br />

back in our penthouse, she find a scientific attitude and


agrees to consider on our map.<br />

So after two Moch? Well, about “coma more twenty-four<br />

minutes, “invaded the ectoplasm was a pleasant<br />

sensations. After the blue and the black area, the area red.<br />

That of pleasure. Doped, the Thanatonautes accelerates<br />

flight towards the light. The tunnel walls are soft red like<br />

velvet. The soul feels to have regained mother’s womb and<br />

ready to be reborn. Wonderful!<br />

And suddenly, the most secret fantasies come true. The<br />

men who had dreamed Stefania without being able to<br />

appeal were there, holding out his arms and multiplying the<br />

proposals shameless. She had engaged with them in<br />

games erotic she had never even dared to imagine. Corn<br />

there was no than sex. She had tasted with delight foods<br />

that had always attempted but not was never allowed to<br />

touch.<br />

She had discovered that it desires to know no. Women,<br />

even, had occupied it with sweetest of caresses. He had to<br />

cling very its strong Tibetan prayers to renounce the<br />

delights and return to thanatodrome. She had had to resort<br />

to any his will. She had thought that we were waiting for<br />

know. But it was not that the most important.<br />

She had seen a new wall comatose Moch 3.<br />

She took the card, raya “may lead to Territory 3 (?) “Then,


stretching his tongue like a schoolgirl applied, wrote<br />

instead:<br />

3 TERRITORY<br />

- Location: coma over 24 minutes. - Color: red. -<br />

Sensations: pleasure, fire. Hot and humid area where you<br />

faces his wildest fantasies. Area as perverse, because it<br />

reveals the most of our unspoken desires. Mus face them<br />

and let them invade, otherwise it remains stuck to the sticky<br />

wall. The light is still there, as intimate for us to continue our<br />

way. - Ends on: Moch 3. After this interlude, life changed a<br />

thanatodrome little. Revenue of the country’s heightened<br />

senses purple, Stefania fell squarely on the head by Raoul.<br />

She had also not too much to the upset. From the first<br />

meeting, my friend did not hide his fascination with<br />

voluptuous curves the Italian.<br />

Unlike what happened with Amanda, he shows its<br />

connection to light. I dared not enter the toilet of the room<br />

off for fear of disturbing the couple in their antics.<br />

Amandine was in disarray and of course, as still, she came<br />

to me seeking solace and comfort. Leaving the restaurant<br />

Thai Lambert where we risked too much to fall on the two<br />

lovers entwined, she invited himself an evening at home<br />

without warning. There had some eggs in my fridge. I


improvised a scorched omelette with shallots. I’m not great<br />

and cook the omelette turned slightly overcooked but<br />

Amandine did not care.<br />

- You, Michael, you’re the only man who understands me<br />

Really? I hated this kind of sentence. Bowing his head, took<br />

off quietly a few pieces of eggshell that I had left<br />

inadvertently fall into the dish.<br />

I arranged two of my best dishes on the table the kitchen.<br />

Mechanically, she sat down. I shared the omelette carefully<br />

in half. Amandine stood there, staring without seeing his<br />

portion.<br />

- You do not eat? I asked. It is however if unsuccessful. - I<br />

believe it is delicious, it is not ca I am not hungry, she<br />

sighed. She took my hand and stared at me with sad puppy<br />

Wet abandoned.<br />

- Poor Michael … As I bore you with stories my heart … I<br />

looked at her, she was even more beautiful when she was<br />

sad. That evening, I had to listen in detail the whole story of<br />

his love affair with Raoul. As it was sweet as he was full of<br />

initiatives and attentive. I told me that he was the man of her<br />

life, and that she never been so in love. I replied that it<br />

should not to worry, Stefania was an adventure, he would<br />

up back at her.<br />

I did not understand how a man could not be madly in love


with this sweet doe-eyed blue Navy. Even for the<br />

Transalpine plump and too bold.<br />

- You’re so nice to me, Michael. But there was nothing in his<br />

will that sounded in tune with mine. She regarded me as a<br />

friend asexual or as a colleague. Maybe it was my desire<br />

so exacerbated that was repugnant to him. Perhaps<br />

pressentaitelle niagaresque my passion and she feared the<br />

effects.<br />

- You’re so nice, Michael! Let me sleep with you tonight,<br />

please. I’m so scared to find myself alone between my cold<br />

sheets! I turned green, I blush, I coughed.<br />

- Okay, I stammered. I put a cotton pajamas that I buttoned<br />

up neck. It retained its combination of silk. I felt at me a<br />

satiny skin, a slender body releasing hints of moss and<br />

amber. I was in agony. Nothing woman had ever aroused in<br />

me such an upheaval.<br />

Trembling with emotion, I approached my hand his shoulder<br />

and grazed his skin finish. Amandine, blandly tucked in my<br />

sheets, was a emanation of pleasures promised. My brain<br />

was in full<br />

boil. One-tenth of further movement and I Stefania would


know what had been up there. A strong explosion. It must<br />

have sent me that my pituitary this feeling of pain. My<br />

fingers went through yet walking on this dangerous road.<br />

She took my hand and pushed with a smile Sorry…<br />

- Do not spoil a beautiful friendship, she murmured. You’ll<br />

‘re my only friend, I do not want to lose you. 138 -<br />

EDUCATION YOGI<br />

The human body consists of seven chakras that are<br />

many points of energy.<br />

First Chakra: Located above the sexual organs, the<br />

coccyx and the anus. In good condition, it provides a vital<br />

energy.<br />

Second chakra: Located just below the navel. credit<br />

good condition, it gives the power to act.<br />

Third Chakra: Located at the bottom of the solar plexus. In<br />

good<br />

state, it allows energy to radiate terrestrial and cosmic<br />

the body.<br />

Fourth Chakra: Located in the center of the solar plexus.


credit<br />

good condition, it can feel good about yourself.<br />

Fifth Chakra: Located at the bottom of the gorge. In good<br />

condition,<br />

It provides excellent communication.<br />

Sixth Chakra: Located between the eyebrows. In good<br />

state, he can feel his inner energy and gives<br />

clairvoyance.<br />

Seventh Chakra: Located in the middle of the skull.<br />

In good condition, it can instantly perceive things<br />

essential.<br />

Precept’s teaching Hatha yoga.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

139 - STEFANIA OPEN PLEASURE<br />

So many journalists demanded an interview with Stefania<br />

My mother held a press conference in the room for this<br />

purpose, the thanatodrome Buttes-Chaumont. My spawning


took a malicious pleasure in flushing all representatives<br />

erotic or pornographic magazines and the hunt on the spot.<br />

“Missing is our small Stefania makes newspaper coverage<br />

pigs! ” she muttered, angry.<br />

Diva in the thanatonautesse sat on the dais and surprised<br />

the congregation who was waiting for a good quarter time<br />

by announcing it would tell the pleasures encountered after<br />

the second wall to those able to hear them. But she saw in<br />

front of her that reporters in the child mentality, unable to get<br />

rid of their taboos.<br />

- First, a good psychoanalysis for all. The we’ll talk! shouted<br />

her with his great laugh devastating reference assistance<br />

and the entire planet with their modesty hypocrites. There<br />

was a murmur of protest surprised. My mother was very<br />

upset to have upset so many people for nothing. Next time,<br />

no one would respond to his invitations and it was not good<br />

for trade!<br />

The discovery of an area dedicated to ecstasy, however,<br />

was an event too important to stay long secret. Rumors<br />

soon began to run, especially Hot it lacked accurate<br />

information.<br />

Parties reactionary and conservative movements or<br />

fundamentalists we covered it with anathemas.<br />

“Lair of witches,” bomba does one on the door of our


thanatodrome before which flocked continually<br />

demonstrators embittered waving banners of the type “Stop<br />

debauchery,” “Close the brothel,” or “Death is not a brothel.<br />

“<br />

Stefania tried to apostropher these protesters.<br />

- I never said that death was a mess! lançat-it to a cohort<br />

hostile brandished fist. I simply stated that one of the areas<br />

of the continent Ultimate<br />

was a place of pleasure. I do not know what is after the third<br />

wall. We still have so much To discover…<br />

- Silence, cursed girl! shouted an old man very dignified<br />

decoration in his buttonhole. He wanted to slap the<br />

Explorer. Raoul and I interposâmes. The brawl escalated<br />

into street fight. “We two against the fools, “I whispered to<br />

encourage me, but I was bruised when the police decided<br />

to to respond.<br />

President Lucinda made us another visit.<br />

- I told you, kids! Discretion, always let the discretion of<br />

discretion. For live happily live in hiding. Apparently, we<br />

disturb many people. Pope sends bubbles against us and<br />

dignitaries of all faiths to overflow me curses. - All of<br />

pissing vinegar! Stefania exclaimed. The afraid of the truth,<br />

they fear to learn what really death, what’s behind these<br />

walls! You Imagine if the head of the Pope, at the end, it fell


upon a god who proclaim in favor of abortion and marriage<br />

priests? - Perhaps, Stefania, perhaps. But for now,<br />

remember that we have not met God and that the Vatican is<br />

an institution founded in 1377 when Thanatonautes that<br />

does only a few months of experience. The Italian rose,<br />

beautiful and generous, ready to friends and enemies to<br />

face.<br />

- Come, President, you’re not going to me believe that you<br />

are willing to kowtow to a handful of bigots! - In politics, you<br />

have to make concessions, find compromises and … - No<br />

concession, no compromise, Stefania cut. We are here to<br />

fight against ignorance and we will continue our<br />

explorations. The man knows no Limitations This is his first<br />

quality! The president’s eyes widened. Was<br />

the first time he faced Stefania Chichele. He understood<br />

better the quality of our results. He had an unshakeable for<br />

death and regularly rub this small plump wife possessed.<br />

No one, no authority public moral or religious, do not force it<br />

to back. He greeted her with respect.<br />

The presidential intervention was the only result of Stefania<br />

make more talkative with the media. Without more<br />

hesitation, she spoke of the delights it bluntly was known in<br />

this third area where all desires, all perversions materialize.<br />

The protests began again. The Holy See Thanatonautes<br />

prohibits all servants of the Church Catholic, Apostolic and


Roman under pain of excommunication. In a bubble called<br />

“mysterium And mortis sacrum, “the Pope officially decreed<br />

the death taboo. All journey of a lifetime to the land of the<br />

dead prior his death is now considered a sin Equity<br />

“Death to the heretics! “Do we chanted under the balconies<br />

of Vatican. “Croquons the apple of knowledge! “Answered<br />

our supporters.<br />

All the excitement we were equal, but the president Lucinda<br />

him, do not take lightly. The Church had still a major<br />

influence in the country and he needed of all eligible votes<br />

for its future reelection.<br />

“All the better if the death leads to orgasm, Stefania told<br />

Petit Thanatonautes illustrated, and too bad if so many<br />

pissevinaigre now regard it as a place of debauchery! “Our<br />

friend did not go around the bush. We were still not so sure<br />

of ourselves.<br />

People always fear what is new. A phenomenon of decline<br />

was irreversible. We had already fortunate to have been<br />

able to go so far without hindrance.<br />

140 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS<br />

How to get rid of old<br />

In some cultures of ancient times, there were


practices to get rid of those too old, therefore unsuitable for<br />

economic or social life. Among the Eskimos, getting rid of<br />

the old grandmother by bringing far on the ice where it was<br />

eaten by Stuffed bear In general, she was of herself when<br />

she considered herself in excess in society. In some<br />

Norman families, we drove up the old scale and the last<br />

bars were sawn. They said the ritual phrase: “Come,<br />

Similarly, up to the attic. “In the attic …<br />

History textbook, Basic Course 2 years.<br />

141 - Lucinda has an idea<br />

Next time, Lucinda chose to meet us his land. Considering<br />

that in him we would be more malleable, we summoned to<br />

the Elysee. In his office work, he was not alone. There was<br />

also a woman strict cross-legged.<br />

The Head of State told us he would not enter war against<br />

religion.<br />

- You are wrong to underestimate the powers old.<br />

Modernism can not be imposed in a cavalier. We need<br />

compose. Stefania did not hear it that way.<br />

- You do not know what I saw, I do not see on what one<br />

might call. Lucinda gave a little smile.


- Although we have not had the chance to land Red in the<br />

country, but let’s say, um, we are able to design what you<br />

have felt. - Pretentious! Who can claim to understand the<br />

desires a woman! Stefania cried.<br />

Amanda could not contain a small burst out laughing.<br />

Anyway, Lucinda did not want to leave<br />

have on the slope of the provocation. He said he<br />

served no face to face religions. These<br />

were neither good nor bad, they did<br />

trying to survive.<br />

Raoul remembered that Darwin had made an international<br />

reputation<br />

244<br />

National just by attacking religions and that without<br />

this provocation, Darwinism would have emerged as


quickly. Lamarck, who had not understood, disappeared in<br />

the<br />

dustbin of history.<br />

Lucinda accepted the argument, but he stuck to<br />

to the extent of his ambition to bring everyone together,<br />

reactionary or modern.<br />

- There is a way to reconcile the left wing and the wing right.<br />

We must bring in Thanatonautes rationality. Respond to<br />

religion by science. It’s now or ever it takes to silence the<br />

skeptics last, where my idea to use Madame. We<br />

presented the woman breasted.<br />

- Professor Rose Solal is astrophysicist and astronomer,<br />

Lucinda explained. She works for a long time on a<br />

particular project, “Eden”. Project “Eden” project<br />

“Paradise”, you see that your research show some<br />

similarities, especially the goal of “Eden” is discover the<br />

exact location in space of … Paradis. Find Paradise in<br />

space, the goal seemed to us hardly conceivable. We<br />

obviously always spoke of a “continent of the dead”, but it<br />

was for us a figment of the imagination. We saw the<br />

afterlife as another dimension, a different reality which<br />

hosted the soul leaving the body. A parallel universe, in sort<br />

of. That was our assumption.


That this country can really exist in the sky star that we were<br />

overlooking does not come to the idea. Certainly, many<br />

ancient peoples had been believe but so many rockets,<br />

shuttles, missions Sputnik or Apollo sent into space we had<br />

proved that the sky was populated as galaxies and stars!<br />

President Lucinda was decidedly a man out the common,<br />

open to experience the more adventurous.<br />

The next day, Rose joined our team in Solal thanatodrome<br />

Buttes-Chaumont. We now five to work there.<br />

142 - GEOGRAPHY HEAVENLY<br />

Genesis is the first text to provide a situation specific<br />

geographic Paradise: the confluence of sources<br />

Mesopotamian rivers Tigris and Euphrates. In 379, St.<br />

Basil is a pioneer in the field of astronomy placing it<br />

beyond the firmament of stars, in a universe older than the<br />

visible world.<br />

Dante, a poet, nevertheless believes that the Heaven must<br />

be in a very concrete place in in this case the “envelope”<br />

that surrounds him as stars. The German Jesuit Jeremie<br />

Drexel (1581-1638) is engages in complicated calculations<br />

to argue that the Chosen go to exactly 161884943 miles<br />

from Earth. Thomas Henri Martin (1813-1933) has a broad


vision: the Paradise, he says, is in all heavenly bodies.<br />

Jermain Porter (1853-1933), Director of the Cincinnati<br />

(Ohio) and former theology student, trying in his<br />

astronomical telescopes the location of Paradise. He<br />

believes that force to explore the vault of heaven, Scientists<br />

can not fail to discover the “Jerusalem heavenly. “<br />

The Rev. Thomas Hamilton (1842-1925), using the<br />

Maedler work of astronomers and Proctor, ensures that the<br />

Paradise is on the star Alcyone, in the group of<br />

“Pleiades”, five hundred light years from us. The physical<br />

sicien French Louis Figuier (1819-1863) had already<br />

placed<br />

what he called the “Palace of the Dead” in the sun.<br />

Logic to his time, he assured, “It can not be located<br />

further, if the elect would put too much time<br />

reach it. “<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.


143 - AMBUSH<br />

I was sleeping peacefully in my apartment for the third<br />

thanatodrome floor when suddenly something woke me up.<br />

A rustle, a sound imperceptible … Th sat up in bed,<br />

suddenly all my senses alert.<br />

246<br />

In the dark, I tried my glasses on my nightstand. They were<br />

not there. What a bore! I had to leave them on my office!<br />

But if there was a burglar in the room I had to get up to go<br />

get them and the criminal surely not leave me no time. I<br />

would have knocked out before.<br />

What should be done? I thought about speed. The best<br />

defense is the attack. Man should not know I was unable to<br />

distinguish.<br />

Go away! There is nothing here that would interest you ! I<br />

cried in the dark. No answer. And if I could not see<br />

anything, I felt distinctly a presence. A stranger was in my<br />

room.<br />

- Get out! I repeated, seeking the light. I jumped out of my


sheets. Fortunately, I carry a pajamas, I thought, as if that<br />

was important in such a time. I knew by heart instead of the<br />

switch. Strongly lit. There was no one. Same Fuzzy, I<br />

discerned a figure. But here, no doubt: the room was<br />

empty. However, there was someone well and someone<br />

hostile and more, I was sure.<br />

It happened when something terrible. I received a shot in<br />

the chest. An uppercut unchecked by anything, or then by<br />

the invisible man!<br />

I finally find my glasses. ‘m Seizing, I up quickly on my nose.<br />

Still nothing. This time, Did I dream at the end of a<br />

nightmare from which I could not remember more but that<br />

would have awakened?<br />

Shaking me, I turned off and went back to bed retaining<br />

anyway my glasses. I lay down, pulled the sheets on my<br />

shoulders and waited …<br />

It was at that moment that the thing manifested itself really.<br />

Presence penetrated me, intruding in my toes and came<br />

over me body. Awful feeling! Any burglar would have been<br />

preferable in this ectoplasm that attacked me. And spoke!<br />

- Stop touching the forces that will exceed! I struggled but<br />

how to defend against a soul in ambush?<br />

Who are you? Who are you? I cried.


But I knew the nature of my enemy probably a religious<br />

anxious to force us to interrupt any experience<br />

Thanatonautes.<br />

I struggled but still advanced. The ectoplasm was in my<br />

knees, my stomach was feeling my intestines the inside.<br />

Thus, the mystical forces had decided to declare war. In our<br />

own way. In their own way. By Meditation, by decorporation,<br />

for the attack ectoplasmic. We underestimated our<br />

opponents. What/how? defend themselves against<br />

enemies that cross the walls and even our barriers of flesh?<br />

My body was not mine more. He was haunted by a fanatical<br />

mad furious our research on the heaven. If it was a priest,<br />

would flee if I knelt and prayed to the Virgin Mary?<br />

But kneeling is unworthy of a fighter. Strange what came to<br />

my mind at the moment of horror, it was the memory of a<br />

course of Archery Zen. For a successful shot, we must view<br />

the target in his mind. So it becomes arc, the center of the<br />

target, the arrow itself. And the arrow has appointment with<br />

the center of the target.<br />

I got up, passed the battle position and closed her eyes.<br />

Immediately, my opponent seemed to me. I was dealing<br />

with the ectoplasm of a monk small and puny. If I raised<br />

eyes, he disappeared. If I lowered them, he was there, in<br />

front of me, ready for a duel I did not know the rules. What a<br />

paradox of having to close their eyes to better View These


are children who do so to hunt danger, not adults!<br />

Eyes tightly closed, I visualize perfectly my opponent and<br />

made him shrink in my mind. Then I placed an arc<br />

transparent in my hands and adopt the position shooter’s<br />

drawing his weapon.<br />

The ectoplasm stopped laughing.<br />

We are two minds in one body. His and mine. He left also a<br />

crossbow and I took aim. Th pulled out. He pulled together.<br />

My arrow struck the ectoplasm right in front. I fell.<br />

144 - Persian philosopher<br />

“I do not know if the one who created me I intended to<br />

heaven or hell. A cup, a teenager, a lute on the edge of a<br />

field, I met the cash and let yourself be your heaven on<br />

credit.<br />

Ignoring this material body is nothing, The cycle of the<br />

heavens, the face of the earth are nothing. Be careful in this<br />

fight between death and life, We are committed to a breath<br />

and that breath is nothing.


Do not pursue happiness, life is the time for a sigh. “<br />

Omar Khayyam (1050-1123), Rubai Yat.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

145 - police files


Note to the services concerned<br />

Stir among the players in the movement Thanatonautes.<br />

We would like to uproot these experiences to their roots.<br />

The Thanatonautes is a danger to us all. Have already<br />

reported several times need to intervene. Asking for<br />

authorization to act.


Response services affected<br />

Must wait. Situation under control. Concerns premature.<br />

146 - The race continues<br />

Black and silence.<br />

I opened his eyes. Light opaque. A silhouette charming and<br />

graceful appeared in the halo. An angel without doubt.<br />

He bent over me. The angel looked strangely a woman, but<br />

beautiful, as we never see on earth. She was blonde, with<br />

eyes blue.<br />

Her perfume smelled of apricots.<br />

Around us, all was now white and serene.<br />

- EU … on … eo … I … I … had. The angels had to speak<br />

a language to them, an angel jargon incomprehensible to<br />

non-angels.<br />

- EU … I … ero … I tai … had. She repeated patiently for<br />

his chants and ran a hand soft and fresh on my forehead<br />

smooth.


- You are my hero. I love you. I looked around, somewhat<br />

dazed. Where am I? Paradise? No! In the ICU of the<br />

hospital Saint-Louis. The angel smiled, reassuring … I<br />

recognized that face. Th would have recognized among a<br />

thousand. Amandine. I jumped. All I remembered. I fought<br />

against an ectoplasm fundamentalist.<br />

- I fainted? - Yes, for three hours. Amandine propped a<br />

pillow against my back for me can sit more comfortably. I<br />

never had for so attentive to me.<br />

Next to her, Raoul, Stefania and astrophysicist watching my<br />

reactions. Raoul explained that Stefania had was<br />

awakened by my cries. She rushed into my apartment and<br />

she had attended the last moments of duel.<br />

- It was like in Gunfight at the OK Corral, sighed the Italian. I<br />

have not even had time intervention that you had already<br />

eliminated. - It … It … died? The famous laughing Stefania<br />

sounds in the room. - The ectoplasm do not die like that.<br />

Your type had to return post-haste his mortal coil. I bet that<br />

this curious already pointed to his friends that the house is<br />

well defended. Amanda kissed me.<br />

- My love! Think that we have so often been so close to<br />

each other and I’ve never suspected that you were the best.<br />

You did it a decorporation. Should I am blind not to<br />

appreciate what is within reach of my hand. It took this<br />

terrible story to I realize that you are a warrior. True!


She pressed herself against me and I felt the soft smooth of<br />

her breasts against my arm. Language eager made his<br />

way between my lips.<br />

That kiss left me obviously not indifferent. I waited so long<br />

this second …<br />

147 - Jewish mythology<br />

GILGOULIM: The Zohar, “Book of Splendor”, book<br />

Reference Cabalists, gives several reasons for<br />

reincarnations. (Gilgoulim literally means “transformations “)<br />

These include: not having children, not getting married.<br />

Moreover, if someone gets married but died without having<br />

begotten, husband and wife go through a reincarnation<br />

before uniting again in two other lives. Because, for the<br />

Kabbalists, the union between a man and a woman<br />

embraces the three-dimensional, physical, emotional,<br />

spiritual, and is a way capital to infinity.<br />

Jewish tradition considers that, in general, it is common for<br />

spouses are already known in other lives.<br />

Childless woman: A man proved incapable to generate,<br />

says a text of Kabbalah. A sage explained that in fact his<br />

wife was not really his companion. He had received<br />

property when in fact it was not own. And as the soul of his<br />

wife was likely deeply masculine, it was natural that it has<br />

been able to give offspring.


MARRIAGE: According to the Zohar, marriage is an<br />

important field experience, essential to spiritual<br />

development. The spouses together to resolve conflicts<br />

harmful their domestic growth. In each, each, the other it<br />

deserves.<br />

RAISING A CHILD: Similarly, the experience of raising<br />

a child is considered an indispensable of earthly existence.<br />

If you have not been able to raise correct a child for at least<br />

one of its lives, will continue to reincarnate until the<br />

complete success this exercise.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

148 - TOGETHER AT LAST<br />

The day after my fight, barely recovered from my<br />

contusions, Amanda invited me to supper with her, in his<br />

apartment on the second floor. She had prepared a table<br />

romantic floral and scented candles.<br />

- Do you think, Michael, that some people are destined to<br />

live together? I asked her to brûlepourpoint. I swallowed the<br />

wrong way a bite of toast salmon Norway and swallowed a<br />

glass of Champagne.


- Yes, definitely. She leaned toward me and our foreheads<br />

touched. - Do not you think that, despite many obstacles,<br />

those destined to meet always end up finding, because<br />

their fate is recorded somewhere in a large book? I agreed<br />

again while my sweetheart continued:<br />

- I am convinced that, up there, when Stefania crosses the<br />

last door, she discovers the grimoire containing complete<br />

list of all the couples past and future. I pondered the<br />

proposal:<br />

- Is it going to be really good? - Of course, we will lose<br />

more time in vain wanderings. Those used to love love one<br />

another right away. More marriages of convenience, more<br />

estimation errors, more deception, more divorces. Each<br />

key meet its single lock. I’m sure. “Maybe! A face lovely<br />

enrolled on his face gilded by the candles.<br />

- No, there is no maybe. Michael, our meeting<br />

252<br />

is no accident. Traditionally we would arrive at this time. It<br />

was written.<br />

I did not answer. I tried to create a diversion.


She sat down on my knees and embraced me in his arms<br />

delicate. The moment that I dreamed had finally arrived.<br />

- You are shy, Michael, but I will heal you of your shyness,<br />

whispered it in my neck. 149 - FAIR WEDDING<br />

A week later, I got married.<br />

Everything went very quickly. I made my decision, Raoul<br />

find In the beautiful gardens of the Elysee kindly loaned by<br />

President Lucinda, we celebrated double wedding,<br />

attended by the who’s who of politics and show business<br />

invited to the ceremony.<br />

In his black tuxedo floating around his shoulders, Raoul was<br />

more than ever like a hawk about to pounce on its prey,<br />

Stefania in this case, little hen cackling on his arm in a<br />

minidress which showed further forms advantageous.<br />

Me, I was very relaxed in my tuxedo blue night Rental The<br />

woman in my life wore a long dress behind.<br />

Rose was bursting with happiness. Behind them,<br />

Amandine trying to look good. Everything happened so<br />

fast!<br />

- Congratulations, congratulations. Rose and I, Raoul and<br />

Stefania, we shook hands innumerable. I was obviously<br />

chosen for witnesses Raoul and Amanda, my companions


of the first hour. In addition, I had that right to Amandine.<br />

It took his impassioned statement that I make the error of<br />

my focus in love, the blindness of my desire. The woman<br />

that I had was called Rose.<br />

150 - Jewish philosophy<br />

“The self is neither a particular point or an intersection of<br />

space. It is not the same for all men. It is not identical with<br />

the same man with different stages of development. In the<br />

early stages of life, the existence of the self is reduced<br />

almost to the life of the body, while the highest levels of<br />

intelligence and spirit not appear much, if not<br />

unconsciously. Growing up, every human being within its<br />

means, becomes increasingly aware of the transcendent<br />

essence of his soul.<br />

This increase is to climb from step to step the scale of life<br />

of the soul. We move from the animal soul to get to the area<br />

living that we all carry<br />

in us. ” Adin Steinsaltz, The Rose to the thirteen petals.<br />

Cabal of Judaism.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis


Razorbak.<br />

151 - AS A Sizzling<br />

The feast ended, the wedding nights consumed, we<br />

resumed the flights. In great shape, Stefania succeeds<br />

immediately three takeoffs. I transferred her information on<br />

a program computer that will reshape the continent<br />

Ultimate. Thanks to him, we could examine all angles each<br />

parcel of land of the dead. All looked a bit like a trumpet<br />

flared. Moch 1, Moch 2, Moch 3, Terra incognita, the<br />

information showing the progress already made.<br />

In thanatodromes the world, teams busy but the ectoplasm<br />

who managed to overcome their memories mired in the<br />

territory Red pleasure and often remained there. On land, in<br />

their armchairs, Thanatonautes deceased showed smiles<br />

blissful, so we began to consider Moch 3 was is the<br />

threshold outright death and that no one could never cross it<br />

and return. The Continent Ultimate retain its mystery,<br />

guarded by a halo of delight. We<br />

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had so often called the orgasm “little death”, after all. As at<br />

every turn really essential, Raoul Us meet at the cemetery


of Pere-Lachaise.<br />

- My friends, this stop may experiences. Even our foreign<br />

competitors the most gifted remain nailed to Moch 3. He<br />

looked up at the starlight as if waiting for a new idea he falls<br />

from the sky.<br />

- I though my best, protested Stefania. Corn When I reach<br />

the third wall, my umbilical cord is so stretched that I feel it<br />

slam if I seek more. - We need a new idea, repeated my<br />

friend. Rose sank against me and whispered in my ear: - It<br />

may be a mistake, but I found one day a strange<br />

phenomenon. - What, dear? - I came to attend the launch of<br />

Stefania and I listened to the radio. - Yes, so what? - As her<br />

heartbeat slowed, there was suddenly like a crackling in the<br />

speaker. There you are. By chance that day, Rose had<br />

discovered the first detection system of the aura.<br />

152 - police files<br />

Name: Solal<br />

Name: Rose<br />

Hair color: Black<br />

Eyes: Blue<br />

Size: 1 m 70


Distinguishing features: None<br />

Comments: A pioneer of the movement Thanatonautes.<br />

Astro<br />

nome and astrophysicist. Wife and colleague Michael<br />

Pinson<br />

Weakness: Scientist<br />

153 - Mesopotamian mythology<br />

“There is a plant as the spine It grows in the bottom waters<br />

His thorn prick you hands As is the rose If your hands tear<br />

this plant You will find new life. “<br />

The Epic of Gilgamesh.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

154 - EUREKA!<br />

With the discovery of Rose, our work was relaunched. We<br />

started on a new path. We knew already that the brain<br />

emits waves, such as alpha or beta, during phases of sleep


or near sleep. It was therefore logical that a change in<br />

action radio brain intervene at the time of decorporation.<br />

The takeoff next Stefania effected close<br />

a transistor. They heard actually a low slash,<br />

leaving the body had indeed accompanied by the emitted<br />

sion of waves.<br />

Raoul devised a system sensitive to high, low<br />

and medium frequencies, to identify on how long<br />

wave accurately ectoplasm emitted. Stefania is<br />

gave a short meditation, and again, the slash sound<br />

as one only. We examined this “trace” of<br />

the oscilloscope. It was a wavelength very low<br />

the ridges widely spaced.<br />

Raoul fiddled with several controllers. A line surmounted<br />

figures appeared on the screen of the oscilloscope. He<br />

turned the


numbers on a frequency table … He left small<br />

gamma rays whose peaks are separated by a<br />

angstrom, went over the X-ray and beyond the<br />

ultraviolet rays. He passed the spectrum of visible colors<br />

to the naked eye and whose peak is a millimeter wave<br />

256<br />

TV meter, radio waves and managed to beach “Brain<br />

waves”. He made a few adjustments.<br />

- We are dealing with waves extra long spaced more than<br />

one kilometer, announced he. This is a frequency radio low<br />

of about 86 kilohertz. We gave cries of jubilation. We have<br />

Finally, scientific proof, material, activity<br />

Extracorporeal of Thanatonautes. No one could<br />

now deny the reality of our experiences.<br />

Informed, Lucinda decided on the spot to award us


a supplementary budget that he took from the slush fund of<br />

Presidency.<br />

Through instruments more and more sophisticated we<br />

identified the precise footprint ectoplasmic of Stefania:<br />

86.4 kHz. Raoul designed a detector off to know the exact<br />

second when the vital body Stefania dissociate himself<br />

from his physical body.<br />

Therefore, a question arises: where to locate<br />

geographically the Continent Ultimate? Indeed, if the<br />

ectoplasm traveling remaining detectable through a radio<br />

system, we must be able to follow his movements. So,<br />

Where was Paradise? Where was this continent intangible<br />

which we draw the maps so long as ignoring its location?<br />

At the height of thanatodrome, I set up a wide satellite dish,<br />

more like a radio telescope, five meters in diameter. A<br />

pretty daisy on our penthouse.<br />

A new step in our conquest of the continent Dead opened<br />

to us. We entered the “era astronomical<br />

“.


Champagne<br />

155 - MYTHOLOGY TIBETAN<br />

Vibration: All issues, everything vibrates. The vibration<br />

varies<br />

the genre.<br />

Mineral: 5000 vibrations per second.<br />

Plant: 10,000 vibrations per second.<br />

Animal: 20 000 vibrations per second.<br />

Human: 35 000 vibrations per second.<br />

Soul: 49 000 vibrations per second.<br />

At the time of death, the astral body separates from the<br />

body physics because it can not support the lowering of<br />

vibrations of his body.<br />

Education Bardo Thödol<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

156 - PARADISE IS WHERE EVER?


Stefania sat in the lotus position on the throne of flight. She<br />

knew now the radio telescope would connected and, for the<br />

first time, we would try to follow the flight of his soul.<br />

I still wonder how we could discern something moving at the<br />

speed of thought.<br />

Amanda settled the measuring devices saline. Raoul<br />

plugged the system receiver. As for Rose and I, we<br />

deployed on a large table in terms of constellations<br />

surrounding the Earth.<br />

To think that one of them was perhaps the Garden …<br />

Was it an act of heresy? Disclose the physical location of<br />

the afterlife, that that would rage religions. They already<br />

reluctant to see us touching their main fund Commercial!<br />

Stefania lowered eyelids, it was his way of batten down the<br />

hatches before the dive.<br />

His nostrils quivered more slowly.<br />

When she felt that her concentration was sufficient to infuse<br />

the calm necessary for takeoff, it captures the pear switch<br />

boosters and mouth joints gently<br />

- Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off! The radio<br />

receiver connected to the frequency of 86.4 kHz issued a


kind of complaint. The sound of a “soul off! “<br />

In the room, the nervousness was such that shook my Rose<br />

258<br />

strong arm. Death could finally be followed to trace, Raoul<br />

would not invite the press, but proper operation of the video<br />

camera. We have at least one film of the first flight Follow<br />

up<br />

We waited. Stefania was traveling at the speed of thought<br />

But radio waves do not travel as fast. The more she away,<br />

the more we perceive late. After eight minutes, we obtained<br />

a specific issue to a good location in space.<br />

Now it was up to me to play. I approached the control panel<br />

of the radio telescope. It nicely picks up the signal of the<br />

soul of Stefania. I paid more for wheels locate its distance,<br />

direction, speed of progression. In next to me, Rose was<br />

engaged in his own observations.<br />

- That’s it. I also have the signal. It took two plastic rules and<br />

crossed in the area where she had spotted the issue,<br />

ranging from compared to the polar axis.


- Stefania heading toward the Big Dipper. She is coming<br />

from beyond Saturn. It goes so fast that it must traverse<br />

meteorites. It really was traveling at the speed of thought.<br />

Cent times faster than the speed of light!<br />

- Where is she now? Eyes glued to the screen, Raoul<br />

found: - It looks like it leaves the solar system. Rose was<br />

even more specific: - It has doubled Uranus. I - What’s<br />

going on? - It goes so fast! “Where is she?” - It comes out<br />

of our solar system. Its signal comes to us with a lot of delay<br />

now. - She left our galaxy? No! Instead, it even seems to<br />

darken center of the Milky Way. - The center of the Milky<br />

Way? But what does he mean? Rose explained to us by<br />

drawing a design in the shape of Spiral.<br />

- Our galaxy is formed of a mass of arms spirals with a<br />

diameter of one hundred thousand light years. There are :<br />

all there: the planets, gas, satellite, meteorites. Our galaxy<br />

has one hundred billion stars. His soul might want to visit a<br />

particular … - What can she look? - Heaven, Hell … After<br />

all, the solar system is located at the outer periphery of an<br />

arm of the spiral of our galaxy. We were all listening to the<br />

instruments. The lower crackling was a trace of the fabulous<br />

journey of our friend.<br />

- Where is she now? Raoul worried. - She always file<br />

toward the center of our galaxy. - That is to say? Rose said


her period, crossed several lines. - She goes to the<br />

constellation Sagittarius. More specifically, to the west of<br />

this set. Paradise would be in the constellation Sagittarius?<br />

I helped Rose in its calculations.<br />

- Over there. She dubbed this star. It continues its launched.<br />

- It is far? - Somewhat, yes. At least fifty billion kilometers.<br />

Next to the soul of Stefania, all of our rockets and our crawl<br />

space shuttles really like snails. - Where is she now? - It<br />

goes to … - To where? Rose looked at the screen where all<br />

sorts of figures marching for several minutes.<br />

- She is gone. The signal disappeared. - What do you<br />

mean? Raoul panicked. there is no more waiting. Anxiety,<br />

Rose dropped its rules, which fell to the ground with a thud,<br />

in this confusing silence. Amandine, the nurse who kept<br />

calm in moments crucial, very professionally checked the<br />

physiological state Stefania.<br />

- She is still alive, she murmured. - How is it possible that<br />

the signal is cleared? I thought so long waves moved<br />

quickly and unlimited in the universe, I say. - It’s<br />

incomprehensible, recognized Rose. 157 - Trouble<br />

Stefania’s body did not move and we did not know which<br />

was now his soul.<br />

“What do we do now? We try to wake her up? Rose<br />

checked all devices. - Wait … There may be one


explanation for the disappearance the signal. Rose<br />

operates its rules and took his computer until his<br />

operations become complicated. She smiles.<br />

- I think … Flourishing more and more, she rushed The<br />

screen:<br />

- Yes, everything matches. “This is perfect! - What have you<br />

discovered? I asked. I had never seen Rose so excited. -<br />

Stefania has not stopped broadcasting. - It’s a star? Uh.<br />

No. Not really. - A planet? no, sir - A supernova, a star<br />

cluster? - None of that. She pointed to a map of the<br />

Continent Ultimate. We looked at all the multicolored funnel<br />

narrowed. Together, we seized them what they told us:<br />

- A black hole! Rose nodded. That explained everything. It<br />

was easy, now, why radio signals had disappeared. The<br />

Black holes are giant vacuum cleaners that swallow<br />

everything what passes within their reach: matter, light,<br />

waves … And same souls, did we know now!<br />

- A black hole … Raoul also seemed plagued by thousands<br />

of questions. He expressed one.<br />

- There are dozens of black holes already listed. Why, at<br />

the time of death, the souls were heading-them to it rather<br />

than another? - This black hole is not just any black hole.<br />

There is located at the exact location of the center of our


galaxy, Rose explained. 158 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS<br />

In 1932, that is to say in the early twentieth century<br />

astrophysicist Jan Oort studied the mass of the universe.<br />

To do this, he observed the rate of removal of the stars in<br />

the Way Milky Way, our galaxy formed by disk. He has<br />

deduced the the propelling force of gravity, then the overall<br />

mass. What was no surprise to find that the Milky Way was<br />

even up to half of visible matter!<br />

It was therefore in the sky something very “Heavy”, with as<br />

heavy as all the stars visible we could not detect or see.<br />

This strangeness, he called “phantom matter”.<br />

History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

159 - Jewish mythology<br />

“The center from which the origin of the light produced more<br />

secretive. It is a purity, a diaphanous, a delicacy which can<br />

not be understood. When it spreads, this is a palace of light<br />

that surrounds the center. He is also translucent. This<br />

palace, unseen source point, is less transparent than the<br />

original point. But this palace spreads the original light of<br />

the universe. And From there, layer upon layer, each<br />

garment form the previous one, like the membrane on the<br />

brain. “<br />

Zohar, The Book of Splendor.


Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

262<br />

160 - PATIENCE<br />

God was there lurking in the depths of a black hole? The<br />

above Was that a black hole? I looked one day<br />

photography a black hole in a science magazine. I was a<br />

ring with fiery orange in his center, a small spot of orange<br />

less bright. The picture reminded me of the enigma Raoul:<br />

How to draw a circle and its center without lifting his pencil.<br />

I knew this it was not a simple mind game.<br />

A circle and its center! Could it be the representation of<br />

God, the very face of death?<br />

Stefania learned stunned when he returned, she had<br />

crossed third of the diameter of our galaxy to rush into a<br />

black hole placed exactly in the center.<br />

Raoul drew a map to locate it. It was not him difficult. It was<br />

enough to draw with a compass the circle by the two arms<br />

of our Milky Way, then place a point in the middle. Rose<br />

helped him though. His knowledge Astronomer completed


our own medical knowledge, Biology and mystical of all<br />

backgrounds.<br />

She told us that black holes are considered as the final<br />

stage of a dead star and have densities extraordinary.<br />

The pressure is such that the Earth, if it were drawn, would<br />

be compressed to be turned into a ball of a cubic<br />

centimeter weighing the same weight as all our planet!<br />

- The power of black holes is staggering, said Rose.<br />

Nothing can escape, neither matter nor radiation. In<br />

addition, they are very difficult to spot. We do discern that<br />

when a star is swallow. At this time, it emits X-rays that can<br />

deduce the location of the black hole, the cemetery of the<br />

stars that this is the cry of agony. Or an X-ray source was<br />

noticed in the open center of our galaxy. Astrophysicists<br />

had called Sagittarius A West. They had calculated that the<br />

hole Black was a monster of a mass five million times<br />

higher than that of the Sun and estimated its diameter at<br />

seven<br />

hundred million kilometers (2.5 light-hours, a diameter four<br />

times smaller than our solar).<br />

Sagittarius A West! This was perhaps the scientific name<br />

the continent from the dead! This corner of the universe<br />

was little known, even if it were the central hub.


We divulguâmes information, not make us account of<br />

emotion that would lead the world. Our previous<br />

experiments have had to serve as a warning but Raoul felt<br />

that we had homework vis-à-vis science and too bad for the<br />

risks we outstandings.<br />

In Akademgorodok, Siberia, a team of cosmonauts<br />

Russian space shuttle away to try to visit our black hole-<br />

Paradis. What folly, as if the soul a Thanatonautes could<br />

spin faster than light, was far from the case of a spacecraft<br />

even more advanced! These pirates of the sky would need<br />

a minimum five hundred years, even if only to leave the<br />

system solar, and at least one thousand years to reach the<br />

black hole the closest! And even if, by means of Survival<br />

previously unknown, they would have succeeded in<br />

becoming millennia, they disappear immediately<br />

swallowed, sprayed never in the vortex of the black hole.<br />

At the moment, the Russians still roam, sending from time<br />

to time localization signals that captures the small receiver<br />

installed on the roof of the Museum of Death Smithsonian<br />

Institute in Washington.<br />

And if they were the only ones to get laid and in the air<br />

without reflect further! In the only months after our discovery<br />

of the Continent Ultimate, one hundred and fifty<br />

Thanatonautes amateurs, who wish to join the Paradise,<br />

disappeared no return.


Seriously, despite all the prohibitions and<br />

of all curses, the clergy of all faiths repar<br />

derive from best to attack Moch 3. They had the advantage<br />

Days of flight techniques have already enrolled in<br />

their religious practice and operated rigorously, utilizing<br />

background all the recipes of their mythology. Everything<br />

was<br />

good to finally break the third wall comatose.<br />

Consolation again, the family shop at the bottom of<br />

our thanatodrome, never empty more. Rose was DEVE<br />

bare our Chief Astronomer. That was his autograph<br />

were now the most popular.<br />

161 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS


Men have long ignored what was at the center of their<br />

galaxy. They knew that the world around them rotated at a<br />

speed of 250 million years per turn, but they did not know<br />

about what.<br />

History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

162 - Mocha 4<br />

To general astonishment, under the leadership of Rabbi<br />

Freddy Meyer, the team of liberal yeshiva in Strasbourg<br />

crosses, the first, the third wall comatose. The<br />

Thanatonautes Jews had a great idea: work not longer<br />

alone, but as a group. Rabbi Meyer had indeed found that<br />

most deaths were explorers caused by the stretching of<br />

their umbilical cord, too end, before slamming the<br />

approach of Moch 3. Question what is stronger than a<br />

single thread? Answer: three son braided. Therefore, it had<br />

only go up in tying together several cords ectoplasmic.<br />

Method: a first round of three rabbis emissions and<br />

protects the umbilical cord of two others who, themselves,<br />

protect one of their chief, Meyer, who can come forward<br />

deaths on the continent without any risk of rupture.<br />

Meyer’s reasoning was pragmatic: six elastic welded are<br />

firmer one. It would So even with the umbilical cord.<br />

Obviously there was a risk: a single failure and all the cake<br />

collapsed! The Strasbourg however, had succeeded.


Live U.S. television, the Rabbi Meyer announced that<br />

beyond lay a 3 Moch vast plain. At infinity, the dead were<br />

advancing in single file slowly, he did not know what<br />

waiting.<br />

- If my father were still there doing the tail? cried Raoul.<br />

Consequently, he lost his temper. He wanted to meet faster<br />

Thanatonautes Rabbi and his disciples. The Strasbourg<br />

readily agreed to visit us in our thanatodrome des Buttes-<br />

Chaumont. Rabbi Meyer, bald little man, wore a pair of<br />

thick black glasses that gave him strange looks. Surprise<br />

behind the glasses, his eyes were closed. As he was<br />

slumped in an armchair in the penthouse, I thought First he<br />

was sleeping but when he began to speak, the eyes still<br />

closed, I realized that this pioneer infinity was blind. Blind!<br />

- It does not bother you for Thanatonautes? - An ectoplasm<br />

does not need eyes. He smiled, his face turned towards<br />

me. All he had to to hear my voice to know exactly where I<br />

was.<br />

He took my hand and I knew that by this contact, he learned<br />

everything about me. He saw my personality through the<br />

heat of my palm, the moisture of my sweat, lines on my<br />

skin, the shape of my fingers.<br />

- You do not have a white cane, I noticed. - No need. I may


e blind but I’m not lame. His disciples burst out laughing.<br />

Apparently, they loved their master and his antics. Me, the<br />

humor put me uncomfortable. People stricken with<br />

blindness are supposed to be sad and overwhelmed and<br />

not laugh and joke. In addition, there was an religious<br />

scholar and a scientist, therefore, a serious man par<br />

excellence. Suspicious, Raoul fluttering her long hands a<br />

few inches of his glasses. Meyer protested, impassive<br />

- Stop shaking your fingers. You cause a current air and it<br />

may catch cold. - You will not really see anything? - No, but<br />

I’m not complaining. I could also be deaf. That’s got to be<br />

really painful. His students were thrilled. He continued, more<br />

seriously:<br />

- You know, there are more interesting information the<br />

sounds in the images. Prior to blind rabbi, choreographer<br />

and I have always I loved playing the piano. It’s a Bach<br />

fugue to me gave the idea of weaving the umbilical cords.<br />

The rabbi walked unaided to the piano, drew the stool and<br />

sat down. The music sounded almost mathematical in the<br />

enchanting canopy green plants in our tropical setting.<br />

- Listen to this passage. You receive both voice? I closed<br />

my eyes to hear better. In fact, so focused, I discerned two<br />

voices overlapped. Meyer commented:<br />

- Bach was a genius of the braid. By mixing two voices, it<br />

gives the illusion of creating a third that does not exist and


yet is richer than the sum of the two. This technique applies<br />

to all, for music, for writing, for painting and whatnot? Keep<br />

your eyes closed. I thought of the discovery that allowed me<br />

to the monk-ectoplasm routed. Prevent eye sometimes<br />

seen. In binding me to the darkness, I realized better about<br />

the rabbi. He fingered notes. Two voices coexisted but the<br />

air was heard was unlike none, For me, music was<br />

provided so far a background, sometimes pleasant,<br />

sometimes unpleasant, existence. To seize suddenly as a<br />

pure science was an upheaval. I had never done that<br />

hearing, I learned to listen.<br />

Freddy Meyer laughed without stopping play.<br />

- Excuse me, when I’m happy I can help laughing. Amanda<br />

filed a Bloody Mary on the piano. Rabbi stopped for<br />

drinking. We see it all with the same look ecstatic that his<br />

disciples. Then we recounted his journey.<br />

Moch past three, stretching a very large area and crowded.<br />

In an immense plain cylindrical, crowded<br />

ectoplasm to cut the cords. There were billions of dead<br />

patient in a plain orange where they appeared in transit.<br />

They were there like a long river, moving slowly. They flew<br />

over, they were lying. It was easy to fly. In the middle of the<br />

river, the dead huddled in clusters wiry. They moved a little


faster at the periphery, coming together to discuss their<br />

previous life. Scholars disputed the primacy of their<br />

inventions. Actresses bickered quality their interpretations.<br />

Writers without critical amenity their respective works. But<br />

most of the dead content to move slowly. There seemed<br />

some for ages. Of course, as in all crowds, there were<br />

people to look to double everyone playing the elbows!<br />

That, after the third wall comatose, there was this gigantic<br />

tail. Perhaps the dead were they subjected a test of time?<br />

Perhaps did they teach them patience? Their movements<br />

were slow. They remained there to do nothing, just wait.<br />

- The test of time … It is perhaps this hell, I said. - Yes, but<br />

in any case, not for us. Not for Thanatonautes. Us, we are<br />

able to fly overcoat the myriads of cluttering the cylinder<br />

dead orange. Moreover, the country is quite beautiful, like a<br />

little to what I was told photos taken of the planet Mars.<br />

There, around the central river of the dead, banks, slopes,<br />

and off a light as the sun wonderful. A sun so appealing and<br />

to which the stream flows of the dead … But I did not<br />

venture too far in the fourth area. I feared bogged in time<br />

while my friends rabbis, the poor, waiting for me in the …<br />

Red corridor of pleasure. Raoul entered in Razorbak As the<br />

words Freddy Meyer:<br />

- Tell us specifically that area, I will Please, Rabbi. - More<br />

and more we advance the atmosphere warms. Over the<br />

cylinder walls look fast. I felt the feeling of being enclosed in


a mill running idle, knowing that deep down I would be<br />

crushed. This sensation of speed contrasts sharply with the<br />

patience and time required of souls that are there. That<br />

these walls would spin so fast on the contrary desire to run<br />

and move as quickly as possible, yet it impossible!<br />

- It is because of the centrifugal force of the black hole,<br />

reported Rose. Amanda was surprised:<br />

- Your ectoplasm actually collects the heat and proper<br />

speed. - Yes, miss. But we do not suffer we feel. The rabbi<br />

lifted then put the black cap on his head, displaying his<br />

perpetual air of baby. He touched all objects around him as<br />

much rattles. He had felt, probably stronger than me, the<br />

note of seduction in Amanda’s voice but he did not<br />

offended. This small Jew smiled, hilarious, like a big<br />

Buddha.<br />

- You were not impressed by the spectacle of all these<br />

deaths? asked the pretty blonde, very appreciative. - Oh,<br />

after the first few billion, it’s like for everything you get used<br />

to, he said soberly. Raoul took the card. With satisfaction, it<br />

effaced for the delay, the reference Terra incognita and<br />

noted the indications of Rabbi Meyer.<br />

The red area ends with three leading Moch: AREA 4<br />

- Location: coma over 27 minutes. - Color: orange. -<br />

Sensations: fight against time, waiting room, “Heaven”


turning point, plain. Area of air currents, windswept. Billions<br />

of dead advancing in line Indian River into a vast gray<br />

(normal, it is composed of ectoplasm). It faces the time. We<br />

learn patience. You would have with the dead famous.<br />

- Rabbi, do you have “seen” the end of the corridor?<br />

Amandine inquired. - Call me Freddy, please. And do not<br />

hesitate to pronounce the word “see.” Qu’ectoplasme as I<br />

see perfectly. Out of his body is no longer suffering from<br />

any disability. Finally, to answer your question, yes, I saw<br />

deep, straight ahead several hundred meters, a another<br />

wall. Moch 4? - Was it closer than 3 Moch? asked Raoul. -<br />

Hardly. Moch 4 must be three-quarters of the diameter<br />

Moch of 3. Raoul noted.<br />

- The curve of the funnel is tangent. The more we<br />

progresses, the trumpet is pipe. One more question, Rabbi<br />

… - Call me Freddy. OK? Tell me, Freddy, have you not<br />

seen in the queue a man of about forty, with a bit like that,<br />

glasses, such as a quickdraw and my hands still buried in<br />

his pockets? For once, Freddy does not laugh.<br />

- Talk about a relative of yours? - In my father murmured<br />

Raoul, so low that we had hard to hear. He died there<br />

nearly thirty years. - Thirty years … Freddy sighed. I think<br />

you have misunderstood what I said. There were billions of<br />

dead in the queue. How could I examine one by one? How<br />

could I distinguish your father among this immense flock? -<br />

Yes, Raoul blushed. My question was stupid. But my father


died so early and I was still so young … It left, taking the<br />

mystery. - And if the mystery was precisely your heritage?<br />

said the rabbi. By leaving in doubt, you left engine which led<br />

eventually all your activities. - Do you really think? The<br />

Strasbourg giggled again. - How do I know? At times, I tend<br />

to confused a little psychoanalysis and Kabbalah! Both are<br />

sometimes linked. You’re probably more than I làdessus<br />

stalled.


Raoul sighed<br />

- I would have so much to ask … It was he who the first had<br />

the idea of Thanatonautes. The disciples broke the malaise<br />

that is established by calling visit our thanatodrome. They<br />

examined with respect our gear propulsion. They were<br />

content to meditation and a decoction of bitter roots. Us<br />

their shewed how to detect the exact moment of takeoff<br />

with our receptor gamma waves, how we will schedule<br />

returns with an electric timer by also acts as security.<br />

They were passionate.<br />

- With such devices, we further improve our Performance<br />

exclaimed the old sage. Another synergy. Our mutual<br />

talents added together to exceed the sum. Two modes of<br />

think different. Two songs that come together to create new<br />

music.<br />

163 - police files<br />

Name: Meyer Name: Freddy Hair: White Eyes: Blue Size:<br />

60 1 m Distinguishing features: Rabbi, is a permanent cap<br />

on head Comment: Pioneer of Thanatonautes. Inventor of<br />

the technique braided cords that allowed the crossing of<br />

three Moch Weakness: Blind<br />

164 - BLINDNESS AND CLAIRVOYANCE<br />

We lodged the six rabbis from the yeshiva in Strasbourg in


the first floor apartments. On the ground floor,<br />

they exerted to new choreography to build more firmly their<br />

cords for future flights.<br />

One after another they took off from the chair our<br />

thanatodrome. When they were familiar with our methods,<br />

we installed new thrones departure and they resumed their<br />

flight group.<br />

Stefania often went with them, sometimes making the point<br />

ectoplasmic of the pyramid. To see them take off and return<br />

together, they all seemed to have fun up there. Freddy<br />

Interior was always when he awoke, as if he had it get a<br />

kick out!<br />

His gaiety troubled me. Freddy was not only a rabbi,<br />

but blind and old. Three reasons to exercise<br />

more outfit! And I did not understand that<br />

can Thanatonautes joked. Death was right<br />

even something scary.<br />

Me, I always took the death and love seriously.


Both require gravity. Women swoon<br />

have always presented masks pain.<br />

Once, after landing, I heard Rabbi<br />

tell a joke rather ribald. “These are two old<br />

who remember a hotel, after dinner, you are entitled<br />

a show quite unusual. An artist released his sex<br />

and, using it as a hammer, breaking of a sudden three nuts.<br />

They come back a little later, the show continues.<br />

The artist has aged but is still there. This time it breaks<br />

not three, but three normal nuts coconut. At the<br />

end, will see two old men in his dressing room and he<br />

wonder why he made the exchange. And the artist<br />

replied, “Ah! You know what it is, with age,<br />

to decline. ” “<br />

The others laughed. I was a little shocked.<br />

The rabbi, despite its function, take death to


light, I faced. I made the remark to him.<br />

- Someone, somewhere, has misinterpreted the word God,<br />

he said. A prophet has realized a little deaf “God is love”<br />

instead of “God is humor”! Everything is funny, including<br />

death. How could I accept my blindness without humor? We<br />

must laugh at everything and without restraint. - This is a<br />

little weird, I say to Stefania. It was not me. Tibetan<br />

meditation him had a better understanding the wise<br />

Alsatian. Freddy had completed its cycle of reincarnation.<br />

This would his last life. It would be more then a pure spirit,<br />

released from all suffering. He had nothing more to prove.<br />

He was calm now. In previous migration his soul, he had<br />

known love, art, science, compassion. Now it almost<br />

touched the knowledge absolute. It was his deep serenity<br />

emanated This contagious bonhomie. As for his jokes, if<br />

they shocked me was because I had my own head stuffed<br />

prohibited.<br />

It was true that around the floated like a rabbi will<br />

wave beneficial. If Stefania was right, I envied him.<br />

I wish, too, have done with my cycle<br />

of lives. Have understood everything beyond appearances.<br />

Say


ask a soul at peace. Alas, I was still young in this<br />

earth. I was probably not to my hundredth or two<br />

one hundredth incarnation. My karma was still hungry<br />

knowledge and conquest.<br />

Fortunately, Freddy did not begrudge deliver us know! In<br />

the evening we made a circle around him in the penthouse<br />

and he told us, seriously this time stories of the Cabal and<br />

taught us the secret meaning of words and numbers.<br />

- According to the Kabbalah, we are all immortal, death<br />

being only one developmental stage to determine within the<br />

next phase of our existence. Death is a threshold. It opens<br />

a door to another life. As we to be the most lucid and<br />

serene as possible! Fear, confusion mental refusal to die is<br />

the worst state that can know. Longer be at peace, the<br />

more it is able to perform smooth a successful transition to<br />

another world. It is written in the Zohar: “Blessed is he who<br />

dies of clear conscience. Death is the passage of a house<br />

to another. If we are wise, we will do our next home a more<br />

beautiful home. “And Rabbi Elimelech of Lizensk, always<br />

so cheerful, exclaimed: “Why did not I would be happy,<br />

knowing that I am about to<br />

leave this world to enter the upper world of eternity? ”<br />

Amanda ate the eyes Thanatonautes which, among all had


advanced as far as possible in the hemisphere Ultimate.<br />

She was surprised that the belief in reincarnation is part of<br />

the Jewish religion.<br />

- This is a secret teaching, explained the small bald man<br />

shaking his cap. Moreover, few the rabbis who share my<br />

ideas. I am a reformist, liberal and Kabbalist. In other<br />

words, I sow havoc in of Judaism. - Still, insisted<br />

Amandine, are there in your religion a procedure to die? Of<br />

course! The dying are instructed to close the doors of their<br />

senses, to focus on the psychic center the heart and<br />

stabilize their breath. So it is written in the Zohar, the soul<br />

will take the highest of all paths. The highest of all the paths<br />

… We were silent, tempting to imagine.<br />

- You use meditation to take off. What is your technique?<br />

asked Stefania. You Is Clean or have you also taken from<br />

your teachings? - Our method comes from the ancient<br />

times. We call Tzimtzum. The prophet Ezekiel it was<br />

already seven centuries before Christ. Rabbi Aaron Roth’s<br />

codified later in his Treatise on the busy the soul, followed<br />

later by Maimonides and Rabbi Isaac of Luria. Tzimtzum<br />

means “withdrawal”. To tzimtzum, think so, you must<br />

become an instant as outside his body, watching from a<br />

distance and observe all happens to him. - How do you<br />

manage in practice? - We focus on our breathing and<br />

particularly the action of air on our blood and the action of<br />

blood on our bodies. - Your method is not very different<br />

from mine, commented Stefania, the Tibetan Buddhist.


Freddy laughed heartily.<br />

- Yes, but if it is resolutely modern, we can is decorporation<br />

many other ways. Nothing beats a well cooked and much of<br />

legs in the air! The big chill.<br />

- Ah, Freddy! You can never stop you from joke, protested<br />

half Amandine. - No, he said very seriously. All acts of our<br />

lives are sacred acts: eating, drinking, breathing, do love,<br />

as many ways to honor God and the existence he has given<br />

us! How to distinguish expression in empty eyes behind the<br />

thick black glasses? A child’s smile lit up the wrinkled face<br />

when the rabbi recited aphorisms that says it, he had<br />

learned from his spiritual master, the Rabbi Nachman of<br />

Bratslav:<br />

- It is a great duty to be always in joy, to remove all our<br />

strength sadness and bitterness. All diseases based on<br />

human originate from the degradation of joy. It comes from<br />

a distortion “Deep song” (nigun) and the ten vital rhythms<br />

(Defiquim). When joy and song go out, the disease takes<br />

hold rights. Joy is the greatest remedies. We must find in<br />

us a single positive and we attach. Hair in my face. With<br />

that, he claimed to Amanda’s favorite drink, a Bloody Mary,<br />

swallowed in one gulp and said it was time for him and his<br />

followers to lie.


165 - decorporation<br />

Rose and I decided one night we decorporation<br />

accordance the teachings of Freddy. After we content with<br />

light foods for dinner, we stretched on the floor, out of the<br />

synthetic carpet. We We concentrâmes on our breathing<br />

and blood bathing our organization.<br />

Also as shown in Freddy, if a cramp arose, we absorbed<br />

our pain before you forget and whenever our mind wanders,<br />

we would reduce the<br />

empty we thinking only control our breath.<br />

We spent half an hour still on the floor, back into sauce<br />

before being all taken giggles. Apparently, Jewish<br />

meditation, it was not our cup of tea.<br />

Mischievous, Rose I nibbled her ear:<br />

- Freddy also talked about the most pleasant ways to out of<br />

his body. I stroked her long black hair:<br />

- I do not like me so drunk. Alcohol does not give me no<br />

happiness, nothing but nausea and a famous pain head! -<br />

There is one other technique, she said, stretching<br />

luxuriously his aching limbs before rushing in my hand.<br />

Quickly, we undressed each other.


- It is said that in order to meditate, to be disposed<br />

everything that we adds, reminded my wife. - It is said that<br />

in order to meditate, we must feel the blood beat in his<br />

temples. And I feel it, I said, incorrigibly Scientific - It is said<br />

that in order to meditate, it is important to grow comfortably<br />

on a bed, said Rose, taking me to our soft layer marriage.<br />

Our bodies embraced each other and gradually our minds<br />

united to joy. Both envelopes carnal s’étirèrent timidly out of<br />

our carcasses burning for merge above our heads, during a<br />

few seconds of ecstasy.<br />

166 - PHILOSOPHY AUROVILLIENNE<br />

“Evolution is not to become increasingly saint or more<br />

intelligent or more happy. Evolution is becoming<br />

increasingly aware of. It takes a long time before they can<br />

withstand the truth of Past Lives. The greater the psychic<br />

body<br />

276<br />

grows, the more memories mental become clear in a life to<br />

another.<br />

Death is no longer the grinning mask that reminds us that


we did not find but a passage quiet of a mode of<br />

experience to another. Until the day where we will have<br />

enough to brew enough of conscience in the body so that it<br />

makes our immortal spirit. “<br />

Satprem, Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of<br />

Consciousness.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

167 - LOST<br />

Raoul had drawn the galaxy by placing at its center a kind<br />

of mouth sink trumpet. The Continent Ultimate. What was<br />

the fun in that location, that he answered the call of nature<br />

have always had the people know the center of the world.<br />

Successively they thought it was a city and a country, then<br />

Earth and the Sun. We knew now that the system was only<br />

a trifle on the outskirts of immense galaxy, which was<br />

centered on a vacuum cleaner mill of everything and even<br />

souls.<br />

God lived there? Was there and gods carpet center<br />

millions of galaxies that make up the universe? Nothing<br />

thinking about it made me dizzy. What a headache!<br />

President Lucinda came to inspect the new layout our<br />

thanatodrome. We have now eight chairs flying, one for<br />

Stefania, others Meyer and his disciples.


Placing the National Assembly to the extent of our inroads<br />

on the Continent Ultimate, the head of state had succeeded<br />

to release a real war budget for Thanatonautes. It would not<br />

have to juggle between slush and Veterans Affairs, and we<br />

could gain antenna radio-astronomical format gigantic.<br />

Thus, we could finally see many souls bound for beyond not<br />

just the ectoplasm of our companions.<br />

Curious, Lucinda then asked to attend a flight<br />

grouped. Freddy drew to him the figure that his band would<br />

perform there. The President remarked that it looked like a<br />

round parachute holding the leg. Freddy assented, but<br />

added that it was necessary in addition to ensuring well<br />

weave the umbilical cords.<br />

- You should come with us, President. - Thank you,<br />

answered our protector. I’ve been there once but I believe<br />

to be most useful to the cause of Thanatonautes being<br />

head of state rather qu’ectoplasme. The team took place in<br />

the bubble of protection. All in lotus position and wearing<br />

their white uniforms, they were quite impressive.<br />

- Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off! Eight slash<br />

crackled one after the other in the radio receiver. Stefania<br />

was part of the first. Normal it would be up there at the top<br />

of the scaffolding.


I set off my watch, placed timers rescue “coma over fifty<br />

minutes,” then, with our dish, we followed the path of our<br />

commando souls. There was nearly an hour to wait. Feeling<br />

playful, Lucinda proposed a game of cards. We sat around<br />

a table for a gin-rummy while glancing from time to time to<br />

the screens -Monitoring<br />

Raoul was the first to spring from his chair, flipping almost.<br />

- A rabbi is dead! he exclaimed. - “What? How? fright<br />

Lucinda. I discovered with panic as the electrocardiogram<br />

and the electroencephalogram of the members of the<br />

yeshiva Strasbourg were flat.<br />

- He had to produce a disaster up there! - They would have<br />

passed the fourth wall to fall in an infernal world? I shook my<br />

head.<br />

- Impossible. It is that “coma more twenty-seven minutes “.<br />

They are still in the second area, the country black. I ran all<br />

the instruments of control. All bodies flesh were nervous.<br />

What a tragedy know<br />

they said, there? Amanda felt the pulse of the seven<br />

survivors. She shuddered. A second rabbi was gone!<br />

- I do not understand, she said, wringing her hands. They


have crossed many times this area without problems. They<br />

were soon weaving their cords … In the laboratory, the<br />

atmosphere was more anguished. Raoul was riveted to the<br />

pulse of Stefania. I concentrated on radio receivers. It was<br />

strange. There were plenty of signals and they do not match<br />

all those of our friends. Were we faced with souls parasites,<br />

souls pirates? Some higher authority would she decided to<br />

cut the “road to the afterlife?”<br />

We will verify these claims later. For now, it urgent need to<br />

limit the carnage and bring in more soon before all our<br />

friends will pass away.<br />

Together, We hurried to trigger timers. Six Thanatonautes<br />

furious opened successively the eyes. All trembling with<br />

anger. Stefania seemed mimicking a fight yet.<br />

What happened here? What happened here? Difficult, she<br />

said a name: - The Hashishins! 168 - HISTORY Hashishins<br />

There were old men who thought they had discovered the<br />

heaven on earth: the Hashishins.<br />

Are known as the “Hashishins” the Ismaili followers of the<br />

reform of Hasan i-Sabbah. They were so named because<br />

they used a lot of hashish before embarking commandossuicide.<br />

Their fame is such that they are the source of the<br />

word French “assassin.”<br />

The sect came from a branch of Shiite Islam. Its members


declared themselves followers of Mohammed’s nephew,<br />

which, being a descendant of the Prophet by women, was<br />

not recognized by all Muslims.<br />

According to the testimony of the Venetian traveler Marco<br />

Polo (1323) and many Persian historians, the Hashishins<br />

lived in the fortress of Alamut, 1800 meters above sea<br />

level, Mazenderan in the south of the Caspian Sea.<br />

Confined to their mountains and do not have the means to<br />

undertake conventional wars, they devised to send in six<br />

men (the fidawis) charged with stabbing the enemy<br />

leaders, the most often while they were engaged in their<br />

devotions in mosques.<br />

The master of the assassins was sacred “Old Man of the<br />

Mountain “. The first of these was obviously Hasan i-<br />

Sabbah, the founder of the sect.<br />

Those designated to commit the murders were<br />

anesthetized with hashish, introduced into their food in a<br />

paste mixed with rose jam. The Old Man of Mountain spoke<br />

to them at length and the men fell asleep because hashish<br />

is a drug and not overpowering not exciting. Asleep, they<br />

were transported in a garden secret, deep in the fortress of<br />

Alamut. In their wake, they there were approximately of<br />

young slave girls and boys, eager to fulfill all their sexual


desires. They arrived in rags. They discovered in dress son<br />

of enhanced green silk and gold all around it was the<br />

Paradise: silver-gilt dishes, sweet wines in profusion, roses<br />

with delicate fragrances, hashish at will. Drugs, sex,<br />

alcohol, luxury and pleasure! They were convinced of being<br />

in the gardens of Allah, especially since this place was an<br />

oasis particularly scarce in arid and mountainous.<br />

They were then anesthetized again to paste hashish, and<br />

then returned to the starting point in their old cast-offs. The<br />

Old Man of the Mountain they said while, with his powers,<br />

they had the chance to try sneaking in Paradise of Allah.<br />

For them to return finally dying as warriors! Smile on lips,<br />

then went meekly fidawis murder viziers and sultans.<br />

Stopped, they walked to the scaffold, the ecstatic face.<br />

There were the priests Hashishins high level (Sixth grade)<br />

to know the secret gardens of false of Allah.<br />

The sect first took care of its own interests by pro<br />

moving the message to Hasan-i Sabbah. Then the Old Man<br />

of the Mountain found that their fanatical henchmen could<br />

big dividends. They rented their services to the highest<br />

bidder. The assassins rushed to volunteer when their<br />

leader asked, “Which of you will rid me of this or that? “Thus<br />

perished, among others, the poet ACMA, the daughter of


Marwan, who had dared to speak ill of his allies Medina,<br />

who immediately made use of the arm mercenaries of<br />

Hashishins.<br />

The fortress of Alamut in 1253 was conquered by the great<br />

Mongol Hulagu Khan, Great Khan Chinese General<br />

Mongkha. The murderers had claimed the support of good<br />

sultans they helped, they were careful not intervene too<br />

happy to get rid of these dangerous troublemakers.<br />

The Hashishins massacred could verify that they had known<br />

that ersatz paradise. A sacred world artificial, made by<br />

men to deceive.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

169 - MERCENARIES OF BEYOND<br />

- We were attacked by pirates ectoplasm, Stefania<br />

explained, still panting, shivering uniform under her heavy<br />

breasts. They were about twenty, hidden behind the first<br />

wall comatose. Taking advantage of the effect of surprise,<br />

they cut their teeth cords Lucien and Albert. Freddy was<br />

surprised to discover that the world of ectoplasm has its<br />

own standards. In dreams, People can fight and blood flow.<br />

Similarly, in The Ultimate Continent, the ectoplasm of the<br />

same nature can fight them and cut their umbilical cords<br />

land. He came to find out but did not know how to explain


the phenomenon. Perhaps it was enough a program of hate<br />

or aggression to cause violence? In any case, the two<br />

rabbis had been poor properly drawn into the light at the<br />

bottom of the funnel.<br />

Stefania and Freddy and how could they as easy<br />

ment describe their attackers as “Hashishins “? Telepathy<br />

between souls. Meyer previously thought to battle<br />

organized by the Arabs. Manichean reflex: Arabs against<br />

Jews, would have been too simple. These were the last<br />

descendants of Hashishins, who saw this attack against<br />

Rabbis a great way to wake up the holy war and of selfdesignation<br />

as the spearhead of conquering Islam. They<br />

would ensure that the skirmish known a wide publicity in the<br />

Muslim world.<br />

Stefania was furious.<br />

- They jumped on us. They have grabbed. They trying to<br />

break our cords by pulling a sharp blow or by rolling their<br />

ankle. The surprise past, we defended! - And strangely,<br />

even! Freddy adds. We have our turn ad patres shipped<br />

three of the pirates. They know Now that we not let<br />

ourselves be “murder” without reacting. The fight had taken<br />

place a little like a battle diving between frogmen, except<br />

that instead of cut the tube inlet compressed air, it was


sabotage the silver lace. Surrounding the dead of the day<br />

terrified to see Thanatonautes kill each other!<br />

President Lucinda, although it had decided to stop been<br />

smoking for three days, took a cigarette Raoul bidder.<br />

- In the long run, he said, exhaling a fragrant wreaths<br />

eucalyptus, it will declare the Continent Ultimate “zone<br />

demilitarized. ” Anyone charged with intent to penetrate<br />

bellicose will be immediately expelled. - By UN battalions<br />

ectoplasm? Stefania sneered. - For now, we are<br />

powerless. to everyone. has the right to get up there,<br />

including Hashishins, and we are unable to control them on<br />

the ground. We can not initiate a conflict, even local, to<br />

protect a continent that belongs Ultimate altogether at any<br />

the world. I had never thought about the diplomatic aspects<br />

ticks of our exploration. Typically, the pioneers plan<br />

taient the flag of their country through their discoveries<br />

vraient. Thus were born the colonies. Came first<br />

explorers, then settlers, then the commercial


and finally administrators. By dint of turf wars,<br />

it drew new borders at will, sometimes drawn<br />

with a rule like many African countries.<br />

But we had not scored in areas that we<br />

had penetrated, so that the Continent was Ultimate<br />

currently owned by any nation. Of obvi<br />

dence, the first to use force to seize<br />

were likely to become teachers. Like the Wild West, this<br />

who would be drawing the faster!<br />

I was naive, I had always been that<br />

men and women experienced in meditation and able<br />

to risk their lives on our flight seats could not be<br />

that good people, animated by the sole concern of reducing<br />

the limits of knowledge.<br />

Finished the adventure, finished the stunt of death, no more


mystical dreamers! With the popularization of flight, is<br />

reproduce up there all the problems we had taken so long<br />

to solve this world. In the afterlife, any sect, any horde of<br />

fanatics, any band of rogues prove as powerful a State.<br />

Some Hashishins not representative some fifty mindless<br />

murderers threatened ownership of Paradise, because<br />

they were the first to have had the idea to take it by force!<br />

How to counter them?


President Lucinda seemed discouraged<br />

- The caution, my friends. It is important to avoid any<br />

incident diplomatic or political with Lebanon, Iran and even<br />

Saudi Arabia. Stefania was indignant:<br />

- But neither Iran or Lebanon or Saudi Arabia do<br />

Hashishins support. They are the enemies of all Arabs. -<br />

Even other Shiites hate and despise, adds a rabbi who<br />

survived. - Go figure! Lucinda almost moaned. The Saudis<br />

went on to build a gigantic head thanatodrome not far from<br />

Mecca. What do they have mercenaries able to call to take<br />

the lead in the race? Now they are Our main suppliers of oil<br />

and we can not not have the luxury of getting angry with<br />

them, even for Thanatonautes some small problems.<br />

- But this is life and death it is, Rose protested. - Sorry, my<br />

children, but first I have to worry about seven billion people<br />

who, on our planet have much soul deep in the body and,<br />

more specifically, sixty million individuals with a good half of<br />

voters in this country, traveling in cars that run through oil,<br />

was filled with tissue from the oil, warm the oil is … - In this<br />

case, if we unearthed a Saudi emir ready to ally with us? I<br />

asked point-blank. - In this case, a blank! said the head of<br />

state by opening arms wide. 170 - KORAN THEOLOGY<br />

“God has assigned them a rank higher than these. He<br />

made promises to everyone, but he intended to fighters an


even greater rewards to those remaining in their homes. “<br />

Koran, Sura IV, 97.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

171 - it gets complicated<br />

The Hashishins were only the precursors of a religious war<br />

that we had not anticipated. Of course, all at the beginning<br />

of our experiments, we saw clerics to compete hard to get<br />

first in the world the dead but we never imagined that the<br />

conflict can take on such a scale.<br />

Hindu against Muslim, Protestant against Catholic<br />

alcoholics, against Buddhist Shinto, Jews against Islamic<br />

284<br />

economists: it was the first major denominations<br />

s’empoignèrent around the continent Ultimate. Entered<br />

dissidents and then competing brotherhoods concerned


with autonomy : Iranian Shiites against Sunnis Syrian<br />

Dominicans against Jesuits, Taoist Tzu line against<br />

supporters of Chang Tzu, Lutherans against Calvinists,<br />

liberal Jews against Jews and anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox,<br />

Mormon against Amish, Jehovah’s Witnesses against<br />

Adventists Seventh-day adherents of the sect against<br />

followers of Moon Scientology!<br />

I did not know theology counted so many shades. Th<br />

discovered that there was so much dissension between the<br />

human religions that it was useless to hope that the<br />

believers of all faiths find themselves one day Lahaut by the<br />

sole desire to ecumenism.<br />

While ectoplasm to ambushes and killing each other in the<br />

name of their faith, when I reread the notes Raoul had<br />

carefully listed all mythologies and theologies of the world<br />

and found that, because there were many similarities<br />

between them. It seemed all trying to tell the same story and<br />

to convey the same information by using parables and<br />

different words.<br />

The conflict has poisoned the skies soon be its impact on<br />

earth. Terrorists launched Hashishins a car packed with<br />

explosives against our thanatodrome. We owed our<br />

salvation to the awkwardness of a display that had not<br />

adjusted his bombs, which exploded with him a hundred<br />

meters from our building.


With his customary composure, Raoul brings us together in<br />

our penthouse. We were now too many spread for us on the<br />

flagstones of Pere-Lachaise.<br />

He displayed a map of the Continent Ultimate.<br />

- It is natural that religions want to conquer the land of the<br />

dead because it will control the spirit world will also master<br />

the material world. Imagine that Pakistani Muslims win, they<br />

block the cycles of reincarnation of Indian Buddhists!<br />

Stefania had become an expert in combat ectoplas<br />

nomic. She had prepared for all kinds of parades to protect<br />

its own silver cord.<br />

- Do not overlook the possibilities of alliance, even most<br />

unexpected, she said. We lost two rabbis friends on our<br />

last flight, but with the support of Bedouin Muslims, we have<br />

killed a dozen Hashishins of rabid. We must therefore get<br />

that group powerful enough to bring our enemies to flight<br />

and continue our exploration. After all, that’s what Account!<br />

- Instead of starting at six or seven, to take off ten or twenty<br />

… Raoul made thoughtfully. - Exactly, Stefania strongly<br />

emphasized. These are Always more win. Why not fly to fifty<br />

or even one hundred? - All right, Freddy noticed, but there<br />

is not one hundred Thanatonautes rabbis. - Why be<br />

confined to rabbis? I said. It is perhaps time to make


comparisons. I have found, for example, the Kabbalah and<br />

the I Ching had many in common. The Italian applauds the<br />

idea. Up there, she would an ambassador.<br />

A week later, twenty novices Asian which, at first glance<br />

resembled as much drops of water knocked at the door of<br />

our thanatodrome. They belonged to the monastery of<br />

Shao-lin, where we specifically taught for millennia that<br />

religion and fighting go together. The monks of Shao-lin are<br />

well known to be the leading experts in kung-fu. They are<br />

the source of the science and practice of martial arts. War<br />

has always marry them and meditation.<br />

Freddy contemplated with rapture new choreography<br />

ectoplasmic. He ran either a commando but a real<br />

squadron of war can be grouped in formation flying fortress.<br />

He named our heavenly host the army of the Alliance, the<br />

alliance between all the religions of good will.<br />

172 - Hassidic story<br />

The child looked at the old man who was dancing and<br />

seemed dancing for eternity.<br />

- Grandpa, why do you dance well? - You see, my child,<br />

man is like a top. Dignity, nobility and balance, it achieved<br />

the in the movement. The man is to discard, not forget it.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.


173 - WARS<br />

We were not the only ones to seek allies. The Hashishins<br />

that seemed to hate us personally to also found associated<br />

with unusual. They named it their army “Coalition” and<br />

gathered in the thanatodrome they were located in the heart<br />

of their ancient fortress of Alamut. First, they bound<br />

themselves with monks Shinto Yasukuni Shrine.<br />

Here, in this sacred place near Tokyo, which are honored<br />

the souls of the 2,464,151 soldiers who died during all the<br />

wars of imperial Japan.<br />

Nevertheless, liberal rabbis more monks Shao-lin against<br />

muftis Hashishins more monks Yasukuni hostilities severely<br />

slowed exploration of the Continent Ultimate. There were<br />

terrible battles, such as the May 15, where two hundred<br />

soldiers of the Alliance confronted six hundred followers of<br />

the Coalition. Freddy, Freddy the Pacific, improvised on<br />

this occasion what can only be described as first control<br />

strategy ectoplasmic.<br />

He sent a small group of rabbis and Taoist scouts while the<br />

bulk of the allied army was hidden behind the first wall<br />

comatose, facing the bullessouvenirs. The fight was so hot<br />

on the periphery of the corolla as in the allies forgot the<br />

existence of Moch<br />

1. As soon as the Allies engouffrèrent there, they pursued


while holding each other’s umbilical cord to protect<br />

themselves. The bad encounter that awaited them was not<br />

than they had expected. Indeed, this was not the Allies, but<br />

bubbles, memories that the attackers.<br />

Our men took advantage of the surprise cut as possible<br />

umbilical cords. Three hundred Confederates, Hashishins<br />

head, and charged down that day to the light.<br />

Allied side, it resigned itself to deplore a hundred of what<br />

he had to call them “dead.”<br />

Freddy found that if victory was altogether easy, it was<br />

because the past rabbis and men Shao-lin was definitely<br />

much clearer than Hashishins. They were not encouraged<br />

massacres in Lebanon, practiced terrorist attacks at all<br />

Gender: They did not have to keep their victims of the past<br />

together with their enemies present.<br />

Paradoxically, these wars ectoplasmic gave the conquest<br />

of the world beyond its true pedigree. In around the world,<br />

religions experienced renewed fervor together, alas! the<br />

fanatics became more. Some sects even sought to take<br />

advantage the opportunity to rise to the status of<br />

recognized religion. It enough for a commando to<br />

jeopardize the representatives a confession made.<br />

Fortunately, people went naked for the Continent Ultimate.<br />

They had no opportunity to take with them weapons,


machine guns, rifles or even daggers. Otherwise, given the<br />

ferocity of quarrels would have been the slaughter of<br />

clerics.<br />

Lack of photos and films in the early newspapers and TV<br />

visions spoke little wars ectoplasmic. Corn<br />

always at the forefront of the information in this regard, the<br />

Small<br />

Thanatonautes shown had the idea to send a reporter,<br />

Maxime Villain. Former Trappist monk remained long<br />

silent, this reporter had acquired a great memory<br />

visually. If some people are issuers, it still<br />

taciturn, was a receiver. It captures everything and restored<br />

Then to his readers. For them, the first reporter ectoplas<br />

economic, he scribbled a few pictures of the fighting<br />

terrible<br />

taking place in the afterlife. Finally a clean war


and safe for the average citizen. While sitting in their<br />

armchairs, quiet fans were passionate for the invitation<br />

sible conflict.<br />

Does it still require increased staffing.<br />

In our thanatodrome Buttes-Chaumont, we were<br />

forced to leave our apartments for individuals<br />

make way for a number of thrones flight. Fifty<br />

clerks of the Alliance now had at least take off<br />

simultaneously if you wanted to conquer the enemy.<br />

The building was transformed into a veritable tour de<br />

Babel. It sounded foreign languages and often incomplete<br />

prehensible to each other but united in the<br />

same desire to conquer the next world, representatives of


different faiths get along very well and<br />

manage to share their techniques of meditation<br />

and prayers.<br />

The Alliance was becoming ever more diverse. To Reform<br />

rabbis, monks and Taoist Buddhist sages the beginning of<br />

the marabouts were added animist Ivorian Turkish muftis,<br />

Shinto monks of the island Hokkaido (traditional enemies<br />

of the monks of Shinto Yasukuni Shrine), whirling dervishes<br />

and even Greek three Inuit shamans, sorcerers six<br />

Australian Aborigines, eight Bushman sorcerers, healers of<br />

the Philippines, including a Pygmy we do not pills beliefs<br />

and a sage cheyenne. Our army consisted of well over two<br />

hundred pious soldiers, living proof that it is possible to<br />

establish a perfect harmony between the land wherever.<br />

A peaceful atmosphere prevailed in the penthouse, instead<br />

of meeting with all our little world. Far from the rigors of their<br />

monasteries, our devotees exchanged jokes of college<br />

students. For my part, I tried to look good by proposing a<br />

riddle:<br />

- You know how to draw a circle and axis without lifting the<br />

pen? Monks and rabbis are so fond of the challenge at the<br />

right sens<br />

- Impossible! they ended by exclaiming. - Neither more nor<br />

less than the Thanatonautes I answered before calmly tell


them the solution. Behind, I heard Raoul, always ahead of<br />

enigma, to charge an attentive the charade of Victor Hugo:<br />

- My first is talkative. My second is a bird. My third is in the<br />

coffee. My whole is a pastry. There was room for<br />

discussion. Mainly because solution seemed simple. While<br />

Freddy played the Gershwin on the piano and concocted<br />

his Amandine scholars cocktails, I racked my brains, “My<br />

first is talkative? A magpie. But a pie, it is also my second,<br />

the bird … And who, what, is in a café: a drunk, a server, a<br />

beer? “<br />

174 - ISLAMIC MYTHOLOGY<br />

According to Islamic tradition, Paradise is huge and<br />

Spread over eight cylindrical rings. Irrigated by four rivers, it<br />

is a delightful place. Here the four bask first caliphs, the first<br />

ten men converted to Islam and the Prophet’s daughter<br />

Fatima. All have seventy houses covered with gold and<br />

stones precious. Each pavilion includes seven hundred<br />

beds occupied by seven hundred houris. Seven animals<br />

are identified Paradise: the camel of Elijah, the ram of<br />

Abraham, the whale of Jonah, the mare Borak, the ant and<br />

the crest of Solomon, the dog of the Seven Sleepers.<br />

The Prophet offers its guests various pleasures but<br />

an infinite sensuality.


Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

175 - THE BATTLE OF PARADISE<br />

The atmosphere and good ecumenical our thana<br />

todrome did not make us forget the reality of hard<br />

fighting a conflict that was just beginning.<br />

The Alliance and the Coalition were engaged in a war<br />

no thank you. Every day, we woke Thanatonautes<br />

sweating, trembling in every limb and announcing<br />

further losses. Freddy Meyer, our rabbi choreographer<br />

promoted to chief of war, decided that the time had come<br />

launch our major offensive. The famous “Battle of<br />

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Paradise “was held in the year 2065 AD. Raoul, Rose,<br />

Amanda and I followed it as best we can with our satellite<br />

dish but we could only see the excitement that prevailed<br />

among the inhabitants. Maxim Villain gave later in his diary<br />

a pretty good relationship. Here it is:


BATTLE IN HEAVEN<br />

As the mist created by the dying stars thickens around the<br />

vortex gaping black hole that called Paradise, I see<br />

advancing army rabbi’s Freddy Meyer, strong Chinese<br />

monks of his affable, his Buddhist peaceful, impressive<br />

Stone Cheyenne and Happy marabouts African animists.<br />

Their group is welded. The legions of the Alliance have<br />

brought their ectoplasm in order to thwart their opponents<br />

the most unheard.<br />

Coalition troops emerge a few minutes later. Front line,<br />

hover Shinto monks, such terrible bombers ready to<br />

decimate the cords umbilicals. Position of karate, they spin<br />

the edge of their hands as much invincible false. Behind<br />

them, arranged in two wings, sneer of Hashishins while the<br />

Dominicans chant prayers.<br />

The sky teeming with souls. On both sides reinforcements<br />

arrive thanatodromes all the world. On the one hand, almost<br />

in 1200 the rabbis, animists, Buddhists, Kabalists and<br />

Taoist. On the other, two thousand three hundred monks<br />

Shinto, shamans, and Hashishins Dominicans.<br />

At the head of the Alliance, Rabbi Meyer communicates<br />

telepathically commanding his troops. Among the allies, the<br />

General Shiku, great strategist Japanese transmits the<br />

same his instructions. Note that since the defeat of May 15,<br />

his souls have learned to control their most difficult


memories so do not be immediate victims soon the black<br />

area.<br />

Anyway, they decided this time to remain outside of<br />

Paradise to better control the flow<br />

umbilical cords enemies. The Allies, meanwhile, were<br />

placed near the doors in order to have their backs the light,<br />

which they hope will attract and blind their opponents.<br />

Shiku and the Old Man of the Mountain give the signal of<br />

charge by taking the umbilical cord with the whole hand.<br />

The Hashishins break on the wing mainly defended by<br />

animist wizards and Cheyenne. The Liberal Rabbis rush to<br />

their rescue, but are stopped by the monks Shinto, which,<br />

with the edge of palm, cut their strings like so many stalks<br />

of flowers in a garden. Taoist monks and Dominicans<br />

engage in the fray.<br />

Any strategy seems to have disappeared. It is only a giant<br />

rat race among the stars. Surrounding day of the dead still<br />

come and go, barely intrigued by those souls who fight with<br />

such determination on the periphery of Paradise.<br />

Allies note at a time that due to staffing least, they begin to<br />

have the bottom. They darken to the first wall comatose.


Fearing they resume their tactics May 15, leads his troops<br />

to Shiku their pursuit.<br />

On the ledges of the second world, more and more


steep piles fighters compete simultaneously<br />

their most horrible memories. Souls are numb<br />

in this place that smells of earth and death. Many cords<br />

are cut and ectoplasm of warriors dead spin<br />

towards the light. Three Hashishins attacked a rabbi<br />

Liberal attempts to escape their jerky movements<br />

by Yiddish dance steps. Grace jumps in kung fu,<br />

a Taoist monk manages to cut a single movement<br />

six umbilical cords Dominicans. Mohican is a<br />

finds himself alone against a group of Iroquois. Cluster<br />

tight, the Moonies are resistant to Scientologists. The<br />

sects seem to especially a fight between<br />

them. To create strange associations. A marabout African<br />

Cain saves an Indonesian shaman, a prisoner of an<br />

exorcist


Roman Catholic who wonders just what he does there.<br />

A band of Zen monks is lost in the cornice. We<br />

seeing a nice load of Indian gurus, well packed in<br />

lotus position, against dervishes twirling<br />

in top.<br />

They have developed a revolving line of defense that<br />

used to house the soldiers exhausted most of their<br />

camp. A horde of a group of Jesuits stuck ayatollahs<br />

Shiites in turn to be attacked by Hashishins.<br />

They owe their salvation to a commando of Druze and<br />

a small group of Alawites.<br />

That’s it, the last of the Mohicans is dead. Cheyenne<br />

avenge. Attack against the whirling dervishes supported by<br />

marabouts. In a triangular grouping of monks zen to prevent<br />

Indonesian shaman run to the rescue of Jewish liberals.<br />

The umbilical cords slam like rubber bands. It bites, it is<br />

drawn. Crocs-in-teeth and leg-in-cord. The light illuminates<br />

the bottom of the tunnel of light duels skin. Enraged or<br />

frightened faces as pale in neon. By far, I see groups linked


y their tempting cords and often complicated maneuvers<br />

doomed to failure. The slightest pity. The slightest mercy.<br />

Everyone is fighting to kill or be killed.<br />

The Allies seemed at first most likely to triumph but they are<br />

increasingly dominated by the aggressiveness of their<br />

opponents. It is in their camp that the cords cut are the most<br />

numerous.<br />

Rabbi Meyer sends the signal of telepathic Retirement and<br />

runs to the second wall comatose. General Shiku always in<br />

mind, the allies follow. But crossing Moch 2, they find the<br />

red zone, full of delights and pleasures. After the painful<br />

memories, devotees are forced to confront their sexual<br />

fantasies. What titanic struggle this battle where the monks<br />

transparent trying to cut each other’s silver cords while<br />

rejecting the most repressed desires!<br />

We do not know where does the horror begins the orgy.<br />

Dominicans and Hashishins are the most affected these<br />

sexual visions which beset them everywhere. Without They<br />

were probably more frustrated that Jews and Buddhists<br />

because their lines are decimated while the Allies that their<br />

religion allows women to own and to love no taboos, stand<br />

without too much difficulty.<br />

Faced with an enterprising geisha who is bent on Price


search in their umbilical cord, and the general Shiku Old<br />

Mountain fled, followed by what he ectoplasmic rest of their<br />

fighters.<br />

Who awarded the victory in this battle of Paradise?<br />

Undoubtedly the erotic visions!


Maxime VILLAIN<br />

176 - Aztec mythology<br />

The Aztecs believed that human blood of sacrifices<br />

provided the energy needed for the proper the cosmos, the<br />

planets in the race and the return of the seasons. Victims<br />

torso torn and guts exhibited by the daggers of obsidian<br />

priests joined the gods names which they perished<br />

because, once, the gods had themselves sacrificed to save<br />

the world. Death men was therefore the engine of the<br />

universe. A War was a way to get fuel at ie the captives for<br />

sacrifice. Everyone folded But happy that this fate was<br />

preparing education any aztec warrior.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

177 - Ecumenism<br />

The Battle of Paradise sowed disarray among the brave<br />

conquerors of the afterlife. So many men of God died in<br />

vain … The Dominicans, mortified, wondered how they<br />

could be persuaded by the fanatics Hashishins point to join<br />

them. They considered with contempt the few survivors of<br />

the sect refugees in their fortress of mountains and<br />

quivered at the memory cruel acts that they committed their<br />

side.


294<br />

Had they braved the wrath papal nothing to deserve<br />

really the flames of Hell?<br />

In delegation, they went to our thanatodrome of<br />

Buttes-Chaumont, multiplying excuses and mumbling<br />

prayers.<br />

It would not be perpetrating wars that succeed to unravel<br />

the mysteries of the continent Ultimate. The devotees of all<br />

faiths had included. The Battle of Paradise marked a<br />

historic turning point in their relationship. In the days of<br />

violent opposition, succeeded that of the greater<br />

understanding.<br />

Faced with a meeting colorful, standing in our penthouse,<br />

Raoul spoke:<br />

- You can be sure, all religions are good. Only are bad<br />

intentions of some individuals claiming to be sole<br />

repository of the true faith. Zoroastrians, Alawites,<br />

Christians, Orthodox, Muslims, Jewish, Protestant, Shinto,<br />

Taoism, shamanism, witches, healers, marabouts, and


even cult members, all your faiths have had access, at<br />

some point, the general common knowledge. In a fabulous<br />

knowledge. The general mystery of death. Together, we join<br />

to find it, intact, for in him is the mystery of life. Together we<br />

will discover the reason for our presence on earth and what<br />

should be our attitude. The religions are only quests good<br />

instruction manual of human existence. Monks, sorcerers,<br />

rabbis and others ovationnèrent.<br />

A Japanese monk zen explained that once in the time<br />

older, there were no multiple religions but one, not a<br />

multitude of dialects but only one Languages There was no<br />

philosophies different, the disparate cultures, different<br />

wisdom, but a single the real one. The men had forgotten.<br />

Employing language incomprehensible for one another,<br />

they had only describe the same old knowledge, which had<br />

lost its original meaning by dint of successive<br />

interpretations. Thus were born the antagonisms. All<br />

disputes were only misunderstandings.<br />

Accolades. Solemn handshakes. A Second Vatican<br />

Ecumenical Council<br />

nique global agreement was signed at the Buttes-<br />

Chaumont, establishing the first two commandments of the<br />

Thanatonautes.


Article 1: The Paradise belongs to no nation, or no faith in<br />

particular. Article 2: Paradise is open to everyone and no<br />

one has the right to interfere with free access.<br />

With these first laws legal-religious, that was the end the<br />

period of anarchy. Travel to Paradise were now regulated.<br />

No one could afford to do anything on the grounds that<br />

there existed No control.<br />

The agreements of the Buttes-Chaumont instituted a new<br />

climate of understanding inter-religious.<br />

General Shiku initiative Rabbi Freddy Meyer to the ritual<br />

the tea ceremony. It does not take offense that the Alsatian<br />

the prefer lemon.<br />

Now that our thanatodrome had become a place of<br />

appointments for clergy around the world, we settled for<br />

them a meeting room in the basement. Unlike the<br />

penthouse to the glittering windows of light, the place was<br />

dark, full of relics, prints and charms the most diverse.<br />

Monks, imams or sorcerers crossing in Paris liked to<br />

navigate to it collect or dialogue. That no conflict on earth<br />

was reached impose a single battle in Heaven had<br />

succeeded. All religions began to work together to go<br />

faster, further. To the ends of the continent from the dead!<br />

178 - Christian mythology


“Was it his body? I do not know.<br />

Was it out of the body? I do not know. God knows.<br />

He was taken to the third heaven … “<br />

Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, XII, 2.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

179 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS


DATES TO REMEMBER<br />

May 14, 2065 Battle of Paradise June 18, 2065<br />

agreements of the Buttes-Chaumont June 20, 2065 first<br />

edicts Thanatonautes<br />

History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

180 - Mocha 4<br />

A little drunk to have once again too celebrated<br />

agreements of the Buttes-Chaumont, Freddy told us,<br />

talkative, his personal history.<br />

Student at a ballet school, he had for once to become<br />

otherwise dancer at least choreographer. He appreciated<br />

also when all air sports. Arabesques, tendrils, the<br />

impression of flying to the heavens, it was all as he<br />

pleased. But one day he was engaged in hang gliding, the<br />

waist strap snapped. Its two shoulder straps do not suffice<br />

to support him, and a hang glider being stripped of<br />

parachute, he fell. He saw down a plain and a single tree. A<br />

single tree. The slump lasted only few seconds but Freddy<br />

had time to pray and swear that if he escaped this twist of<br />

fate, he vouerait entirely to a religion. Random, why not faith<br />

Jewish.


He landed on the tree, but such that if it was spared, two<br />

branches he put out his eyes. He was saved but now blind.<br />

It does not comply with less promise. He was not Jewish,<br />

yet he entered the yeshiva Strasbourg, where he was<br />

fortunate to have to master a Lamed vav. One day, he<br />

swore he too would become a Lamed vav.<br />

And that was what, a Lamed Vav?<br />

A man who is reincarnated by pure compassion for men of<br />

this world, then having done all he was free to leave the<br />

Gilgoulim, the cycle returns to of life.<br />

The Lamed Vav were wise secrets of religion Jewish. Their<br />

goodness and mercy helped to improve the world. They<br />

were aware of their past lives, knew how to fight against<br />

ignorance, were devoid personal ambitions.<br />

Stefania reported that such characters existed as in<br />

Tibetan Buddhism. There they called bodhisattvas and also<br />

returned deliberate to earthly existence although they are<br />

delivered from the cycle of reincarnation. There was no<br />

greater act of mercy than return on earth, by pure love for<br />

the rest of humanity in chains their karmic wheel.<br />

- There must be in all religions of the wise who choose to<br />

return despite painful experiences experienced during their


eincarnations, says Freddy. With us, the Hasidic tradition<br />

designates as the Lamed Vav, which is the number 36.<br />

Each generation, a handful of righteous sacrifice in secret<br />

to save all mankind. They despise the pride and do not<br />

want the notoriety. We celebrate their psychic powers and<br />

knowledge of life and death. Th sometimes think that Jesus<br />

Christ might be a Lamed Vav, as well. These evenings<br />

libations, encouraged by Amandine which ensured that the<br />

glass of the great Thanatonautes not still never empty, does<br />

not affect the work Freddy He continued to invent new<br />

choreography heavenly. He imagined an Eiffel Tower<br />

ectoplasmic, consisting several rounds of souls supporting<br />

spiral together other. All silver lace would be knotted,<br />

braided and placed in the center of the building so that<br />

everyone protects everyone.<br />

As a sign of reconciliation, the rabbi gave the tip<br />

his former enemy, the Old Man of the Mountain, which had<br />

arisen<br />

home one night, sheepishly, repented and cash now<br />

his disciples on the fingers of one hand. The former head<br />

Assassins gratefully accepted. He knew he<br />

would be the first to cross the fourth wall coma


tick!<br />

Our ballet mystique took off July 21. Without difficulty,<br />

its members crossed the first, second, third, and even the<br />

fourth wall comatose. They saw that there was behind and<br />

we told. Upon their return, Raoul hastened to update our<br />

map of the Continent Ultimate.<br />

The orange area ends with Moch 4. It leads on: AREA 5<br />

- Location: coma over 42 minutes. - Color: Yellow. -<br />

Sensations: passion, power, omnipotence itself. Here<br />

before all the mysteries are incomprehensible their<br />

solution. Muslims are the true Garden of Allah. Catholics<br />

find the earthly paradise. Jews percent the secrets of<br />

Kabbalah. Yogis discover the meaning their chakras and<br />

are showing their third eye. The Taoists are the way of pure<br />

Tao. The yellow area is the land of absolute knowledge. All<br />

what seemed so far received his foolish purpose. Ministry<br />

meaning of life appears in its entirety, of the infinitely large<br />

the infinitely small.<br />

The yellow area is completed by Moch 5.<br />

Some devotees were so overwhelmed by the Golden<br />

revelations of the country they wanted to remain, but the<br />

cords were so tightly woven that they could not dissociate<br />

themselves from their companions.


So all returned intact. We open the champagne. We<br />

summoned reporters to the world to know that ecumenism<br />

general had allowed to perform again step in the discovery<br />

of Paradise and knowledge at all.<br />

181 - Sufi philosophy<br />

“I am shattered, and pieces of my body were [Thrown<br />

In this firmament which is my original home<br />

They are all drunk, happy, love of wine<br />

Of the Invisible, for fear of the prison is<br />

[I<br />

Shorten the time this tumultuous life<br />

The wolf of annihilation to pieces the flock<br />

In the spirit of each man’s pride reigns, yet<br />

The blows of death will lower their heads<br />

[Proud. “<br />

Is Rubai, Jalal od Din Rumi (thirteenth century).


Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

182 - Mocha 5<br />

At its peak, the Buttes-Chaumont thanatodrome made off<br />

simultaneously near a hundred and twenty priests of all<br />

religions. They then joined in the territory yellow to attempt<br />

the crossing of Moch 5.<br />

- Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off! First floor.<br />

Departure of thirty monks who compose the top of the<br />

choreography.<br />

- Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off! Second<br />

floor for support. - Six … five … four … three … two … one.<br />

Off! Third floor, another stay. - Six … five … four … three …<br />

two … one. Off! The foundations of the building. At the top,<br />

all expected in the vicinity of the corolla of Paradis then<br />

methodically wove their cords according to the figures<br />

created by Freddy. A specialist knots sailors joined the holy<br />

men to help strong ties to compose, easy to do and undo.<br />

A Monitor parachute provides advice to all can stay as long<br />

as grouped according techniques of flight in free fall.<br />

Welded articulated a long procession, the Thanatonautes<br />

first passes through all the walls. The dead


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Waiting in the orange hailed the passage as the<br />

Now they had taken the habit of seeing, which<br />

was a distraction for them. They explained the same<br />

newcomers that there was nothing to fear<br />

the troops who had, doubling everyone without<br />

both break their umbilical cords.<br />

It was mystical and the caravan, consisting of one hundred<br />

twenty<br />

Thanatonautes, managed, Moch past five in the sixth area.<br />

In return however, they seemed more disillusioned exciting.<br />

They did not seem at all pleased to have completed<br />

all this great progress. On the contrary, their friendship<br />

seemed to have taken a hit and ecumenism as well.<br />

They gladly gave way, however, our examination.


After the territory yellow, they said, was the area green.<br />

Green as the vegetation, the trees. There were beautiful<br />

flowers, plants wonderful ending in multicolored stars. The<br />

green country was that of the absolute beauty.<br />

- So what is the test? asked Raoul. - Exactly, it’s too good.<br />

The green area is unbearable Beauty, murmured a rabbi. -<br />

It’s beautiful, agreed reluctantly monk Buddhist. I did not<br />

understand anything! How absolute beauty could it be a<br />

test? Freddy explained:<br />

- It’s so beautiful that you lose all desire to be a man never<br />

to be hoped that the fragrant flower calyx. It comes to hate<br />

so much you feel ugly compared to so much splendor. We<br />

would like to be confused with the magnificent vegetation of<br />

the place and no longer exist in any other Type While it is<br />

particularly painful to be confronted absolute knowledge,<br />

but to be suddenly brought into contact with the most<br />

perfect beauty is a test more hard to overcome. Rabbi blind<br />

seemed indeed for once completely a loss. The piano, he<br />

ginned sadly few notes of a Chopin sonata.<br />

- He’s right, Stefania said darkly. Receive beauty after<br />

undergoing pure knowledge, it takes away any want to go<br />

down. It was very difficult for us to<br />

resign. Fortunately, once again, our cords were tightly<br />

bound!


Raoul, Amandine, Rose and I did not succeed very well<br />

understand how the vision of beauty was a test so<br />

disconcerting but we complétâmes no less our map of the<br />

Continent Ultimate, pushing even the mention Terra<br />

incognita.<br />

TERRITORY 6<br />

- Location: coma more than 49 minutes. - Color: Green. -<br />

Sensations of great beauty, and also denying oneself, to be<br />

hideous. The vision of beauty is a terrible ordeal. Ends<br />

Moch 6.<br />

Green left the country to the devotees as a bitter taste. They<br />

were not prepared to see the beauty. One after others, they<br />

prétextèrent various obligations and returned at home.<br />

These splendors, they wanted to capture the sole benefit of<br />

their parish. There was no question to to war as in the days<br />

of Hashishins but time was not to ecumenism, rather to<br />

everyone for so. The race was on and the best man win!<br />

Freddy and his three disciples survivors of all wars<br />

ectoplasmic were only we remain faithful and stay with us. It<br />

must be said that by dint of perseverance, Amanda had<br />

managed to seduce the wise old man blind. The couple no<br />

longer concealed her romance. The other Strasbourg, they<br />

were accustomed to life in Paris and were in no hurry to<br />

return to their yeshiva, especially without their master.


Takeoffs resumed piecemeal. Each confession<br />

sion had its champions. Each hoped to be the<br />

first to discover “God” as soon crossed the dam<br />

beauty. To many, it seemed clear that only “God”<br />

could be there at the end of the tunnel blue, then black, then<br />

red, then orange, then yellow, then green. The beauty was<br />

his<br />

last parade, the final frontier before Paradise.<br />

After battling his memories at the end of fear<br />

sick of pleasure, all patience tired, seized by the know<br />

power absolute, maddened by the ideal beauty, so lice<br />

VAIT we meet, if not the Great Architect of the Universe?<br />

In their respective thanatodromes, monks, sorcerers,


imams, priests and rabbis held out their hands to him.<br />

Who would join him first?<br />

183 - Textbooks


Learn to honor the dead<br />

Never speak ill of the dead. Mostly dead Recent. Because<br />

they can still be active in our world. The dead who wait<br />

patiently in long lines in the country orange are not idle.<br />

They observed quietly the living. They often try to<br />

communicate with their loved ones on earth. If we radiate<br />

positive the memory of a loved one, his soul may come<br />

support us in our projects. However, if we have nothing but<br />

resentment for him, his soul can more help.<br />

Up there in the orange country, while the death is subject<br />

test of patience, it attempts to contact all those he loved<br />

and who loved him. It occupies. This communication can<br />

only succeed if the life experiences always love to death.<br />

Thus we see, sometimes the dead do enough on the point<br />

of being loved do decline. This is called “die of grief.” This<br />

is not necessarily a bad thing. The souls of two lovers may<br />

well come together to wait in the long line of country orange.<br />

Instruction manual civic second year elementary course.<br />

184 - TRAJECTORIES CONCURRENT<br />

Phase “may the best win in the sprint” was moderately<br />

interesting. Since Thanatonautes went now most often<br />

alone or in small groups, no longer have the support of the<br />

pyramid to extract


the wonders of pure knowledge or beauty ideal, many<br />

tranchèrent their own cord stay up there.<br />

Remained more lucid, perhaps because of their errors<br />

past, the Dominicans were the first to reach Moch 6 using<br />

one of the tricks that they had been taught Freddy. Yet they<br />

not succeed in crossing it.<br />

It was the same for our team. Gradually, the public had lost<br />

interest in our expeditions and we were no longer in the<br />

headlines.<br />

For all the people, it now seemed clear the Thanatonautes<br />

was a never-ending race. Moch 1, Moch 2, Moch 3, Moch<br />

4, Moch 5, Moch 6 … Why not then Moch 124 or Moch<br />

2018 with all the colors of the rainbow sky, all the tests<br />

possible and why not an Olympic triathlon?<br />

L’Osservatore Romano newspaper of the Vatican quipped<br />

these socalled pioneers who dared to doubt infinity of the<br />

heavens. “The opium is the last Thanatonautes the people,<br />

“the British newspaper Times headline.<br />

The Thanatonautes became the target of jokes cartoons,<br />

puppet showmen and television. She lost all sanctity to<br />

become a goodwill among others.<br />

In the family shop, sales declined. Tu mother and brother<br />

had beautiful launch new posters, Tshirts to the most


eautiful colors of the afterlife, caps with relief pattern,<br />

winged sandals, small posters fluorescent only visible in the<br />

dark, rations food “special Thanatonautes”, customers<br />

were rare. Well, after 6 Moch, there would be 7 Moch, and<br />

what interest?<br />

Raoul railed:<br />

- It’s not our fault, even if this adventure beginning to show<br />

repetitive aspects. It is not we who have invented the<br />

Ultimate geography of the continent. We insist only to<br />

discover it and it just as exciting. He was still furious. If<br />

people were making fun of our<br />

business loans decrease. The slush presidential were not<br />

inexhaustible.<br />

Lucinda we had yet attached. If the public does captivated<br />

for the show, well, we provide him ! He suggested a series<br />

of meditation classes television every Sunday morning,<br />

replacing the traditional aerobics lessons. Freddy and<br />

Stefania would be great. The President had even found a<br />

title for their show: “The XXII century will be spiritual or will<br />

not. “The was very happy.<br />

- It takes us for monkeys or what? got angry Stefania. - We<br />

must understand, I said. After all, it’s normal that people get<br />

tired of the endless walls comatose. Myself, sometimes I<br />

feel like we do finish ever! Error exclaimed Freddy. Moch 6


will be the last border. We sommâmes to explain. Serene,<br />

unfathomable to away from his dark glasses, the rabbi<br />

spoke.<br />

- In the Bible, in the Cabala as in many scriptures, it says<br />

there are seven heavens. Seven heavens, So seven<br />

territories after death. Been Moreover, all the expression<br />

“going to the seventh heaven.” Sept. no more, no less. I<br />

discussed with other religious faiths and we all found that<br />

number 7 always returned to describe countries the<br />

afterlife. Moch 6 will probably be the last wall. - And what<br />

will he back? I asked. Freddy made a gesture of<br />

helplessness. - The center of the black hole, God, a lottery<br />

ticket, a Firefly, an impasse can be … For us to go and<br />

see! Without enthusiasm, I leaned on my boosters.<br />

185 - EASTERN PHILOSOPHY<br />

“So Almitra said<br />

- You want to know the secret of death. Corn<br />

how else will you find by searching the heart of life?<br />

The owl whose eyes are made to the night blind the day<br />

can not unveil the mystery of light.<br />

If you really want to contemplate the spirit of death, open<br />

your body fully to life. For life and death are, as the river and<br />

the ocean are one.


In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent<br />

knowledge of the afterlife. Rely on dreams for in them is<br />

hidden the gate to eternity. “<br />

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet.<br />

Extract from the thesis Death the unknown, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

186 - EVEN THE STARS reincarnate<br />

Rose’s eyes were glued to the screen detector ectoplasm.<br />

Eighteen Taoist monks had taken off from several minutes<br />

already. She was convinced they had managed to break<br />

into the sixth wall. My wife was probably since, because<br />

after an hour spent in torment us, we found that their mortal<br />

coil did not give no sign of biological life. Peace to their<br />

souls.<br />

Freddy believed that it would rebuild a caravan hundred<br />

and twenty mystical multi-faith to succeed, but his old<br />

friends declined the invitation of the rabbi, as they<br />

continued to want to act separately for glory to splash out<br />

on their only religion.<br />

My wife suggested to give up some our concerns mystical<br />

to reorient our research toward astronomy and<br />

astrophysics. I agreed, but what could we learn more than<br />

that the Continent Ultimate was indeed a black hole in the


center of the Way milk?<br />

Rose had an idea:<br />

- You want to know what’s in the hole. It so happens that<br />

astrophysicists have known for for a long time to come.<br />

“Oh, really…” sneered Raoul, skeptical.<br />

306<br />

- And what is it? I asked. - A white fountain. A white<br />

fountain! Freddy left the chair off on which it rested to<br />

survey the room. Despite its agitation, the blind man was<br />

doing to avoid encountering any devices, although many<br />

who crowded our the laboratory.<br />

- The white fountain, the opposite of the black hole, Precisa<br />

Rose. It absorbs light, that one rejects it. The black hole<br />

attracts matter, the white fountain flows. Some believe that<br />

the Big Bang would be a fountain White, Producer of matter<br />

and light. Fountains White would perhaps even the origin of<br />

new Universe Rose gave then a fascinating lecture for<br />

Astrophysics. Each black hole would mark the death of a<br />

galaxy since swallowing the stars it compresses and<br />

transformed into pure energy. The center of our galaxy is<br />

consists of a vortex that sucks and twirls matter around it. It<br />

is even expected by many million years, let it swallow the<br />

sun. The most fascinating being that, as explained very well


the physical science nothing is created, nothing dies,<br />

everything changes. The death of a star generates energy<br />

expelling the fountain white, which has just the form of a<br />

blunderbuss to the barrel flared.<br />

Thus, even the stars would be reincarnated! Black holes<br />

and fountains white are merely gateways to parallel<br />

universes. Rose said that, as each galaxy has its own area<br />

or of its particular god, each would also have its own big<br />

bang and his anus cosmic. Each galaxy could even have its<br />

own space-time. We, we would therefore the world of the<br />

Milky Way, with the god, time, death, consciousness<br />

peculiar to it.<br />

Rose we were all very impressed with this idea black hole<br />

corresponding to each time a fountain white and then a<br />

revival in another space-time. Freddy sat down to better<br />

digest the lesson.<br />

- But what would become of ectoplasm, past the fountain<br />

skin. asked he. My wife knew his limits.<br />

- While there, over science and return to religion. “Maybe!<br />

that souls are spit out, too, and reincarnate Then in another<br />

world? Amanda suggested that we go up in the penthouse<br />

drinking cocktails and a little rest our brains. The session<br />

we were exhausted, we consented willingly. There, among


the green plants, relaxed, the old blind man and beautiful<br />

blonde we announced their intention to married. Amanda<br />

assured that Freddy was the man of her life and she was<br />

quite willing to convert to Judaism if demanded it. But her<br />

boyfriend did not ask for much. He was liberal enough to<br />

allow himself a mixed marriage.<br />

They united then, and with the followers of the yeshiva<br />

Strasbourg, we made the party. Never had I seen Amanda<br />

also radiant, while her new husband was beating traditional<br />

tunes on the piano, and we danced in circle. Freddy was<br />

twenty years her senior, two eyes less, but he could allay<br />

his fears and make her laugh. What is more important in a<br />

relationship?<br />

187 - MYTHOLOGY TAOIST<br />

“Far to the east of the South China Sea, where the sky off<br />

the earth is a vast abyss, without substance called “the<br />

Confluence universal.” There, all waters of the Earth and<br />

those of the Milky Way (River collector water space) pass<br />

without ever content increases or diminishes. Between the<br />

gulf and China, it are five large islands, Tai-yu, Yuan-kio,<br />

Fang-hu, Yingtcheou, Peng-lai. At their core, these islands<br />

are each thirty thousand stadia in circumference. Their top<br />

flat to nine thousand stadia in circumference. The buildings<br />

that cover the islands are all in gold and jade. The animals<br />

are familiar. The vegetation is wonderful. Flowers fragrant.<br />

The fruit eaten preserve of old age and death. The


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inhabitants of these islands are all geniuses, the wise.<br />

Each day they visit by flying through the air. “<br />

Lieh-tzu.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

188 - NOTHING but trouble<br />

We wanted to go to the end of our adventure and cross the<br />

difficult sixth wall. It was, however, circumstances dramatic<br />

enough to force us to write final chapter of our quest.<br />

In July of that year he performed a phenomenon strange.<br />

Fundamentalists returned to the charge. There was more<br />

graffiti on our doors, “Let God alone “Signed” Guardians of<br />

the mystery. ” Later, death threats reached us by phone and<br />

by mail. Again the Holy See entered the lists, recalling the<br />

prohibition of taking off under pain of excommunication and<br />

enacted the famous bull “And mysterium mysteriumque”<br />

qualifying a heretic anyone who tried to see what was<br />

behind the sixth wall before being called by the Most Top


“People are too curious die stupidly,” insists a voice on the<br />

answering machine of the laboratory. Raoul was beaten in<br />

the street. As usual, he had forgotten to defend it. Priests<br />

and imams joined together to protest, surrounded by their<br />

flocks, in front of our building. Tons waste were dumped<br />

around. The windows of family store were shattered,<br />

fortunately after the It is closed. Bystanders, amazed by so<br />

much rage, gazed with curiosity shop ransacked.<br />

Be back to the center of controversy, we redevînmes in<br />

fashion. Youth, we found our status as a hero, players of the<br />

greatest adventure of Millennium. They lined up to get an<br />

autograph the famous Thanatonautes Freddy Meyer and<br />

Stefania Chichele, and worshiped the memory of the<br />

precursor Felix Kerboz. Our shop quickly redecorated by<br />

dozens of unpaid volunteers, never empty more. After the<br />

threatening letters poured in messages of support. We<br />

begged him not to bow to the obscurantism and fears<br />

medieval.<br />

In stormy meetings, fights broke out between supporters<br />

and critics of Thanatonautes.<br />

The latter became more and more violent. One day Rose,<br />

alone in the shop, replaced my mother, a pickup truck<br />

parked in front of the building. Got out Three men wearing


alaclavas and dressed in leather jackets, waving of<br />

pickaxe handles. They began immediately to the store bag<br />

and my wife understood that his salvation was in flight. But<br />

they pursued.<br />

She took her legs around his neck and dashed into the<br />

street. Panting, of breath, she took refuge in a doorway.<br />

Other fast approaching. It therefore took its course in full<br />

view of passers as always indifferent. I veered to the left,<br />

right, left again to find himself cornered in a dead end. Frail<br />

young woman against three fellows armed, Rose had no<br />

chance. They left, blue bruises, the forehead in blood.<br />

Two hours passed before a tenant in the neighborhood<br />

consent to address the woman lying on the ground, others<br />

had passed without flinching, saying later they thought it<br />

was just a drunk again, slumped to sleep it off.<br />

At the hospital Saint-Louis where he was taken to<br />

emergency, Physicians sorry I declared that she had<br />

arrived too late for them to save her. She had lost too much<br />

blood. Thank goodness a compassionate man he is<br />

allowed to die in a hospital bed, so many people dying<br />

overnight on the sidewalks without anyone thinking even<br />

call the police!<br />

Rose was lying inert, in the recovery room. Only equipment<br />

keeping her alive.


What to save? I ran back to my friends. Raoul advised me<br />

to talk to Freddy. In these circumstances terrible, only the<br />

old rabbi would know how act.<br />

The wise Strasbourg took me in his arms and stared at me<br />

in his eyes blind<br />

- You’re ready for anything, really desperate to save her? -<br />

“Yes. I was adamant. Rose was my wife and I loved him. -<br />

Enough to risk your own life to preserve the his? - “Yes. A<br />

thousand times yes. The rabbi looked at me with his soul, I<br />

felt. With his soul, he sought to collect if I spoke the truth. I<br />

waited, the beating heart, he consents to believe me.<br />

- In that case, here is the solution. Sets a specific time with<br />

doctors to disconnect the devices. We try then to take off at<br />

the same time. By hanging in his umbilical cord and striving<br />

to hold it until it breaks, we can perhaps to bring back to<br />

life. You come with us and thou save it. 189 - police files


Note to the services concerned<br />

Violence toward the thanatodrome des Buttes-Chaumont.<br />

Should intervene?


Response services affected<br />

Not yet.<br />

190 - Flying High<br />

It was possible. I was convinced it was possible. The Grim<br />

Reaper does not pick my Rose. I ran to at the hospital?<br />

The head of the ICU did not understand really why I wanted<br />

so much to fix the death of my wife at 17 o’clock but he<br />

assured me that I had made the right choice. Better to use<br />

euthanasia as keep alive a human being in the form of<br />

vegetable. He came happy with my request. Families sore<br />

him<br />

had already presented the strangest. He promised to begin<br />

to look at his watch at 16 h 55 and 0 seconds.<br />

I did not sleep all night. It is not by repeating that tomorrow<br />

we die voluntarily we get from sweet dreams. Wide awake,<br />

I nightmares rather, trying to imagine what bubblememories<br />

assailed me for I cut to pieces and what hidden<br />

defects reveal myself the country red.<br />

I forced myself to eat breakfast and dinner consistent<br />

before taking the afternoon to review with Freddy the figure<br />

that we would use to save Rose. No pyramid this time but a


flat structure, a kind of net in which we hoped to collect my<br />

wife.<br />

I would be in the center, holding two rabbis Strasbourg by<br />

hands, two Taoist monks of Shao-lin (income there to<br />

obscure political reasons) by the legs. I can not not that<br />

Freddy had promised them that they agree to join us, but in<br />

the great hall of flight, I discovered eighteen other rabbis,<br />

thirteen Buddhist monks Tibetan and, of course, Stefania.<br />

Having for me no confidence in my capabilities of<br />

meditation, I checked carefully my boosters chemicals.<br />

We all donned our white uniform of Thanatonautes, each<br />

setting screen which drew our beats heart and our business<br />

electronic brain.<br />

My companions were already closing their eyes, ready to<br />

shake pear-off when the bell rings. 16 h 56, indicated the<br />

clock. 16 h 57 …<br />

I was dying for the second time but it would be my first off<br />

voluntarily. After all this time spent send people to the<br />

mainland of the dead, had come the day to go there myself!<br />

I was sure to fail and died for good but I had no choice. The<br />

concern to save Rose was before all other considerations.<br />

16 h 57 and 10 seconds. My hands are sweating on the<br />

press.


16 h 57 and 43 seconds. On both sides of me, Freddy and<br />

Stefania are particularly serene. We have several After<br />

repeated pool our respective positions for<br />

form the choreography ideal that will allow me to go very<br />

further if necessary. With the figures he has developed,<br />

Freddy think we can reach the fifth wall comatose. For my<br />

part, I intend to catch Rose before Moch 5. I have no<br />

experience flying interstellar.<br />

16 h 58 and 3 seconds. The room off is immersed in a dark<br />

clean us calm. Gregorian chants rise slowly. Now I<br />

understand what effect soothing the music may have for<br />

Thanatonautes to sail.<br />

16 h 58 and 34 seconds. Suddenly the door opens. A<br />

silhouette appears in silhouette. I recognize it. Raoul. In he<br />

shoot my baptism of death? No, I launches a flash and then,<br />

without hesitation, put on an outfit white and goes to a ball<br />

flight. It is placed as we in the lotus position and takes in his<br />

hand a lever boosters.<br />

16 h 58 and 56 seconds. The door opens again. A slender<br />

figure with blonde hair for a moment flooded the outside<br />

light is directed in turn to a throne. As Raoul, like me,<br />

Amanda has never off. She is going to do now to Rose. For<br />

me.<br />

She picks up one of our uniforms. This is the first time


outside of his marriage, I see white. I installing the various<br />

devices and crashes in the arm the needle to inject the<br />

liquid death.<br />

16 h 59 and 20 seconds. I smile. I really best of friends. If<br />

it’s in hard times that recognize them, well, then I agree.<br />

The presence of me gives strength. How lucky I am to have<br />

known!<br />

I really the best of friends.<br />

17 hours 00 minutes and 2 seconds. First arpeggios of<br />

Bach toccata. It’s like a bell supposed to open the gate of<br />

heaven. Sesame toccata, let up there, we do we ran up<br />

against not an impenetrable wall.<br />

17 hours 00 minutes and 25 seconds.<br />

- Ready? asks Freddy around. Twenty-eight votes to meet<br />

the same time: Loan How many times have I heard that<br />

word without being concerned!<br />

Rabbi count:<br />

- Six … five … four … three … two … - Do not ask, “But<br />

what I do i… “Bite the bullet. Tighten the buttocks. - Two …<br />

one. Off! Of my sweaty hands, I press the pear boosters. Th<br />

meaning the liquid frozen flow into my veins, and … I die!<br />

191 - Eastern Philosophy


“Your fear of death is just the thrill of the shepherd when he<br />

stands before the king whose hand will rest on him to honor<br />

him. The shepherd rejoices it not under his shake it wear<br />

the insignia of the King? And yet! Is not aware of the<br />

earthquake?<br />

For what is death if not to stand naked in the wind and melt<br />

in the sun?<br />

And what does stop breathing if not free the breath its tides<br />

anxious for it to rise and seek God without hindrance?<br />

Only when you drink from the river of silence you sing really.<br />

And when you reach the top of the mountain, you will finally<br />

begin to rise. And when the land claim your limbs while you<br />

dance Really? “<br />

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

192 - LA-UP<br />

Stefania is right: as long as we is not dead, we can not<br />

know what it is.<br />

It is impossible to describe with words. Yet I try to share<br />

these emotions as I I felt. Be aware, however (if you are


never died before) that my words will do touched reality.<br />

314<br />

Some feelings are indescribable, and these feelings, I them<br />

all felt that day, that day when I left to try to save my wife<br />

before she was caught by the Continent Ultimate I had so<br />

many studied.<br />

When pressed the button off, my first impression is that<br />

nothing happens. But then, strictly nothing I even want to get<br />

up and announce to the round experience has failed and<br />

must try something else. I hesitate for fear of ridiculing me,<br />

and I decided to wait five minutes if an event occurs last. I<br />

am a novice, but the others know. If they do not move not, is<br />

that everything is normal.<br />

I yawn. No doubt the effect of anesthetics to me gives the<br />

impression of being a little drunk. My head is spinning. I<br />

strive to keep my back straight as advised eternally<br />

Stefania.<br />

My last conscious thought is for Rose and I Again, I must<br />

save her. Now I know I will die. A memory comes back to<br />

me. I was still very small and was the first time I rode a roller<br />

coaster. To Initially, the truck slowly climbed the slope.


Once is at the top, you think you had better be elsewhere<br />

and have to go down before it’s too late. Already, however,<br />

the truck rushes forward, girls howl of terror or joy, and<br />

closes his eyes in prayer for this torture stops as soon as<br />

possible. It does not stop. We won the right, then<br />

immediately reduced to left loops upside down, we are on<br />

the verge of fall into the void and we say that the worst is<br />

that we paid to suffer so many frights!<br />

Okay, so I go to sleep quietly. I feel lighter. Very light. I feel<br />

that if I wanted, I could float as a feather, and I see that<br />

indeed … I float as a feather! At least a part of my body<br />

there try, as if the other instinctively refused to leave of life. I<br />

just love Rose with all my heart, death frightens me terribly. I<br />

do not want to leave as it’s my apartment, my<br />

neighborhood, my pub, my friends.<br />

Although my friends and especially my principal friend, are<br />

all there, accompanying me in this terrible ordeal.<br />

All I feel, Raoul feels. All my fears, he must share them.<br />

Suddenly, something strange happens. A lump rises from<br />

the top of my head, tending my scalp in the extreme. How to<br />

prevent this monstrosity? My heart beats so slowly that I can<br />

move. I watch helplessly, childbirth the top of my head of<br />

another self, unknown so far. My conscience balance. Will<br />

she down with to me sitting cross-legged or leave does


with me, he climbed my head?<br />

I push, pull, pulling it out.<br />

Vertigo. Fuzzy. Disappearance of the notion of time.<br />

Ministry my every move takes a century. In reality, it is surely<br />

only a fraction of a second. Exhilaration. A horn out of my<br />

skull. Specifically, a horn ending with a head. My head. My<br />

“other” head. I’m like split in two. Double and even time to<br />

be totally erased. I die when the horn continues to grow,<br />

beautiful, white, transparent.<br />

Now she has two arms hanging over my fontanelles for<br />

better release of my skull. In her top, mouth open in a moan<br />

noise. My second head cries by delivering of my body. As a<br />

birth. My physical body gives birth of my soul. Glare.<br />

Tingling. Pain and pleasure. In turn, I see the world with my<br />

eyes always with the eyes of my soul. My soul observed<br />

especially what is happening in my back.<br />

I see, scared, we’re both in my mortal coil. The “other”<br />

continues to emerge. It is over a horn but a vague ball<br />

stretched. I see and sees me.<br />

Incredible, the effects of decorporation!<br />

My “me” hesitates between lurking in my body or it<br />

go to the ball which grow in this leg.


“Go,” close my body to my soul. “Pars”<br />

exhorted me to myself. I think back to Rose, to all my<br />

friends around<br />

I risking their lives to help me and, in an effort<br />

will, j’ancre my conscience in being transparent springing<br />

from the top of my head. I am another. Other in my new<br />

body transparent.<br />

Flash.<br />

Ectoplasm, I became an ectoplasm. The balloon After my<br />

skull reproduces faithfully the form my head is extended by<br />

my neck transparent, my shoulders transparent, my torso<br />

transparent, my arms transparent my pond clear, my legs<br />

and feet transparents. I’m like unmolded! Such a long<br />

intestine crumpled and twisted, rope transparent hanging<br />

from my navel I connect to a type far down, sitting on a chair<br />

lotus position. And the funny thing is that this type at the<br />

bottom, well, that’s me!<br />

I became a soul and I see arise from other surrounding<br />

spurting of skulls and foreheads. We are forty to float just<br />

under the ceiling of thanatodrome and now I really want to<br />

go higher.<br />

Freddy, very comfortable in his role as veteran space,<br />

beckons us to rise. Follow the blind! Okay, but the ceiling


… It has already crossed the ceiling, monitoring of<br />

religious, Raoul and Amanda on their heels. Th am now<br />

alone to contemplate forty body stiffened like so many<br />

statues soft. How to imitate others? I am not a pass-wall but<br />

I’m afraid to dwell and, far from all. Arming myself with all<br />

my courage, I close my eyes and transparent hop, passes<br />

through ceilings, floors, climb floor by floor, and already is<br />

the terrace the roof.<br />

The others are there waiting for me. Together, we elevons.<br />

Paris from above, it’s great! I contemplate the Notre Dame<br />

when a supersonic aircraft darkens on us. Too late to avoid<br />

it but who cares? It pierces without damage our ethereal<br />

bodies. By the way, I look at the levers of the cockpit and<br />

the entrails of a Pilot Fantastic, I scanned a jet!<br />

Freddy me from my wonder. We must hurry if we do not<br />

want to miss Rose. In fact, we arrive too late in the vertical<br />

of the hospital Saint-Louis.<br />

Rose has already passed and is now between us and the<br />

Continent Ultimate.<br />

It’s my fault that we missed. With my hesitations to the<br />

ceiling, I slowed down the whole team. Always command,<br />

Freddy tells us to go for any the power of our thought. We<br />

drive well to three times the speed of light, doubling


sunshine of radius the sun. Bzzz … One passes Jupiter,<br />

Saturn, Pluto, Uranus, Neptune and bzzz … is the empty<br />

space!<br />

Fortunately, the ectoplasm are sensitive nor lack of oxygen<br />

or the laws of gravity, do not feel hungry or thirsty. We know<br />

that reigns here a temperature icy but it did neither hot nor<br />

cold. The ectoplasm is the mode of transport of the future!<br />

The soul knows no obstacle, breaks all speed records and<br />

do risk (with rare exceptions like our ancient wars religion)<br />

practically no accident.<br />

I enjoy cross the small space ship hijacked by Russian<br />

cosmonauts left the discovery of the black hole center of<br />

our galaxy, after Rose was revealed. The crew evidently<br />

ignorant my signs of collusion.<br />

Before me, the rabbis urge him to hurry. Okay, but how do<br />

you accelerate? Easy, Just think about it. Everything is so<br />

new, so strange, so unknown my narrow islands of<br />

imagination.<br />

Stefania smiled. It may be transparent, but like others, I fully<br />

agree. We veins side by side, between stars and planets.<br />

On my right is as Raoul, Amanda and Freddy. Our entire<br />

squadron of ectoplasm Thanatonautes flying, plane, fuse to<br />

the Continent Ultimate.


Soon, I saw Rose. It is there, far ahead and yes, it goes<br />

straight to … death. Death evidenced by a large<br />

multicolored halo: the entrance of the hole black. In fact, for<br />

a black hole, the place is pretty bright! All around the<br />

corolla, planets and stars sucked is collide in a magical<br />

fireworks shaped galaxy swirling. The stars have not yet<br />

been swallowed, as a result speed which causes the<br />

bottom of the black hole becomes<br />

pink, then white, then red, purple, burst into rosettes,<br />

flowers in dew drops bright. Light, yet so fast, here is<br />

deflected. The rays are bent, rounded, dance before being<br />

diverted by the magnet absolute.<br />

Magic show, but to overcome quickly.<br />

Around us, the dead of day rush to the attractive light,<br />

snatching hastily their cords umbilicals. The Rose slams<br />

with others. One moment, ” I think that everything is ruined.<br />

No, Freddy think is possible to recover it. It beckons us,<br />

however, much care to preserve our own leads.<br />

Our fleet is regrouping to better weave, in accordance<br />

indications of Freddy. That reassures me a bit. It’s like<br />

engaging in a difficult climb, but pledged a good string of<br />

recall.<br />

Our group slides together in the gaping mouth of what is a<br />

Black hole Its diameter is huge: millions of km, probably!


The closer we get, the more the halo of light grows,<br />

revealing other circles inside. Felix had reason: it’s not a<br />

crown but a funnel. We differs from sinking into a corridor<br />

walls that do ceases to stretch.<br />

I stretch my arms towards transparent Rose, far.<br />

We reach a beach. Around and in front there like a sea of<br />

neon blue, barely illuminated by a sparkling sunset. In<br />

addition to mph, I is approaching waves. By the way, they<br />

send me a soft power, comforting and invigorating. I am<br />

here. I’m better than anywhere else before.<br />

I then a scary thought: Rose is right to darken, we are<br />

wrong to want to return to the world.<br />

I was shaking. My wife comes out of my field of vision. We<br />

rush our pace with our thought. S one of us thinks and<br />

everyone knows what in the mind.<br />

I accelerate again. This huge country, I would nevertheless<br />

willingly traveled for days at leisure and<br />

months. I had never seen such crazy sensations. car :<br />

racing motorcycle, the highest diving board, nothing beats<br />

this intoxication of victory and speed.<br />

I sink, I sink, I slip, I pour out to the source central


illumination. A splendid force invades my transparent body.<br />

I like the sea sparkles us around them. Of dazzling lights<br />

flash on my nails translucent.<br />

The dead are many days of the entry of the vortex. I find<br />

difficult to Rose in the crowd.<br />

We enter with him into the flower corolla star. She is such<br />

that I have seen so many times in comic dictation from<br />

previous Thanatonautes. Everything turns, while we aspire.<br />

Freddy rushes in an attempt to seize Rose before it<br />

crosses the first wall but comatose it goes too fast. If his<br />

followers had not retained the cord of the rabbi, he would<br />

have broken.<br />

Rose disappears.<br />

Realizing that I have the jitters, Raoul seized me by the<br />

hand with our Strip I spend a Moch. Help! A giant monster<br />

emerges immediately. The woman in dress<br />

Satin white skeleton mask floats in space black as an<br />

airship in a horror movie. His laughter strident deafened<br />

me. I’m like a gnat to this being ten and one hundred and<br />

one thousand times larger than for me?<br />

The woman in white satin has a gorgeous body. It raises<br />

her dress, revealing long legs of a perfect curve it stretches<br />

luxuriously. His chest swells tiny and her cleavage hints at<br />

the birth of her breasts.


She is always laughing, asking me to get lost in the folds of<br />

her white satin gown. The skeleton mask stares at me<br />

watching my reactions while it shrinks as get better within<br />

my reach.<br />

Now it is more reasonable size, I want to try to snatch. My<br />

hands to soar the edges of the mask. Sharp, they squirt of<br />

my fingers a transparent and sticky blood. Despite my<br />

disgust, I do not release my grip. I draw all my strength.<br />

Behind this mask there is something essential that I need to<br />

find at any price. Behind the mask of the skeleton woman<br />

that attracts me so much? Amandine? Rose? My mother?<br />

Raoul? My death, this I study to compensate for dead I<br />

know not what is missing? An arm rises slowly. Very slowly,<br />

he removes the Mask #:<br />

The mask is almost removed. And I see …<br />

Amazing what’s behind that mask! So unexpected! And yet<br />

so simple …<br />

193 - BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY<br />

“Here, monks, holy Truth about removing pain:<br />

The extinction of this thirst is effected by the destruction Full<br />

of desire, by banishing the desire, by renouncing in<br />

delivering it, in leaving him no space.


Here, monks, the holy truth of the path the elimination of<br />

pain, this is sacred path with eight branches which are<br />

called pure faith, pure will, pure language, pure action,<br />

livelihood pure, pure application, memory pure, pure<br />

meditation. “<br />

Buddha, Speech Benares.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

194 - death in the face<br />

I step back and become very small. Ectoplasm freezes my<br />

astonishment. The blood stops squirt of my fingers.<br />

Behind the mask of a skeleton, there is a skeleton. Another<br />

skull. The woman in white satin is the hard to discover one<br />

another, then another and another still She rejects and over<br />

a hundred, as many identical representations of death.<br />

Death, this is it. Death is death is death is death is death<br />

and nothing else.<br />

The being or thing becomes daunting. His legs transformed<br />

into tentacles that imprison me. I debates do my best. As I<br />

now understand the terror of Bresson!


- You will regret being up here! exclaims the skeleton, with<br />

new laughter. And as it becomes masked woman, I see the<br />

fingers pink rot, flesh rot, putrefy. Two indexes do manage<br />

to cross my face in ectoplasmic trying to poke my eyes out.<br />

Suddenly, I have before me a spider covered white satin.<br />

Telepathically, I try magic formulas for get rid of it. “Vade<br />

retro Satanas. “In vain. We think of the litany of fear of<br />

Dune. I pronounce it: “I will not know fear. Fear is the little<br />

death that leads to total obliteration. I will face my fear. I<br />

would will pass over me, through me. And when it is over, I<br />

will turn my inner eye on his way. And where it is over, there<br />

will be nothing. Just me. “<br />

I close my eyes and mentally repeat each phrase. The<br />

laughter stops and the woman in white bubbles exploding in<br />

Bright.<br />

Only one remains. This is the central light that we shows the<br />

way. With this clarity, I see in shadow silhouettes of my<br />

friends. I agree with them. All fought their monster. Their<br />

personal monster.<br />

Freddy confirms this: we spent a Moch. And Rose is still far<br />

ahead.<br />

After the first wall comatose, the color changes. Ministry<br />

changes to violet blue and brown. There are hints of black.


Is it the shades of hell?<br />

We slow down our race while, as the hailstones of unusual<br />

storm, bubble-based memories on us.<br />

The corridor twists, turns into spring. I travel always toward<br />

the light of death trying not to<br />

pay attention to their bites. What impression of force No<br />

twenty minutes out of my soul my flesh and I’m already<br />

hundreds of light years.<br />

No sense of loss, much less depletion. I just simply leaving<br />

a rusty armor. I thought this armor protected me. In fact, she<br />

compressing the soul, breath, intelligence.<br />

With this armor, I cashed blows, convinced that inscribe my<br />

wounds there than just scratches. Wide despises.<br />

Everything touched my sensitive roots. Every time of my<br />

life, I saw one by one. Paradoxically, those I have received<br />

have left fewer traces than those I have given. My soul is<br />

like a tree which would be engraved the knife of words and<br />

memories.<br />

Everything happens very quickly. I remember my birth, my<br />

mother force feed me, my father gave me vertigo only fun<br />

and forcing me to play the plane, my first outbreaks of<br />

pimples and the shame they caused me, my car accident,<br />

the slaughter of prisoners Fleury-Merogis, Felix driven to<br />

suicide, the crowd of the Palace Congress booing me, the


hate mail, letters threats, and my perpetual guilt. “Assassin!<br />

Murderer ! “I throw in the faces of men I’ve forgotten to the<br />

name. “Assassin, assassin, assassin, assassin,” I repeat<br />

an inner voice. “You killed one hundred and twenty to three<br />

innocent people. ” “Sorry, Michael, but you are not the my<br />

kind of man. “The bad memories mingle for old nightmares.<br />

On balance, I prefer the meeting with the woman in white<br />

satin gown. Too bad, I face my spent in the most honest.<br />

Rose is also hampered by the hail of bullessouvenirs. I<br />

should perhaps an opportunity to catch up. Th approached<br />

with great difficulty, struggling against storm of my own life. I<br />

am making progress though. That’s it, I almost joined.<br />

Telepathically (as well expressed the ectoplasm), I<br />

launched: “We are come to help you get you down. “She<br />

did pays no attention. She found her first love. This is an<br />

American astronomer. When he dropped,<br />

she sought to resume pursuing the same studies him. Rose<br />

than I had ever spoken. - “Now?” I understand better many<br />

of his feelings.<br />

She discusses with the memories of her lover. He said he<br />

was bored with it. He said that in a couple, the Most<br />

important is to never get bored. She was gentle and kind,<br />

of course, but it brought him nothing special. That’s why he


left her.<br />

In tears, Rose fled. I have not had the time to not swear, you<br />

never get bored with it that, already, she through the second<br />

wall comatose.<br />

I can not run after her. Freddy holds me by my silver cord.<br />

He reminds me that the purpose of this expedition is to all<br />

go live on earth and that if I too rushed, I will break my cord<br />

and not be able or Rose rescue or turn around.<br />

Freddy, Stefania, Raoul and Amandine holding my hands,<br />

Moch 2 we spend together.<br />

Stefania has certainly often extolled the pleasures of the<br />

country red but I never imagined so many fantasies and<br />

perversions of reality! Another Amandine, Amandine the I<br />

have so long desired, is presented in corset and fishnet<br />

stockings and tries embraced me. I am looking for as an<br />

escape Amandine true but it surrenders in the arms of a<br />

handsome Adonis black prominent muscles.<br />

Boys caress Raoul, I had never thought he could repress<br />

homosexual tendencies. Accustomed places, Stefania took<br />

the opportunity to mingle moment a gang of girls who know<br />

the most inner springs of a woman’s body. On the bench<br />

back of a Rolls Royce, Rose is engaged to a prince of fairy<br />

tales.<br />

I want to get her but Amanda of my fantasies, whose long


lond hair contrasts with his black leather clothing, grabs<br />

his face and plunges between warm her breasts while<br />

laughing like a devil.<br />

For his part, Freddy is surrounded by a harem of women<br />

Arabs, all wearing a sparkling diamond in the navel. A a, a<br />

daisy as a stripper, it deprives them of their silk veils.<br />

Where did we go screw us? Amandine in my dream I<br />

caress the neck from the end of her eyelashes she does<br />

beat very fast. A butterfly nervous tickles me of his long<br />

wings of silk. So I had this fantasy that? This is delicious.<br />

Amanda smiled at me with a look of the most rogues. Then,<br />

with her mouth, she …<br />

195 - police files


Note to the services concerned<br />

A group of experienced Thanatonautes took off this<br />

morning. There is still mired in the second area. Should we<br />

intervene?


Response services affected<br />

No, not yet.<br />

196 - BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY<br />

“If, despite our virtues we have an unhappy life, this is due<br />

to our bad past karma. If despite our wickedness we have<br />

a happy life, this is also due to our past karma. Our present<br />

actions will have to turn all their consequences at the<br />

earliest opportunity possible. “<br />

Narada Thera, Doctrine of the Renaissance.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

197 - IN THE CLOUDS<br />

… She chews the ears. But it’s still us I like (it) I love even<br />

that. Especially on the upper. And then the lobe. And neck<br />

as well. No neck. On the other hand, I like the tip of the<br />

shoulders. She knows it. She now knows. all about my<br />

sensuality! She benefits. Abused. Then I Amandine dream,<br />

becoming more bold, I …<br />

But tearing the houris, Freddy fights the recall and we


to overcome our inner sex drive. We shake against each<br />

other by standing mutually our umbilical cords. Beside me,<br />

a Taoist monk did not lead off. He knows that we are<br />

moving towards territories beautiful but dangerous.<br />

Many times we try to catch Rose. In vain. It has already<br />

crossed 3 Moch and joined the crowd of the dead in waits<br />

Like her, we enter the country orange. The line the dead<br />

stretches out of sight. Some are surprised to We always<br />

see off our leads. What’s it that these strange visitors from<br />

the world of life for visit the continent of the dead? Most,<br />

however, is not interested in us.<br />

I am looking for Rose in the crowd.<br />

There is whole battalions of soldiers killed in alien wars,<br />

victims of devastating epidemics, of road accident victims<br />

in shambles. The dead, the dead, still dead, of all races<br />

and all countries. Lepers, sentenced to death electrocuted,<br />

the roasters red lights, of tortured political fakirs imprudent<br />

for chronic constipation, explorers poisoned arrows in<br />

curare, swimmers underwater that too teased the shark,<br />

marines, of ethyl frantic and paranoid who fled their<br />

imaginary enemies through the window of the ninth floor of<br />

jumpers bungee which the elastic was too much of<br />

volcanologists too curious, myopic who have not seen the<br />

truck approaching, the presbyopia who have not seen the<br />

ravine, of astigmatism that have not recognized the


tarantula, high school students who did not understand a<br />

viper, it does not look like a snake.<br />

We overturning everyone.<br />

“Rose, Rose”, issues I language telepathic.<br />

Several women named Rose is back. Of Rose full of thorns,<br />

spikes or spite. Like those of others, their ectoplasm tells<br />

their story. A victim of a jealous husband, a peasant<br />

surprise in a wheel hay by a vengeful father, an old woman<br />

who died without<br />

used his wealth squander already his grandchildren …<br />

I grew among other dead. Deaths, deaths, still dead. Drugs<br />

in overdose, women too battered sliders on banana skins,<br />

the colds unlucky smokers époumonés, marathon runners<br />

winners, Formula 1 drivers who have missed the turn of<br />

pilots who missed the runway, tourists who imagined that<br />

Harlem was fine-much more picturesque in the evening,<br />

fans of vendettas family, discoverers of the virus<br />

unpublished drinkers water in the Third World, the ball boys<br />

lost, collectors of mines from the Second World War<br />

racketeers jackets that fell on the police leave, thieves car<br />

bomb.<br />

There are also riders who were convinced that there was


enough room to double the truck up the hill, truckers who<br />

gave a great swerve to avoid a motorcycle just up the<br />

coast, hitchhikers who saw suddenly, just up a hill, a<br />

motorcycle to graze and a truck they go for it.<br />

Of liver transplant patients discuss with heart transplant.<br />

Children criticize their parents who have not yet found while<br />

playing hide and seek, they had just hidden in the<br />

refrigerator.<br />

No tension between the dead. Here reign of universal<br />

peace. Bosnians coexist with amenity of the Serbs. Clans<br />

Corsican reconcile. A shipwrecked sea talks with a<br />

wrecked space.<br />

Freddy reminds us that we have no time to lost in<br />

distractions. We gather around him, ready for the figure we<br />

have repeated in the laboratory. Supporting each other<br />

striving to maintain our umbilical cords, we are building a<br />

pyramid. To top, Freddy, Raoul and Amandine keep me on<br />

their shoulders.<br />

I communicate to Rose that we are here to make Come<br />

back home. “What for? “She replies. It believes that the<br />

time has come. You have to know to end the existence and<br />

is satisfied with her end: she died after<br />

have passed his life. She left when she was happy and that


the project succeeds. What more could you ask for!<br />

I retorted that she died before having a child and that, I want<br />

a child with her. She retaliates by me recalling a sentence<br />

of Stefania “The problem is that people are needed on this<br />

earth and are unable to give up everything, what pride! “<br />

She believes that the world is sufficiently populated to she<br />

did not regret to leave no descendants. Finally, never to<br />

listen to my exhortations, it takes his legs around his neck<br />

and plays elbows to exceed the Mass of the dead pending.<br />

My wife and we after him pass and the fourth Wall<br />

comatose and win the land of knowledge.<br />

Without asking, I learned why E = mc2 and I think it’s great.<br />

I understand why humanity tears in constant wars. I even<br />

see where hidden the keys to my car I’m looking for so for a<br />

long time to come.<br />

I get lots of answers to questions that I do ‘ve never asked.<br />

How, for example, one can keep the bubbles in a bottle of<br />

champagne nothing by introducing a silver spoon in the<br />

neck. ca it’s always been for me a great mystery!)<br />

I understand that we must accept without complaint the<br />

world as it is and without judging anyone. I understand that<br />

the only ambition of a human can only seek to continually<br />

improve. My mind expands in to blow my brains out. I am<br />

aware of all of life, beings and things. - It is nice to just


Understanding As Adam had to be happy in crunch the<br />

apple of knowledge and Newton in the receiving of head!<br />

Ah yes, the meeting with the knowledge may be tested the<br />

most difficult of all.<br />

I advance in knowledge. The general knowledge and little<br />

knowledge. Absolute knowledge and expertise relative.<br />

Suddenly I stop, struck by a revelation: I never liked. Of<br />

course, I experienced compassion, tenderness. I<br />

warmed up with my friends, people with whom I enjoy being<br />

and talking. But do I really loved? Am I only able to love? To<br />

love someone outside myself and that is not me? I tell<br />

myself that I am certainly not alone in this case and they are<br />

certainly Many, humans who have never really loved, but it’s<br />

not a reason. I do not see no excuse or consolation. The<br />

experience of death have me at least open eyes to an idea<br />

that had always seemed tainted foolish sentimentality: you<br />

must love to be happy.<br />

Love is the greatest act of selfishness, the best gift you can<br />

afford to own. And for now, I’ve never been able!<br />

And Rose? After all I thought I loved, because I’m dead for<br />

her. In fact, I do not like it enough. Rose, if I pull there, if we<br />

draw from, I’ll knock you down with my love. On the<br />

immense love and free! The poor, it surprisingly, surely it is<br />

happening. There is nothing of as scary a great love


suddenly delivered by someone who has always tried to<br />

moderate his feelings. It will be scary and yet delicious! As I<br />

can not wait to tell him that I am able to understand what it<br />

means to truly love!<br />

I accelerate my flight and the other too. Rose is at the end<br />

the tunnel. After, like us, is full of knowledge, it crosses the<br />

fifth wall comatose and between in the country of great<br />

beauty.<br />

Flop!<br />

What a shock!<br />

After facing fear, desire, time, knowledge, Here is the<br />

beautiful country green, flowers, plants, its splendid trees<br />

shimmering like wings Butterfly. How even describe the<br />

indescribable? I see a perfect female face, I flat above his<br />

body and it turns into flower petals stained glass a<br />

cathedral. In clear lakes, fish for long fins crystal us smile.<br />

Gazelles grenadine hop over the Northern Lights.<br />

These are not hallucinations. The ideal beauty back<br />

to the surface all my memories of beauty and leads to their<br />

peak. My companions also have their own visions.<br />

Butterflies black fluorescent flutter around Raoul. Dolphins<br />

silver play around Stefania. Freddy is surrounded by young


fawns green and white on the back cover of foam.<br />

Somewhere heard the Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun<br />

by Claude Debussy. Beauty is also Music And perfumes, I<br />

feel around like odor light and menthol.<br />

Front, Rose slows down and then goes again to the<br />

attractive central light that captivates me too as its waves<br />

are positive.<br />

My wife comes and the sixth wall. Moch 6. That no<br />

Thanatonautes in the world is yet to come to overcome!<br />

As she hurries, she no cord interferes Moreover, in its<br />

course into the unknown!<br />

Floup!<br />

It is the other side. She is in the Terra incognito!<br />

Freddy tells us that we must now change our position. It<br />

requires a broad base continuing with a fine point. He tells<br />

us that only he and I will try the passage. Him because he is<br />

experienced by all, me, because I am only able to convince<br />

my wife to return.<br />

Raoul encourages me.<br />

Come! Straight ahead, straight into the unknown! 198 - Sufi<br />

philosophy


“I come from the soul which is the origin of all souls I am of<br />

this city is the city of those without City :<br />

…………………………………. The path of this city has no<br />

end, go, losing all [You have, that is what is the whole.<br />

In the sea of fidelity, I dissolved like salt<br />

I only no impiety, no faith, no confidence, no doubt<br />

330<br />

In my heart shines a star<br />

And the star then hidden the seven heavens. “<br />

Rubai Yat, Jalal od Din Rumi.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

199 - here we are<br />

Freddy amazes me. He moves without complex to this<br />

border that no human has ever reached. Ministry cord<br />

excessively stretched, he advanced boldly, and I dragging<br />

its feet. I’m a little tired of the surprises of death. However, I


feel back there lurks the ultimate mystery, the final mystery<br />

of death.<br />

I finally know the secret the most secret. Who has caused<br />

more deaths than … death? Here, behind this curtain,<br />

come to an end all thrillers and all novels of love. Here,<br />

behind this curtain, science fiction joins the fantastic and all<br />

the mythologies of the world merge with the exact science.<br />

I hesitate at first, and then I rush.<br />

Here it is, finally, the last area of the continent Ultimate.<br />

I see it.<br />

One moment I forget Rose. Mystery of mysteries, secret<br />

secrets, never revealed to men, I see you. I see you, I feel<br />

you, I hear you. Here is the end. Here is the graveyard of<br />

Elephants. Here dies the light, all lights, sounds, all sounds.<br />

Souls, all souls. Ideas, all the ideas.<br />

I am in heaven. Millions of celestial music burst in my head.<br />

Debris stars m’adressent of nice farewell. A star dies and a<br />

man who died doing the same path. They go to Paradise. I<br />

walk in the fog, trampling of my feet fluffy a territory<br />

valuable. My arms translucent rise as a hello. My knees<br />

bend to genuflect. I kiss the ground blur. By mistake or out<br />

of love, I am in heaven. And it’s


eautiful! Even more beautiful than all the visions of ideal<br />

beauty the sixth area. They were only reproductions and<br />

imitations. The real beauty of Paradise surpasses them all.<br />

Paradise is my only country, my only home, the only object<br />

of my chauvinism. I am here. I seem to have always been<br />

there, have always known that from there I came and there I<br />

had to go back. On land there, so low I was only passing<br />

through. on vacation. I am an ectoplasm, I’ve never really<br />

been Michael Pinson. I ‘m a pure ectoplasm. I have never<br />

been this sad, this stupid Michael Pinson.<br />

It is so stupid, what type, while my true self is so … light.<br />

The lightweight, this is the cardinal virtue. My ambition is to<br />

remain a vapor thinking. I was attached to the land and my<br />

body. Error youth.<br />

I see Rose and I love much more than on earth. Why fall<br />

back us to our skin narrow, our aching body and our minds<br />

filled with worries staggering? We are both here. We no<br />

longer afraid of the time. We no longer fear nothing<br />

I do not care Thanatonautes waiting for me at the door<br />

of Paradise. They are stupid to stay there. Me, I found<br />

my country and my world. Revelation of the revelations. I’m<br />

in my source. I see the real sun. Besides, the other one


Terran, I think yellow. White, true white,<br />

pure white is in Paradise.<br />

I am in heaven. I came to preserve Rose<br />

What a mockery!<br />

The fog scatters. Beneath me is the long line of<br />

dead. It forms like a river, further, seems<br />

to divide. I go down to examine the phenomenon more<br />

closely.<br />

The River of Souls splits into effect in four branches, and<br />

in the middle of human souls, I see now<br />

souls of animals and even plants. No doubt the Paradise<br />

has he a second door through which they are<br />

engulfed. There anemones and marine algae,<br />

bears and roses. Plants also have a soul. I<br />

know, because now I understand everything.<br />

Syncretism absolute. We are all interdependent and,


on earth, all together, we have suffered. You have to live<br />

avoiding violence. Do not do violence to others whatever<br />

their nature, do not get either violence. The law of existence<br />

penetrates me to the end of my toes. So I was just that, a<br />

man ignorant dedicated to up one day in Paradise gauge<br />

his ignorance.<br />

The river, carrying human souls and animal plant is divided<br />

into four parts. What works crammed into the office of<br />

Raoul evoked they ever a country irrigated by four rivers?<br />

The Hindus spoke of the Jews find Sentences of the<br />

memory of Raoul me through mind: “Hebrew mythology.<br />

Paradise lies in the seventh celestial sphere. Two doors<br />

provide access. We is invited to dance and rejoice. We<br />

see four rivers, one air, one of honey, one of wine, an<br />

incense … Ministry Paradise is watered by four rivers,<br />

“said also Quran.<br />

Throughout the world to another, the ancients knew and had<br />

used metaphors to describe the same pay-Sage<br />

Four rivers. Four subdivisions. Four types of souls, not only<br />

the good and evil, rather four tones as the bass, midrange,<br />

treble and shrill. Four ways to be a soul.<br />

Next Rose, Freddy and I go back the four rivers of the<br />

deceased. And suddenly I see the angels.<br />

200 - Christian Philosophy


“The Blessed will then clearly the solution of mysteries<br />

which reason asserted here on earth with truth and docile<br />

submission of faith. The Trinity, the Incarnation, redemption,<br />

the hidden laws of providence in the government souls in<br />

the government of the world in its action on the people<br />

whose history is too often wind for us or a riddle or a long<br />

scandal. They know the economy supernatural ways of God<br />

to<br />

the sanctification of His elect and the infinite wonders of the<br />

essence of the Godhead. “<br />

Bishop Elias Meric.<br />

Extract your thesis Death the unknown, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

201 - AT THE END<br />

By far, one would think of fireflies.<br />

The angels.<br />

I know immediately that it is them.<br />

Angels of Paradise.<br />

The show was worth the trip.


Freddy takes me to the shoulders, shook me like a plum. I<br />

shouted that we vowed to bring Rose the land of the living,<br />

not to stay with her to the continent of dead. I beg to<br />

remember my mission. He caught all my thoughts just now.<br />

We understand so fast, between ectoplasm!<br />

The rabbi speaks and takes me back to reason. Delirium is<br />

Done Death, I’ve already defeated under your form of<br />

woman white satin, you will not seduce me ever, even<br />

appearing to me like a paradise.<br />

Freddy is happy. He is conscious of having brought the<br />

quiet in my mind. Even the Paradise will be less powerful<br />

my will. I know who I am. A pure soul and a body flesh, for<br />

the time not yet separated. I am spirit and matter and mind<br />

must remain stronger than the material. I have to keep the<br />

balance between heart and reason.<br />

I know who I am. I know who we are. No two among other<br />

souls, but two Thanatonautes mission. We are not dead,<br />

but of the living can to explore the Continent Ultimate and<br />

back. And we are here to save Rose.<br />

We follow the branch “honey” the river of the dead.<br />

We mingle with them. The dead are watching with<br />

amazement because we still have our cords


umbilicals. I do not know why I have not yet broken<br />

but in any event shall hold good.<br />

334<br />

The four lines are very long. You might think at the counter<br />

of an airport busy during the summer.<br />

In loud, I scream “Rose! Rose! “And an old man devoured<br />

by starving her cats receives my call and she tells me in<br />

front. Probably has it already crossed the controls, Is<br />

probably already weighing.<br />

- Yes, he telepath, fatalistic. Some souls are sometimes<br />

favored. They catch and double souls in waiting in the<br />

green country from piles of centuries. Come on why … -<br />

You say it is to weigh? Off course ! In the weighing of his<br />

soul. They will examine what has committed to good and<br />

evil in this life before deciding its next reincarnation. - And<br />

this is where the weigh? - All right. You can not go wrong.<br />

This is straight ahead. 202 - Taoist philosophy<br />

“The Sage loves this life while it lasts and forgets then for<br />

another life. He who is with the soul Universal keeps his<br />

ego wherever he goes.


Fire is the bundle that the soul is to the body. It passes<br />

another bundle as the soul goes to a new body. Ministry fire<br />

spreading without extinguishing it. Life goes on constantly. “<br />

Chuang Tzu.<br />

Extract from the thesis Death the unknown, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

203 - police files


Note to the services concerned<br />

You have refused to intervene to stop them. Now they are<br />

there. Hopefully it’s not too late. To you on your own.


Response services affected<br />

We’ll manage.<br />

204 - THE WEIGHT OF A SOUL<br />

Freddy and I wade into the white mist from human souls,<br />

not human. We go to a valley where the four arms of the<br />

river of the dead come together. The dead are still<br />

advancing towards the light. The angels around them more<br />

closely.<br />

Angels, a priori, they are ectoplasm as you and me. They<br />

do not have umbilical cords, but are wrapped a<br />

phosphorescent halo and driven movements multicolored.<br />

They see us and their halo new and fantastic iridescent<br />

shimmer, as they were able to express their thoughts by<br />

changing just their colors.<br />

They spin up and down and from left to right, the how the<br />

fetus in a mother’s womb, and we ask what we make here<br />

with our cords intact.<br />

- We seek a wife. An angel told me that he is the one that<br />

allows to find what is lost. I describe Rose. It confirms that it<br />

is close to the weighing. He shows me away, overlooking<br />

the valley converge the four arms of the river, a mountain of<br />

light covered with vapor. Is that its summit by the light


central guiding us since our entry into Paradise.<br />

With the dead, we climb the path that leads to light. On the<br />

top, three floating angels get more brighter than the<br />

previous.<br />

- Not like the other angels, whispered Freddy, they are<br />

archangels. In fact, they sparkle, while the crowd of the<br />

dead comes painfully of them slowly. Rabbi Rose shows<br />

me, over us, embedded in In light of the mountain and the<br />

brightness of the archangels. There, on a median strip,<br />

gather the dead on the verge of to appear.<br />

- The following announcement an archangel. The following<br />

is Rose.<br />

336<br />

- Go ahead, convince them to let me press our rabbi. He<br />

can not follow me. It keeps my cord like his, so stretched<br />

that it seems about to break. We are really playing with our<br />

lives. Th must continue alone while he will protect our cords.<br />

I fly to the archangels, almost shouting:<br />

- Wait! Before judging this woman, I must that we, the living,<br />

we do not want it appear before you. The archangel<br />

consider myself no surprises. His voice telepathic is sweet


and reassuring. It seems open to all arguments. This agent<br />

of death has no terrors. It even attempts to comfort me at<br />

the same time as the gathered around the dead.<br />

- Explain. - Rose is dead, victim of a gang of thugs, but it<br />

has nothing to do here. The other two riders are just as<br />

archangels. In this light, they remind me a little of the aliens<br />

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg’s<br />

film.<br />

They ask me what right I would intercede here. They<br />

examine the rabbi behind me and our cords intact.<br />

- You want to bring it back to earth, right? - “Yes. We are<br />

forty live to be fitted up to you to save it. The three<br />

archangels meet for an intense discussion. One displays a<br />

string full of knots transparent and seems to read many<br />

interesting information.<br />

He believes, sees Rose, still discussing with the other and<br />

finally speaks:<br />

- For more than forty people have taken so many risks, you<br />

really have that this woman is still necessary your lower<br />

world. So we allow you to back down but we will make him<br />

the cord if it wishes and the application itself. Rose<br />

hesitated. Now, his fate rests in his hands. I see that his<br />

mind would eventually be happy with the game


of life. Like me just now, it appears that here is his real<br />

country, his only home. At the same time, something in it,<br />

maybe the love she devote myself, fight against feeling.<br />

Around us, people and angels look forward to which side<br />

the balance.<br />

- How lucky to be so adored a mortal! whispers a<br />

Japanese hara-kiri.<br />

A child martyr approval.<br />

An angel points out that this is the first time he sees such<br />

muddle. Another is pleased that we were left up. The<br />

situation is interesting.<br />

Rose stares at the archangels. But they refuse to intervene<br />

in the decision. If it wishes, there will the weighing of his<br />

soul. Otherwise, it is free to return back and to resume the<br />

series of its existence, with its ups and downs, its good and<br />

bad actions. We are solely responsible for its destiny.<br />

From a little higher behind, Freddy is watching us. Of far,<br />

it’s like a wedding in a great cathedral skin. A couple facing<br />

each other, Rose and me behind a long gray line of guests,<br />

and in front of a mountain of light.<br />

Rose takes a step forward towards the archangels, by<br />

doing a second. I hold my breath and suddenly it makes


complete reversal and flows into my arms.<br />

- Excuse me, she said, but I still have much things to do<br />

down. Angels, surprised, change color. The scene, which<br />

presented so far look yellow, becoming bluer. Archangels<br />

we smile, tender. Cherubim small as dragonflies are busy.<br />

An umbilical cord which I can not make the tip springs from<br />

the womb of my wife set out towards the entrance of the<br />

black hole. Rose is reconnected. Again a cord connecting<br />

his soul to his body.<br />

We agree with Freddy. He knows that we have succeeded.<br />

We salute the dead:<br />

- Welcome back to the material world, guys! - They will<br />

need it, sighs a psycho-killer American Grilled on an<br />

electric chair. I, the material world, I would rather die than to<br />

return. If you ask me, life is a vale of tears.<br />

We do not listen.<br />

The return is obviously more fun than one way. We no<br />

longer fear for our umbilical cords. We descend the<br />

mountain of light, drive along the four branches of the river<br />

of the dead, then the river unique. As salmon, we departed<br />

back to the source nor do we leave that to better come<br />

back later.<br />

Behind the sixth wall comatose, all of our friends are there<br />

and applaud mentally our return. All this time, they waited,


anxious to see the extreme tension of our umbilical cords,<br />

fearing that we can not more to turn around.<br />

Raoul, Stefania, Amandine, Chinese monks and rabbis<br />

allowed us to get to the bottom of life and reach the bottom<br />

of death fluttering merrily. We cross territories and Moch.<br />

Parade of beauty, knowledge, patience, pleasure, fear.<br />

We’re almost out of the black hole. Outside, the stars<br />

pulsate miserably compared to the great light over there,<br />

really. We voletons happy when arises suddenly a band of<br />

ectoplasm gallows.<br />

205 - Hindu philosophy<br />

“Man is like a pillow case. A pillowcase can be red, another<br />

black, and so on, but all contain the same cotton. It’s the<br />

same for men: one is beautiful, the other is ugly, a third<br />

stakes a fourth villain, but the same God who is in all. “<br />

Ramakrishna.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

206 - Pepin


We had imagined reconciled with the Old Man of Mountain,<br />

now deprived of its Hashishins done to death and his<br />

Confederates come to their senses. - “Not at all! After:<br />

some politeness in our thanatodrome, natural sound<br />

returned at a gallop. Lack of Thanatonautes Muslims, Now<br />

that the grand alliance was signed between religions, he<br />

rounded up a posse of Thanatonautes Mercenaries.<br />

We launched telepathically that ecumenism is a trap to fall<br />

asleep and allow all faiths Jews better invade Paradise.<br />

Freddy replies that no one owns the Continent Ultimate and<br />

it is normal that priests have agreed to condemn all<br />

violence. The last of Hashishins replied that he knows all<br />

the dirty trick of verbal are capable rabbis and does not let<br />

them take over.<br />

I enjoy his company to locate in the large Martinez our<br />

enemy since childhood, who had gone<br />

candidatthanatonaute the time of slaughter, and we then<br />

refused without our recognition. We hated to this especially<br />

as we had saved from death then some. It’s funny, but<br />

people who have hurt you you want what they have done.<br />

And if you serves them, their hatred knows no bounds.<br />

The mercenaries outnumber us and I very fear. It would be<br />

stupid to die and after such equipped!<br />

But Freddy knows that the Old Man of the Mountain does


not want in fact his own. Precisely because it sought to<br />

them understand and make a friend after the latter had tried<br />

to kill him and his family. The Hashishins reacts exactly like<br />

any Martinez.<br />

To protect ourselves, before we could prevent, Rabbi and<br />

loosens the cord is detached. It attempts a herring.<br />

- Run away quickly, we ordered there. If we stay together,<br />

none of us will return. We are reluctant to abandon it, but his<br />

accents IP Phon<br />

340<br />

ETHICS is so imperative that we end up compliance,<br />

Amandine taking power that wants to fight at all costs<br />

alongside her husband.<br />

Freddy Amanda cries. - Come, let me, I will become a<br />

Lamed Vav. In the manner of a lasso ectoplasmic, it spins<br />

her silver cord while the mercenaries based on in front of<br />

him.<br />

Freddy The wise old man sends us signs soothing. A final<br />

message sounds to our ears: - Go! I reincarnate as soon<br />

as possible. Watch the birth of a child who will bear the


same initials as for me? It will recognize my everyday<br />

objects. Flee and remember you FM! He received blows. It<br />

makes. With his experience wars of Paradise, the old blind<br />

rabbi manages to cut quickly leads some of his assailants<br />

before they cover it.<br />

Correcting himself, Stefania will rush into the crowd. We<br />

follow but it is too late. The Old Man of the Mountain has cut<br />

the cord from Freddy.<br />

A final gesture fatalistic rabbi is drawn in by the Bright. The<br />

mercenaries then return against us.<br />

- You and me against the fools, said Raoul. clinch Amanda<br />

Martinez fight with courage. Rose confronts two hostile<br />

souls. Raoul few charge killers. And I, no luck, I am alone<br />

against the Old Man of the Mountain himself!<br />

The guy does not want me well.<br />

I ducked a few strokes of my best. The other is comfortable<br />

with such a poor opponent than me. He goes umbilical cord<br />

around my neck like choke. He shakes and my soul hurts.<br />

He twisted my rope to the extreme. I expect the crack to me<br />

to return archangels when the grip is released. After being<br />

freed relatively easy to Martinez, Amanda arrived from<br />

behind and cut the cord of the obstinate Hashishins.


The man is terrified of what is happening: a woman has<br />

KO To force people to send in artificial paradises, He<br />

suspects that the real must be less runny. He tries<br />

desperately to resume the shreds of his string of money,<br />

accumulating double knots and knot security. But in death<br />

as in life, there is no joker. The Cats may have nine lives,<br />

but not men. Lost is lost. No node Hashishins does.<br />

Floup!<br />

The Old Man of the Mountain is drawn by light as a bit by a<br />

siphon to drain. Among the mercenaries survivors is the<br />

stampede.<br />

We breathe a sigh of relief. Amandine us beg to try to save<br />

her husband as we have done to Rose, but we all know that<br />

to Freddy, he is too late and we can not.<br />

Sorry, we leave the vortex of Paradise. We came out on the<br />

edge of the flared black hole where the stars their last rays<br />

of incandescent howl of agony before to be sucked.<br />

Descent. ‘re Back the solar system. Slalom between<br />

planets. Hello again the Russian cosmonauts who have<br />

little no progress since our first visit. Crossing a field of<br />

meteorites. Braking near the moon. Already turquoise ball<br />

of earth is looming in our bellies. Here in Europe, here in<br />

France, Paris here. Can not get lost. Your ectoplasmic cord<br />

you back always at your starting point.


Safely above the capital, we dénouons the ours and<br />

raccompagnons ectoplasm Rose to the hospital Saint-<br />

Louis. It sinks into the roof like a marsh. As long as our<br />

getaway him too long has not cause irreversible damage!<br />

We, we return to thanatodrome. To say that my alter ego<br />

remained there, sitting quietly, while I myself up to so many<br />

tricks!<br />

We cross the roof, floor, floors, we return to our body pain.<br />

My ectoplasm and my mortal coil are facing<br />

face. The translucent and colorful. Solid and vaporous. The<br />

light and heavy. It is now important to pick up. I go into me<br />

like a thick ski overalls padded. No one taught me how to<br />

return to his old skin. I improvise. Just in case, I go through<br />

the top of my head since that’s where I came.<br />

It’s not so pleasant to find his body flesh. I feel once my<br />

rheumatism, my sores, my itching, my cavities, in short, all<br />

those little evils that persecute you all the time.<br />

Here I met again to myself. We are more than my body and<br />

my soul. My toes are invaded tingling.<br />

Slowly I raise my eyelids. I rediscovered the “normal” world,<br />

in which “normal” world, the first thing I see is the display of<br />

the electrocardiogram and its small peaks. My heartbeat is<br />

réaccélèrent gradually.


When we are all delivered straight, I hasten to call the<br />

hospital. Exactly, they would call me. The Doctors are<br />

excited. Miraculously, there was a miracle! Rose has<br />

suddenly awakened. She has all her - onsciousness - It is<br />

well.<br />

I agree with the others, sadly gathered around the chair<br />

where Freddy lies, gaping mouth, as if to We repeat the<br />

initials of the child in which he will be reincarnated.<br />

FM His glassy eyes for the blind are wide open. Th<br />

approached and gently, tenderly, his eyes closed. Always in<br />

this existence.<br />

THIRD PERIOD: TIME PROFESSIONALS<br />

207 - TEACHING OF THE TAROT<br />

Death is the thirteenth card of the Tarot. It does not a name.<br />

It is in fact a break in the series of images of the tarot. The<br />

first twelve cards are like first twelve hours of the day.<br />

These are “small mysteries “.


After the twelfth hour, noon arises death, and dive into<br />

another dimension, that of “big mysteries, “the other twelve<br />

hours of the day.<br />

In the esoteric meaning deep, the thirteenth arcane means<br />

the death of the profane reborn initiated. The card is not<br />

evil.<br />

If we can not overcome the stage of death, can not<br />

progress.<br />

Meaning of the Tarot de Marseille.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

208 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS


BELIEFS of our ancestors<br />

Survey in Europe in 1981 (end of the second old) on the<br />

beliefs of the people,<br />

classified according to their different faiths. (Source:<br />

Values of our time, Jean Stoetzel, PUF, 1983).<br />

Out of 100 persons Catholics Protestants Not<br />

believe: practitioners On life after death 52 38 13 Paradise<br />

45 43 8 To Hell 30 March 16 At December 21<br />

Reincarnation 23 As the soul separated from the body 66<br />

56 24 In God 87 75 23<br />

History textbook, Basic Course 2 years.<br />

209 - ANGELS<br />

- Believing that there are … angels! And then what?<br />

Rubicon this point, my brother Conrad refused to take. His<br />

skepticism and materialism had been natural under stress.<br />

He refused to advance more% in this delirious modern than<br />

we had named after Thanatonautes.<br />

While the angels, it was a bit hard to swallow. In fact, If<br />

someone had told me before that after death the angels<br />

welcome you, I laughed softly. In any honestly, I could never


elieve half of the half of the tenth of all these things that I<br />

experienced with my senses.<br />

Everything was so “amazing”.<br />

However, admit that the death was a continent was<br />

been for us the most difficult step and we had French<br />

craps. We had admitted to being with a soul capable of<br />

travel. We recognized that this soul was immaterial<br />

Rielle. We recognized that the silver cord connected<br />

our mortal coil. So why not angels?<br />

All religions were referring to one way or<br />

another, after all.<br />

President Lucinda begged us to keep the largest secret of<br />

our recent discoveries. For now, it was important to hide<br />

what we knew from the depths of heaven.


- These angels, what a story! All we needed was than that.<br />

How about God, while you’re there? He felt that we were in<br />

possession of a bomb and the need to delay the effect. The<br />

President then pricked anger upon learning of the<br />

assassination of Rabbi Meyer by Old Man of the Mountain<br />

and his mercenaries.<br />

- What is the turban, which knows only the language of<br />

violence and exclusion? He wants to make the war on the<br />

infidels, up there? We will not allow it hack the paradise. -<br />

He is already dead, said Raoul. There was a terrible duel<br />

But Michael and Amanda have prevailed and killed him. -<br />

No matter, exclaimed Lucinda, behind his desk mahogany,<br />

I head over wars of religion! We are in the twenty-first<br />

century, more than the Middle Ages. We do not tolerate<br />

intolerance forever. Let me do it. 210 - Hindu Mythology<br />

“Man seeks liberation. Repeat the mantra Hare Krishna<br />

thirty-five million of both can be free of the gravest sins,<br />

namely:<br />

- Kill a man of high caste Brahmins; - Steal the property of<br />

others; - Grab the gold; - Sleep with a woman of low caste<br />

pariahs. Would we even repudiated all the rules of Dharma<br />

would be obtained and the purity and liberation. “<br />

Kali, Samtarana Upanisad.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis


Razorbak.<br />

211 - UNITED NATIONS<br />

The following week, Jean Lucinda President the French<br />

Republic, speaks to the UN General Assembly. He insisted<br />

on need to pacify the Continent Ultimate, now that the<br />

346 347<br />

Thanatonautes entered in the customs. After the era of DIY,<br />

the era of medicine, the era of fear, the era of desire,<br />

economic era, the era of astronomy, an era of violence, it<br />

was high time to enter the legal age.<br />

Legislators to take responsibility. The Thanatonautes<br />

should be subject to a charter, with its laws, its<br />

amendments, the code of conduct mandatory. Otherwise,<br />

there would be an eternal Far West over our headers.<br />

- We have already passed two laws Thanatonautes, and<br />

what a result! noticed, disillusioned, the representative of<br />

Equatorial Guinea. - They are inadequate, it is therefore<br />

necessary for new, Lucinda insisted. And in front of<br />

assistance rather distracted, he proposed with force two<br />

articles that would be known thereafter as the third and


fourth laws Thanatonautes.<br />

Article 3. It is prohibited to cut the umbilical cord some<br />

ectoplasm whatsoever. Article 4. Every physical body will<br />

be responsible activities of its ectoplasm.<br />

According to a scale for prison sentences and fines<br />

proportionate to the crimes committed by ectoplasm.<br />

The President of the French Republic was formal: the<br />

Ultimate continent should remain neutral territory, like of<br />

Antarctica. No one should be allowed to fight there or them<br />

to engage in campaigns of ownership.<br />

The Secretary General of the UN agrees with its meaning:<br />

- Heaven is for everyone. If necessary, we send<br />

peacekeepers responsible for maintaining peace and<br />

ensure the free flow of dead and Thanatonautes. A murmur<br />

of astonishment ran the room. The representative Fiji<br />

looked up from his newspaper and the Suriname started,<br />

from his torpor.<br />

- Yes, why not? continued the Secretary generall After all,<br />

the Old Man of the Mountain was lifted up a private army to<br />

appropriate places. We are therefore entirely possible to


send our own strength<br />

interposition, namely peacekeepers ectoplas<br />

nomic. A police karmic somehow.<br />

The third and fourth laws were adopted at a<br />

majority of votes. Twenty countries will advocate<br />

Cerent against or chose to abstain in order not to<br />

incurring problems on the side of Saudi Arabia, all<br />

knew, had informally encouraged and funded<br />

operations of the Old Man of the Mountain.<br />

However, the proposal to create a police karmic<br />

was rejected. There was at present no violence in Paradise<br />

lence justifying such an operation, which also could<br />

to be very expensive. In addition, we returned to the


problems<br />

“Land” of sending any peacekeepers: would they<br />

allowed to kill if necessary, or would they just a<br />

to prevent the killing? In such a place, what puzzles!<br />

Delegates preferred to abandon the project of UN military<br />

his ectoplasmic.<br />

Lucinda was right to bring the problem of ectoplasmic<br />

battles in the legal field. The trouble-Ultimate Day Continent<br />

would now put beyond the pale {0}{0}”(L’humanite){/0}{/0} In<br />

addition, the laws Thanatonautes, our activities finally<br />

received official recognition. Many suspected that we had<br />

exceeded 6 Moch but all the questions, we oppose the<br />

silence on more complete.<br />

In the store down, my mother was marketing now a<br />

comprehensive plan of Ultimate Continent, with its six and<br />

seven gates known territories. All resembled a bit like a<br />

trumpet, with a wide flared base and a pointed summit. The<br />

colors were reported in the order: blue, black, red, orange,<br />

yellow, green, white. The map was rather pretty and perfect<br />

to adorn the wall of a budding scientist or an unrepentant<br />

dreamer.


As a legend, Conrad had crossed a line between Terra<br />

incognita words. Had we not found any (Really all?) this<br />

distant land?<br />

Of course, we noted a white area, but we refrain from<br />

speaking of the angels or the mountain of Bright. It was too<br />

early.<br />

In the penthouse of our thanatodrome Buttes-Chaumont,<br />

our team held its nth Thanatonautes Meetings Freddy is no<br />

longer there to testify, each assailed me with questions<br />

about what were the “weighing of the soul “and, of course,<br />

reincarnation that followed.<br />

I still tell stories and how we reached the bottom of<br />

Paradise, the endless line of dead dividing it into four, the<br />

vast white plain, the mountain of weighing, the three<br />

archangels-judges.<br />

- I have seen but not enough to see. It must be understood.<br />

And all of my effort to save my wife, I did not thought to<br />

inform me or ask questions of the angels. It I had just<br />

thought comes the one “weighed” our good and our bad<br />

deeds before being reincarnated according to his past life.<br />

- Can you imagine the scope of such an assertion? struck<br />

me the President Lucinda. Brandishing a picture of a man


with graying temples and under deep that it was constantly<br />

on him, Raoul asked if I had glimpsed his father.<br />

I made a face. There was a dense crowd so dead, there.<br />

No, I had not seen his father, as I also did not see mine. My<br />

friend had himself recognized as the river of the dead grew<br />

from the orange territory. Our souls migrated slowly and<br />

herd tightened. Can not recognize anyone in this tumultuous<br />

flood of millions of souls in transit.<br />

Amandine, which had the usual black robes now looks like<br />

a bereavement, then asked:<br />

- Are you really convinced that this is the end? It there is<br />

nothing after? I sighed. How to be sure?<br />

- Basically, there is a mountain of light. That is what I call<br />

Mountain weighing of souls that emits the light that we<br />

draws from the first door. And then, after the trial of karmas,<br />

I can not imagine what can happen. I also see anything<br />

special behind the mountain for simple reason that this<br />

mountain is so bright it hides all walks possible. - So there<br />

may be something else behind the … mountain, noticed my<br />

wife, all his dilemma<br />

between back down here or not, did during his trip<br />

not bothered to examine the scene.<br />

Desiring above all to find his father, Raoul proposed a


New collective off further exploration. Me?<br />

I was not too hot to go back up there but the others<br />

were obviously very excited to meet the<br />

angels, to understand the meaning of their lives, to see the<br />

end of<br />

consciousness, and all that, and all that.<br />

Amandine, Stefania and Rose got up immediately hand<br />

volunteering. My wife claimed perfect<br />

ment and delivery of the hospital in great shape. I<br />

wanted to go up there to see if his hypothesis<br />

white fountain on the other side of the black hole was the<br />

road.<br />

Regarding Amanda, I believe that despite the<br />

death of Freddy, his “baptism” takeoff had such


ment delighted that she had left for any new<br />

adventure.<br />

Like it or not, I agreed to serve as their guide.<br />

We took off together on a Friday 13. I remember very well,<br />

it was Friday, May 13 A day particularly windy. Outside, the<br />

trees bending under tornadoes and clouds were chasing. I<br />

do not too much wind, but good!<br />

We alignâmes every five in our ovoid plastic, our special<br />

tracksuits connected computers. The video purred.<br />

Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off …<br />

I squeezed the bulb. Forward for the country of angels.<br />

212 - Jewish mythology<br />

Three souls correspond to three brains:<br />

- Hypothalamus: Rouach. Level of our needs survival: eat,<br />

drink, sleep, reproduce. - Limbic System: Nefesh. Level of<br />

our emotions: fear, desire, desire, emotion. - Cortex:<br />

Nechamah. Level of reason: logic,<br />

strategy, philosophy, aesthetics and ability to control two<br />

brains.


According to Kabbalah, a number of physiological and<br />

mental changes occur at the exact moment of physical<br />

death. The Zohar explains that the Nefesh, or our bioenergy<br />

dissolves with the deterioration of the body. Ministry<br />

Rouach, related to the flow of vital energy, is a little more<br />

long time but eventually also disappear. The party<br />

transcendental the Nechamah, completely abandoned the<br />

form body. This upper part of the Self is then received by<br />

the souls of those who loved her for her life land. His father<br />

and members already deceased family gather around the<br />

Nechamah and he sees them, he recognizes like all those<br />

he knew here and all accompanying his soul to where it<br />

should remain.<br />

At the time of death, it is allowed to see his parents and his<br />

friends in the afterlife. If the deceased was virtuous, they<br />

rejoice and welcome him. Otherwise, it is recognized by<br />

those thrown into the Gehinom (purgatory). This is where<br />

the souls are washed of their filth.<br />

The Gehinom is discovered after physical death. Its<br />

necessity may be compared to that of a good shower after<br />

a game backbreaking or passage through a<br />

decompression chamber of a scuba diver before rising to<br />

the surface.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.


213 - IN ANGELS<br />

My second trip ectoplasmic happened less than the first.<br />

On my first flight, I thought to rescue Rose and thinking of<br />

others can forget his own anxieties.<br />

There I was thinking about too many things along the way. Is<br />

there mercenaries from another Hashishins or a few<br />

worshipers of Beelzebub in ambush, ready to attack by<br />

surprise and cut our umbilical cords?<br />

I was afraid.<br />

I hid my fear.<br />

352<br />

In Flight tight, we marched into the space at the speed<br />

of thought. We crossed the Sun, due to<br />

the Earth’s rotation, was then directly on the way<br />

leading to the center of the galaxy.<br />

I repressed my eternal question parasite (“But


Actually, what I … “). Finally, you see what questions<br />

tion I mean.<br />

Review the Russian cosmonauts did me not even laugh.<br />

Move among the meteorites gave me goose bumps and<br />

the approach of each new planet seemed a<br />

good opportunity to rest my ectoplasm.<br />

I considered the galaxy around it. As was great!<br />

Stars do you want in here. Someone should get<br />

to clean from all the stars lying in the<br />

Milky Way. The Milky Way! The Greeks called<br />

and because the spray of stars they evoked a squirt<br />

Milk output in the goddess Hera, wife of Zeus.<br />

Bathed in milk, we sail in tourists to<br />

the land of the dead.<br />

To forget my fears, I really enjoy the show without


continually renewed the world interstellar. As well as<br />

flies, my ectoplasm sees everything.<br />

The Orion Nebula looks like a scallop shell Jacques in the<br />

process of dissolving. I distinguish the cloud of stars called<br />

Horsehead, similar in effect to a kind of neck ending in a<br />

corner. Later on my left is the line rebound in Cygnus and<br />

then the variable stars of the Magellanic Clouds, like a salt<br />

shaker upside down. Sometimes the supernova Vega. All<br />

these names appear to me to mind but, in fact, Rose me<br />

the breath away. I realized that this show chart fascinates<br />

me and bring me to his knowledge. Wonderful woman!<br />

Virage. Far ahead of us, right, there are the galaxy<br />

Andromeda. She is sister of ours, separated by only two<br />

million light years. Around its central axis, the stars of<br />

Andromeda are more yellow than ours. Probably because<br />

they are younger. One could conclude that our good old<br />

Milky Way is older its parent Andromeda.<br />

A course on astronomy in the open space is fabulous!<br />

More exciting than any safari.<br />

But, again, there are wild animals. In the constellation<br />

Hunting dog (chance), two galaxies are about to touch. The<br />

smallest, in the form of sea urchin, is drawn by the larger,


spiral.<br />

- This is the galaxy M51, a galaxy Carnivore, explain<br />

telepathically Rose. It is so huge it sucks all the other<br />

galaxies that pass the range. There she is devouring the<br />

galaxy NGC 5195. When the two masses are sufficiently<br />

close to each the other, one of the spiral arms of M 51 will<br />

advance to capture NGC 5195. - And the “eat”? No! They<br />

will join to form a galaxy even more immense, and therefore<br />

more attractive and even more Carnivore. Like what<br />

predation is present everywhere. Even the inert knows his<br />

dramas.<br />

We veins always towards our central objective. We cross<br />

planetary systems exotic clouds dust red and white,<br />

meteorites frozen with their beginnings of life ready to hatch<br />

on a planet which will exist. Areas of star clusters succeed<br />

large areas empty when there are only black, cold and<br />

nothing.<br />

Here, finally, the corolla of the black hole of death. Star<br />

collide on board, identifying the entrance to the giant tunnel<br />

of a circle effervescent.<br />

We build our five silver lace in a braid Security tight and,<br />

using one of the choreography ectoplasmic Freddy, set out<br />

again to the collision of the last Area/active person<br />

Area/person


Prime territory: we are sucked into the vortex, as the “juice<br />

light” of nearby stars and all kinds of waves and particles.<br />

We arrive at the beach the Continent Ultimate. The<br />

membrane of the first wall comatose vibrates like a drum<br />

when it is hit or crosses. Look, the world of the dead is also<br />

similar to a human ear. Schlouf! I pass the wall soft.<br />

Second area: again the fear of the past, the fight against<br />

monsters tireless. These gatekeepers will always there<br />

waiting for me at home at the end.<br />

Third territory: even my fantasies, ever red, always darker. I<br />

like to find them. As it must be awful, a life without<br />

fantasies! I leave me not, however, bogged down, nor my<br />

desires nor my pleasures.<br />

Fourth area: patience. The river of the dead flows slowly<br />

across the plain orange. I fly over the mass swarming<br />

paying this time more attention to those up. Miracle, I<br />

recognize so many things that I dreamed to meet! Marilyn<br />

Monroe, Philip K. Dick, Jules Verne, Rabelais, Leonardo<br />

da Vinci. Crowd a few mythical figures of my history books:<br />

Charlemagne Vercingetorix, George Washington, Winston<br />

Churchill, Leon Trotsky.<br />

It is so eclectic, the crowd .. There is also James Dean,<br />

Fred Astaire (who can not help to outline a short walk from<br />

tap to pass the time), Molière, Gary Cooper, Queen<br />

Margot, Lillian Gish, Louise Brooks, Zola, Houdini, Mao


Tse-tung, Ava Gardner, the Borgias (Grouped into family<br />

around Lucretia).<br />

The more impatient strive to remain at the center the river<br />

to reach the light at once. The least disciplined weave<br />

around. Many take advantage of the halt to unusual<br />

encounters.<br />

We argue in the family of the last Tsar of Russia, each<br />

blaming the other for not having foreseen the Revolution.<br />

Louis XVI tries to reconcile them: it either did not see it<br />

coming. He turns away to discuss mapping Marco Polo.<br />

The real passion for this friendly ectoplasm royal, was this:<br />

mapping. He was interested just as the locks, but draw the<br />

rivers Canada and move the words Terra incognita were<br />

really major pastime and unknown to Louis XVI.<br />

Paradise is really the last show chic where you cause! I<br />

mark up Victor Hugo with his long beard, being dredged<br />

Diana the Huntress. Raoul is friendly but it always throws<br />

puzzles and do not give<br />

The solution? I landed near Victor Hugo and the opportunity<br />

to to claim the solution to the riddle of the pastry. To first he<br />

is annoyed because I disturbed its drag but when I explain<br />

my reasons, he laughs and tells me.<br />

“My first is talkative, it’s a chatterbox. My second is a bird, it


flies. My third is in the coffee is café. Solution: the bakery is<br />

the Bavarian coffee. credit Indeed it was so easy that I had<br />

not thought of. “<br />

What a chance to ask people the better informed. If I had<br />

more time, I would look Stradivarius to know the secret<br />

adhesives for his valuable violins. I would try to know where<br />

disappeared Saint-Exupéry and why from above there are<br />

drawings giants of Chile and Peru.<br />

I spot suddenly a familiar face. My great-grandmother<br />

Aglaia! I rushed towards her. She recognizes immediately<br />

and includes immediately why I approached so quickly.<br />

Yes, she saw how I had behaved to her death but do not<br />

mind because she had read in my heart my true feelings.<br />

Many others who were crying were only hypocrites eager to<br />

draw attention<br />

!<br />

I’m so happy I want to find my father<br />

to tell him. But my great-grandmother Aglaé<br />

tells me that she had already briefed and that<br />

Moreover, it is now far ahead.


I take my flight, the spirit lighter.<br />

Below, Raoul search in vain for his father, Amandine<br />

meets Felix and pretends not to recognize, despite<br />

the desperate calls of the first of Thanatonautes. Stefania<br />

hovers quietly above the crowd of the dead,<br />

continuing its path towards the light. My astronomer<br />

wife is head of our group, eager to see if<br />

the bottom of the black hole overlooks a white fountain.<br />

Fifth area: knowledge. I discovered by chance<br />

and without asking, the recipe for pound cake. A quarter<br />

of butter, a quarter of flour, a quarter of sugar, one quarter<br />

of eggs. This too is part of knowledge. Do not<br />

I forget the recipe before I return to earth.<br />

Sixth territory: up to beauty. The beds<br />

purple lace alternate. Purple, tan, red,<br />

yellow, fractal images shimmer to infinity. Of


iridescent butterflies escape from beaks of swallows roses.<br />

Of<br />

frogs, blue, black and white wings unfold<br />

dragonflies. A unicorn gold rises on its hind legs.<br />

Beauty is polymorphic. As fear.<br />

Seventh territory: we come together before<br />

Moch 6, our cords always linked.<br />

This trip was perhaps less exciting to be more<br />

first takeoff but never did become a<br />

routine. The shuttle Challenger exploded had it not then<br />

dint of exploits were beginning to believe the flight spa<br />

tiaux definitely safe? Nothing is safe,<br />

even if the method proves decorporation dis<br />

green of the universe really soft. At no time, we do


should lose our caution. We went far, far away and<br />

quickly, so quickly. At this rate, the slightest incident could<br />

take on dramatic proportions.<br />

What we found now, we would never been able to detect,<br />

even with the best telescope onboard satellite! We were in<br />

the stars, center of the galaxy, at the bottom of the black<br />

hole and with the possibility to get out. What astronomer<br />

could feed more ambition?<br />

For us, the five musketeers of death was hand-holding the<br />

end of the trip. We had reached the general curtain<br />

masking the latter’s death. I went while others were<br />

reluctant to follow me. They saw the river of the dead<br />

pierced the membrane of Moch 6 understand but the last<br />

face of life fills every reasonable fear. I shrugged my<br />

shoulders. After: all, me, I’ve been there. I lifted a piece of<br />

the curtain terrifying and invite my friends to follow me.<br />

Aggressive and magnetic at a time, the flamboyant light<br />

struck us. For me, surprised, I found to be happy to return<br />

this vast plain cylindrical white and veils of mist. Below, the<br />

river of the dead split into four arms.<br />

Appeared the first halos of angels, so colorful, so bright<br />

face our ectoplasm so dull! If I


asked one day what is the best ambition of a man, I now<br />

know the answer: the most beautiful ambition is to make his<br />

soul as beautiful as that of an angel benevolent. But how to<br />

achieve such a feat?<br />

An angel with a sporty fluttered to us and asked why we are<br />

here with our cords intact. Curiosity? Desire to advance<br />

science? Same Stefania to the language usually so glib<br />

coit remained. It was “him” who replied to our site:<br />

- You are the Great Initiates, is not it? Which ? Raoul<br />

surprised. - The Great Initiates, patiently repeated the<br />

angel. Apparently, our intrusion did not surprise too. “Great<br />

Initiates”, “they” had a term for the “living” advancing so far.<br />

It meant others we had preceded and had kept secret<br />

information. Other Thanatonautes? Monks, shamans,<br />

rabbis, sages who quietly and without the help of modern<br />

technology, would have given up to this kind of journey from<br />

the dawn of time?<br />

The angel smiled. I understood why he and his colleagues<br />

do not put me in my problems first passage to Paradise.<br />

The “Great Initiates”, since still they were accustomed to<br />

receive, even if we the learned later, their visits had not<br />

been frequent.<br />

214 - MYTHOLOGY SIBERIAN


In Siberian shamanic religion after the death while is<br />

reversed. You enter a country where everything above is<br />

down, everything is clear becomes obscure.<br />

Sometimes you enter the land of the dead at a shamanistic<br />

ceremony, during an illness, a intoxication or a dream.<br />

Sometimes you make a foray into the land of the dead<br />

without realizing it.<br />

That is why it is necessary to know a few things accurate. In<br />

the land of the dead, the trees grow upside down<br />

358<br />

Raise High the roots, the rivers flow into the mountains, the<br />

night is bright as the light dark of the moon, while the day is<br />

dark as the pale reflection of the sun.<br />

These are small details to know for sure we are no longer<br />

among the living.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

215 - Asaliah


Our host was called St. Jerome French, Asaliah in Hebrew,<br />

meaning “one who tells the truth.” Corn he had a name in<br />

many other languages. It was Ptah to the Egyptians, the<br />

Sumerians Enki, Apollo to the Romans, Mapanos to the<br />

Gauls, Dianceht for the Irish Celts, Freyr for the Germans,<br />

Svarog for the Slavs, Savitri for Hindus, Xochipilli for the<br />

Aztecs, Illapa for the Incas …<br />

His task here was to find the truth and help souls to rise<br />

spiritually. With pleasure, he replied to issues Raoul on the<br />

organization of Paradise. There were seventy-two angels<br />

primary and seven hundred thousand angels side. The<br />

hierarchy was simple. The first triad included the Seraphim,<br />

Cherubim and Thrones, a second Virtues, Dominations<br />

and Powers. The third, the highest, united the principalities,<br />

the Archangels and Angels. Three main archangels: the<br />

archangel Gabriel (messenger and initiator), the Archangel<br />

Michel (the slayer of dragons), the Archangel Raphael<br />

(Guide for physicians and travelers).<br />

We had a choice: we could consider the angels as saints,<br />

Lamed Vav or Bodhisattvas, Buddhas, elected officials, or<br />

tzaddik. Their designations varied religions. They were<br />

perfect, which had managed their lives and could break the<br />

cycle of reincarnation but who still preferred to spend<br />

management of souls in transit. In order not to lose, We<br />

optâmes generic for “angel”.<br />

On this, St. Jerome, Ptah-Xochipilli apologized. With


crowd which pressed down, it was not the work he was<br />

missing. We pursued only visit.<br />

I was wondering if, on top of these cohorts, there was still a<br />

god or gods. The Jews say that God is one, yet Freddy<br />

taught me that in Hebrew, God said Elohim and the name<br />

is plural. So…<br />

Seventy-two angels main … This figure reminded me also<br />

something.<br />

- The number of rungs of the ladder of Jacob, I recollected<br />

telepathically Raoul. 216 - MAJOR ANGELS<br />

Some examples of names of angels main from the Bible<br />

but could also be Greek, Chinese, Indian, etc..


First<br />

angel VEHUIA, who is the master of meditation and<br />

spiritual enlightenment. Second<br />

angel JELIEL, one that soothes the revolts unjust. 3erd. e<br />

angel SITAEL, one that protects against adversity. 4th<br />

angel ELEMIAH, one that can detect traitors. 5th<br />

angel MAHAASIAH, who can live in peace with others. 6th<br />

angel LELAHEL, who heals the sick. 7th<br />

angel Achaiah, one that helps unlock the secrets of nature<br />

and to develop new technologies. 8th<br />

angel CAHETHEL, who chases away evil spirits. 9th<br />

angel Haziel, who helps get the benefit of Great and<br />

keeping promises. 10th angel ALADIAL, who protects<br />

those who fear<br />

we only discover their secrets. Among the most useful, in<br />

bulk, there are still: 12th angel HAHAIAH, who dominates<br />

the world of dreams


and reveals sometimes dreamlike form, mysteries sacred.<br />

13th angel IEZALEL, a ruler of friendship, reconciliation<br />

and marital fidelity.<br />

360<br />

14th angel MEBAHEL, one that protects against usurpers<br />

of fortune. 16th angel HAKAMIAH, one that protects against<br />

malicious traitors. 17th angel LAUVIZH, who removes<br />

sadness and terrors of the night. 18th angel CALIEL, who<br />

brings a fast rescue when blows of fate unexpected. 20th<br />

angel PAHALIAL, one that protects priests and magicians.<br />

23rd angel MELAHEL, who can travel without<br />

incident. 26th angel HAAIAH, who saves the trial. 38th<br />

angel HAAMIAH, who helps discover the treasures. 42nd<br />

angel MIKAEL, who protects men polished<br />

ticks and rulers. 50th Angel: DANIEL, one that gives<br />

inspiration to those<br />

who hesitate between several choices. 53rd angel Nanael,<br />

one that helps scientists. 59th angel HARAEL, who


convinces the children to be<br />

more respectful to their parents. 69th Angel: Rochelle, who<br />

helps to find objects lost and those who have stolen. 72nd<br />

angel MUMIAH, who helps companies succeed and men<br />

live longer.<br />

NB In case of specific problems, unlike the saying “better<br />

go to God to his saints “, it is recommended to use the<br />

angel specializing in the field rather than a whole divine.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

217 - IN GOOD COMPANY<br />

Stefania, who had found his range, landed an angel<br />

appeared simultaneously male and female. Its companions<br />

did not speak to himself and not not seem to want their<br />

company.<br />

What is your name?<br />

He too was not too surprised to see us there. It answered<br />

readily:<br />

- Samael. But in your world, they call me more often Satan<br />

or Angel of Death and Hades or Grand Hermaphrodite,<br />

Nergal to the Sumerians, Seth for Egyptians. I have to be<br />

known still under a lot of other names, but, sorry, they do not<br />

come to me all in mind. He shone with a strange light … A


lack light! A bit like the lamps in the night clubs, give white<br />

clothes staining flood.<br />

Stefania suppressed a cringe.<br />

- And you tolerate here in Paradise? He had a booming<br />

laugh. Of course! Heaven, Hell, it’s the same. I am tolerated<br />

here and below, in your world. I am also the most<br />

indispensable of all the angels. I seduce the ignorant, I push<br />

them in their evil inclinations for better to prove their<br />

ignorance. Certainly I am aware I, on earth, a poor image,<br />

yet this Only by proving their ignorance to the ignorant one<br />

can advance! Thanks to me, those who have everything<br />

false can resume. Your wisdom does she says not before<br />

back must touch the bottom? I help people to touch the<br />

bottom to move up. Suddenly, his expression was no longer<br />

anything “satanic”.<br />

- Actually, I’m serving well, but perhaps too original for you<br />

to understand. Stefania thinking. Me, I already understood.<br />

This neither in gorged, neither fornicators, nor by drunk that<br />

triggered disasters and conflicts mortals! The most great<br />

wars have been launched on behalf of the Good, never that<br />

of Evil. And this same wisdom invoked by Samael does it<br />

not also that of an evil can come good?<br />

As he departed, an angel appearing to be St. Peter-<br />

Hermes-Aniel-Mercury, the angel of clarification, told us that<br />

the devils were only shadows of the angels.


- You are Peter! exclaimed Stefania, the Italian who had not<br />

forgotten her catechism. You are the holy Pierre keeper of<br />

the keys to Paradise?<br />

- Yes, he said. Previous Great Initiates me so designated<br />

because I’m often the only angel to take the time to inform<br />

newcomers. - Saint Jerome-Xochipilli has already taken<br />

the trouble to give us some explanation. - So you got lucky.<br />

- It means what, “the keys of Paradise”? Saint Pierre<br />

Hermes nodded kindly head. - There is no key in the<br />

material sense of the word. This is an image. In fact, I give<br />

the keys that allow understand the Paradise. Thereupon he<br />

returned to the seventy-two angels major. Like any angel,<br />

they have their back dark, seventy-two Devils leading, then.<br />

All have their own palace called by a sphere. In all, there is<br />

thus one hundred forty to four.<br />

Saint Pierre Hermes is verbose. It opens other locks.<br />

Gabriel, the Great Archangel, is the projection of the Devil<br />

luimême, and vice versa. The three archangels are three<br />

Great Princes Demons: Beelzebub, Shaitan and Yog<br />

Sottoth, Chaos Rampant described in the Apocalypse.<br />

- Impressive, this one, right? It means a black angel<br />

completely filamentous gliding rapidly over the river of the<br />

dead. In her approach, the ranks tremble as in a breeze<br />

cold.<br />

- Can we contact angels without up to date? I asked. Of


course! Every human being has actually her guardian angel<br />

and his personal demon. Thus, and has always been<br />

popular imagery which had seemed so innocent had only<br />

reveal the “truth” true. Angel guardian, personal demon …<br />

The Great Initiates had transmitted their knowledge in the<br />

as accessible as possible and, hence, “they” do was not<br />

taken seriously, calling all these beliefs pure superstition.<br />

Yet “they” knew. At least, step-helping people knew. And a<br />

long time. in the past .. ” always.<br />

- Guardian Angel and Demon staff are given the day of<br />

birth. They will be there then to intercede for of the soul<br />

when it weighed by the archangels. There is a simple way<br />

to use them. Just pray or yet to produce an emotion<br />

corresponding to the field one of us. A vibration shakes<br />

when the meridian his sphere. The angel descends to<br />

judge whether to intervene. We operate only on a vertical<br />

mode, from top to bottom and from bottom to top. We are<br />

associated each in a meridian emotional acting up-charge,<br />

which is programmed as a single state: anger, peace,<br />

harmony … No free will. Can not change the register. I, for<br />

example, I only helps those who want to “understand”, since<br />

I am St. Peter Hermes, the angel of the keys and<br />

clarification. There you are. It was as simple as<br />

“mechanical” than that. It was enough to think for an angel to<br />

intervene. I grabbed Finally, the power and utility of prayer.


Prayer is request the intervention of an angel very accurate.<br />

- Obviously, there is a price to pay, specified our initiator. I<br />

furrowed my eyebrows ectoplasmic. How does the services<br />

of the angels were not free? How mint-they?<br />

- In karma. It’s a barter. Be prepared to give up part of its<br />

energy to make a wish, unless have a state of purity of<br />

procedure as it allows receive no compensation with<br />

angels. But it is rare. Barter? Yes. A bit like Faust. You<br />

have to sell his soul for power. I ordered mental the keys<br />

provided by St. Peter Hermes<br />

1. Always follow the angels and not allow himself the any<br />

negative thought about them. 2. Always go through the<br />

hierarchy: the solicitation shall be provided to lower angels<br />

specialized by Angels top generals. 3. Each solicitation will<br />

pay in loss of energy, eroding karma, a sacrifice of his own<br />

person, unless enjoy the behavior of a saint. 4. We can<br />

apply both an angel a devil. by efficiency is identical, only<br />

the price differs. For perform a vengeance, it is better to<br />

use an angel of justice as a devil of a temper.<br />

5. You can not ask an angel one thing at a time. An angel<br />

also a mission and for a given period. 6. Mission<br />

accomplished, freeing the angel, saying, “I do not need you.<br />

” An angel must not remain too long on earth. It creates a<br />

mess. It must return as soon as his palace. If he stays too<br />

long empty, negative energies may rise to spheres


corresponding lower. Hatred vibrates the sphere<br />

corresponding to the hierarchy hatred, which is probably<br />

run by a devil of lower worlds. Love mobilizes a sphere of<br />

worlds superiors. The white angels are activated by the<br />

love of Well, the black by the love of evil. Nevertheless, all<br />

prayers are heard.<br />

Suddenly, there I became very clear. In life, we always get<br />

what you want. When does not get it, is that we do not really<br />

want. The angels themselves, distinguish the true desires of<br />

the whims of children. They realize that the first.<br />

On these good words telepathic, I think that if the world<br />

learned that it was possible to have everything we wish we<br />

had not finished with the problems. The Great Initiates<br />

always had reason to surround always have their<br />

revelations of mystery.<br />

Saint Pierre Hermes jumped as if he had just received a<br />

call and we left. Probably someone on land was praying for<br />

him to come.<br />

Amandine, Stefania, Raoul, Rose and I continued to<br />

browse the site as much as we allow our umbilical cords<br />

knotted.<br />

Seraphim frolicking how many small hummingbirds in<br />

human form. I grabbed one and noticed when he was<br />

blessed with six wings, similar to those of dragonflies.


- Why did you six wings, little angel? He looked at me with<br />

disdain. - It’s in all Bibles. I have two wings to<br />

cover my face, two to cover me sex, two last to fly.<br />

Faced with this tiny cherub who made fun of my ignorance, I<br />

ventured to the big question that had burned lips during our<br />

interview with St. Pierre Hermes. Corn I understood that the<br />

leading supplier of keys would consent to give than he was<br />

willing to give. My Seraph was probably less experienced<br />

in this field.<br />

- Tell me, good angel, I have seen here of the dead, the<br />

angels, archangels, devils … But is there a god, a god<br />

above you? It was a small movement towards the back of<br />

the mountain.<br />

- What do I know? he said. We have never seen god here,<br />

but some angels believe, however, that God exists and is<br />

everywhere. For my part, I’m agnostic. I am like St. Thomas<br />

you think maybe I do not believe what I see. He laughed a<br />

little angel. I insisted, looking at me as the mountain of light<br />

of Judgement.<br />

- And back there, do the hall of Heaven is for-Suit Who<br />

knows? he said with malice. Perhaps yes and perhaps<br />

leads there to God. Me, my place is here. And you, your<br />

place is below. He clapped his wings and fled.<br />

Rose, pushing us to go behind the mountain if


existed a fountain white balancing the black hole,<br />

but our cords of money were already too stretched<br />

to venture further. In addition, Stefania insisted<br />

that we returned as soon as our envelopes char<br />

tional. We started a long time and it was<br />

we hurry if we did not want to risk<br />

find only heaps of flesh necrotic.<br />

Reluctantly, we rushed to our thanatodrome.<br />

218 - MYTHOLOGY ARAB<br />

From the grave, the deceased is subject to the trial of two<br />

angels Munkar and Nakir. Depending on their decision, the<br />

tomb transformed into hell preliminary draft in purgatory or<br />

Paradise preliminary. The angels will then intercede with<br />

God to save the damned. Thanks to them, they come out of<br />

hell and then become like the tso’rom (small cucumbers).<br />

By bathing in succession in three rivers, they regain their<br />

whiteness.


Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

219 - first concern<br />

Upon our return, Raoul sprang from his chair. He was<br />

overexcited. His dark eyes flashed and his hands fluttered<br />

around her body like two spiders malignant.<br />

- What is it? You saw your father? - No, but an angel told<br />

me his story. - Saint Pierre Hermes? - No, he refused, but<br />

Satan himself, acceded willingly my prayer. The desire to<br />

know Raoul was always so intense he was obviously<br />

produce a strong vibration. Corn the truth was she so ugly<br />

that only a black angel can to him be? I shudder even<br />

before my friend did began his story.<br />

Towards the end, said Satan, Mr. and Mrs. Razorbak not<br />

agreed at all. Francis forsook completely his wife and<br />

devoted himself entirely to writing his thesis, Death the<br />

unknown. The more advanced in its research, the more it<br />

went away. She even came to a lover, a Philip.<br />

The inevitable happened. Raoul’s father surprised one day<br />

the lovebirds frolicking in the open. Anger. Dispute. Threat<br />

of divorce. Ms. Razorbak took high and ensure that they<br />

fight to the end. If separation there was, it does


would not at his expense, but to his advantage, with a<br />

strong child support and custody of Raoul.<br />

That evening, Francis Razorbak hung on the hunt of water.<br />

For his son, it was not a suicide but a assassination. By his<br />

adulterous behavior, his mother pushed his father, so<br />

sensitive, at the worst end. Thus, it perceive quietly heritage<br />

and benefit at will of her lover.<br />

No one had pierced the deception. It was logical that<br />

Professor of Philosophy passionate death comes to to give<br />

it to better discover the other side of the mirror. Even Raoul<br />

had thought! Without the help of Satan, he never would<br />

know the truth.<br />

The truth is the worst of all weapons and dark angel<br />

did not skimp on the details and moving. Actually, it was<br />

as if for the first time, a police investigation had<br />

resolved in Paradise. What opportunities offered the<br />

discovery<br />

Green Continent Ultimate!<br />

In the penthouse before the cocktails Amandine, we


tentâmes to appease our friend. But all our entreaties<br />

seemed to produce on him the opposite effect. Plus we will<br />

repeating that this whole thing of the past, more<br />

we pray to distinguish things, letting<br />

died in peace and live their lives more Raoul<br />

plunged into its fury.<br />

- She killed him, she killed my father! he cried, his head<br />

between His hands shaped greenhouses. - No, he<br />

committed suicide. You can not know what had in mind<br />

when he passed through the chain. - I’m not, but Satan yes.<br />

My father loved his wife and she has betrayed him, that’s<br />

all. - Satan is just pushing the ignorant in their ignorance, I<br />

insisted. But Raoul was unable to reason with a cool head.<br />

It’s as if everything around him was distorted by the<br />

obsessive idea.<br />

Overcome with rage, he rose, reversing chair glass, and<br />

went hurtling down the floors of thanatodrome. Guessing<br />

what he would do, I tried to hasten the telephone number of<br />

his mother to warn. Th<br />

told him that his son, now convinced that it had caused the<br />

death of his father, rushed to avenge him. I swore that he<br />

was mistaken, it is easily justified but hastened to hang up.


Some business quickly thrown into a bag and already she<br />

was not there when Raoul disfigured by hatred smashed<br />

his door.<br />

He returned, looking bad. Not finding his mother, he had<br />

Dark at the famous Philippe’s lover at the time. He had<br />

rushed at him but it was another, beefier, who had knocked.<br />

It was all so ridiculous! The proud Thanatonautes had<br />

become a child in anger, stamping and willing to break<br />

everything!<br />

As it is easy to get overwhelmed by hatred!<br />

For the first time I understood that it is better, often wind,<br />

not knowing the truth. Better to pursue the catch, and that<br />

was why St. Pierre Hermes was silent. Freddy does he not<br />

say that “the wise man seeks truth while the idiot has<br />

already found “?<br />

- My mother is the worst bitches, thundered Raoul de back<br />

with us. - Who are you to dare to judge? inveighed Stefania<br />

any by passing a wet cloth over his bruises. After all, Your<br />

father also had his faults. He neglected her and was<br />

interested in its books. You have yourself admitted that he<br />

did almost never held you either. , She thee high! But Raoul<br />

was in such condition that it was impossible the reason.<br />

- My father was a learned philosopher, he repeated. It had<br />

devoted himself to science. He paved the way for research


of death. And my mother killed him! Rose put her cool hand<br />

on his burning forehead.<br />

- Nothing is simple, whispered it to her musical voice. In<br />

fact, you should thank your mother. In “suicide” tone father,<br />

she has created in you a thirst for knowledge, an appetite<br />

needed to be filled. With it, you have completed your<br />

studies of biology, you’ve specialized in hibernation<br />

marmots, you became a pioneer of Thanatonautes and you<br />

ended up discovering the Continent Ultimate.<br />

- And the truth, too, muttered Raoul. - If it’s any consolation,<br />

remember that up there, it will inevitably be judged one day.<br />

Like the others, his soul will be weighed. The angels have<br />

all the elements the case, including the testimony of your<br />

father. Justice will be made. Only human pride than to<br />

imagine we can do justice in this world. Justice is an<br />

illusion. - Yes, added myself. Trust the angels and destiny.<br />

Up there, they will punish it deserves. - Perhaps will they be<br />

reborn into a toad? suggested Amandine to comfort him.<br />

He drank in one gulp the glass of cognac she served and<br />

as claimed another.<br />

- Surely there are toads happy, grunted he. Th want it to be<br />

reincarnated as cockroach to properly crush of a kick. I also<br />

asked for a drink.<br />

- You know, Raoul, I think you should make a good<br />

psychoanalysis, I sighed, because in fact you were not


eady to hear the revelations of Satan. - Remember that<br />

Satan is still an angel evil, noticed Amandine. I grabbed<br />

Raoul’s shoulder.<br />

- Remember, we fought together against the worshipers<br />

Satan and now you are going to make you support for him<br />

to solve your little personal problems ! You’re just a Faust<br />

opera. I had suddenly enough to see it and wallow in its<br />

rage, I wanted to shake like a plum tree that sad wreck<br />

tipsy.<br />

- Listen to me! I exclaimed. We will still need you to<br />

thanatodrome every day and every minute. So, forget your<br />

mother. We no time to lose. Raoul laughed bad.<br />

- What’s that Mr. I-know-all just give me a lecture? Hey,<br />

you’ve just watched, Michael? I also learned some nice on<br />

you. I shrugged my shoulders.<br />

- Impossible, I say. Satan made you confide in your father<br />

because you wanted your whole heart. Corn why’d have it<br />

about me?<br />

- My friend, my old friend, my oldest friend … I vibrated<br />

strong enough that he teach me two truths about yourself.<br />

Instinctively, I knew that these truths would make me ill. Only<br />

your true friends know where you hit to make it hurt. I felt like<br />

shouting “Go, Viper, spit your venom! ” but fear prevailed. I<br />

stopped my ears while he pronounced his revelations. At


the mine of the three women, I knew it was serious. This<br />

was especially the second information which was most<br />

affected Rose.<br />

No sooner had I removed my hands from my ears as Raoul<br />

stammered:<br />

- You did not hear? You want me to repeat? - I do not want<br />

to know! I cried. But before I had time to put my fingers in<br />

my curtains hearing, he was screaming already:<br />

- Your parents were sterile! You and Conrad you are that<br />

adopted children! Truth one. I had the impression of having<br />

been hit by a truck. The craft followed me a long time. He<br />

had me reduce to a pulp. Everything collapsed around me.<br />

My past was no longer my past. My family had never been<br />

my family. My father was not my father. My mother was not<br />

my mother or my brother my brother. And greatgrandmother<br />

Aglaia …<br />

Raoul was staring at me with delight. In my turn suffer! An<br />

expression sadistic appeared on his face while he was<br />

preparing to send its second missile.<br />

- Truth two! A truck that crushes you, it’s already terrible. -<br />

“No way! to pass one on your belly already hot and bloody. I<br />

pushed very, very hard my fingers to my ears. Do not know.<br />

Above all, do not know. For pity’s sake, leave me digest<br />

first the first truth. But there it was, Raoul was already


having again stated the second. The disarray was visible in<br />

the eyes Amandine, Stefania and especially Rose. Furious,<br />

I untied my hands to clear a punch lightning in the chin of the<br />

man who was my best friend.<br />

Is gently massaging the face, he displayed a face poor and<br />

happy.<br />

- Thanks, he said. I like to get a good uppercut …<br />

Especially on the part of my “best friends”. I had to answer<br />

something for the nose definitively. I had no time to think<br />

about a repartee fine. I articulated a phrase that meant<br />

nothing, like I made a sentence.<br />

- He who says that is! 220 - Jewish mythology<br />

“(…). They will see the world that has now invisible and they<br />

will see the time that has now been hidden. In addition, time<br />

will not make them old. Because they remain in the heights<br />

of that world, they will be similar to angels and like the stars,<br />

they will be transformed into any forms they want, beauty<br />

and grace, of light splendor of glory. Car in front of them<br />

extend the spaces of Paradise. They show the eminent<br />

beauty of living who are under the throne and all the host of<br />

angels, who are now prevented by my word to to see and<br />

forced by command to be held in their area until the coming<br />

of their arrival. “


Baruch, LI, 8-11.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

221 - police files


Note to the services concerned<br />

Confidential information transmitted to mortals by angels<br />

unscrupulous. Risk of adverse consequences. Intervention<br />

indispensable to put an end to this dangerous adventure.


Response services affected<br />

You panic again for trifles. We control fully The situation!<br />

Everything has always gone very well. There is no reason<br />

for it to go differently this time.<br />

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222 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS<br />

It is necessary to be very hard to face the truth. How many<br />

of us can they hear the truth and keep their cool? When<br />

were understood effects perverse Thanatonautes, the<br />

Ministry of Education National introduced very quickly<br />

during ASV (Confrontation Serene of Truth). This teaching<br />

was at first confined the upper classes, but quickly spread<br />

elementary classes. He recently became part of<br />

baccalaureate exams.<br />

History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

223 - ORPHAN<br />

Just returned to the room, Rose and I made love. It was she<br />

who had rushed to me. She whispered she wanted very<br />

quickly a child to me. It fell well. I also wanted a child from


her since for a long time to come.<br />

Until then, we only had animals and plants. We had gone<br />

over time. First a green plant (monotone), then an orange<br />

(which produced fruit inedible) and a goldfish (Leviathan,<br />

we had found one day, without reason, the belly up) and<br />

Zouzou sea turtle (always busy to stuff yourself small<br />

maggots) and guinea pig (called Bouyebouye because he<br />

squealed all the time “bouy, bouy, bouy” to inform us that he<br />

was hungry), then a cat that had ate the guinea pig and a<br />

dog (who had avenged the guinea pig by tormenting always<br />

the cat).<br />

A child would now be welcome. Would that to avenge turn<br />

the cat by pulling the dog’s ears, tail, legs, eyelids and<br />

nose. Children are naturally good at restoring ties.<br />

Also scientific Rose consulted a calendar.<br />

- Dates are subject to paste, decreed she. - With a little<br />

luck, one could even deliver the reincarnation of Freddy, ‘I<br />

remarked.<br />

Freddy said he would charge in the country orange to<br />

attempt to reincarnate in one year. Hmm, three months had<br />

passed … But with any luck, there happen may be the<br />

same.<br />

Anyway, the idea delights Rose. It would be fantastic<br />

become the parents of the reincarnation of Freddy.


Once again we were pioneers. Which had already thought<br />

to be a child container of a soul before chosen? It was as if<br />

we manufactured a vase to put flowers already in stock.<br />

- At work, I said cheerfully. Our embrace was happy, yet I<br />

caught a sad expression on the face of Rose when she put<br />

the head on the pillow.<br />

I asked him what was wrong all at once. She sighed and<br />

made me swear always to my ears when Raoul seek to<br />

struck me the second truth.<br />

- It will pass, I say. Raoul is bitter because he was unhappy<br />

to learn that his mother killed his father, I understand. - But<br />

you have nothing to do, protested she. I do not see why, for<br />

how unhealthy pleasure, he now wants to any price you<br />

reveal the ugly secrets of Satan. In all case, you totally<br />

sounded. I did not know that my husband had such a<br />

talented boxer! she said, shaking again against me. I made<br />

a face.<br />

- For the first time I hit someone with a This will hurt him …<br />

And then I lost my best friend. - No, said she confidently.<br />

Raoul is not against you. And the canary Uncle William:<br />

“When someone is angry against you, it is not really angry<br />

against you, it is only angry against himself. ” We refîmes<br />

love. I drove the “in fact, what I do … “Always parasite, to<br />

replace soon with thoughts and feelings much more


enjoyable.<br />

Then, Rose, beautiful in her nightgown, is leaned over the<br />

balcony to gaze at the starry night. The moon<br />

was huge. Around, the stars made their interest.<br />

- I sometimes wonder if we do not play with sorcerer’s<br />

apprentice, grumbled she. Look how the discovery the last<br />

area of Paradise has thrown us together against the other. -<br />

Do not you’re not going to support the obscurantist who<br />

want a ban our explorations? - No, of course. Simply place<br />

the safeguards to avoid nasty spills. The story of Raoul is<br />

perhaps a warning. You imagine, if anyone went there and<br />

fell on an angel who tells him of truths inconvenient! - Just<br />

keep calm. Raoul told me that I was an orphan, so what?<br />

This did not alter my behavior. On the contrary, I am now<br />

more grateful to my adoptive parents for having me and<br />

high. I was tempted to ask the second truth to see if I could<br />

cash it. She refused. It made me promise to never ask to<br />

hear it. I read in her eyes that she was convinced that this<br />

one would cause much more damage than the first.<br />

Yet I could not see what could be more terrible to learn that<br />

parents who had always believed hers were not our real<br />

parents.<br />

We fell asleep in the arms of one another. In the morning,


Raoul was gone. He had disappeared, no one knew where.<br />

I remained alone in thanatodrome with “my” three Women:<br />

Rose, Amanda and Stefania. My wife had attached to one<br />

wall of the penthouse a huge poster of the galaxy with at its<br />

center, the pit end of the Paradis. I watched often this<br />

image, the culmination of all our efforts. Everything started<br />

from there and everything came back there. All energies, all<br />

the lights, all ideas, all souls. It was a garbage can and a<br />

matrix. The meaning of our lives.<br />

Paradise. Freddy was there … And not just Freddy, our<br />

first Thanatonautes: Marcellin, Hughes, Felix, Rajiv …<br />

Inmate Fleury-Merogis galore …<br />

Sometimes at night I would sit in front of the receptor large<br />

antenna we had installed at the top of thanatodrome and I<br />

looked on the screen control the dead fly like so many<br />

flocks of pigeons. Good travel! dear contemporaries.<br />

A green dot symbol each deceased. Some shot up faster<br />

than others. They need to leave this world was probably<br />

stronger. Very rarely, I watched a soul returning to earth.<br />

Was it a survivor of medicine, a Thanatonautes isolated, a<br />

lover who would not leave his beloved, an assassin who<br />

wanted revenge as a ghost, a monk in meditation or an<br />

angel making discreet visit to the man who invoked ?


Regarding Raoul, we thought it wandered somewhere on<br />

this earth much material in search of his mother in the flesh<br />

real. In fact, it was not far. Powerless to discover, sorry to<br />

fight against us, he dragged Bar in bar and claimed that<br />

alcohol consumption would allow if improve his technique<br />

off.<br />

One day, sober, he realized he had to start with itself a<br />

major debate on justice. He returned to thanatodrome, rang<br />

at my door, apologized for making me the evil and<br />

promised solemnly never to attempt to get reveal the<br />

second truth, fortunately, I did not heard.<br />

I thanked him without much conviction. Knowing that there<br />

information that could disrupt my life of completely and<br />

remain voluntarily in his ignorance, This did not please me<br />

that much.<br />

In the evening, my mother and my adopted brother visited<br />

me. They were perhaps strangers, yet I measured the<br />

importance they had taken in my life. My parents had<br />

always treated as one of their own, without betrays the<br />

slightest clue. They told me blessed. They had kept the<br />

secret. They told me yelled and gave want to rebel against<br />

them like I was their true child. I could get rid of my Oedipus<br />

complex<br />

with my false father no, I have fallen unconscious in love


with my miserable mother, I could enter into competition<br />

with my pathetic brother. For all that, many thanks.<br />

The real justice, it is perhaps this: being able to say thank<br />

you to those who have done good and not lick the hand of<br />

those who have harmed. Sounds simple as that, but often<br />

we find ourselves silly to do the opposite and we do not<br />

even know why.<br />

I embraced like never before I had them kissed, and told<br />

me that, whatever the circumstances, I would never to<br />

speak up there with my real parents, who had abandoned<br />

me as a pile rags. I did not know why (probably very good)<br />

who had pushed, I did not even see their faces. If they had<br />

abandoned me, I just gave up. As for those who had<br />

passed, I passed.<br />

I had only one real home: my heavy mother and the idiot<br />

Conrad. The truth of Raoul had allowed me to understand a<br />

truth even more valuable.<br />

You do not choose necessarily friends, but … can still<br />

choose her family!<br />

224 - Christian mythology<br />

“But if we preach that Christ rose from the dead, how can<br />

some of you they say that there no resurrection of the<br />

dead? If there is no vision, of the dead, not even Christ has<br />

been raised. But if the Christ is not risen, then our


message, empty as is our faith […]. If for this life only we put<br />

our hope in Christ, we are the most pitiable of all men […]. If<br />

the dead not rise, eat and drink for tomorrow we die. “<br />

Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1.15.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

225 - CONFERENCES<br />

Advantage that, for now, the secret was well kept, We<br />

multipliâmes trips to explore the best and if possible to the<br />

end, the last chamber of Paradise.<br />

The angels were accustomed to visits by our small group<br />

Thanatonautes. They called us their “great introduced to the<br />

short week. ” Willingly or unwillingly, they accepted to<br />

answer our questions, as if those interviews entered a<br />

process already well known to them.<br />

When you know them a little, angels turn out kind and<br />

extremely wise. It is still in superbodhisattvas, the elite of<br />

the Lamed Vav, saints of all.<br />

Little by little we percions better the meaning of life, but We<br />

were left alone to know. Lucinda thought one day that this<br />

had gone on long enough. He was about to run a third


presidential term. On all fronts, political, economic,<br />

diplomatic, his record was disastrous. He no longer an<br />

asset to throw in the electoral battle: the Thanatonautes.<br />

Speaking of angels and heaven was more prudent evoke<br />

indices recession, figures Unemployment horrible<br />

progression and a deficit commercial completely<br />

demoralizing.<br />

Lucinda is counting on us for him to rebuild a<br />

image of the winner. After all, he was the man who had<br />

launched the exploration of the continent Ultimate Project<br />

bold if it were. The public would surely<br />

get more information about what happened after the<br />

death. And how best to achieve that by sliding in<br />

the ballot box a ballot on behalf of the outgoing president?<br />

Everything is paid: one vote equals one step closer to the<br />

explanatory<br />

cation of your death. This was in essence the program<br />

election of our friend.


For my part, I was not convinced that the time had<br />

came to reveal to people that there was a white country<br />

spent<br />

Moch 6, populated by angels, and where the deceased had<br />

to make<br />

behalf of all good and all bad<br />

actions committed during their time here on earth. I was<br />

placed to measure the ravages of the truth.<br />

And could we not learn there? Who<br />

378<br />

sponsored the Kennedy assassination, plotted the death of<br />

Marilyn Monroe, armed the hand of Ravaillac? Who was the<br />

Iron Mask? Which was hidden the treasure of Blackbeard<br />

the<br />

pirate? Up there, if desired very strong, we had access to


all solutions to all the answers. Was it really<br />

a good thing?<br />

In addition, when everyone would know that is enough to<br />

call wholeheartedly thrilled that his wishes come true, What<br />

trouble ahead! The desires of each are often completely<br />

against the wishes of others. Some covet power, others an<br />

inheritance, some only dream of peace and non-carnage.<br />

What/how? simultaneously satisfy all the earthlings?<br />

A world where all desires be realized upon solicitation of<br />

angels, even if not a living hell? “Let us beware of our<br />

desires, we might be well annoyed if they materialize, “said<br />

Freddy. I remembered have intended the death of a<br />

professor of geography particularly irascible. I remembered<br />

having liked to have a harem of women subservient. I<br />

remembered having wished to be dead. Fortunately, the<br />

angels me not heard, just as they had not heard so many<br />

tyrants who want to become masters of the world!<br />

- No, I asserted forcefully. Do not disclose the existence of<br />

angels. Men are not yet ready for such an announcement. -<br />

Come, come, ‘said the President with a smile. My dear<br />

Michael, you were well informed that you were a adopted<br />

child and you do not make a mountain! Well … But a<br />

second fact, unknown to me that one, haunted me … Not<br />

daring to admit my obsession, I went just


- Perhaps, but consider Raoul and his mother! In a flick, he<br />

evacuated the problem. - Razorbak needs rest. Razorbak<br />

drinks a lot too much alcohol. I convinced him to follow a<br />

detox. He promised to come and lend a hand to my<br />

presidential campaign as soon as it would Better - But his<br />

mother, forced to hide all the time?<br />

:<br />

- He forgave him. The news amazed me. - How did you<br />

manage to get his due? The President rubbed his hands,<br />

delighted. - These angels are certainly very practical. It is<br />

not I who convinced Raoul is Stefania. The Black Angel<br />

Satan had caused all this damage, it has achieved the<br />

archangel Gabriel, his white alter ego, he repairs them. You<br />

see, my dear Michael, we can trust the Paradis. The evil it<br />

produces, it is able to transform as well. What say to that?<br />

And who was I to counteract the Head of State? Raoul<br />

would certainly have been able to issue objections but it<br />

was not there, and for good reason! As to Stefania, Rose<br />

and Amanda, they saw no reason not to disclose all the<br />

ultimate secret. I submitted So the general will.<br />

Thus we entered our time “showbiz “. We entamâmes a<br />

series of conferences around the world, telling throughout<br />

our interviews with angels archangels, seraphim, jinn and<br />

even devils. At first, we went there together, Stefania,


Amandine, Rose and me. But little by little, it turned out that<br />

only Amandine was very good at this type of exercise.<br />

The lovely nurse initially silent and reserved, had suddenly<br />

an oratory certain. The quietest are often the best speakers<br />

as soon as they given the opportunity.<br />

Amanda was able to communicate his passion for<br />

Thanatonautes. She recalled with wonder the Paradise,<br />

where it dated back more often to search (in vain far)<br />

Freddy and discuss with St. Peter. Of Moreover, a recent<br />

widow gave him extra credibility. A widow can not lie on a<br />

matter touching the so close, especially when her husband<br />

was the best choreographer of takeoffs Thanatonautes!<br />

The conferences of Amandine became real shows. It arose<br />

dressed all in black in white projectors, while the choir sang<br />

the opening Carmina Burana. Blond angel with the body of<br />

a crow,<br />

it looked more to the fantasy of it that I crossed to each of<br />

my incursions aliens. One evening, when she finished her<br />

presentation, a journalist Raise your hand. Come on.<br />

- This “weighing of souls” seems incomprehensible, you<br />

really want to say up there, they count points like so many<br />

penalties and bonuses? She took his time before<br />

answering.<br />

- “Yes. The existence, is like the bachelor. It doubles until


you get the average. There was a rumor in the audience.<br />

- But then the man went on, how does it bonuses and<br />

penalties for the soul away with its cycle of reincarnation?<br />

St. Peter had not been stingy with his keys. Amandine<br />

provides precise figures:<br />

- Six hundred points. According to the schedule imposed<br />

by the three archangels, judges must be six hundred points<br />

for not having to retake the exam of life. Hubbub in the<br />

room. Life Was a wide classroom where it all comes down<br />

to win the more good points as possible without his best<br />

bad grades and zero points?<br />

This vision of “school” of fate was enough to disappoint<br />

many But she at least had the merit of being coherently.<br />

- A single act benefits can pay six hundred points of a<br />

sudden, specified Amandine. Murmur of relief. It was<br />

therefore sufficient to properly have only once in his life to<br />

be saved! However, already the speaker completed:<br />

- … But in the same way, one evil act can ruin a whole life.<br />

You can get lost or run away with blows of actions that<br />

seem at the time harmless to me assigned an angel. The<br />

weighing is very subtle and judges engaged to very lengthy<br />

calculations. In fact, there is not a dead ten miles happens<br />

to get six hundred points and transform in pure spirit. Most<br />

are recalibrated and then reincarnated. Other questions


ang out.<br />

- Is there also animals up there?<br />

- Yes, and when performed well during their cycle animal,<br />

they are reincarnated as humans. Humans are at the top of<br />

the ladder of reincarnation because they are the only ones<br />

to have an abstract consciousness. - This mean that we<br />

were all animals before becoming human? - Surely. The<br />

evolution goes mineral plant of plant to animal, animal to<br />

human, human to pure spirit. This is the meaning of life.<br />

Amanda had to disclose all the secrets of the world and yet,<br />

the questions continued to rain:<br />

- A regression is possible? Obviously. If it behaves badly<br />

during his existence, we fall back into a form of past life. In<br />

humans, it becomes animal. But this case very rare. - So<br />

what happens is the bad people but not enough wicked to<br />

return to the stage animal? - They are reincarnated into<br />

humans whose existence will be particularly uncomfortable<br />

and they will have to proof still their best sides. In fact, Hell<br />

is here, on this earth. Those who behaved badly be born in<br />

countries affected by wars or famines are endemic. They<br />

are poor, sick, disabled … In these terrible circumstances,<br />

they will have more more opportunities to redeem himself.<br />

They will sacrifice for other more striking still. by Goodwill<br />

will be easier to prove. The journalist up immediately hand.<br />

- Do you mean by this that those born in rich Western


families are all people who have had good conduct in their<br />

previous life? Amanda sighed.<br />

- It would be too simple. It may be unfortunate, horribly<br />

unhappy even in a rich western family and can be happy,<br />

very happy, in the warmth and solidarity of a slum in the<br />

Third World. After: all, it is our countries supposedly the<br />

most advanced experiencing the highest rate of suicide.<br />

The assistance went, perplexed, to the exit.<br />

226 - Christian mythology<br />

“Such is there of the resurrection of the dead: we are sown<br />

in dishonor, it is raised in glory, we are sown in weakness,<br />

it is raised in power, it is sown a physical body, it is raised<br />

in a body spiritual. “<br />

First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians XV, 42-44.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

227 -NOMBRIL<br />

Raoul had left in search of his mother who, unaware his<br />

shift, was hiding forever. He spoke less, but always<br />

seemed inhabited by rabies. Private anesthetic effects<br />

alcohol, it was every day more bitter. After have so long<br />

tried to join his father, he could more now to find his mother.<br />

After all, it was only seeking psychoanalytic common. Again


the Oedipus complex was acting up. Except that Raoul had<br />

everything reversed. He was in love and dad wanted to kill<br />

mama!<br />

Stefania tried to comfort her best, and they had together<br />

long conversations. with me now. Raoul was silent, as if<br />

ashamed of his behavior past.<br />

Amandine was now figure star. She was become our<br />

thanatonautesse 1. She went back and forth between<br />

Buttes-Chaumont and Heaven where St. Peter, with whom<br />

it had become closely linked, was called, she claimed, “my<br />

small initiated. “<br />

Lucinda climbed in pre-election polls while Rose and I are<br />

mostly concerned with geography Full of Paradise. What<br />

was there after the area weighing of souls? We had<br />

repeatedly approached, but ever we were able to bypass<br />

the mountain light to discover what was behind our cords<br />

silver being too short. And as more Rose was<br />

pregnant, neither of us had any desire to risk his life to find<br />

out.<br />

My astronomer wife continued to believe that after the black<br />

hole was its opposite, a white fountain projecting the souls<br />

like a shotgun flared. The dead were drawn on one side<br />

and then powered on the other to their reincarnation. While


waiting to go see her, she had drawn more prosaically in a<br />

study on the shelves gamma, more responsible energy than<br />

X-rays or ultraviolet. She developed a new detector gamma<br />

rays that allowed us to better observe from Earth, the<br />

surroundings of Paradise and the focus of our galaxy.<br />

Ending to my bath, I lingered one day consider the water<br />

drain away in gobbling in the bung. The secret of astronomy<br />

was there, in that vortex, Such a black hole which rushed<br />

the wastewater. A circle center full of energy. I thought of the<br />

old riddle Raoul: How to draw a circle and its circumference<br />

without up his pen?<br />

The water left to drain. But where evacuated our souls? In<br />

everything, do not seek the head, always focus on the<br />

center. Stefania said that the real me is the old corridor that<br />

connects us an time mother. The navel. Thus, we received<br />

food, blood and force, and then, at birth, the door had<br />

closed. But according to Stefania, the navel does remains<br />

an important point. Our center gravity, so our real center.<br />

In contact with all areas that had once fed, it was enough to<br />

warm it up in case of illness so that radiates throughout the<br />

body.<br />

With the navel of our stomach, we begin to to live. In the<br />

navel of the galaxy, we die. I fixed the tub now empty and<br />

put on a bathrobe on my skin moist.


228 - Egyptian mythology<br />

In ancient Egypt, during the eighteenth dynasty, treatment<br />

the pharaohs and some notable deaths follows a<br />

ceremonial embalming very precise and strict. We starts<br />

down the body on the back. The master ceremony is usually<br />

a priest of Osiris, dressed as Horus. He is accompanied by<br />

four assistants who symbolize the four cardinal points. They<br />

remove hair the body then incise the abdomen on the left<br />

up to the the diaphragm. The priest of Osiris inserts his<br />

hand inside of the wound and begin to empty the noble<br />

organs may rot: liver, spleen, lungs, intestine, stomach. A<br />

Once cleaned, they reintegrate after they have been treated<br />

in solutions conservative herbal. Aid coat the rib cage with<br />

tar to prevent the flesh does not crumble. Then they stuff the<br />

body with oil, fabric and myrrh to restore the form a belly.<br />

The same applies to the skull. They put in the nostrils of the<br />

deceased a rigid rod to pierce his the two nasal cavities.<br />

The embalmer can rub a tool bent with whom he<br />

mincemeat of brains that expel then blowing into the other<br />

nostril. Once the brain is ejected, the master of ceremonies<br />

will file tar inside the skull. He will distribute evenly over the<br />

inner surface by rotating Carefully head in all directions for<br />

this water Well The body is finally covered with strips of<br />

yellow linen saffron. The face is placed a pair of eyes<br />

dummy wood, and a funerary mask cardboard painted<br />

image of death. The face paints must be young and<br />

peaceful.


According to the papyrus No. 3 Boulaq (Cairo).<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

229 - HISTORY OF ANIMALS<br />

The conferences of Amandine were more sailed. In the<br />

shop of my mother, his posters, which she<br />

posed in outfits always sexy but never nude were selling<br />

like hotcakes. Their phenomenal success greatly enriches<br />

the small family business. But it was not the most important<br />

consequence benefits if noticed Amandine.<br />

At first they were only attracted intellectuals, thirsty for<br />

originality, and curious, eager to esoteric of all kinds. Word<br />

of mouth had then brought the scientists. Then a television<br />

station had the idea to broadcast a show of our<br />

thanatonautesse. Assailed issues, its switchboard had not<br />

resisted. Suddenly, people were interested in their karmas.<br />

They wanted to know everything: who were they before they<br />

present existence, as become of them after? Eternal<br />

questions: Where am I? Who I am ? Where i am going?<br />

One evening, after a conference, when we were together<br />

the Thai restaurant, the conversation turned on the theme<br />

reincarnations animal. Was it possible that all People


sitting at this table have once been shrews, frogs or slug?<br />

While bringing us drinks flavored with rose and shrimp<br />

croquettes, Mr. Lambert came to mingle with our<br />

digressions. He confessed to rest sometimes standing on<br />

a leg. The position gave him a feeling of comfort incredible.<br />

He deduced to have been formerly heron and we showed<br />

how, in fact, he kept with a single support a perfect<br />

balance.<br />

Amandine “supposed” to have been rabbits. She also<br />

made her small demonstration. She knew how to move his<br />

ears rather dramatically. She articulated forward and back<br />

and could distinguish perfectly the muscle to work on the<br />

side of his face. His nose quivered at times such a nose<br />

and she reminded us, laughing, in addition she loved<br />

carrots.<br />

On reflection, it seemed to me to have<br />

memories of fox. Fad or illusion? I collected<br />

deep inside the feelings you know when the short to<br />

gallop on all fours through the grass. I knew what<br />

was that bend and then deploy his spine at each<br />

Following in the balancing artfully its long tail


Fur. I concentrated more and I remembered long winters,<br />

nestled snug in my den with my vixen and my cubs. There<br />

was no better rest in the world.<br />

In the spring, I was delighted to long runs<br />

in the forest, intoxicated with the smell of moss and thyme<br />

who had just beat my nose when I was in great<br />

gallop. How could I know what a race<br />

four legs? How could I know the feeling<br />

Heat the burrow during the winter?<br />

The more I thought about it, the more memories of my life<br />

Fox was accurate. I did not run fast enough to get to hunt<br />

effectively. I remembered encounters painful with<br />

hedgehogs. The smell of the forest. When? I was a fox,<br />

breathing and in the direction of the wind, I could have a<br />

complete map of the surroundings. ca I remembered. How<br />

was this possible?<br />

Others also wondered memories exogenous.<br />

The subject fascinated everyone in the restaurant. The<br />

conversation soon became general. A big man with the<br />

long nose claim special memories of an elephant, a little<br />

lady shy confessed old quail, a man removed to recollected


his life dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex by exhibiting teeth<br />

actually very sharp. Past Lives animal it came to life.<br />

Detail strange many diseases were due in karma, logical<br />

explanations. Those who had the throat weak were often<br />

reincarnations of guillotined of the French Revolution.<br />

Asthmatics were former drowned. The priapic were former<br />

hanged. The claustrophobic had been abandoned in<br />

dungeons. The hémorroïdiens were impaled. Parkinson,<br />

electrocuted. The fragile liver were poisoned. The stomach<br />

ulcer had been hara-kiri at their last life. The psoriasis had<br />

been burned. The migraine had committed suicide with a<br />

bullet in the skull. A myopic was taupe.<br />

Everyone remembered almost precisely lives Wacky. In the<br />

restaurant, there was obviously much<br />

former medieval knights, eight ex-pharaohs, ex-priests, exprostitutes.<br />

Everyone had memories of life abroad. Most probably<br />

scenes views … television in Hollywood movies. For, as I<br />

wanted to believe those who thought they were former<br />

peasants, as he was required to report to those who took to<br />

Indiana Jones, Barbarella, Tintin, Asterix, or Hercule Poirot,<br />

as these people never existed. It was still a good time.<br />

Lucinda joined us at the restaurant. It seemed to also in a


good mood. He ate with relish the noodles basil, and then<br />

we talked politics.<br />

After an initial rise, polls stagnated. Lucinda felt the time<br />

had come to create the event impress a definite opinion<br />

still volatile. If Amanda could tell a real weighing of souls<br />

rather than simply bludgeon the People philosophical<br />

concepts and moralistic, it would much better, said he. It<br />

was during this dialogue final prelude to rebirth that<br />

everything is played. We had know in detail the system of<br />

bonuses and penalties. So was born the idea of Interview<br />

with a mortal.<br />

Unable to ship up there a camera ectoplasmic to film a<br />

scene that we ourselves did in fact qu’entr’aperçue. One<br />

could of course observe the details and repeating phrases.<br />

But which of us had a memory sufficiently powerful to<br />

record then return all dialogues telepathic between<br />

archangels, judges and soul in the process of<br />

reincarnation?<br />

- Maxime Villain! said Rose. The reporter ectoplasmic, the<br />

reporter of the Little Thanatonautes shown. This is a gifted<br />

memory. This is the man for the job. It was perfect.<br />

exclaimed Lucinda. It is even capable of represent the<br />

scene drawings. My constituents will have and images of<br />

paradise without leaving their chairs. It was already<br />

calculating the number of additional votes that this evidence<br />

would bring him! I knew for myself that the ectoplasm have


a perfect view as they watch with their hearts<br />

and not with their eyes. Freddy the blind had he not<br />

was the most excellent of Thanatonautes? Yet every<br />

time I met Maxime Villain, I wondered<br />

how he was doing up there without his thick glasses.<br />

Small, short-sighted and chubby, with his goatee and his air<br />

mocking, Maxime Villain irresistibly evokes Toulouse-<br />

Lautrec.<br />

The next day, we did come to thanatodrome.<br />

- How lucky you have a memory like that, smirked Amanda<br />

when he acceded to our request. Me? If I do not notice<br />

immediately, I forget now. The journalist stretched his lips<br />

into a smile sorry.<br />

- Me, my problem is precisely that I have too much memory,<br />

he said. I would prefer to forget a little time time! As the<br />

young woman had a facial expression astonished He<br />

explained:<br />

- As soon as information comes into my brain, it not come<br />

out. I am cluttered useless knowledge. My culture is so<br />

huge that it becomes heavy. Ten times I started to write a<br />

book stop after a few pages as with my countless literary


eferences, I felt like committing a plagiarism. To create a<br />

personal work, it is important first to forget all the others. I<br />

can not. I had always envied his encyclopedic memory, I<br />

discovered it was for him a handicap. This is True,<br />

sometimes it’s so nice to forget … If only I could bury the<br />

bottom of a meander that damned second truth!<br />

So, Lucinda, teasing, allowed himself to appear as<br />

exceptional quality its enormous “ability to forget.” It was<br />

free and to take measures proposed by its predecessors<br />

and had stigmatized when he was himself in opposition. He<br />

forgave freely to anyone who had offended him, which<br />

earned him a reputation magnanimity and had contributed<br />

greatly to its popularity.<br />

Poor Maximus! He could not forget. Also remain-still a<br />

journalist and would accomplish ever its ambitions as a<br />

writer!<br />

Much benefit for the time of its capabilities. We began to<br />

develop devices for its mission. We sat down at the point<br />

the following plan: Stefania, Rose, Amanda and I’d<br />

diversion by talking with the angels while that, in turn,<br />

Maxime climbed the highest possible Mountain of Light in<br />

order to hear the judgments Ultimate.<br />

No need to wait longer. Three days later, Our group flew to


a report ectoplasmic even more exciting as the stories of<br />

battles Paradis, who had won Villain notoriety unique its<br />

kind.<br />

Maxime stored all the dialogues in his brain. With related<br />

drawings, they were published in the Small Thanatonautes<br />

illustrated and later in interview with a fatal second book of<br />

Amandine Ballus. The manuscript original document of<br />

historical value, is currently under glass at the Museum of<br />

Death in the Smithsonian Institute of Washington.<br />

230 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS<br />

The Thanatonautes have always shown the greatest<br />

respect for angels. Anyway, just to see an angel, a true<br />

angel to understand that we must respect it. Angels are<br />

perhaps what will be the men year 100000. They are a<br />

million times more sophisticated and more subtle than us.<br />

They have a different perception of time. Humans are stuck<br />

between a past they must accommodated and a future that<br />

frightens them. The angels themselves, transcend the<br />

present, past and future. They offer us a totally new<br />

concept, that of “present-future.” The angel distinguishes<br />

permanent consequences in the short, medium and long<br />

term of each of his actions and he chose to act in the<br />

“present-future” as we will use a food in a buffet. In<br />

advance, if we select grated carrots, we know what taste<br />

they have in our mouths. Similarly, the angel, every action<br />

accomplished, already knows the consequences.


History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

390<br />

231 - A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF MAXIM VILLAIN<br />

When he was little, Maxime Villain was a child normal, with<br />

one difference: when he spoke, no one The listening? He<br />

began a sentence and, coincidentally, there was always<br />

someone to stop immediately. In table, at home, we cut a<br />

“pass me the salt”. In elementary school, the teacher said,<br />

“Let labor taking the next class. “It was enough that he<br />

opens his mouth to the attention of others is attracted by<br />

anything or someone blowing his nose.<br />

Maxime was even more mortified that he, on his hand,<br />

listened carefully all contact and could remain for hours<br />

without saying anything to store all information that he<br />

passed.<br />

Flattered by his attention, he had thus multiplied friends that<br />

had passed in turn their interest and thus their knowledge in<br />

areas as diverse as hypnosis, First Aid, Victorian literature,<br />

computer science, Greco-Roman wrestling, astrophysics,<br />

the strategy of war Napoleon, mathematics, twelve-tone


music and many others. Everything was good to meet its<br />

reservoir of material for thought.<br />

However, Maxime could not bear to always take nothing to<br />

exchange. At first he tried his better to force the listener.<br />

After all, he begged for a little attention. But as soon he<br />

began to construct reasoning that his parents yawned and<br />

changed conversation or his teachers said absently:<br />

“Interesting, but irrelevant.” Same with his friends.<br />

Was it his voice, grave and sweet, which was soporific?<br />

Sounds serious, acting on the heart and chest, rocking and<br />

lull. Sounds acute, however, excite and retain because they<br />

speak directly to the brain. Maximus says that high-pitched<br />

voice telling anything was more likely to be heard that deep<br />

voice stating exciting things.<br />

He tried then to change his own, with hardly get Results Out<br />

of spite, he became a Trappist monk. Among the<br />

men who have taken a vow of silence and with whom there<br />

was no dialogue possible, he felt finally accepted and<br />

valued.<br />

He was there all the time to reflect on her situation and<br />

eventually accept as is. He was born receiver. He would<br />

never issuer. He left in peace to his monastery and<br />

continued to accumulate knowledge to listen to others. Of


course, there did not restore still nothing of his knowledge<br />

as interested no always one, but it became so extensive<br />

bank human data, infinitely expandable. With all he had<br />

earned knowledge that many have estimated utterly<br />

useless, it would have earned high hand any game show<br />

based questions called general culture.<br />

Maxime Villain never tired, however, not to learn in all. He<br />

discovered that journalism would allow better satisfy his<br />

passion. He passed through all the sections: trivia, science,<br />

gossip, politics, culture. And when he wrote, he did not<br />

have to worry about his voice among the mass of<br />

subscribers to the newspaper, he would find at least one<br />

attentive reader.<br />

Better understanding and attention to this player mythical,<br />

he began also to draw. - the words - not always enough,<br />

thought he. A picture is often Wind needed to complete<br />

them. “He fought all now Articles accompanied by a<br />

drawing. He thus became the chronicler star of Little<br />

Thanatonautes shown.<br />

Initially, writing was for him a vehicle for Emergency He<br />

quickly realized that structures stringent were needed to<br />

build a story. He is passionate about writing when it’s<br />

considered as a science Exact. Maxime Villain began to<br />

hope to write a text which the engine or engines are so<br />

powerful that the first word read, any reader would be<br />

captivated, mesmerized at to be unable to give up and


forced to read To the bitter end<br />

This text, it would be his revenge on all those people who<br />

never, had listened.<br />

Maxim said: “In my code of values, I place high literature. I<br />

know that his ultimate goal is not to make beautiful phrases,<br />

nor fine characters, or even<br />

a nice plot. The ultimate goal of literature is to make people<br />

dream away! “<br />

Make people dream away …<br />

Still, despite all his ambitious projects, Maxime had been a<br />

journalist without ever reaching complete any book. He<br />

placed perhaps too high.<br />

232 - Jewish mythology<br />

“When it’s time for a man to leave the world today is<br />

daunting. The four cardinal put him in charge, the<br />

punishment he come from four sides at once. The four<br />

elements (water, earth, fire, air) are competing in the<br />

human body, each pulling on his side. Moves a message<br />

whose proclamation understood in the seventy worlds. If the<br />

man is worthy of this proclamation, he is greeted with<br />

rejoice in all the worlds and death becomes a party which<br />

welcome all worlds. But if it is different, if unworthy, woe to<br />

him! “


Zohar.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

233 - police files<br />

Name: Villain<br />

Name: Maxime<br />

Hair: Brown<br />

Size: 1 m 62<br />

Distinguishing features: None<br />

Comment: Pioneer of Thanatonautes<br />

Weakness: Allure insignificant<br />

234 - INTERVIEW WITH A DEADLY<br />

Text & Interview with a mortal, as it was reported and<br />

illustrated by the journalist Maxime Villain.<br />

The scene takes place on the borders ultimate Paradise, at<br />

the foot the mountain of light where sit the great archangels,


arbiters of our destinies. Actors: the three archangels more<br />

Charles Donahue, quidam just died. The Guardian Angel<br />

Charles Donahue could not come, which will change<br />

Moreover, in any way the meaning and value of the<br />

judgment.<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Hello, Mr. Donahue. SOUL:<br />

Where am I? The deceased looks around and ground area<br />

of its<br />

ectoplasm where his left arm was recently amputated. He<br />

raises his head and looks at the hill of Judgement ultimate<br />

the three archangels-judges in the process of manipulating<br />

strings transparent, full of knots.<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: You are in the Centre<br />

guidance of souls and we are going to weigh in your past<br />

life.<br />

SOUL: A Weight?<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: A trial. Your life will be under<br />

investigation so that we can judge your behavior and<br />

decide whether or not to end the cycle of your<br />

reincarnations on Earth.<br />

SOUL: I was very good. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL<br />

(examining documents): That’s what you say. SOUL: I


heard in the queue I right to a guardian angel for a lawyer.<br />

He is not there?<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: You actually entitled to the<br />

presence of your guardian angel but also that of your<br />

personal demon. It turns out they are both currently in full<br />

swing in the lower world. You know or you do not know that<br />

the guardian angel you are assigned day of your birth.<br />

However, a person born on the same day that you need to<br />

send emergency and his guardian angel and his demon. A<br />

painful case of dismissal abuse. These are exceptional<br />

circumstances, but we extend not it. Do not worry: you will<br />

be judged fairly. Awareness of your angel guardian and<br />

your demon hovering over the mountain and We hear them<br />

simultaneously.<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Your case will be discussed<br />

with the greater objectivity. You are in the place of justice<br />

among all. We already know all about you. We know to the<br />

intentions that prelude to all your actions.<br />

SOUL (vehemently): I have nothing to reproach myself. I<br />

was very good. I got married. I had three children. I left a<br />

legacy to my family before I die. living at 200 mph. that is,<br />

they must have a good surprise, if you want I think.<br />

Archangel J. Raphael (while Gabriel held up a string<br />

transparent full of knots): This is not “Behave”. You see<br />

these nodes? All are an act of your life.


Everyone is buzzing bubble-memories enough similar to<br />

those that receive the dead, after the first Wall comatose.<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: You mentioned your wife. I note<br />

here that you often cry. You mistaken, is not it? With an idiot<br />

at that.<br />

SOUL (fatalistic): The customs are quite free, our days …<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL (very dry): Adultery simple.<br />

Penalty of 60 points. (He studied other bubble-memories.)<br />

You raised your children, too. But did you really cared for<br />

them? I see that you arrange always go on holiday at the<br />

time of birth, you excuse then business travel to escape the<br />

cries at night, so that your wife was again always left alone<br />

at times when it had the greatest need of you.<br />

SOUL: I was always overwhelmed with work and that is the<br />

well-being of my family that I m’échinais. In addition, each of<br />

my return, I covered my kids toys.<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: You imagine that toys<br />

replace the presence of a father? Sorry… Penalty 100<br />

points.<br />

SOUL: What’s the story of points and penalties?<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: To end its cycle of reincarnation<br />

and become a sage, one must have acquired 600 bonus<br />

points during his last visit to Earth.


For now, you’re at a penalty of 160 points. Let us continue<br />

(He runs his rope and lands on a series of nodes especially<br />

white.) You have put your elderly parents in an asylum for<br />

the third category where you not visit them that just once a<br />

year.<br />

SOUL: They were senile. And with my work, I really<br />

overwhelmed …<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: When they raised you, you<br />

as you were “senile” as you say. Immediately, at that. And<br />

bawling, chaotic, dirty, slimy, unable keep you well on your<br />

legs. Your parents still have had the patience to bear your<br />

caprices.<br />

ARCHANGEL MICHAEL-JUDGE: And then, he has a good<br />

back, your work ! Let’s talk about your secretary!<br />

SOUL (surprised): Ah, you are also aware of that?<br />

ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL-JUDGE: Here we know<br />

everything we see everything we have everything. Were<br />

your parents desperate not to see you. You really miss<br />

them. In addition, in hospices, old people are more visits,<br />

more nurses treat. Those abandoned, they say, anyway, no<br />

wishes to them. Inevitably, they neglect them.


SOUL: I sent them still a lot of gifts.<br />

ARCHANGEL MICHAEL-JUDGE: Always the same old<br />

story. Them either do not require special gifts. They wanted<br />

to the presence. As your wife as your children.<br />

SOUL: Are not you exaggerating a bit? They were not so<br />

unfortunate that, at the hospice. Every time I went to see,<br />

they assured me that everything was fine …<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Because in addition they will<br />

liked and did not feel guilty. Another<br />

penalty of 100 points! Not brilliant, all that! It is already<br />

to - 260.<br />

SOUL: Wait. It’s a bit too easy. We judge people<br />

and they are condemned. One would think that you’re gone<br />

set and you do not consider that bad. I<br />

still performed good deeds in this world.<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: What do you think?<br />

SOUL: I mounted a bottle factory! I did work


worth of the unemployed, I fed the family, I produced<br />

things that helped people live better lives. Ha!<br />

ARCHANGEL GABRIEL-JUDGE: Let’s talk about your<br />

plant<br />

bottles! It has polluted the entire region.<br />

ARCHANGEL MICHAEL-JUDGE: And what working<br />

conditions<br />

there! You had created a climate of permanent conflict<br />

between your management and your workers. You go up<br />

against each<br />

other to all the break.<br />

SOUL: Divide and conquer is a law of management music<br />

You can not blame me for having studied business!<br />

ARCHANGEL GABRIEL-JUDGE: For the plant, penalty: 60<br />

points. Already 320 below the level of tolerable. There will<br />

now be add bulk to “trifles.”<br />

SOUL: The trifles? what does it really mean?<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: Throughout your life, you have<br />

committed, I quote: 8254 lies harmful to your environment;


567 cowardice simple 789 cowardice serious; 45 small<br />

animals crushed under your tires. In addition, Mr. voted<br />

anything in elections, Mr. addicted Gambling with<br />

household goods, Mr. traveling in a car loud, sir …<br />

SOUL (consternation of the ectoplasm Donahue): You’re<br />

take for the perfect bastard, it seems!<br />

ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL-JUDGE: I never said that. (It<br />

consult further its string full of knots which escape Now the<br />

bubble-memories like so many Champagne bubbles in<br />

suspension): You give regularly your blood to hospitals.<br />

Bonus: 20 points. You have saved a motorist on a highway<br />

while his car was about to ignite. Bonus: 50 points. You<br />

give your old clothing to the companions Emmaus instead<br />

of throwing them in the trash. Bonus: 10 points.<br />

SOUL: And do not forget the circumstances of my death.<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL (setting always the string):<br />

Indeed, they deserve attention. You hit a plane to avoid a<br />

cyclist while tumbling in front of you two big trucks trying to<br />

overtake. Their<br />

drivers are also right behind you to wait by The ectoplasm<br />

Donahue turns around and discovered behind her two dead<br />

excited.


SOUL: Ah!<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: For once, you had the good<br />

reflex, I have to admit. 10 bonus points, but you could get<br />

more if, in addition to cycling, you have also saved the<br />

plane.<br />

SOUL (outraged): What!<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Yes, he was a young plane<br />

tree who asked nothing better than to continue to grow and<br />

to shade the road and you have broken in two! The Next<br />

time you’re on your to prevent and trucks and cycling and<br />

the plane tree you plant simply in the ditch. May thus your<br />

car is on fire and you would have perished charred. It is<br />

very well seen here, the death by fire.<br />

SOUL: Because it’s a terrible way to die?<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: More death is painful, the closer it<br />

is martyrdom. Death by fire you would have earned a bonus<br />

of 100 points!<br />

SOUL: What did you say your next time?<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL (very patient): You have 600<br />

points to end the cycle of reincarnation, we have said from<br />

the beginning of the weighing. Or, you complete this<br />

existence with a total of - 230. Not terrible, all that.


Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Especially if it is found that<br />

Gentleman is still in its 193rd reincarnation in human form.<br />

We can only refer you to another body. Try to do better than<br />

a lousy<br />

- 230, the next review. SOUL (scared): Another body?<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Another body, another<br />

existence. A life that you choose. SOUL (more<br />

flabbergasted): Because we can choose his life?<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Of course, in life, we get<br />

always what we chose. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: And<br />

we are here to<br />

service of souls. We’re here to help you<br />

improve it. This is for your good, so you can<br />

you amend, we’re going to reincarnate.<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: We’ll give you<br />

the opportunity to correct the mistakes of your past lives.<br />

Choose your own strengths and your initial handicaps<br />

for your new life. Let’s see what we have<br />

stocked with - 230 points.<br />

The three archangels call two seraphim who have


stopped fluttering above them during the whole scene.<br />

They bring them immediately cords bubble<br />

images rich in information.<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: We have here the list any Cool for<br />

parents trying to make love at this time it is.<br />

SOUL: I’ll be able to choose my parents?<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: How many times does your<br />

repeat that one can choose his life? But be careful<br />

especially<br />

not be wrong! So you prefer the parents rather<br />

severe or relatives rather flexible?<br />

SOUL (confused): Um … What’s the difference?<br />

A seraph project a telepathic. A big Mr. and fat lady naked<br />

in bed, looking for a position where neither one nor the<br />

other stifle his partner its weight. After trying in vain to him<br />

above, it below, then the contrary, they fit on the side as<br />

Small spoons.


The phone rings but the woman motioned to the man not to<br />

respond. It is red and sweating. It ahanne loudly. Women<br />

face and twisted her hair.<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Mr and Mrs Dehorgne, a<br />

nice pair. Nice, protective, loving. Single default: their<br />

profession. They are in the restoration and facility is not<br />

busy. At night, they require you So to finish all the leftovers,<br />

their specialty is cassoulet Castelnaudary and chocolate<br />

profiteroles. Like them, you will quickly become obese. So<br />

they you want the Dehorgne?<br />

SOUL (looking with disgust the couple and their<br />

uncomfortable antics): Of course not.<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: All parents have their<br />

advantages and disadvantages. With your notes, you can<br />

not afford to do the difficult.<br />

New image upload telepathic.<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: The family Pollet. The father is a<br />

tobacconist, a heavy smoker, drinks too much. The woman<br />

is illiterate and submissive as a dog. In the evening, Mr.<br />

Pollet returns often end drunk and hit everyone, including<br />

wife and children. With him, the shots belt will rain thick, I<br />

can assure you.


Specifically, said Pollet is currently grabbing the buttocks of<br />

his wife and the scratch until they bleed. Far from complain,<br />

she moaned ecstatically.<br />

SOUL: But they are sado-masochist! I hate that. To below,<br />

please!<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL (doubtful): With - 230 points<br />

…<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: The de Surnach. Bon chic<br />

bon<br />

Gender: Youth, sports, still in the game, parents<br />

the kind friends. They have lots of friends, go out often<br />

canned, travel the world.<br />

All contemplate two handsome young men hugging happily<br />

under blankets. SOUL (very interested): Finally, you<br />

propose another thing as monsters!<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Not so simple. All their good<br />

hours, they let you do whatever you want but<br />

they are so dynamic that alongside of them, you


always look erased and timid.<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: First you jealousies,<br />

Then you hate them. For their part, they are so crazy about<br />

each<br />

the other they do not accord relatively little affection.<br />

You will be a child frowned and quickly soured. Them, even<br />

sixty years, they always seem young. You, as<br />

twelve years, you will have a little old. As<br />

it is difficult to accept the idea that hates its own<br />

parents, you want quickly to the whole earth.<br />

SOUL: Okay, I understand. Who else?<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: We have the duty to<br />

show the good and the bad side of things, even if your<br />

choice becomes more difficult.<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Consider the Gomelin. A<br />

couple already old who believed no longer to have children.


Thanks to new techniques of in vitro fertilization, this<br />

lady already menopausal can deliver. You will arrive<br />

in this family as an unexpected gift. They pamper you<br />

at any cost. You’ll like them and even love.<br />

SOUL (more suspicious) What’s the catch, this<br />

a time; They will make me fat by dint of candy? They me<br />

fight every wrong note as they will be proud<br />

my grades?<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: No. They are old, okay,<br />

but very sweet.<br />

SOUL: Perfect for me, then.<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: You think so? You<br />

love as you become unable to exit the family cocoon. You<br />

will always remain at home, shut up, unable to open yourself<br />

to others. You will admire both your mother no woman in the<br />

world will be comparable to your eyes. No man will seem<br />

likely to match your father, so wise and understanding.<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: But they are older and die


soon, leaving you soft orphan abandoned. You find a baby<br />

bird fallen from the nest before learned to fly. And live<br />

permanently in the regret of their disappearance.<br />

SOUL (sorry): Who else is in store yet? A couple s’étreint<br />

passionately on the carpet a living room cozy.<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: The Chirouble. They may be<br />

in the process of hugging, but they divorced within a few<br />

days.<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Parents separated. You will<br />

entrusted to your mother. She has a lover who will hate you.<br />

They lock you up in a closet to make love more quietly. It will<br />

hit you every time you cry because she fear that her lover<br />

never leaves because of you. Your father will sometimes on<br />

weekends but also focus more on his mistresses to you.<br />

SOUL: Better and better …<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: No, these parents presented<br />

tent a few advantages. As you grow a rage as you will want<br />

revenge on life. You hate it all women because they make<br />

you think about your mother. This indifference makes you<br />

irresistible and will make you a great seducer. You will hate<br />

also all men because your father and, hence, you will be<br />

power-hungry to better control them. With this kind of


unhappy childhood you become an entrepreneur or<br />

dynamic statesman to grasp.<br />

Archangel JUGEMICHEL: In addition, you can simply talk<br />

Your awful young for everyone sympathizes and you forgive<br />

your wickedness.<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: And if you write your<br />

autobiography it will sell like hotcakes and producers would<br />

tear the film rights. People love stories of unhappy<br />

childhood.<br />

The ectoplasm Donahue hesitated a moment. He was a<br />

priori quite charming, this couple seemed much fun on the<br />

carpet. He said though.<br />

SOUL: I do not want to be Cosette and Gavroche. Other<br />

thing.<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: - 230, sorry, that’s all we<br />

have to offer. Large restaurants, tobacconists drunkards,<br />

BCBG dynamic, old parentsgâteaux and divorced scabby.<br />

Choose and quickly, because it You will then decide your<br />

disability and health.<br />

SOUL: You ask me to choose between the plague and<br />

cholera!<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: You had to think about before. You


you would be better included with your parents, your wife<br />

and your children with a better score, you have certain<br />

ment proposed better. The dead before you had that<br />

- 20 points and just with that, we were able to give a nice<br />

family of wine merchants. Nice people which will give him<br />

an excellent education and perhaps chance to become<br />

wise enough to not have to reincarnate. Archangel JUDGE<br />

GABRIEL: There is still the possibility of reborn in a third<br />

world country. You shall not eat<br />

not your hunger, but you will benefit from an environment<br />

warm.<br />

SOUL: As long as pain, painful life for life miserable, I<br />

still prefer not to change country.<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: So, with all due<br />

influence, I recommend the divorced scabby. The more you<br />

suffer in this existence, the more likely you<br />

gain points for your next life. We must see


long-term. A life is quickly past.<br />

Surrounding the Seraphim project the images of all couples<br />

offered.<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: I think also it’s a good choice. It<br />

will allow you to progress. It will be difficult to first, but an<br />

adult will bring you some compensation.<br />

SOUL (addressing Gabriel): And you, what you think?<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: I instead select the Pollet, the<br />

tobacconist drunk and violent. I am convinced should not<br />

hesitate to choose a child really rotten. Then things can not<br />

go getting better. Come when the day enjoyable when your<br />

father dare more hit you because you will become stronger<br />

than him, the day even more enjoyable when you leave the<br />

house slamming the door, escaping their tyranny …<br />

SOUL: But you accused of having neglected my parents in<br />

my life before!<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: Each life is different. It is no<br />

absolute rule. It is natural to seek to from the influence of<br />

wicked parents. Even if their forgiveness later, so you<br />

would be a few points bonus handy!<br />

The ectoplasm Charles Donahue thought it over in carefully


examining the projections of each couple. SOUL (sighing):<br />

Okay, forward for the divorced scabby.<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: I maintain that it is a good<br />

choice. In nine months, if you wish, you will then<br />

reincarnated in the family Chirouble.<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Now for the pro<br />

health problems. Also, you can choose. With your - 230<br />

points, you must take two in the list follows: rheumatic<br />

paralyzing stomach ulcer, perpetual toothache, facial<br />

neuralgia, chronic crises nerves incessant myopia near<br />

blindness, deafness, exotropia, esotropia, bad breath<br />

permanent, psoriasis, constipation, Alzheimer’s disease,<br />

paralysis of the left leg, stuttering, chronic bronchitis,<br />

asthma.<br />

SOUL: Uh … Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Hurry up, if I<br />

decide for you. There are people waiting behind you!<br />

SOUL: So, at random: ulcers and asthma. Archangel<br />

JUDGE GABRIEL (noting): Not bad. Gentleman is<br />

connoisseur. SOUL: It’s that in my previous life, I have<br />

suffered chronic bronchitis and toothache perpetual. It was<br />

unbearable. Much change. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL:<br />

Another small step. You want to be reborn as a man or<br />

woman? SOUL: What’s the difference? Archangel JUDGE


GABRIEL: Man, you are required to complete your military<br />

service and your life is eighty years on average. Woman,<br />

you give birth in pain and you live about ninety years.<br />

SOUL: One minute, if I am reborn as a woman, I can more<br />

become the great charismatic leader and seducer as you<br />

promised me. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: That’s well an<br />

a priori man. You are mistaken, the future is to tyrants<br />

female. To “Tyrant.” Just reverse the roles. All men will be at<br />

your feet and nothing will prevent you from exercising your<br />

powers of domination. Moreover, customs continue to<br />

evolve. We see more and more women at the head of<br />

nations or companies. SOUL: A birth, it must still be very<br />

evil, right? Archangel J. RAPHAEL: I recommend an<br />

epidural. And, you know, orgasm female sex is<br />

nine times higher than the male orgasm. Only women<br />

know the true pleasure.<br />

SOUL: You are probably better informed than me<br />

the matter.<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Why do you think that<br />

comes so many more girls than boys? People<br />

provide information before choosing.<br />

SOUL: Okay for females, then.


Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Let us now to your overall<br />

mission. You do recall not but your soul has emerged ago<br />

seven hundred thousand years with the task to accomplish<br />

a work that is revolutionizing completely the art of painting.<br />

Now what do I see on your [ record ]: Just a few scribbles<br />

only promising line of your school notebooks. You<br />

benefitted any of your past lives to complete your mission.<br />

Archangel J. Raphael (disappointed): And that is why<br />

Humanity is still lagging behind in many areas … S<br />

someone does not do its destiny on the earth any one arts<br />

or science does not develop no!<br />

SOUL: With all my work down, I never had a free minute for<br />

my entertainment.<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL (shocked): You’re laughing<br />

us? I note here that in your previous existences, you were<br />

mammoth hunters, driver carts, Chamberlain in a castle,<br />

explorer Africa, pearl diver, and film actor, with all that, you<br />

have never found a short week for achieve at least a<br />

picture?<br />

SOUL: I’m afraid there have never thought of.<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: He will now. All of humanity is<br />

waiting for your contribution painting. Because your<br />

laziness, the paint is still looking for a second wind.<br />

Hundreds of artists and designers you expect to better


express themselves and enhance your message. Some die<br />

with nothing painted.<br />

SOUL: I’m really sorry. I will try to make my best this time.<br />

Still, painter, is a<br />

job of down-and-hungry. It often takes fifty to be finally<br />

recognized.<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL (mocking): So, Mr. is<br />

pressed, it has a train to catch? You will have ninety-ten<br />

years to reflect and buy brushes, it does enough?<br />

SOUL: In addition, as a woman, I will have even more<br />

difficult to impose on me …<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: The difficulties will increase your<br />

merits. If your work is so overwhelming that we we expect, if<br />

you make your Mona Lisa, I agree to grant you 700 bonus<br />

points to your pro-chain passage. That allows you 100<br />

points penalty! What lead a good little life of debauchery<br />

between two canvases.<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: If Mr. is pressed, it can he<br />

arranged the coup de Mozart.<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Good idea, the scope of<br />

Mozart!


SOUL (concerned): What is the scope of Mozart?<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: You realize very quickly you<br />

masterpiece, you are fairly recognized, you<br />

earn just enough to survive and continue to call in<br />

quantity but also quality and then, presto!<br />

you die young. At thirty-five years, as Wolfgang<br />

Amadeus Mozart. It can even thirty-nine,<br />

If it suits you.<br />

SOUL (interested): It’s tempting. I accept gladly. Thank<br />

you.I’m sorry Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Wait, we do not<br />

finished yet. We still have to choose your death.<br />

SOUL: My death! But I’m dead!<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: I’m talking about your next<br />

death. We must decide everything in advance.<br />

SOUL: You mean, the last time, I opted<br />

stupidly to the plane?


Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Yes! What do you want<br />

now. Another car accident, an overdose of<br />

cocaine, was assassinated by one of your fans or your<br />

penny<br />

pirants turned away? We have all the dead pos<br />

sible: the police killing the flower pot falling from a<br />

balcony by accident, drowning, suicide. More death is<br />

painful, plus the bonus is important. Thanks to their 500<br />

bonus points, many Cathars thrown into the fire have been<br />

able to end their cycle of reincarnation. The immolation by<br />

fire, it was the fashion at that time. But there now more<br />

modern 300 bonus points for perished condemned<br />

innocent in an electric chair or a victim a generalized<br />

cancer.<br />

SOUL: Never mind the supplements. I would die quickly,<br />

without noticing it and in my bed. Sleep life and wake up<br />

dead.<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: Sorry, ectoplasm Donahue, but<br />

with your note - 230 points, we can not offer death as


pleasant. Your passage from life to death can only be<br />

violent. Moreover, it will provide your work with an aura<br />

additional.<br />

Think of Van Gogh! Here is a man who knew well painting,<br />

of suffering and painful death. As a result, he earned his<br />

600 points and was able to end its cycle of reincarnations.<br />

It has become a pure spirit. Take it to For instance:<br />

SOUL (plaintive) But I do not want to suffer!<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: In any case, it is not ground<br />

for fun. In addition, with parents that you are given, just<br />

starting out will not be pink!<br />

SOUL: What wound! Well, I take the suicide. But a suicide<br />

quick, fast and painless. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Do<br />

you throw out a window. SOUL: Impossible. I have always<br />

been subject to vertigo.<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: Slice your veins in a tub of warm<br />

water. But beware, if you do not want not you miss, then<br />

begin deep wrists. Otherwise, it will not work. Be sure to<br />

whet your razor.<br />

Pout disgusted the ectoplasm Donahue. SOUL: Well, going<br />

for suicide with a razor … Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL<br />

(smoothing the knots of the rope


lette): So I summarizes. We are in agreement: you are<br />

reborn woman with a stomach ulcer and asthma attacks.<br />

Your divorced parents beat you as<br />

plaster. You hurry to paint the damn table. You die, veins<br />

trenches in your bathtub. For Otherwise, feel free to<br />

improvise. To the next?<br />

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: Not yet. It remains to write the<br />

Material Safety Data Sheet.<br />

SOUL: It’s what, right?<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Do not worry. T identify some<br />

of your qualities. But here you do not have your say, it is we<br />

who calculate.<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: I list:<br />

Physical strength: below average.<br />

Beauty: above average.<br />

Intensity of the gaze: above average.<br />

Tone of voice: the average level.


Charisma: well above.<br />

Ability to mind games: the lower level.<br />

Ability to lie: the next level.<br />

Technical skills: lower level.<br />

SOUL: It means what?<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: What Madame will have<br />

difficulty pass his driver’s license or it will be unable to<br />

repair alone her washing machine. That’s it. SOUL: Okay!<br />

As long as I am beautiful and intelligent,<br />

I will always find someone to help me.<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: I continue:<br />

Intelligence: average.<br />

Seductive ability: level.<br />

Endurance: the lower level.<br />

Obstinacy level.<br />

Culinary skills: lower level.<br />

General irritability: the next level.


SOUL: I will be irritable?<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Enough, Yes.<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL (irritated to be continually<br />

interrupted)<br />

:<br />

Ability to play a musical instrument: the lower level. Ability to<br />

fire the revolver: the next level. Taste for the sport: the lower<br />

level. Desire for children: average.<br />

SOUL: Oh, it has a broad back, free will: what you still tell<br />

me? If I am good at the crossword puzzles? For a<br />

reincarnation chosen, there are still even too many items<br />

predetermined and independent of my will. I protest.<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: You know, you’re already<br />

angry ! Let’s get:<br />

Ability to fight: the next level.<br />

Whining: level.<br />

Taste for adventure: the lower level.<br />

Come on, the next!


SOUL: One more question. I will remember all this?<br />

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Of course not. You do<br />

remember anything, not even your visit here. It would too<br />

easy!<br />

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: At times, however, You seem<br />

to have premonitions, intuitions. This is all you will of that<br />

conversation. It’s your do then trust your intuition. But<br />

enough chat. Rush you to go down before your parents<br />

have finished making love, or you miss your train. Let’s go<br />

Next customer!<br />

235 - Christian mythology<br />

“We are the brothers of angels. When we introduced into<br />

the court of heaven, what rapture before the splendours of<br />

the angelic choirs. And for all eternity, what joy to fraternize<br />

with the myriad of spirits Blessed! The angels are spirits<br />

leading to which our artists and geniuses are only Pygmies.<br />

“<br />

Canon G. Panneton.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.


236 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS<br />

CARD FULL LAND OF THE DEAD<br />

1. Off. 2. Cessation of signs of life. Emission of the radio<br />

signal frequency 86 kHz approx. 3. Coma. 4. Out of the<br />

world. 5. Flight through space. Duration: 18 minutes. 6.<br />

Emergence of a large circle of light spinning said Continent<br />

Ultimate. Limbo. Blue beach. 7. Docking in the Territory 1.<br />

AREA 1<br />

Zone: coma over 18 minutes.<br />

Color: blue.<br />

Feels like: attraction, water, space. Freshness and joy.<br />

Attraction by a bright light.<br />

Recommendation to continue: Do not fear past the first wall<br />

of death.<br />

Ends Moch 1.<br />

AREA 2<br />

Zone: coma over 21 minutes.


Black <br />

Sensations: Fear, revulsion, cold terror.


Nine cornices increasingly steep confronted<br />

tion with the most painful memories. Light always present<br />

but blurred by memories. Recommendations to continue:<br />

understanding the past and be able to take every action.<br />

Ends Moch 2.<br />

3 TERRITORY<br />

Zone: coma over 24 minutes.<br />

Color: red.<br />

Feels like: fun, light, heat and humidity.<br />

Confrontation with the most perverse of his vices and more<br />

crazy fantasies. Here come to the surface the most<br />

repressed desires. Face them without getting carried<br />

away.<br />

410<br />

In case of carelessness, may remain stuck to the wall slimy.


Recommendation to proceed: accept fantasies but not<br />

bogged down. Ends Moch 3.<br />

AREA 4<br />

Zone: coma over 27 minutes.<br />

Color: orange.<br />

Feels like: fight against time, air currents, winds strong.<br />

Vision of a row of dead extending to infinity, walking slowly<br />

through a vast plain and cylindrical.<br />

Confrontation over time. Learning patience with minutes<br />

turned into hours and hours in months. Possibility of<br />

meetings and discussions with famous dead.<br />

Recommendations to continue: freedom from fear wasting<br />

time or the will to win. him to accept it! the status quo. Act<br />

as if we were immortal.<br />

Ends Moch 4.<br />

AREA 5<br />

Zone: coma over 42 minutes.<br />

Couieur yellow.<br />

Feelings: passion, strength, omnipotence. Solutions to all


the mysteries hitherto incomprehensible. Getting to know<br />

the meaning of the chakras and appearance of the third<br />

eye for yogis. Discovery of the way of the Tao pure Taoists.<br />

Resolution of the secrets of the Kabbalah for the Jews.<br />

Appearances Garden of Allah for Muslims and the Garden<br />

of Eden the Christians.<br />

Instead of absolute knowledge. Everything finds its raison<br />

be. Discover the meaning of life, of the infinitely large to the<br />

infinitely small.<br />

Recommendations to continue: not to be impress with<br />

knowledge. Let yourself fill knowledge without wanting to<br />

eat them all like so many treats for the mind.<br />

Ends Moch 5.<br />

TERRITORY 6 Zone: coma more than 49 minutes.<br />

Color: green.<br />

Sensations of great beauty, discovering landscapes<br />

sumptuous visions of dream and perfect flowers wonderful,<br />

wonderful plants ending in multicolored stars. The green<br />

country is that of absolute beauty.<br />

But it is also the site of an unexpected trial. THE VISION of<br />

absolute beauty brings the denial of self. We feels ugly,


useless, rude, clumsy.<br />

It is no longer a feeling of humility, a sense denial of self.<br />

Recommendation to proceed: accept his own ugliness.<br />

Ends Moch 6.<br />

TERRITORY 7<br />

Zone: coma over 51 minutes.<br />

Color: white.<br />

Place populated by angels and devils. In the center, along<br />

the river the dead. Basically, the bright mountain of<br />

Judgement last++; This completes the migration of souls<br />

into new reincarnations. Three archangels to weigh the<br />

merits.<br />

Recommendations to continue: be willing to pay for his evil<br />

deeds. Claiming spontaneously reincarnation to repair the<br />

damage and nuisance caused in previous existences.<br />

Ends with the mountain of light.<br />

History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

237 - APPREHENSION<br />

Published by the modest little Thanatonautes illustrated<br />

interview Charles Donahue enjoyed, however, an impact


world. It was translated in all languages reviewed by<br />

leading psychologists, philosophers, priests, analysts and<br />

politicians.<br />

Our friend the President appeared obviously the most<br />

loquacious.<br />

He mobilized all TV channels for a speech announcing the<br />

entry into a messianic era. It said that the Thanatonautes<br />

open all doors<br />

412<br />

hitherto closed. There would now be a before and after<br />

the discovery of the Continent Ultimate. To listen, you<br />

guessed<br />

in fact he would have liked this new era is four<br />

sonnel of lucindérienne. More Christian calendar with data<br />

tion before or after Christ. We were in the year


68 after the birth of Jean Lucinda.<br />

If Lucinda did not elicit the support of all of its per<br />

rings, each one did not understand unless something<br />

essential had happened. A large door had<br />

open, leaving the storm sweep a room longer<br />

closed.<br />

What upset to learn that death was<br />

a country, this country was populated by angels, as the<br />

archangels<br />

we thought about our past lives … The Interview with<br />

mortal we had moreover taught that we live in<br />

a moral world.<br />

There were good and bad ways to<br />

behave in this world. Humans were no longer on land<br />

schoolchildren responsible for many learn their lessons,


namely<br />

empathy, generosity, the elevation of consciousness.<br />

It was so simple, so childlike, so moral. Only books<br />

Catechism of all kinds had thought about and, over the<br />

centuries,<br />

as many had ceased to believe. How<br />

clergy of all denominations had yet drummed since<br />

always that the future belonged to nice people!<br />

It was too late to do when I received the risks of such<br />

disclosure. Now, everyone knew it. It was important to wash<br />

your karma all its miasmas, to avoid tainting the existence<br />

of any villainy. Live, suffer, die, nothing seemed to matter,<br />

while was an episode to the pinnacle of pure spirit.<br />

We méditâmes about it in our penthouse. In through the<br />

windows, lit by small flames candles, we could see the<br />

starlight.<br />

Amandine star had adopted the appearance of a priestess.<br />

It does clothed only in long black robes Chinese the collar<br />

turned up and the skirt length split. She had off all lights and<br />

replace them with candelabra. We bathed in orange light.


The first, I broke the silence:<br />

- Time is critical. We are overwhelmed by the events. We<br />

do not control anything. The Thanatonautes escapes us. -<br />

Not surprisingly, she touched too many points essential<br />

declaimed Amandine with a voice actress. By discovering<br />

the death, we gave a meaning to life. Always quicktempered,<br />

Stefania angrily:<br />

- In Columbus, it has been the same. It may discovered<br />

America, but he missed his return. He imagined impress<br />

people with his parrots and chocolate. We laughed at him.<br />

It deserves although it does not care us! Still Columbus …<br />

- Poor Columbus died in poverty and oblivion, remarked<br />

Rose. We, we are still not there. - But the worst is that his<br />

discovery has completely escaped, got angry again the<br />

Italian. The proof is that if America is called like that is<br />

because of Amerigo Vespucci, the only discoverer officially<br />

recognized when by the Spanish court. We, too, we were<br />

dispossessed of our work! Expressing my agreement, I<br />

tapped his fist on the table low, lacking reverse cocktails<br />

Amandine. Was funny, but since the abandonment of<br />

Raoul, I felt compelled to give rants instead. As if, in any<br />

group, it was necessary a character irascible and blood!<br />

- We must maintain control of the Thanatonautes, storm-I.


We have pioneered its control is rightfully ours. - My poor<br />

darling, since the Maintenance with a mortal, we are<br />

overwhelmed, sighed Rose. - You heard what they say on<br />

the news? excited Stefania. The number of crimes has<br />

sharply plummeted. There are only fools who kill! - What<br />

shall we do? asked Amanda, practice. - Nothing says<br />

Rose. We will face a wave of kindness widespread. The<br />

world has never known ca We’ll see what comes of it. In<br />

silence, sorry, we sirotâmes our drinks too sweet and not<br />

enough alcohol. Berk.<br />

238 - MYTHOLOGY Amazonian Indians<br />

Formerly, the Guarani Indians lived in the sky with gods.<br />

Their occupation was to keep the fire of stars and the glow<br />

of the planets. One day, a young warrior awkward pierced<br />

the sky by pulling with his bow. The land appeared to him<br />

then with all its wealth. The herds, game, beehives, fish,<br />

fruits it seemed so appealing that it was from this discovery<br />

his brothers. Taking advantage of a moment of inattention<br />

gods, the Guarani launched a vine to get down on earth.<br />

They reached the great river Orinoco, in heart of the forest.<br />

They feasted foods earth, but soon the wary animals<br />

became scarce. The rain flooding and fruit they could.<br />

Shivering with fever, Indians asked to return among the<br />

gods. Corn it was too late. The sky had closed and Guarani<br />

were condemned to live in this land difficult they coveted.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis


Razorbak.<br />

239 - A WORLD OF SWEETNESS<br />

The world became progressively nicer. No question to sully<br />

his karma by bad actions, we there could be a down-andhunger<br />

in Africa, homeless New York welfare recipients in<br />

Paris.<br />

No work of science fiction could have imagined something<br />

as sweet. Throughout the kindness gaining field, such a<br />

contagious disease.<br />

Good works awash in donations. We had to queue for<br />

hours to deposit the check or his best clothes. Hospitals<br />

overwhelmed opened waiting lists to meet the many donors<br />

Blood in power.<br />

Throughout the world, endemic conflicts extinguished of<br />

themselves, forcing arms dealers delighted to close their<br />

business generator penalty. All that, of or indirectly, might<br />

be considered bad Action was now doomed to contempt.<br />

The addicts found themselves down by dealers. Upon<br />

request, the bankers gave loans to the rate below. They<br />

inquired more capacity for repayment their customers. A<br />

bankruptcy generosity they would certainly promoted in the<br />

afterlife.


The good souls flocked to the bowls of beggars. The latter<br />

are endowed machine accepting credit cards and refused<br />

to accept more checks on presentation of proper<br />

identification.<br />

No need to lock the doors, obsolete alarm systems. You<br />

could now leave large open the exits of the apartments,<br />

cars, hire strong. Fly! No one thought more.<br />

More petty, more burglaries, more altercations, more<br />

brawls, more violence. However, the Trade flourished. Not<br />

wanting to sin by greed, while the world multiplied the gifts<br />

to everyone. Once a blind seemed willing to cross a street,<br />

dozens arms were stretched and many people stricken<br />

blindness found themselves and inadvertently lost on<br />

sidewalk opposite.<br />

The Third World received substantial subsidies. If one had<br />

flunked the examination and forced to reincarnate in a poor<br />

country, as sure it would have enriched meantime and that<br />

the next life would be more comfortable. He was in the<br />

public interest that significantly reduces the number of bad<br />

homes where reborn.<br />

People showed smiles more or less forced avoid upsetting<br />

their neighbors by eyebrows brows, a grimace or a bad<br />

word.<br />

Each had duly registered the rules: the cycle of


eincarnations continued indefinitely if it did not become not<br />

good enough and wise enough to deserve to be<br />

transformed in pure spirit. All were then at their best.<br />

Paint shops, music, pottery and even<br />

kitchen were full. Who knew if, like ectoplasm Donahue, he<br />

was not carrying a hidden gift to to make faster? Moreover,<br />

even the ugliest of works have a market. Patrons anxious to<br />

help the poor artists showed courage in their living room.<br />

Learn, grow, learn, improve. “Maintain<br />

the beauty of your soul. Grow it as a garden, “cla<br />

maient advertisements for correspondence schools.<br />

The bosses begged their employees to accept increased<br />

lations that they refused, wanting instead to say<br />

ask for free time to explore their talents. “The library


libraries, not in, “claimed the unions. Of<br />

Masons volunteers built with a vengeance.<br />

Simultaneously, of course, Thanatonautes experienced a<br />

renewed interest. Who does not want to get up there<br />

find his “loved ones” or at least make a<br />

once and an update on his karma?<br />

240 - Indian mythology NAVAJO<br />

American Indians, and especially Navajos have a morbid<br />

fear of death. The point of be barely able to approach a<br />

corpse. From someone died, they buried quickly with a<br />

great reluctance and all sorts of precautions in order to The<br />

minimum intervention. The body is buried in a place secret,<br />

as far as the village. It no longer affects business of death, it<br />

does not come near the tent, we consider that everything he<br />

owned is now dirty.<br />

In mythology Navajo, two Twins Heroes who once stole the<br />

weapons from the sun to kill the monsters who wanted to kill<br />

the Navajos.<br />

These monsters are old age, dirt, misery and Hunger. The<br />

fact that these monsters are still alive is a small mess of the<br />

Hero Twins. And do not paying attention.


Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

241 - In Search of FM<br />

Busy drinking, Raoul had not noticed any of these<br />

upheavals. His rehab was not really been successful. He<br />

was still drinking, even if it was less of bartenders willing to<br />

serve, passed a state of drunkenness advanced.<br />

In thanatodrome, there was always me and “My” three<br />

women: Rose, Stefania and Amandine. During this period,<br />

our favorite pastime was to eat the headings of births<br />

newspapers in search of the reincarnation of Freddy. FM,<br />

FM, FM ..<br />

We had dug up the babies FM! François Morlon, Fatima<br />

Maouich, Frank Mignard, Felicity Munin, Fernand Melissia,<br />

Florent Mouchignard, Fabien Mercantovitch, Firmin<br />

Magloire, Florence Mervin … Each time, we take an<br />

appointment with the happy parents, but when we had the<br />

toddler, among ten other watches, pens and medals, watch,<br />

pen and the medal with belonged to Freddy, none had yet<br />

extended her handcuffs to the familiar objects of our lost<br />

friend.<br />

- It is too early, consoled me Rose. You remember the


queue? Freddy still has to be caught in the traffic jam of the<br />

dead land yellow. There was even there Victor Hugo<br />

awaiting reincarnation, and if it is not already passed its<br />

centuries ahead, when Freddy! - The dead do not go all at<br />

the same speed. Talkative as it was Victor Hugo dragged<br />

argumentative. Other hurry. Looks like ectoplasm Donahue<br />

was eager to reincarnate! - It is recommended to wait and<br />

Freddy has always be patient, reminded me of Rose. In<br />

fact, I suspect hope that it would be she who give birth the<br />

next avatar of our rabbinchorégraphe. After much<br />

discussion, we christened also advance our future baby<br />

Frédéric Marcel Pinson. But us, we called him Freddy<br />

Junior.<br />

I attended the birth. It was beautiful! A kiss, a hug and nine<br />

months later, so much love was transformed in 3.2 kg of a<br />

sweet little pink ball, thirsty<br />

418<br />

of affection. I had never been so moved. Even the vision<br />

the continent of the dead was nothing compared to the<br />

miracle<br />

so simple and billions of billions of times repeated, the


hatch<br />

sion of a lifetime.<br />

A few days ago, we were both in our<br />

apartment thanatodrome des Buttes-Chaumont. In pre<br />

feel, we were three. Are there magic more admirable?<br />

In addition, the Thanatonautes and my karma was only stain<br />

pellets. Only he had. Our “Freddy Junior.”<br />

242 - police files


Note to the services concerned<br />

Estimate that there are vast mistake. Mistake to have left<br />

the Thanatonautes to develop. Register now for over ten<br />

takeoffs per day. Technique more reliable. Cherubim,<br />

seraphim, angels and devils hampered in their work.


Response services affected<br />

Let’s not exaggerate. The Thanatonautes, we all know, is<br />

part a long tradition. An ancient tradition. We always let in<br />

those who can enter. There is no reason yet a change in<br />

attitude.<br />

243 - Taoist philosophy<br />

“All life is like a dream. It is not appropriate mourn the death<br />

which is only a change of form. Why regret there an<br />

inhabited one day? “<br />

Lao-tzu.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

244 - JUNIOR<br />

We waited a year before submitting our Freddy Junior<br />

testing personal belongings of the late Freddy senior.<br />

It was a technical Tibetan to recognize the kidneys<br />

skin tones. In Africa, there was a similar custom in some<br />

tribes. We cut a phalanx of death to to locate the fetus<br />

would be born deprived of the same phalanx. The


ecognition ceremony Tibetan seemed more adequate.<br />

On all fours on the carpet, Rose, Amanda and I kneeling<br />

beside him, the child looked at these watches, pens and<br />

medals galore as so many interesting and unpublished<br />

rattles. Usually, we wanted more out of the way such<br />

objects, lest it damage them or, worse, not swallowed.<br />

The small first became interested in watches, shaking<br />

happily few, arranged to break two (justifying and all my<br />

earlier fears about my own property) and enters finally<br />

loving the one with belonged to our beloved rabbi.<br />

Already we were ready to rush into the arms of the each<br />

other. Freddy Meyer had returned to earth in the features of<br />

our son! Rose quieted the game<br />

- Do not get carried away, whispered it while kid was still<br />

twists between the forest of various utensils placed on the<br />

carpet. I jumped again when he waved proudly the pen<br />

Freddy. He had distinguished between all and was on<br />

Entered,<br />

No doubt, at that moment I was convinced that we had<br />

found the right Freddy Meyer. Unless it does is he who has<br />

found up there, when choosing parental. He was no fool,<br />

our wise. He knew that we recognize him! Anyway, I was<br />

sure of: Freddy Meyer and Frederick Marcel Pinson had<br />

only one and even karma.


With all the knowledge that this kid was already in him what<br />

we were going to win as time!<br />

- When he is old, I put it in a course dance and<br />

choreography, announced Amandine, enthusiastic. - He will<br />

also in a yeshiva, completed myself. credit Moreover, if we<br />

tell the life of Freddy senior Freddy Junior, that he will<br />

accomplish a great leap forward in the cycle of<br />

reincarnation. - It will take advantage of a sudden sixty<br />

years of experience. It be the first human to have the<br />

memories of two lives. Rose did not hide the vast<br />

ambitions that kept for our child prodigy.<br />

- In twenty years, it will already be a great sage. Perhaps it<br />

what happened to Mozart? He was the reincarnation of a<br />

Another great musician and his parents understood from<br />

the outset. Both the other, we multipliâmes, delighted and<br />

excited, the proposals for the future.<br />

We portions more attention to the toddler when Freddy<br />

Junior showered us with net releasing the black pen to<br />

Freddy senior to a much more attractive pencil fluorescent<br />

orange.<br />

Breath, we followed him as he continued his wanderings.<br />

He sent waltzing watch and medal the deceased<br />

Strasbourg to better capture a lighter Disposable blue sea<br />

and a chocolate bar in his gold paper. This was done for.<br />

Suddenly, we considered our beloved son as a stranger.


An extension of any quidam that we had never even<br />

attended!<br />

Rose tried to console us and to comfort ellemême ensuring<br />

that, though, it had been a good person so that it has<br />

réatterri in a home as than ours.<br />

Still, it was not Freddy, and the child seemed to us<br />

suddenly, you know …? abroad. We were disappointed.<br />

We had given birth to a normal baby, born of karma for no<br />

one knew that. It was not the result of the existence of a holy<br />

man but simply a man.<br />

We now seem to have adopted a small Korean or been<br />

mistaken about the merchandise.<br />

What a disappointment! Little was still allowed to eating his<br />

chocolate bar. It would put full-face and Rose Cleanup<br />

almost with disgust.<br />

In bed at night, we had a family quarrel. My wife reproached<br />

me for having called a little too lightly the child’s first name<br />

Freddy. Now that we knew<br />

it was not him, he would drag the name as the shot of a life<br />

that does not belong to him!<br />

With a bad faith which hitherto I was not customary, I


etorted angrily that it was her bore the blame. After all, it<br />

was his belly who had made this “thing”. Not mine. With a<br />

little application, it would have done better baby! Furious,<br />

she sent waltzing the duvet and said they had always knew<br />

that there was one chance in billions that it works. One<br />

chance in billions also be find the “real” grieved me to<br />

myself.<br />

She too was taken aback but it should not forgetting that<br />

this child was ours, derived from the genes and mine. Why<br />

would it not later someone good?<br />

- It is perhaps the blind so that it has really the same<br />

opportunities and the same talent as the other, chuckled to<br />

myself. Mustard went up in the face of Rose. After all, it was<br />

his son and we were talking, like any mother, she defend<br />

tooth and nail. I never saw her as furious. In bulk, it gave me<br />

all sorts of old resentment at the figure. She blamed my<br />

lack of initiative, my perpetual submission to Raoul, my lack<br />

of character, my inability to keep my mother and my brother<br />

to invade our apartment for a hat not they invited each other<br />

without warning to dinner, without worrying about if it had<br />

had time to go shopping and never bring flowers, stingy!<br />

I replied that she was not in any case if fine stove than that,<br />

she was so absorbed in his work astronomer that was just<br />

if it was responsible for her dear Freddy junior then, after<br />

all, she was the mother.


One sentence led to another without our<br />

welcomed the decision, neither she nor me. In the end,<br />

Rose put on<br />

clothing to chance and fled to take refuge with his own<br />

mother.<br />

I found myself alone, like an idiot, along with Freddy Junior,<br />

heard it crying, fitting the<br />

own sirens. Waved in vain his toys preferred and<br />

finally prevail in my bed.<br />

My son is asleep, I fell in the living room and looked<br />

some relief in reading a book of horror.<br />

Read things into perspective really abominable your little<br />

problems but now I could not forget my<br />

behavior absolutely mean vis-à-vis Rose and<br />

horrors that I had said.<br />

This was the moment chosen by Raoul to return to the<br />

Improv


Vista thanatodrome and break into my apartment,<br />

very drunk.<br />

He could hardly stand, but realized while I was totally shot. I<br />

told him the scene with my wife. Raoul was an odd and,<br />

with the assurance of a drunkard, he approached me and<br />

said:<br />

- Michael, the time has come to deliver you the second<br />

secret. Ordinarily, I would have hastened to me plugging<br />

ears or throw a good punch to do shut up. But, I was beside<br />

myself. Forgetful of all promises to my wife, I pressed on<br />

the contrary Speak?<br />

- It has something to do with Rose? - Uh, if you will, yes. -<br />

Go ahead, speak. He collapsed on the carpet now free of<br />

all relics of Freddy senior. I lay down flat stomach next to<br />

him. Raoul laughed stupidly, drooling on my rugs. I held my<br />

desire to shake. He might vomit the large red stain and<br />

Rose would never forgive me the damage.<br />

- So the second truth? questioned I nervously picking up my<br />

friend to put it in a chair. He gasped:<br />

- It’s … report … to love. - In love! surprised myself. - Yeah.<br />

There’s a woman who loves you and awaits a


!<br />

A few more stammers and Raoul recited finally a story<br />

consistent. In my previous existence, I had known the<br />

great love. The great love. Intense moments with a<br />

wonderful woman. Unfortunately, in our previous life, this<br />

woman was sterile, we could not father a child. She felt a<br />

great sorrow and Me, too. One day, all to his sentence, she<br />

did not notice crossing an avenue and was hit by a car. The<br />

Angels thought it was a form of suicide. credit Anyway, I<br />

had suffered so much loss that I death of sadness in the<br />

months that followed.<br />

His drunkenness dissipating, my friend told me that when a<br />

couple had known a love so intense without Yet children,<br />

they had the right to join in their next incarnation to fill this<br />

gap.<br />

I had to find that woman since it was my real woman. Raoul<br />

knew almost everything about her. Satan in said lot.<br />

In this life, my wife was called Nadine Kent. It was American<br />

but lived in Paris. I had no may cross several times<br />

randomly in the streets, but my mind all captured by the<br />

Thanatonautes, I did not recognized.<br />

- Nadine Kent! I repeated, dreamily. - Yes, that’s the name


that told me Satan. - Satan is the angel of evil. - But his<br />

action also extends to lost souls, says Raoul, as tempting<br />

as its shadowy interlocutor. He had conducted its<br />

investigation. Nadine Kent was a beauty sublime, yet it was<br />

known that few men in his life. When asked why she<br />

persisted, if wonderful to live alone, she replied with a smile<br />

waiting for Prince Charming. She was now twenty-nine and<br />

his parents feared that it remains never old daughter.<br />

- But this prince charming … - It’s you, guy ass, kind of<br />

koala viscous! Th wonder that such splendor has been able<br />

to find you, even in one of your past lives! Coughing<br />

interrupted his laughter.<br />

- Do you realize, my friend Michael! A fascinating goddess<br />

waiting since birth. She does not want that you, all others<br />

would seem insipid. You’ve got the luck! Not only do you<br />

have already experienced a great love but you have one<br />

other in reserve!<br />

Love, love … Not that I did not want love but now that I<br />

pointed the finger that I must love in particular. Some<br />

Nadine Kent which I knew nothing, and even there yet.<br />

I suddenly realized why I, too, I always tried so hard to<br />

seduce a woman and then to adapt a married life. In fact,<br />

since the beginning, I was programmed to a child that<br />

Nadine Kent. Rose and Freddy Junior was an error referral<br />

… Of least, it was what I thought of that moment.


In my confusion, I take the phone book and looked at the<br />

letter K. Kent Nadine, his number was spread there black<br />

and white, in small letters. Without further ado, I enter my<br />

handset.<br />

245 - Jewish mythology<br />

“There is in heaven two doors of diamond and, near them,<br />

seventy thousand angels servants. When a Right (a pure<br />

man) arrives, they take away from him the shroud that was<br />

in his grave and clothe eight clothes clouds of glory. And on<br />

his head, they put two crowns, one of precious stones and<br />

pearls, the other gold. And they put in his hand, eight<br />

branches of myrtle. And they do enter in a place flowing<br />

with eight streams of water from eight hundred species of<br />

roses and myrtles. And every fair has to alone by a canopy<br />

from which spring four rivers, one of Milk, one of wine, a<br />

nectar and one of honey. And sixty angels stand in front of<br />

every just and tell him: “Go and taste the honey with joy<br />

because you’ve taken care of reading of the Book. ” “<br />

Yalkut, Genesis 2.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

246 - NADINE


A female voice elderly:<br />

- Hello? I had another call, in my haste? - Could I speak to<br />

Nadine? I say in a tone uncertain. The hour was late. I<br />

perceived a hesitation at the end of File It was to be his<br />

mother.<br />

Please. I pleaded. - I will seek, consented, with a touch of<br />

mistrust, husky voice. Standby Footsteps light. A delicate<br />

hand grabs of the device. A mouth approaches the<br />

handset.<br />

- Hello? Who wants me? asked a soft voice and familiar for<br />

at least three hundred years of reincarnations. No doubt.<br />

That was it.<br />

- Hello! Silence - It’s me, anon-I. At the other end, I<br />

perceived a sob. A sobbing with joy. Together, in a voice<br />

choked with tears, we began to talk. We said things<br />

senseless. Confidences that two people who do have ever<br />

met would never have dared to say.<br />

With Thanatonautes, I had already known moments difficult<br />

perilous, but never anything as moving, moving and terrible,<br />

that this succession of sentences confident and tender. And<br />

I knew she felt the same feeling.<br />

- It’s been so long I expect your call, was gently Nadine. - I<br />

know, I sighed. Another silence. - Hello? maddens me to<br />

myself. - No, I did not hang up. I’m here. For you, I will still


there. I was suffocating. This was the moment chosen by<br />

Freddy junior arise<br />

his face smeared with sleep. To yelp in addition its first<br />

word:<br />

426<br />

Father A little chubby hand began to wipe my tears on my<br />

beard. I took my son in my arms and took it to her room. As<br />

I tucked carefully I closed the door with the clouds, white<br />

and blue painted by my wife. I did not want to hear the<br />

“hello, hello” desperate sounded in the handset. It was<br />

there. I knew, the famous truth! Devilish Satan! Why am I<br />

having learned? I paid dearly for ignore forever the<br />

existence here of Nadine Kent. I curse Raoul, I cursed the<br />

angels in general and Satan In particular, I curse the<br />

Thanatonautes. I embraced my child who already eyelids<br />

were closing on the eyes as blue as those of his mother. In<br />

the living room, Raoul was laughing like hell. “Hello! hello!<br />

“Cried again the phone. I took it hastily.<br />

I could not go.


I wanted to not be me. Not having a wife<br />

for. I felt incapable of taking an old contract<br />

signed in previous lives.<br />

I wanted to tear the skin covering my soul.<br />

I plowed hand with my nails until they bled.<br />

Why had it imposed a situation as unmanageable?<br />

I could not escape anywhere, in any country throughout the<br />

situation would pursue me.<br />

Stop the world I want to get off.<br />

Stop the world I want to get off.<br />

I picked up and whispered with fear uncontrollable<br />

- Forget about me, Nadine. For pity’s sake, forget me for<br />

this lifetime. Find yourself another man and I beg you,<br />

Nadine, be happy! Then, unceremoniously, I take Raoul<br />

neck and flank-dock at the door.<br />

247 - Egyptian mythology<br />

Formula to never die (pronounced twenty-eight every day<br />

before going to sleep):


“I am the soul of Re, which is out of Nun, the soul of<br />

God creates Hou.<br />

My abomination is misconduct.<br />

I have no consideration for her. I believe in Maat and I saw<br />

her.<br />

I Hou, which can not perish in my name Soul.<br />

I came to the existence of myself with the Nun in my own<br />

name of Khepri in which I come into existence every day.<br />

I am the master of light and my abomination is die. I am the<br />

Noun, those who do evil can not harm me.<br />

I am the Elder of ancient gods: my soul is the souls of the<br />

gods, eternity, and my body is sustainability because my<br />

events are eternity as master of year and regent of<br />

sustainability.<br />

I deleted my sins, I saw my father, the master of<br />

night, the one whose body is in Heliopolis.<br />

I am responsible, as twilight, residents of the CRE


twilight on the hill west, that of the Ibis. “<br />

Book of the Dead Egyptian.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

248 - ANOTHER COMPANY<br />

The discovery of the seventh heaven brought daily<br />

new changes. The temples were deserted. For<br />

What part in religious ceremonies since the mys<br />

Ministry of death was gone? Even the priests lost<br />

the faith. The main prelates had great shout, all<br />

faiths, if we had discovered the<br />

angels, we did not, however, found God, it was all<br />

end of devotion and mysticism.


Temples were turned into museums, others<br />

theaters, others in private houses. The end of the<br />

purpose was to build a swimming pool in a church.<br />

Reflections multicolored stained glass was reflected in<br />

water and organ music sounded at the time of<br />

dives.<br />

However, as and when religions Pericles<br />

taient the Thanatonautes developed. The thanatodromes<br />

private hatched everywhere like mushrooms.<br />

Some were real tourist offices:<br />

“Weekend in the afterlife. Guided tour. Formation spiritual<br />

tual accelerated. Boosters provided. Accompanied by<br />

Monk graduated from Thanatonautes. Possible meeting<br />

with


the angels. “<br />

Of course, most of these ads were men<br />

reverie. The tours usually stops at the third<br />

third or fourth zone. We paid dearly for<br />

knowledge as it was dangerous to venture further.<br />

Raoul may have given up reunited with his mother but<br />

was nevertheless ethyl and bitter. After the coup of<br />

Nadine, I did not care and I did not want to take care<br />

him.<br />

In thanatodrome, women took over. Amandine and Rose<br />

(with which I was soon reconciled) were fit while Raoul and I<br />

were face warriors weary and disillusioned. They took<br />

pleasure in raising Freddy junior, became the mascot of the<br />

place. I must say that the kid was Interior, inquisitive and<br />

easygoing. “Maybe! that basically kids are great sages and<br />

only wear life makes adults unreasonable?<br />

If it was not the reincarnation of Freddy Sr. Freddy Junior


was probably that of a merry prankster rather sporty, given<br />

his propensity to run around in all corners.<br />

Amanda caught up with him for a hug. “Daddy,” “Mom , ””<br />

Pee ”” poo “were the four words he loved align<br />

successively. Later, he would have a good psychoanalysis<br />

to teach him how to separate these four concepts distinctly.<br />

With my son, life went on. Humanity evolved. My genes<br />

were perpetuated in the nucleus of cells.<br />

- Still playing with this kid! sneered Conrad. It must have<br />

over the top of you, Dad pot-de-glue! Me? my kids, I them<br />

alone.<br />

- Papa-pee? asked point-blank Junior. My brother laughed<br />

and replied: - No, daddy-poo. I suspected Conrad of being<br />

a bad teacher. My brother had set up a company<br />

Thanatonautes. He built thanatodromes anywhere in the<br />

world, on demand. In promoter advised it innovation by<br />

providing at option of the customers, rooms off a<br />

mythological decorations or mystical. With it, you could fly<br />

from a replica of the pyramid of Cheops or a copy of the<br />

Sistine Chapel. The less fortunate, it proposed<br />

thanatodromes individual wooden huts similar to saunas<br />

but affluent of all equipment necessary for a successful<br />

takeoff. As an option, for a fixed price two hundred<br />

thousand francs, he provided system sound and uniform<br />

Thanatonautes identical to our own.


The affairs of my mother were also booming. I had opened<br />

a publishing house to publish the works Complete<br />

Amandine Ballus: The Vademecum of dying Some ideas<br />

for a weekend in Paradise, The Thanatonautes in ten<br />

lessons, asthma, heart and epilepsy : Some precautions to<br />

take before you die …<br />

All were bestsellers, though the competition was<br />

rude. The manuals of Thanatonautes, all as<br />

stories-stories, were in vogue.<br />

Fly was now within reach of all. As to<br />

those who could not afford to buy all the bric<br />

a-brac of Conrad, they could always leave their bodies<br />

by meditating!<br />

249 - INDIAN PHILOSOPHY<br />

“The mood at the time of death determines the shape<br />

received for the next life. But how a desire virtuous Could<br />

germinate in extremis in the mind of the whole his life was<br />

devoted to evil? Sometimes, however, that good repressed<br />

tendencies or accumulated during lives earlier


430<br />

laughing change at all at the moment of death the soul a<br />

man who spent his entire life in error. “<br />

Ananda Mayi Ma. Extract from the thesis that unknown<br />

Death, by Francis Razorbak.<br />

250 - it gets complicated<br />

Life was a passage. Willy-nilly, as and as knowledge of the<br />

Continent Ultimate spread here, the idea made its way<br />

among the populations people. There were other lives<br />

before, there would be other After the soul survived the<br />

body. If Paradise was not palpable, it had no less a place<br />

geographically accurate in the universe: the black hole in<br />

the center of our galaxy. Just about everyone now knew<br />

there was a continent “spatial” consists of seven heavens<br />

and that in the last resident of the angels, capable of solve<br />

all problems.<br />

The first to suffer from these revelations was our president<br />

Lucinda.<br />

There was only one month of the elections when one of


ivals, a Richard Picpus, claimed to be mounted Paradise<br />

and be taught by an angel he was the reincarnation of<br />

Julius Caesar.<br />

- What an angel? demanded to know Lucinda in a public<br />

debate. - Mumiah, who helps the success of our business<br />

Of course, ‘replied the other without disassembly. Lucinda,<br />

who Julius Caesar was a model and who knew so his life<br />

by heart, tried in vain to the trap. Told reporters stunned,<br />

Picpus described in detail the forum of ancient Rome and<br />

health problems the winner of Vercingetorix. Even Lucinda<br />

was stunned.<br />

Mythomania or encyclopedic memory after Picpus-Julius<br />

Caesar, marched candidate Robert Mollin which provided<br />

reincarnated Napoleon Bonaparte and Philip Pilou that<br />

swore to be Alexander the Great. But we knew the angels<br />

not talkative and doubted the veracity of This plethora of<br />

new contenders.<br />

Lucinda could claim to be the first head of state to have<br />

deflowered Paradise, Caesar, Napoleon and Alexander<br />

had nevertheless built prestigious empires. Each affirmed<br />

able not only to give France a international reputation but<br />

also to conquer permanently the Continent Ultimate.


What a trap! Lucinda had found it “Paradise” that in front of<br />

him. We meet soon to seek together how pull away. If these<br />

pseudo-Caesar, Napoleon and other Alexandre convincing<br />

voters, fighting would resume and the galaxy again become<br />

quickly out of control!<br />

It was Rose who suggested to use to historians. After all,<br />

these famous men did not have lives copies! It had been<br />

fornicators and tyrants, yes They were devastated entire<br />

continents and caused the dead countless. We ressortîmes<br />

old Folders Julius Caesar and civil war sounded the death<br />

knell of the Roman Republic, Napoleon was the<br />

gravedigger of the French Revolution and unnecessary<br />

conflict bloodied Europe, Alexander the Great had the<br />

dubious morals and his famous empire lasted only time in<br />

its short life …


Bizarre characters brought us support<br />

unexpected. An avatar of Vercingetorix reminded television<br />

how Caesar did not hesitate to starve the population<br />

during the siege of Alesia. For an hour, he told the<br />

horrors of war Gallo-Roman. But in this conflict,<br />

victims Gaul were the ancestors of the voters<br />

of today.<br />

An unexpected reincarnation of Josephine spread in<br />

women’s magazines gossip about the sunsets adulterous<br />

the Emperor. She highlighted the massacres of the war<br />

Spain, the collapse of the Russian campaign, the error<br />

Waterloo dreary plain.<br />

Alexander the Great fared better because there was<br />

that specialists from Antiquity to be familiar with the details<br />

scabrous its existence. There was still some<br />

nice stories of massacres and orgies.


Faced with this onslaught, Lucinda retained the largest<br />

silent about his past lives. Its this alone would<br />

argue in its favor, said he and his present alone determine<br />

undermine its future. Since the vast majority of voters<br />

never approached Angels in any way and was<br />

quite unable to boast of any existence illustrates<br />

it approved its discretion. His attitude was all the more<br />

appreciated that no one knew it was over acts<br />

in this life that would be considered later. There was no<br />

nothing to boast of being only Picpus after Caesar!<br />

Still, Alexander the Great and his face of an angel<br />

pleasing the crowds. He was proud, imbued with itself, pre<br />

pretentious, no matter what he pleased. A week before the<br />

elections, the polls gave him 34% of intentions


to vote, we were far behind with 24%. Julius Caesar and<br />

Napoleon was in back of the pack respectively<br />

13 and 9%.<br />

- We need a miracle last minute! sighed the candidate<br />

Lucinda. - I have an idea, murmured dreamily Amandine.<br />

251 - Hindu philosophy<br />

“If the prospect of continual beginnings produces a certain<br />

fatigue among Hindu thinkers, they aspire to put an end to<br />

this game painful deaths and successive rebirths, the<br />

masses, however, accommodate themselves happily. “<br />

Alexandra David-Neel, India where I lived.<br />

Extract from the thesis Death the unknown, by Francis<br />

Razorbak<br />

252 - ELECTION RESULT<br />

Amanda had actually had an idea, and good. Almost on the<br />

eve of election, Maxime Villain, the “See ectoplasmic”<br />

joined our team elections. Lucinda was a “miracle”.<br />

Villain called a press conference in which he announced


calmly that the angels were in favor of Lucinda. Why ?<br />

Easy. because they and they alone were aware of all their<br />

lives, which led them to trust him.<br />

This deposit was decisive. Few were willing to risk to take<br />

a bad point in voting for a candidate considered<br />

undesirable Heaven. Only the sick and infirm did not yield<br />

to the polls. Lucinda was reelected with 73% of votes.<br />

Bravo, Maxim! Thanks to his contacts known to the angels<br />

and honesty legendary, Lucinda was still President No one<br />

would ever be allowed to question the words of Villain who<br />

had recorded so faithfully V Interview with a mortal.<br />

However, the dear man was blamed on a well bad penalty.<br />

He had flatly lied. Never angels had expressed any opinion<br />

whatsoever on the ballot. In fact, they did not care, our<br />

elections.<br />

As a reward on earth of his sin, Maxime Villain received a<br />

medal Thanatonautes from the President.<br />

- You would not by chance the reincarnation of Machiavelli?<br />

I inquired with a laugh during the ceremony. The little man<br />

smiled modestly.<br />

- I wish that you compare me to Dante or Shakespeare. -<br />

You lied. - As are you sure? I do not even know if it is


possible lie. The truth changes with space and time.<br />

Lucinda was elected? Well, it’s that up there, they saw the<br />

thing a good eye. And I run, too, at a glance.<br />

253 - police files


Message to the services concerned<br />

We had been warned. It is too late. The trouble will to start.<br />

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Response services affected<br />

Situation still under control. Let us not underestimate.<br />

254 - Jewish mythology<br />

“Before the silver wire does coward …”<br />

Ecclesiastes XII, 6.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

255 - THE PAST CLARIFIED<br />

After the reelection of Lucinda, the Thanatonautes<br />

experimental became the Thanatonautes mass. People<br />

were leaving more often to the bottom of Paradise.<br />

And it was not without consequence.<br />

Anyone could claim to have met with a angel and bring up<br />

there his little scoop-shaped thunderclap. Was announced<br />

and on the news that was traced to Adolf Hitler. It would<br />

have been reincarnated in bonsai.<br />

- In bonsai! astonished Rose. I thought the ectoplasm<br />

humans could not return to form vegetable. - From what I<br />

have said St. Peter, it seems in some cases it is possible,<br />

says Amanda. We reincarnated generally to improve but if,


when of human existence, it is so stupid that animal, we<br />

start at the animal level. And if human it was even more<br />

bestial than the most wild animal, it returns to the plant and<br />

perhaps even as far away as mineral. I was flabbergasted.<br />

Hitler bonsai living room!<br />

We found the bonsai to the address indicated by some<br />

Angel indiscreet. The avatar of Hitler belonged to a kid a<br />

wealthy family. The kid could not understand how the life of<br />

a bonsai was a punishment. He cared very own and there<br />

was a lot.<br />

I considered the thing and the obvious jumped out at me.<br />

The life of a bonsai is a torture permanent. It is a plant in a<br />

pot too small for her and we then cut systematically all<br />

growths. It’s torture a plant high level of art. Without water,<br />

members constantly intruded, without place, without air,<br />

without food, bonsai is only suffering.<br />

Constrained not to grow the shrub remains forever dwarf<br />

while all that lives on this earth has the most basic rights<br />

that is one to grow.<br />

Of course, simply because they considered them the most<br />

beautiful as well, The Chinese have long felt justified to<br />

confine their daughters’ feet in narrow strips for keep<br />

growing. But in the case of bonsai was worse! It was not


just the feet. He cut its branches, upper limbs, and roots,<br />

lower limbs. Every day<br />

The more subtle punishment for a heinous criminal war, it<br />

was good to reincarnate in bonsai in Japan. I had chills,<br />

remembering as I had been unhappy when my parents<br />

forced me to put on the clothes that are too close to my<br />

brother Conrad, just to save money.<br />

Good idea, hat, archangels, judges! There was However<br />

men to think smarter than them and finest vigilante! With<br />

great blows of petitions, it claimed the death sentence of<br />

bonsai. Finally, we dug up the thing to death liberating<br />

ensues, thus end (in my deepest regret for that matter) to<br />

his eternal torment.<br />

Followed a shower of “revelations” more or less verifiable.<br />

For my part, I could not believe the angels so talkative with<br />

so many people, and I examined each times with the<br />

utmost caution. According to some tourists from beyond,<br />

Ravaillac was innocent of murder Henri IV. The Iron Mask<br />

was the sister hidden Louis XIV. Raoul Wallenberg,<br />

Swedish diplomat brave in the rescue of Hungarian Jews<br />

during the occupation Nazi, had been killed by the KGB,<br />

like resistant martyrs Poster Red had been reported<br />

by their “friends” of the French Communist Party. JOHN<br />

Lennon himself had contacted her killer to be commit<br />

suicide. The Chevalier d’Eon was a hermaphrodite.


Nicolas Flamel had made his fortune by robbing and<br />

murdering bourgeois, he then explained enrichment<br />

suddenly by the alleged discovery of the secret of<br />

transmutation of metals. Jack the Ripper was well William<br />

Gull, physician to the royal family.<br />

It was found that, overall, the bloodthirsty tyrants had<br />

received adequate punishment. Stalin was reincarnated as<br />

laboratory mice, Mussolini was a circus dog, Mao was<br />

duck glaze, about the fascist generals South America they<br />

were mostly reincarnated as geese you Gave to make foie<br />

gras Christmas.<br />

But apart from these “bad”, others advantage of celestial<br />

revelations doubtful to get lather.<br />

True or false, the crafty étalèrent their past lives to get<br />

some benefits in this life-it. A grocer Asian Paris assured<br />

the reincarnation Modigliani and began a trial to the heirs of<br />

former art dealers so they him pay back their considerable<br />

capital gains. A charming teacher aerobics television<br />

swore to be the reincarnation of Botticelli. I could become<br />

self-employed through an auction several of his paintings,<br />

collected in museums.<br />

We lost count of the litigation and the demands of repairs of<br />

all kinds! It was human history, as to According to some<br />

who needed to be revised, informed, explained,<br />

demystified.


256 - Christian mythology<br />

“There are natural necessity for the soul to be purified and<br />

cured. If it was not in his earthly life, healing takes place in<br />

future lives and beyond. “<br />

Saint Gregory of Nyssa.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

257 - SLIDE<br />

Freddy Junior grew and our interest in Thanatonautes was<br />

decreasing while that of the public kept at contrary, to grow.<br />

I was spending more and more one world of my home. The<br />

world opened up and I closed my. At that time of my life, I<br />

was convinced that much in a life was to marry, have<br />

children and build a family unit strong enough that this state<br />

lasts as long as possible. A healthy family life is perpetuate<br />

to become atavistic and would avoid the occurrence of<br />

child temperamental, tyrannical or apathetic.<br />

I was happy. I loved Rose. The awakening of Freddy Junior<br />

I was fascinated. I introduced him to the love of books as I


myself had been initiated by Raoul. Rose taught him to<br />

observe the stars. Past, contemplating the stars relativized<br />

human problems. Because of us, it was changed.<br />

It seemed to me that by communicating to Freddy my<br />

craving reading, I offered him the freedom to educate<br />

themselves and then by itself. Every night, I told so to my<br />

son that seemed to be the most interesting for a child three<br />

years: legends, tales, fables, stories short with beautiful<br />

scenery.<br />

But beyond the walls of our cozy apartment delayed course,<br />

the company continues to receive waves shock movement<br />

Thanatonautes which we pioneered.<br />

Stefania came home one day quite upset. A stranger had<br />

approached in the street to offer him a large sum. Not to<br />

seduce her, but just like that, to a good deed! She was<br />

beaten for refusing.<br />

- I’m tired of all these sweet, all of these vouchers, all these<br />

cutesy. - Do you prefer violence, perhaps? asked Rose.<br />

You’ll raving! Stefania was red with anger.<br />

- No, I digress not. Before, when someone<br />

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was kind, it was because he wanted to. He had the choice<br />

between being nice or nasty, and had freely chosen<br />

kindness. Now, everyone is nice in superstition pure! They<br />

were all afraid to be recalibrated up there their review. Is<br />

zero.<br />

A beggar dressed in rags, clearly indicating its condition,<br />

then appeared at the door he was no longer useful close.<br />

He entered quietly and headed straight to our refrigerator.<br />

Having possession of a sandwich smoked salmon and a<br />

small cold beer, he sat comfortably, just to participate in our<br />

conversation.<br />

Stefania fell upon him, and before I could react, he tore<br />

promptly sandwich and canned hands.<br />

- You feel free, especially! burst does. The man stared in<br />

amazement, the Italian out of it. Since all the doors were<br />

open, like all his fellows, he had used to enter any which<br />

apartment and to use at will.<br />

- But … but … you’re crazy, mumbled he. - Species of lout,<br />

we do not learn to hit before entering in people! The tramp<br />

was indignant:<br />

- Do you dare deny me alms! - It’s not that you refuse alms<br />

is that sup-is not that you stinking the house with your dirt<br />

and your clothes greasy. The poor man took us to witness,<br />

Rose and me.


- It will not in his noggin, this woman! I do not realize … If<br />

she refuses alms, that he worth a gaggle of bad points for<br />

his karma! We looked Stefania anxiously.<br />

- Nothing to shine! stormed does. Get out, vermin! The man<br />

stared at her, mocking. - Okay, I’m going. But after that, you<br />

wonder not to be reborn … (He looked for a moment the<br />

worst) to be reborn cancerous. Stefania brought his face<br />

close to hers, regardless of his foul breath.<br />

- You can repeat myself that? He smiled mockingly, and<br />

strongly reaffirmed:<br />

- You will be reborn cancer. I do not live from the hand of the<br />

Italian, but the table, glasses vibrated when sounds the right<br />

pair of slaps.<br />

The man was more astonished than angry. This woman had<br />

dared to engage in an act of violence on a beggar. He<br />

rubbed her cheeks sore.<br />

- You hit me! he said, eyes wide. - Yeah. And it’s not worth<br />

me start again I do not know what a curse. Cancer? <br />

Much so I have a little fun in this life, in the meantime. And<br />

But you have interest to clear out as soon as possible<br />

before I sending you my foot I think. - It struck me, it hit me,<br />

sang there almost. He realized suddenly that this pair of<br />

slaps had nearly to raise the status of martyr. Being a victim<br />

of shrew violent and aggressive, this should surely you


argues a lot of bonus points.<br />

He crossed the door, beaming. Stefania turned to us. She<br />

passed a hand across his forehead.<br />

- My word, you get all crazy! she said. We did not know<br />

what to say. In fact, at that moment, Rose and I trembled for<br />

our friend. Reborn really cancer?<br />

- You should not have to risk hitting. We never know … I<br />

began. She interrupted me bluntly.<br />

- But, you do not understand our world is more populated<br />

than larvae and mops! More emotions, more fear, more<br />

conflict! There is no one left. down here that beings soft and<br />

superstitious. They are not good. They are selfish. They<br />

only care about their karma. They seek to do good than to<br />

ensure a good status in their next life. What are we bored! I<br />

suddenly realized that I too, basically, I always been kind of<br />

selfishness. For lazy, too, and not complicate my life. Be<br />

mean forced to deal with others, to care about their<br />

defenses, to imagine<br />

nasties. But be nice, it can not touch or be touched by<br />

anyone. Kindness is just a comfort be quiet.<br />

Stefania pacing the lounge like a lion in a cage.


- I’m tired of you. I’m sick of good intentions. I’m tired of this<br />

company since we will have revealed what should have him<br />

remain hidden. Hi, Thanatonautes! I’m going. And she went<br />

away without further ado. She took her things and left our<br />

building of the Buttes-Chaumont without a goodbye to<br />

Raoul, who, even drunk, however, was still her husband.<br />

258 - Jewish mythology<br />

The body and soul are they equal before the trial divine?<br />

The body could accuse the soul of sin, since since she left<br />

him lying inert at the bottom of the tomb. What soul could<br />

argue that issued the body sinner, it hovers serenely<br />

through the air like a bird.<br />

The soul and the body could they so escape the Judgement<br />

divine? We asked the question a wise man. Like all sages,<br />

he replied with a parable, the king who had chosen<br />

guardians of the orchard a blind and a culd-bowl.<br />

The cul-de-bowl was soon raving about the benefits<br />

beautiful. “Let me climb on your back for gathering,<br />

suggested he blindly. Then we eat outfit The blind proved<br />

unable to resist the temptation, and the return of the king,<br />

he was nothing left of fruits of his orchard. The monarch<br />

who was surprised, the blind replied that he had seen<br />

nothing, the cul-de-bowl would have been quite unable to<br />

climb a tree to capture the any fruit.


The king does not think long. He ordered the culd-bowl to<br />

get on the blind. Together, they were severely of blows as if<br />

they were one.<br />

Similarly, all the soul and body appear. Of Also, together<br />

they will be judged.<br />

Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 9 a b).p><br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

259 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS<br />

Thanks to the Thanatonautes, the world knew peace,<br />

prosperity and happiness. Humanity had finally completed<br />

a ambition dating back over three million years since<br />

appeared on Earth. Until then, death was considered as<br />

pain and suffering. With the exploration of Continent<br />

Ultimate, fears had been defused. A conduct on earth and<br />

up there, the reward expected.<br />

Thanks to Thanatonautes, together with the wars, hatred<br />

and jealousy disappeared from the surface of the planet, a<br />

new era ahead. The American paleontologist Thunder<br />

proposed to delete the term homo sapiens and replace it


with a more modern homo Thanatonautes. Homo<br />

Thanatonautes is a man who knows now not only his life<br />

and death but also all his past lives and future.<br />

What a leap forward for mankind!<br />

History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

260 - VISIT TO THE MUSEUM<br />

Life goes on, even without Stefania.<br />

Rose and I decided to enjoy the weekend of Pentecost to<br />

take Freddy Junior Washington visit the famous<br />

Smithsonian Museum where were kept all the relics of our<br />

adventure. The movement was worth the sentence. In this<br />

imposing concrete structure, we redécouvrîmes Our first<br />

chair off, we read emotionally list of the first volunteers<br />

sacrificed on the altar of Thanatonautes, we lingered in<br />

front<br />

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our own reproductions, wax figures mimicking daily<br />

activities Thanatonautes.


Personally, I was just like with this grin bizarre and the large<br />

syringe by hand. Amandine, how starlet, was much more<br />

successful with its sheath black molding.<br />

In one corner, the mortal coil of Rajiv Bintou, the<br />

Thanatonautes Indian who had lingered in the world of<br />

pleasures, was still on a drip. If the mood took her one day<br />

to return, his body was left at his disposal, kept in the<br />

freezer transparent. Next, a pan-map stated in any case her<br />

umbilical cord was still intact.<br />

There was also a model of the blockhouse Bresson, with a<br />

note narrating his sad journey. Puppets flew in the different<br />

figures thanatochorégraphiques composed by Rabbi<br />

Meyer for takeoffs in groups. A huge mural of thirty meters<br />

long and ten wide recalled quite accurately the battle of<br />

Paradise. By pressing a button, it triggered even the sound<br />

of fighting, “Oh,” the “Take that, rogue,” and “dirty dogs of<br />

infidels,” the “Attention, I die” and the sound of blows and a<br />

its fabric torn supposed to reproduce the noise produced<br />

by umbilical cords when they slam. In fact, this set the<br />

scene was stupid, because the ectoplasm, even<br />

Thanatonautes, produce no noise, even if they did, they will<br />

not retransmit in the intergalactic space.<br />

The Smithsonian Museum was huge. All around, ATMs<br />

conveniently located gave visitors an impression of<br />

paradise while their to gorge on popcorn, hot dogs and<br />

refreshments frozen. The Americans are still well things.


The center of the gallery, a sculpture showing Felix Kerboz<br />

shaking hands across the centuries to Christopher<br />

Columbus. Needless to say, the great Adonis smiling put<br />

up statues here had nothing to do with the brute we had<br />

known.<br />

I imagined pretty well in the future a new profile<br />

Greek on the coins associated with our motto: “All right,<br />

straight into the unknown! ” I prefer our old motto: “Together<br />

against the idiots! “Always up to date.<br />

Fun, recreation of the interview of the ectoplasm Donahue.<br />

Three old machines wax to large beards white were<br />

perched on a promontory translucent Plexiglas lit by neon<br />

(the mountain of light Last Judgement, no doubt), and their<br />

mouths moving, they repeated endlessly: “This will be<br />

weighed every good and bad actions of your past life. “<br />

There was later a detector off ectoplasmic (Invention of<br />

Rose, my wife), a large satellite dish, a screen with fake<br />

green spots. To be believed the Buttes-Chaumont!<br />

To complete the exhibition, museum officials had<br />

developed a great relief model supposed to represent<br />

Paradise. A cone of cardboard thirty meters high in its<br />

widened part dragged a corridor was narrowing to finish on


a diameter of two meters. It was enough to advance on a<br />

treadmill in order to penetrate and slide slowly through the<br />

corridors to changing colors. Each crossing of a wall coma<br />

was symbolized by a curtain with thick sections of plastic<br />

could not see what was back.<br />

Each Moch plastic through, we heard a sucking sound and<br />

then found himself in the territory black red, orange, etc..<br />

Around us, lit up as and as slides illustrating our stories of<br />

the continent the dead. Somewhere, a voice-over<br />

commented: “Behold here a few of the demons believed<br />

see the first Thanatonautes when they passed Moch 1.<br />

“Images Satanic in no way resembles our mate the real<br />

Satan.<br />

Regarding the area of the pleasures, the organizers did not<br />

want to shock the children. Some characters contented<br />

themselves with kissing on the mouth. For territory of the<br />

patient, the treadmill slowed so abruptly that some believed<br />

in a crash. In the<br />

knowledge, the voice was passing information of a kind<br />

Pythagorean theorem, a2 + b2 = c2. A real little over catchup<br />

for use by school students. As a pinnacle of beauty, a<br />

few butterflies rickety side by side with dolphins laughing.<br />

Families photographed with a vengeance and<br />

s’esbaudissaient the slightest comment.


- If you are very wise one day you too will visit the Paradis,<br />

provided a dad to his toddler. I was careful not to say such<br />

things to Freddy Junior! After the treadmill, just exit. After:<br />

confinement for several hours in the museum, the clarity of<br />

days was based on land white! Thank you.I’m sorry No<br />

better reward for the visitors a little tired. In a large room,<br />

rubbed shoulders cafeterias where it was good sit and rest<br />

a bit and souvenir shops better stocked than my mother,<br />

tee-shirts, false thrones takeoff, models of demons, models<br />

of angels, picture books angelic or demonic, meal trays for<br />

easy take off.<br />

Freddy Junior feasted cotton candy and asked several key<br />

chains with the names of angels still missing to his<br />

collection. For my part, I hesitated in front of a cassette<br />

video graphics promise to share “As true” all the<br />

sensations of flight Thanatonautes.<br />

I gave it up. Finally, all unpacking sickened me a little. We<br />

abrégeâmes our trip across the Atlantic.<br />

261 - Jewish mythology<br />

“The birth of man on earth and his death cause a shift of<br />

mind that is removed from a location and moved to another.<br />

This is called Gilgoulim, the migration of souls. “<br />

Zohar.


Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

262 - KARMOGRAPHE<br />

The Thanatonautes became truly a mass sport. It was<br />

crazy, the number of people who rushed up there to have a<br />

taste of their last trip. Death after all, it’s true for everyone.<br />

Given the congestion in space, died the day were forced to<br />

clear a fashion on their way between “tourists” to the<br />

umbilical cord intact appetite for new sensations.<br />

The Japanese provided the main body. For them, the<br />

Thanatonautes was a way to seek their ancestors which<br />

they devote a cult unwavering. Not surprising while a<br />

Japanese company was the first to put point “objects<br />

ectoplasmic”. Of Zen meditation took charge of the project<br />

in Paradise using the power of their thinking.<br />

Major brands devised soon to start in marketing<br />

ectoplasmic. In 2068, the deceased and Thanatonautes<br />

had for the first time the attention attracted by a notice<br />

posted on the road to reincarnation. A advertising Coma-<br />

Cola: “With Coma-Cola, refresh your soul. “<br />

Insurance companies followed suit to the firm in Atlanta.


“You are? So you have committed a imprudence. Do not<br />

repeat. Upon your next reincarnation contact the General<br />

Insurance in London. AGL, security in all existence! “<br />

The advertisements were limited primarily to the corolla<br />

external but soon, we settled in front and behind the first<br />

Wall comatose.<br />

Specialized agencies were created. They appropriated<br />

without asking anybody surfaces and locations that we<br />

have drawn on our maps. Monks is recyclèrent and<br />

focusing in prayer, projected precisely in the desired area<br />

messages to be played on the Continent Ultimate.<br />

The rates varied by area. The formats ranged from 1 m 2 to<br />

10 m 20. In heaven there is no<br />

446<br />

restrictions, depending on the energy of the carrier<br />

medium.<br />

Customers were not lacking. Bulk, after Coma-Cola and<br />

AGL, tour operators for travel ectoplasmic (“With Airmort,


eturn guaranteed”), layers, pants (“At home in your future<br />

skin of newborn with Impermeablex, diapers linking<br />

exvieillards incontinent future babies incontinent they again<br />

become “), dairy (” Thanks to the yogurt Transit, leave<br />

without cumbersome to natural paradises “) of bedding<br />

(“Mattress Somnis, the secret of meditation successful “),<br />

the chairs off of my brother Conrad (“Thrones Emperor<br />

catapults into the hereafter, all died are baba “), rock bands<br />

(” music Dead-Stroy, even the angels love it “) and up<br />

Liquor (“Lucillius, appetizer if fruit we would like drink with<br />

the Seraphim “).<br />

Some psychics gifted reached even to make flashing their<br />

commercials. credit coming into the black hole of Paradise,<br />

it was now the impression of being near a large<br />

supermarket. Whatever thought Raoul, the Continent<br />

Ultimate was now sold to the merchants of the Temple.<br />

The UN imposed, however, an ethics committee,<br />

International to put an end to abuse. Prohibited advertising<br />

for a drug reactivator of memory (“With Memorix, you would<br />

have remembered all your nonsense “) near the black area<br />

of bad memories. No advertisements for inflatable dolls in<br />

the red zone fantasies or for watches in the country of<br />

patience, or for encyclopedias in the area of knowledge, no<br />

more than an art gallery in the absolute beauty. It does still<br />

had not exaggerate!<br />

In bookstores, the books ad hoc accumulated : Death and


formalities, Paradise Earth contrasts die so what?,<br />

Handbook of etiquette the use of meetings with the other<br />

dead, their ancestors and angels, The Road of<br />

reincarnation: comprehensive plan and advice not to go<br />

astray, Some examples of choreography ectoplasmic.<br />

On Earth, everything became simple and clear. Trade<br />

walking, people loved each other, poverty would disappear.<br />

More religions. More old hatreds centuries between<br />

people. The whole world was under the banner of good<br />

deeds.<br />

Where were the cynics, the ironic, the mocking? Even the<br />

humor was more appropriate. Humour is based on derision<br />

and trips to the continent of dead had proved that nothing<br />

was ridiculous, that any thing, any behavior, even the most<br />

innocuous, had its price, everything was observed and<br />

recorded in high places.<br />

Another problem is the fatalism total who took possession<br />

of the people. “What’s taken anything, is people said,<br />

anyway my previous lives have already set my karma, I’m<br />

just living on a purchased thousands of years. Why perform<br />

wasted effort, if my destiny is already written up there, the<br />

Paradise? “So, laziness won humanity at the same time for<br />

kindness. And why go to the trouble when it was enough to


enter a shop or in private for use at their leisure?<br />

Without material incentives, what could induce people to<br />

engage in business or to imagine new projects?<br />

I had always been beset by doubt as to the revelations on<br />

the Continent Ultimate. My discomfort was accentuated<br />

even when, one day, I witnessed a strange scene. A<br />

children crossing the street when there arises a sports car.<br />

In speed he was traveling, not the driver could stop in time.<br />

Thinking of my first accident, I ran: “Warning!” The boy<br />

paused, looked at me, considered the fireball approaching,<br />

and set out deliberately:<br />

- Bah! If this is my fate, nothing can stop it. And he stood<br />

there, arms dangling, waiting to be crushed without<br />

realizing that my warning was also part of his destiny! I<br />

jumped so and ran away just time.<br />

- Small moron, you almost die stupidly! He looked at me<br />

smugly. - Not at all, since I was destined to be saved by<br />

you. Today, at least … He returned in frolicking as if he<br />

wanted to be killed later, only to play me a trick!<br />

263 - police files


Message to the services concerned<br />

Stop it right now. The Thanatonautes has enormous<br />

dangers. Humans are already in place advertisements on<br />

the way of reincarnation. Multiplication of testimony<br />

senseless on the Paradis. Urge you to intervene.


Response services affected<br />

Yes. The situation takes an unexpected turn. We think<br />

about seriously.<br />

264 - APATHY<br />

Was it really possible that our whole adventure has served<br />

to this: make mankind completely apathetic, fatalistic and<br />

unmotivated?<br />

In this case, I had accomplished a great sin and I need a<br />

number of reincarnations to repair This fatal error. I could<br />

not go to span in Street people lying quietly waiting for their<br />

present existence flows. It was even fatalism, was the<br />

renunciation of life!<br />

Remembering the kid indifferent to everything, I felt chills.<br />

In thanatodrome des Buttes-Chaumont, the atmosphere<br />

was grim. Rose, Freddy Junior and me we closed more<br />

and more about the family unit while Amandine continued<br />

his lecture tours.<br />

As for Raoul, with the loss of Stefania, his wife, succeeding<br />

that of his parents, he had found a new good reason to<br />

drink. He seemed to find in alcohol as a third world, a world<br />

beyond the life and


death. Maybe after all the alcohol is at the end of all<br />

questing. In this case, both have upset early with Raoul not<br />

to let myself be drawn on this slope.<br />

One evening I sat listening to jazz in the penthouse. I liked<br />

especially a solo plaintive and sad saxophone, the kind of<br />

music that no one was listening more.<br />

Returning from one of his shows, Amanda joined me. Th<br />

looked at only. Dismissing a green plant, she let herself fall<br />

on a wicker chair next to me.<br />

- Are you tired? I asked her. No! I have the disease states<br />

of mind. - The states of mind? Who does not? Lighting a<br />

cigarette bidder whose Raoul left still hanging packets<br />

everywhere, she added:<br />

- Do you remember what was said Freddy? “The wise seek<br />

the truth, the fools have already found. ” And now the world<br />

has found its truth. - So the world is stupid. - Yes, but it’s our<br />

fault. I was silent, full of remorse. I thought back to that day<br />

when I asked my mother what it meant to the word “death.” I<br />

could see the icy hand of my great-grandmother Aglaé<br />

hanging out sheets. I remembered also the amazing image<br />

etched forever in my mind, the three archangels Light<br />

gathered up there to judge us.


In fact, they are not benevolent. They are terrifying. Despite<br />

their smile. I began to understand Stefania. Goodness<br />

imposed, it is also disgusting that the soup mash-Mellows<br />

honey and grenadine syrup.<br />

Rose appeared in the penthouse, clapping his hands.<br />

- If you are hungry, hurry down. Ministry meal is ready and<br />

Junior is already devour everything. It will remain soon as<br />

crumbs. 265 - TEACHING YOGI<br />

It is five observances to remain strong in his life:<br />

- Health. The body must be healthy if we want<br />

450<br />

keep a clear conscience. It should be clean, never fulfill its<br />

stomach full.<br />

- Contentment. Enjoy what is a. - Perseverance. Do not get<br />

overwhelmed by the smaller of emotions: fear of the<br />

unknown, fear of annoyance, surrender to the pleasure<br />

soon taken. - Study. Move towards knowledge by reading<br />

sacred texts and meditation. - The offering to God. We do<br />

not live for ourselves but for something in us that is beyond<br />

us. Above all, stay humble. Extract from the thesis that<br />

unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.


266 - DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT<br />

We already knew from Interview with a man that six hundred<br />

points were needed to end the cycle of reincarnation and<br />

become a pure spirit. A new conversation with Peter<br />

provides Amandine of key more specific. She reported the<br />

official scale.


MALUS<br />

Lie: - 10 to - 60 points<br />

Slander: - 10 to - 70 points<br />

Humiliation: from - 100 to - 400 points


Failure to assist a person<br />

at risk: from - 100 to - 560 points<br />

Child abandonment: from - 100 to - 820 points<br />

Abandonment of parent: from - 100 to - 910 points<br />

Cruelty to animals: from - 100 to - 1370 points<br />

Cruelty of humans: from - 500 to 1450 points


Crime resulting in death<br />

of others: from - 500 to - 1510 points<br />

Recurrence: penalty multiplied by 1.5<br />

(The number of points deducted depends on the case<br />

given the will to harm, pleasure taken to the evil,<br />

irresponsibility, selfishness which motivated actions and<br />

non-actions.)


BONUS<br />

Don concerned: from + 10 to + 50 points<br />

Sincere gift: from + 10 to + 90 points<br />

Contribution of joy to those around: from + 10 to + 100<br />

points<br />

Assistance animal in danger of + 50 to + 120 points


Assist a person in<br />

danger of + 100 to + 270 points<br />

Production of a work of art: from + 100 to + 410 points


Original idea for<br />

progress: from + 100 to + 450 points<br />

Self-sacrifice for the benefit<br />

of others: from + 100 to + 620 points<br />

Proper education of a child of + 150 to + 840<br />

Multiplier: bonus multiplied by 1.2<br />

So precisely made people more cautious. Rather than risk<br />

committing a sin, some preferred suicide immediately to<br />

restore the counters, as it was at the time. The term Nor<br />

was a metaphor. A Japanese firm had actually marketed a<br />

counter good and bad actions. The karmographe The thing<br />

was a kind of small watch crystal display liquid and keypad.<br />

People were carrying their right wrist, the left being<br />

reserved to the knowledge time.<br />

It was enough to note, every night before bed, the acts<br />

committed during the day to find out where we were exactly<br />

with his karma. Not enough good points and a horse was<br />

part of the screen karmographe. First sign of the scale of<br />

degeneration karmic, which passed down to a dog, a<br />

rabbit, a snail, a amoeba. The most serious cases were<br />

represented by a rod parsley or a fungus.<br />

With karmographe, you could die easy knowing exactly


where we were in the scale, without fear to face the trial of<br />

the archangels. Obviously, the operator<br />

ration and account settlement required a lot of franchise<br />

with oneself.<br />

In thanatodrome, we played with the device. Pink found that<br />

it had a bonus of 400 points. Me? I was more humbly<br />

somewhere between 0 and 5 points. I did not commit too<br />

many nasties in my life but I had not been a saint. Finally,<br />

Raoul was right: I was not a hero, I was a neutral type. Even<br />

in my karma I was using.<br />

Freddy Junior was in turn fascinated by the machine. His<br />

karmographe pristine announced kindly 25 points. The kid<br />

does not become less obsessive. No sooner had he pulled<br />

the ponytail of a comrade square he consulted as soon as<br />

he karmographe to know if it was serious.<br />

The aircraft had replaced advantageously confession.<br />

267 - OUT Thurs<br />

Conrad was able to get the reproductive rights of<br />

karmographe.<br />

The Japanese had ensured the grain. Their patent was well<br />

protected. My brother had so resolutely turned towards a


any other business: the pills “out game”, ie pills “special<br />

suicide without pain.” “Better a new life a life failed “was his<br />

slogan. Was simple and it said what it meant.<br />

Conrad, who had always been so skeptical about the<br />

Thanatonautes, was now the first to encourage people to<br />

take the plunge, business first!<br />

Ironically, he counted quickly among its first customers his<br />

own son, my nephew, Gustave, desperate to have failed<br />

composition of mathematics. By way of letter Farewell, the<br />

teenager had scribbled: “Do not worry. A small turn quickly<br />

to the land of the dead and come back in another skin. “<br />

His parents were convinced he had probably reason, but<br />

they did not know as much as the kid was reincarnate. “So<br />

much effort and education thoroughly<br />

programmed stupidly wasted by bad note math, it’s enough<br />

hair pulling! “Lamented Conrad who wondered if he should<br />

cry or not death of his own son.<br />

Rose and I, we inquiétâmes. And if Freddy Junior was<br />

tempted too? One annoyance is so fast arrival the present.<br />

We had good knowledge of Heaven, we wanted not to say<br />

that our children are left too early, allowing oneself to slam<br />

his own umbilical cord, at that.


To better deter escape this mode that spread in schools<br />

and colleges, we replaced in sweet pills cyanide “bench”<br />

that he had bought with his pocket money by harmless<br />

candy in icing sugar. And it does not yield to a sudden<br />

desire jumping into the void, we made Fences to all<br />

windows.<br />

Rose did his best to comfort him in all circumstances. If he<br />

returned with a notebook full of bad notes, we offered him<br />

gifts to comfort him. We do grondions ever, we covered<br />

their affection, assures us constantly of our support.<br />

It was essential that our son loves his life to the point of<br />

persuaded that he will never find parents also owls in<br />

another incarnation.<br />

But all the parents were not as effective as us. The suicides<br />

of children increased, as those of adults, too.<br />

Discontent, dissatisfaction, and hop i The most sensitive<br />

walking with a cyanide capsule implanted permanently in a<br />

hollow tooth, and the least concern, they put an end to an<br />

existence considered a failure. Life is a game, never to<br />

part, it was enough to said thumb and get “out of play” with<br />

the pill up counter by my brother Conrad.<br />

The result could be seen almost no old people in the streets<br />

(a first ride, and forward to a new youth before knowing the<br />

irreparable outrage of years) not more people concerned


or too sensitive. All that remained<br />

that beings immature obsessed with the idea of doing<br />

good, laziness or superstition.<br />

There was a real social problem. The leaders of men and<br />

creative are for most people experienced a difficult<br />

childhood and it came out in force wrist by forging letters of<br />

hardened steel for better survival. But now that suicide<br />

promised delivery of the counters at the slightest<br />

annoyance, future elites disappeared before he had time to<br />

take of age.<br />

Lucinda and his government understood the problem. In the<br />

administration, they rubbed more than soft and void, unable<br />

to make any clear decision as they feared to injure one or<br />

the other. It was important to act quickly so that the most<br />

intelligent and most sensitive young people continue to<br />

commit suicide.<br />

Death become commonplace, it was also important to<br />

promote life here and now, not elsewhere in we did not<br />

know what future. This was not evident. More no one was<br />

so much life to the point of fighting for her or bite the bullet<br />

when you face adversity. Worse, each hoped to see that he<br />

would reincarnate, slightly as play roulette or the lottery.<br />

This should not be the correct numbers that were missing<br />

up there!


Thus was born the ANPV, the National Agency for the<br />

Promotion of life. Lucinda began to contribute the best<br />

advertising so they invent slogans, ideas, concepts that<br />

people attach to their lives rather than go to tire-larigot.<br />

Who would have thought that before the 2000s? It would<br />

surely laugh out loud at the idea that he would one day<br />

advertising for people to appreciate what is most basic<br />

more natural and easier in the world: life.<br />

268 - ADVERTISING<br />

Life, a moment full of emotions. Suzanne M., twenty years,<br />

a student, said: “At first, my life I did not like. Similarly, I<br />

thought it was corny. My parents were alive, uncle, my<br />

grandparents and all the failures of the family were living,<br />

and I wondered how they were coping to stand by and<br />

support to age and rot up as rags. What fools!<br />

Yeah, life, I thought it was zero. I even tried to flee with<br />

drugs and alcohol. But the drug made me sick and alcohol<br />

as well. So I wanted out of life. Then I had an idea. Before I<br />

go, why not around the world? There, I realized as life it’s<br />

great. Plants live, the animals live, even stones live. So I<br />

said why not me?<br />

Now, I do not regret my choice and when I see all these


young people who are hesitant, I say, come on, guys, do<br />

You also around the world. You see, life is a something that<br />

will remain in vogue for a long time! “<br />

This is a message from the ANPV, National Agency for the<br />

promotion of life.<br />

269 - police files


Message to the services concerned<br />

This is pure madness! So strong you are, do not go to<br />

pride. Do not refuse to recognize your mistakes. Your laxity<br />

is detrimental. Very damaging. At all.


Response services affected<br />

Fear blinds you. A little quiet, please. And above not panic.<br />

Strive always to the grain.<br />

270 - Japanese mythology<br />

“We’re just grains of sand, but we are together. We are like<br />

grains of sand on the beach but without the sand beach<br />

would not exist. “<br />

Poem language Yamato (ancient Japanese).<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

456<br />

271 - SUICIDE OF ANY ERROR<br />

The National Agency for the promotion of life was to<br />

his best, but received only the insignificant results. It<br />

had a tragic event, the Lambert case, to put<br />

end of a blow to the movement of suicide.


This happened on a Sunday, in our thanatodrome of<br />

Buttes-Chaumont. We allow some to our friends<br />

use our thrones of takeoff. Mr. Lambert, the head of<br />

our Thai restaurant favorite, we had just<br />

asked to try one. We had no reason to<br />

oppose it, especially since as Mr. Lambert was<br />

somehow the leader of our canteen personal, we<br />

wanted to keep the best relationship with him.<br />

He sat down. We Reglami our devices. He counted “six,<br />

five, four, three, two, one-off “and urged the pear in the<br />

rules.<br />

Nothing unusual so far. The weird happened to Back When<br />

Mr. Lambert opened his eyes, I felt to find myself in front of<br />

another Jean Bresson. He was febrile, nervous, even his<br />

face looked more like the Our placid Thai restaurant. We<br />

had before us a man to stare hard. Another man. “Maybe! a<br />

Mr. Hyde would have always hidden until the Dr. Jekyll-<br />

Lambert?<br />

- You feel good, Mr. Lambert? I asked. - Oooh oror! To go


in there. It’s going very well. I never went as well. - You have<br />

visited the Continent Ultimate? inquired Amandine. - Oooh<br />

oror! To visit, I visited. It’s really a place very, very<br />

interesting. His voice was that of the former Lambert, his<br />

features too, and Yet I could have sworn that we had to deal<br />

with the same person.<br />

Later, it turned sardonic, with even a Jene-know what’s evil<br />

in the eye. He had forgotten everything the kitchen and up<br />

to his beloved recipe noodles basil. In the kitchen, he did<br />

not care elsewhere now. He put<br />

suddenly sold his restaurant. That its customers used as<br />

fortunate to go to be fed wherever they appear! He washed<br />

his hands. He left the city and we never saw him more.<br />

This story disturbed me a lot. I spoke with colleagues from<br />

other thanatodromes. They assured me having already<br />

encountered similar cases. Like me, they had thought of a<br />

syndrome of Dr. Jekyll. The name stuck.<br />

We decided a video conference to discuss the problem. Mr<br />

rajawi, head of thanatodrome Indian had an explanation to<br />

offer. A mystical explanation, but still an explanation.<br />

He said it was the suicide that were causing the<br />

phenomenon. When someone kills himself deliberately<br />

before to have completed the time of life that has been


allocated during his last trial, the ectoplasm is transformed<br />

in a wandering soul. It remains there, hovering above the<br />

ground, in search of a body which rematerialize to live what<br />

was left to live. However, it is very difficult to find bodies<br />

vacant and many committed suicide wander and for<br />

millennia.<br />

These wandering souls, the living have often referred of<br />

“ghosts.” Because they are miserable and desolate, they<br />

play to scare people to ensure they still have some power.<br />

They scare fearful and naive typing against the walls at<br />

night, doing to raise the floors or vibrate chandeliers. At<br />

worst, they can cause rain and thunderstorms unannounced<br />

but it is their only strength. Their actions are ridiculous and<br />

should arouse pity rather than fear.<br />

- This is what we call evil spirits, reported Director of<br />

thanatodrome Dakar. - And we blolos, blolos bian men<br />

blolos blas for women, the official said in Abidjan. - Maybe,<br />

but with this new mode of suicide, the air must be saturated<br />

with ghosts in search of a mortal coil, sighed his colleague<br />

from Los Angeles. Mr rajawi continued his explanation:<br />

- When life meditating, or he is engaged in Thanatonautes,<br />

he gave a time his physical body. S a wandering soul goes<br />

through there so it rushes into.


We stayed there all bec us between glances. What risk<br />

were we so all taken during our many Travels And, even<br />

worse, because of all the “tourists” which, thanks to us, went<br />

into the afterlife, a lot of Ghost now had a nice set of body<br />

put on. What a paradox! These suicides that were leaving<br />

for a better life their way into the first existence came! And<br />

even if they had the chance! It was not so easy to be there<br />

at the right when faced with a mortal coil vacant.<br />

Everyone went to his case of “possession” to return. Of<br />

sudden changes in mood and behavior were now<br />

elucidated.<br />

- We must raise the alarm, I say. We need people stop<br />

suicide and even Thanatonautes. It’s too dangerous<br />

!<br />

Everyone at home, we organized conferences campaigns<br />

Everyone does not believe. There were skeptics to declare<br />

that we want our sport us when he moved to democracy<br />

and that soon, even workers could Thanatonautes Sunday.<br />

That respond to that? Despite our warnings, the agency<br />

Travel ectoplasmic continued to do business. It there would<br />

always be hotheads to go for a walk on the continents most<br />

ultimate, convinced that they were that accidents will not<br />

happen to.<br />

The idea of being bitten her body during a takeoff


discouraged, however few. It was not pleasant to think that<br />

anyone, in case of disaster, would then go to you and fit in<br />

your family and into bed with your wife without anyone<br />

capable to make a difference.<br />

For candidates to suicide, it was different than for tourists<br />

to the afterlife. Some sought to exploit, other safety and<br />

happiness. Conrad vain solder its stock of pills “bench”<br />

unsold, there was hardly any buyers. Become a wandering<br />

soul in search<br />

of a body, and that perhaps for centuries to come, was not<br />

a future very exciting.<br />

People understood that suicide did not call at all a counter<br />

to zero, that there would necessarily be lived to the end. We<br />

learned to accustom small miseries.<br />

The explanation of my fellow Indian had another advantage<br />

: It comforted the parents of babies or young died too soon,<br />

by disease or accident. It could include suicide, which, after<br />

reincarnation in a physical shell foreign, had a few more<br />

years to live. A man who committed suicide at age sixty<br />

when he should have died sixty-six reborn and in the skin of<br />

a child doomed to die in six years.<br />

It was definitely a complete science that manage their<br />

karma and every morning brought new laws.


Raoul is walled up in silence. I knew he was thinking<br />

constantly Stefania. We had heard from by {0}{/0}<br />

{1}Logs{/1} She had gathered around her a band of “Bad<br />

guys”. The Italian Tibetan Buddhist we had loved so much<br />

professed everywhere that the property was equilibrate with<br />

evil. That whatever now our knowledge, the desire to<br />

commit suicide resume faced with a world so bland.<br />

Under his leadership, a horde of thugs in leather jacket<br />

black, perched on bikes, trying his best to promote acts as<br />

outmoded as theft, murder, rape and pillage. But the fear of<br />

damaging his karma was too strong, Stefania had difficulty<br />

retain the services of associates and initiative remained<br />

isolated.<br />

Stefania was something of a national curiosity and even<br />

when the police were able to stop it, it or some of his own,<br />

they abstained. They feared that the operation could be<br />

considered a assault and said that, in any case, these<br />

bandits would be sufficiently punished in their<br />

reincarnations.<br />

Yet, for Raoul and me too, Stefania became a major<br />

concern. Embodying evil, it proved there were still risks to<br />

be in this world. It gave relief to the property. By sacrificing<br />

his karma<br />

healthier society, she was engaged ultimately an act of


pure<br />

abnegation.<br />

We all felt vaguely that in reality, Stefania’s Cursed was a<br />

saint. We did not know what to do. Finally, we decided to<br />

go back up there to see a little what was happening.<br />

272 - ADVERTISING<br />

Mr. Vinstack, forty-two years old, single, leads a modeling<br />

agency. He loves life and he tells us why: “For me, life is<br />

women. All are different. With a mouth, eyes, legs, breasts,<br />

a perfume, a process, a haircut, a port Neck different. I’ll<br />

never have the time to know all. That’s why I’m glad that life<br />

is actually quite long. This is my twelfth marriage. I’d love to<br />

live a hundred years to find a more than women. As women<br />

exist only in life, thank you life and I thank you women. “<br />

This is a message from the National for the promotion of<br />

life.<br />

273 - IT is further complicated<br />

Still many daredevils on the way to heaven! Ha! yes,<br />

takeoffs had nothing to do with those the first time when we<br />

evolve only among the the deceased.<br />

Now, no sooner had they left the Earth that is found stuck in<br />

a crowd of tourists ectoplasmic, the umbilical cord tied to


that of their guide, a monk Recycled.<br />

And still so many ads, if not more! Movies Do not miss the<br />

next existences, advertisements for prepared meals, cat<br />

food and dogs pets, cigarettes, travel unusual … And<br />

of course, a large poster of the National Agency for life,<br />

extolling the virtues of returning to life!<br />

Lucinda had tried to bring greater security on the Continent<br />

Ultimate. From the entrance, a sign projected a whirling<br />

dervish of Turkey set the tone:<br />

“Welcome to Paradise. You are a thousand annéeslumière<br />

of the Earth. Caution, danger! Ban travel alone. Be sure to<br />

weave carefully your cord ectoplasmic than your guide. “<br />

Ensued the various laws enacted with the support of United<br />

Nations:<br />

Article 1. Heaven belongs to no country, or no religion.<br />

Article 2. Paradise is open to everyone and no one has the<br />

right to impede the free access.<br />

Article 3. It is forbidden to cut the umbilical cord<br />

ectoplasmic of others. Such an act is criminal and will be<br />

continued as such.


Article 4. Any physical body will be responsible for activities<br />

of its ectoplasm.<br />

Article 5. Tourists Thanatonautes must leave this place as<br />

clean as they want to find in their actual death.<br />

Article 6. It is forbidden to disturb the angels in their<br />

dexterity<br />

Article 7. It is forbidden to store memories and fantasies of<br />

another. Everyone is free to owner his own experiences in<br />

Paradise as here below.<br />

Article 8. It is prohibited to affix graffiti ectoplasmic on<br />

advertisements decorating the hallways.<br />

Article 9. It is forbidden to hide behind doors comatose to<br />

play tricks with the dead in Passing through<br />

Article 10 It is forbidden to speak to the archangels in the<br />

weighing of a soul.<br />

Article 11 It is forbidden to interfere in favor or against of a<br />

soul at the time of weighing. No evidence outside can not<br />

affect the archangels.<br />

Article 12 Paradise is not an amusement park. The<br />

parents with children are asked to leash by their cord<br />

ectoplasmic.


Everything had been planned for the comfort and safety of<br />

tourists. On the surface of the first gate comatose spread<br />

“Moch 1. Warning: memories aggressive. People sen<br />

sible to abstain. Those who are unable to assume their<br />

past are urged to get their umbilical cords of their<br />

guide and regain their bodies. “<br />

The deceased’s date and Thanatonautes no one rushed<br />

no less en masse, despite the warning. Some<br />

played to fight their painful memories in the way<br />

of wrestlers. As all this was indecent! Tourists<br />

Greek played voyeurs looking at the bubbles that<br />

affected them in any way.<br />

Surrounding advertisements extolling the virtues of<br />

:


psychoanalysis<br />

nalystes and private detectives, for those who<br />

still had an opportunity to redress their wrongs.<br />

As each time through the Black Country, I found<br />

my car accident, my arguments with my brother,<br />

the death of Felix Kerboz, passionate love once brought to<br />

Aman<br />

dine, not to mention a bunch of minor events that I<br />

never really digested. I began to be<br />

used to.<br />

Moch 2 and back in the red zone of pleasure. Some<br />

tourists had fantasies perfectly disgusting. I thought this<br />

place looked more and more within hot and humid with a<br />

woman’s sex. “Maybe! Amandine, she imagined a man’s<br />

sex …<br />

Here, the advertising of sex shops, the peep shows and<br />

porn videos, despite the amendments.


Shoving his fantasies of orgies and young stallions<br />

oversized, Amanda took me to that I do not hit back to its<br />

double black leather. A woman I continued shouting called<br />

Nadine Kent. I yelled at him telepathically to leave me, I was<br />

married and family. The fantasy of Nadine metamorphosed<br />

then for adopt the generic form of Stefania.<br />

Really, I fantasized about all the women in my entourage.<br />

When in doubt, Amandine I took his hand up Moch 3. Look<br />

out! Here, Moch 3. You are about to enter in the country<br />

orange. As eager to turn around while there is still time. ”<br />

The crossing lasted only two or three minutes but We<br />

seemed drag on for four or five hours. Everywhere<br />

advertisements for watch manufacturers. Decidedly, it was<br />

not the time to enact legislation if they were not even met. I<br />

do marveled over to meet celebrities or famous men. I was<br />

just anxious to get out of there. It is blase about everything.<br />

Time, what a terrible opponent! Yellow zone. “Look, Moch<br />

4. You are about to to enter the land of knowledge. Do not if<br />

you are not able to learn all the truths World Village. “<br />

- Eureka! Eureka! bellowed telepathically tourists Greek,<br />

very excited.<br />

Moch 6, finally.<br />

“Welcome to heaven. Here ends the for.


You are in the bright background of the black hole. To those<br />

who<br />

appear before the judges want a good queen<br />

carnation. Others, are reminded not to disturb<br />

Angels at Work “, issued the whirling dervish official.<br />

We walked in the white area of the weighing<br />

of souls. The angels began to know us well.<br />

They paid no attention to the tourists, but in<br />

However, three of them came to Raoul,<br />

Amandine and me.<br />

Some Greeks asked questions they did mine not to hear.<br />

- Okay, said the Greeks, this is the Olympus but Where is<br />

Zeus? They did not understand these idiots. No Zeus,<br />

Jupiter, Quetzalcoatl, Thor or Isis. The angels have no<br />

supervisor. Similarly, the angels do not have<br />

name, they bear names. Angels have no


nationality, they have all nationalities, all<br />

religions, all philosophies. What stupidity it<br />

chauvinism which suggests that its own deities are<br />

necessarily more impressive than the other!<br />

I do perceived not immediately the cry telepathic<br />

pushed suddenly from I unite the Greeks did not surprise<br />

but fear. All became clear when he screamed in<br />

its language, telepathically, we all understand:<br />

- My umbilical cord is cut! - Impossible! calmly replied the<br />

guide. There is always related to the braid of our group. -<br />

No, whined the other. This is the bottom it has been<br />

decided! This meant that while the ectoplasm was walking<br />

here on earth his body had been murdered. As its cord was<br />

actually tied to the other, they remained bound. It is only<br />

when the group would defeat its nodes that the unfortunate<br />

now deceased would be sucked its next reincarnation. It<br />

was horrible to know and died away, somewhere else! .<br />

We were doing just the situation that another cried already<br />

murder! One after another, the eighteen tourists Greek did<br />

the same sad conclusion. Their ball of cords was indeed<br />

intact, but nothing connected it to Earth. All had lost their


physical body! Together they spun join the longest river of<br />

the dead.<br />

Yes, the mortal coil are at all times vulnerable and it is<br />

always dangerous to abandon them. “Picking”:<br />

apprehension, Raoul, Amanda and I écourtâmes at quick<br />

trip to return hurriedly these comfortable armor what were<br />

our bodies.<br />

The evening papers désignèrent the authors of the<br />

package Heavenly: Stefania and his gang. The Italian had<br />

sent communicated to the major news agencies to<br />

announce that it would address now to thanatodromes and<br />

ship again in the hemisphere Ultimate the lovers walking<br />

aliens. She hears thus making the death fear and mystery.<br />

Extensive program<br />

!<br />

- Stefania’s right! exclaimed Raoul. We went too far. I<br />

protested.<br />

- But it’s you who first, you wanted to know everything about<br />

death! And now that we have unlocked the secrets, Do you<br />

regret?? My friend had decidedly changed dramatically.<br />

Pacing the penthouse, he decreed:


- We could have done better to remain in ignorance.<br />

Oppenheimer also expressed regret for having designed<br />

the atomic bomb. - It is too late to go back, ‘I murmured. -<br />

It’s never too late to do, said Raoul. Amandine, Rose and I<br />

hochâmes head. Raoul had Suddenly the same accents as<br />

his wife:<br />

- Well, we managed to stop the suicides. But look a little<br />

around you as people are become vapid! It happens<br />

nothing. No more war, more crime, more adultery, more<br />

passion at all. Only Stefania shown courage. While the<br />

world was unbearable. I came to Thanatonautes to fight<br />

against my boredom and Thanatonautes had made the<br />

world boring!<br />

For the canopy, I saw a young boy, furtively stuck a poster<br />

on the run. A portrait of Stefania black and white, in big red<br />

letters: “Together to reorganize the bad! “<br />

274 - Rosicrucian Philosophy<br />

“By your desires, you draw your life. Around you is a mental<br />

atmosphere which attracts but does not attract either all<br />

things. This atmosphere Mental is made of your desires. It<br />

is also made of your fears that are the negative part of your<br />

desires. These are the two sides of the same coin. In<br />

addition to your conscious desires, are your desires and<br />

fears unconscious. Thus you attract the people and events


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that form the fabric of your life. The action is a desire<br />

solidified.<br />

We can not release that untying the knots emotional<br />

situations past and present. “<br />

Max Heindel, Cosmogony of the Rosicrucians.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

275 - THE THIEF OF SOULS<br />

These were the cries of Freddy Junior we rameutèrent,<br />

Rose and I, watching television. The cartoon Puerto Rico it<br />

was closely following had suddenly stopped. Bands black<br />

and white zigzag on the small screen.<br />

- Dad, is a failure. It was not a failure. The welts left already<br />

place in the image of Stefania.


- She managed to hack the fifty-third chain, the most<br />

popular and time of the greatest Hark! exclaimed Rose,<br />

much admired. We did shut our son, indignant at being<br />

deprived of his favorite show, and I increased the sound to<br />

hear better the words of our friend.<br />

Somewhere in a forest, perched on a mound grassy<br />

Stefania harangued a small crowd. Focus on her face once<br />

so happy and now tense.<br />

- Thank you all for coming, she said. I know what courage it<br />

takes to promise to engage in bad risk to sully his karma.<br />

But it’s for the good of humanity whole that we act. Rumor<br />

approval. Travelling on boys black tank top muscle tattooed<br />

and girls with long hair hanging over their ripped jeans.<br />

Together to millions of viewers, Stefania addressed his<br />

followers.<br />

- The world is in itself neither good nor bad. The nature,<br />

God, or some principle whether we assign the direction of<br />

our lives, do not bring<br />

reward or punishment. To us to learn from our experiences.<br />

There is only one fault: ignorance.<br />

“The whole history of mankind is full of abominations and<br />

atrocities. As we still learn from them. Education received<br />

in the pain is always more effective a lesson in joy.<br />

“But I can assure you, at the Last Judgement relive the


pleasures and all the suffering you have procured for your<br />

neighbor. All your experiences. Because the Earth is the<br />

place of experience. All your actions here, you understand<br />

the importance when you death. In fact, I assure you, when<br />

the archangels will indicate the scope of the blame for your<br />

actions, they respond not with anger nor indignation. They<br />

laugh just your stupidity.<br />

“The purpose of existence is not goodness. The purpose of<br />

a existence is the realization of self. The purpose of an<br />

existence is not to be nice, but to be constantly aware of.<br />

The purpose of existence is to abolish ignorance.<br />

“In Italy, during the thirty-year reign of the Borgias, the<br />

country has experienced war, terror, murder, poisoning and<br />

produced by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and all the<br />

current spiritual renaissance. In Switzerland, they brotherly<br />

love, five centuries of peace and democracy, and what they<br />

produced? Watches for power accurately measure the time<br />

of their trouble without end.<br />

“Since time immemorial, the Good fight against evil Beau<br />

against the ugly, the truth against falsehood, Yang against<br />

Yin, and this is constant confrontation What always sprung<br />

knowledge and progress since both are never been without<br />

the other.<br />

“But with the knowledge of the Continent Ultimate, with


this trend so human to always want to simplify everything,<br />

people have brought the goal of life to one and<br />

unique requirement: the goodness! What a mistake! In<br />

truth, I<br />

stated, evil is essential to the balance of things<br />

here below.<br />

Fifty boys and girls, more sinister<br />

each other, chanted around it:<br />

- We will bring evil! We will bring evil! - Thank you, my<br />

friends. Thank you.I’m sorry In a first attempt to bring<br />

humanity back to a correct view of reality, we have already<br />

sent in beyond a group of tourists Greek Thanatonautes of<br />

circumstances that had nothing to do in Paradise. This is<br />

just the beginning, we will continue our Fighting spirit In<br />

truth, I assure you, we will not stop there. The black eyes of<br />

Stefania flashed. She was as transfigured in its efforts to<br />

convince the rightness of his cause.<br />

A bearded shaggy jumped next to her.<br />

- In the threat and violence, we terrorize Thanatonautes. We<br />

will obtain closing thanatodromes. Persons engaged in a<br />

takeoff will advance by us sentenced to death. Last


Warning, tourists of death! Laughter and applause. Roar of<br />

motorcycles. A punk in relation identified with kohl and<br />

mouth Scarlet shouted above the tumult:<br />

- It’s not just thanatodromes! Evil must be everywhere! And<br />

we must end the sentimentality room! For this, there are<br />

simple things! - What do you suggest? asked a hoarse<br />

voice. - Why not revive the hard rock? Is heard more than<br />

classical music or planing in stores and on the radio.<br />

There’s really tired. Th want to rock concerts of thunder! -<br />

Rock, rock! chanted the activists of Evil. - You want some? I<br />

have. The camera fell on the rock fan. Increased its<br />

motorcycle, cigarette between his lips, a type unshaven,<br />

bandanna to front, brandished as a relic a cassette. ab was<br />

registered on behalf of a group, AC DC, and a title, very<br />

old while promising, Highway to Hell. His mount was<br />

pledged to a cassette player. He slipped one All around<br />

him gazed with envy.p><br />

He increased the volume to maximum and the air was filled<br />

with sounds more and more violent. They all trémoussèrent<br />

once in a sort of barbaric<br />

tribal dance, surrounding Stefania their leader and imitating<br />

his lascivious movements. The same excitement the<br />

winners. Between them, they wake up the world.


- If we exist, God willing! cried Stefania. - If we kill, God<br />

willing! yelled the bearded man. - If we love hard rock, God<br />

willing! exclaimed the punk. - God is good, but God is evil,<br />

because God is, ‘said Stefania, breathless. Up there, I met<br />

Satan and, indeed, I assure you, he’s a very respectable !<br />

Stop the music, Billy Joe. The motorcyclist obeyed<br />

immediately. No dancer, and Yet they were all in ecstasy,<br />

like the dervishes turners, did not protest. Apparently,<br />

Stefania was venerated to his family of worshipers of evil<br />

and he obeyed the finger to the eye.<br />

- It’s not just hard rock to have disappeared. There are : as<br />

alcohol. People are afraid to drink because they fear to<br />

behave badly under the influence of alcohol. All distilleries<br />

have virtually disappeared from the surface of the Earth. Let<br />

us open in the clandestine and pour out the bottles<br />

everywhere. I thought in petto it should have from time to<br />

time her former husband. There’s at least one of which had<br />

not given up! And obviously, bottles, he knew where to<br />

dégoter.<br />

Promoters of Evil do not find at least the idea excellent.<br />

Widespread drunkenness, was an idea that their kicking.<br />

Alcoholism, it promised men roueraient strokes women<br />

and children, motorists drunk crushers good people and<br />

why not rape, all impulses released! A great stone in the<br />

garden kindness!<br />

- Yeah. Congratulations alcohol! - And after alcohol, there


are still … - Drugs, suggested Billy Joe, who apparently<br />

understood quickly. - Drugs! approved Stefania. Recreate<br />

networks of dealers. There must have a few stocks in the<br />

suburbs. Just ask politely former bosses. They fileront coke<br />

without problems so they will be safe to commit a good<br />

deed coming to the aid of junkies in need.<br />

The sounds of AC DC sounded again in the background<br />

violent before Stefania will summarize:p><br />

- My friends, you all know now what you have to do: find new<br />

recruits, assassinate Thanatonautes, spread alcohol and<br />

drugs. Total in fact I can assure you, we will succeed in<br />

reinstating the sacred balance between Good and Evil.<br />

Then, setting right the camera and addressed his audience<br />

cathode, it concludes quietly<br />

- Evil is reborn. All tremble or visit us join! A kind of fog<br />

invades the small screen and Freddy Junior could get on<br />

with his cartoon.<br />

276 - police files


Message to the services concerned<br />

Not our fault. Human movement spontaneous. Did not need<br />

Stefania Chichele to put Thanatonautes incapable of harm.<br />

Natural reaction to laxity that has lasted too long.


Response services affected<br />

Not matter whether you are or not involved. We take yet old<br />

policy of openness.<br />

277 - MYTHOLOGY ZOROASTRIAN<br />

A fifth of the dead out of the earth, endowed with body and<br />

having the same appearance as when they death, where<br />

the breath had left their bodies. They arise in pairs, the<br />

father and son, wife and husband, the master and disciple,<br />

one who commands and the that follows.<br />

Arise, O corporeal beings, you who have followed the<br />

yasat, you who are dead on this earth!<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

278 - RESULTS<br />

Despite all his enthusiasm and his eloquence, Stefania<br />

failed to revive the forces of evil. It did not reach never<br />

gather more than a hundred thugs, which s’échinèrent to<br />

delinquency in general indifference.<br />

The Italian distributed thousands of leaflets that people<br />

picked up without reading them to throw in the trash the


Nearest They contributed well to the cleanliness of the city,<br />

a bonus easy.<br />

Some newspapers took up the text with no more results. He<br />

does not lack of interest:<br />

“What are the sins of choice?<br />

Kill? But if a god, any god exists, it has never prevented<br />

people to exterminate them. To otherwise, wars have<br />

become a way as another to prevent overcrowding and<br />

thus prevent the humans to crush the other species.<br />

Fly? Who are we to claim that anything is up to us alone<br />

and not another? Fly is not a sin, but rather the refusal to<br />

give to others that would be.<br />

Disregard the name of God? But if a god exists,<br />

it certainly is an entity very wise and intelligent<br />

gente, so devoid of pride and pretension. God, if a<br />

God exists, could not care less and those who worship<br />

and those who insult him.<br />

Do not respect the sacred things? But nothing is sacred.


The priests who claim to be the interpreters of a god<br />

make commit themselves the sin of pride. Who can<br />

dare say that such a place, such things are sacred? Claim,<br />

only claim.<br />

The angels are not aware of any. There is an authority<br />

above them. Call it God if you want, but<br />

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Know that God cares absolutely good deeds and kindness.<br />

Peoples of the world, wake up! Kindness, there is nothing<br />

worse. “<br />

In his fury, our friend had thrown out the window the Book of<br />

the dead Tibetan, his breviary of the past, to rush on the<br />

Little Red Book of Mao Tse-tung. She was burning for the<br />

taste of the action of the Chinese president.<br />

Like him, she felt that it is in contradiction is revealed the<br />

true nature of the world and is compared willing to Great<br />

Helmsman, speaking of the need a permanent revolution


and preparing, too, a Long March. The contradiction is the<br />

driving force thought, said Mao. The revolution Evil is a<br />

necessity for humanity, completed Stefania Chichele.<br />

Mao had his Red Army, she had her black army. His troops<br />

enjoyed themselves well in their debauchery. As best was<br />

something gained. At the price they pay their sins up there,<br />

as they primarily benefit the pleasure to do a little evil in this<br />

world.<br />

Difficult to reverse in a world filled by goodness! The “poor”,<br />

they said all took pity for these unfortunate propagators of<br />

evil in the karmas if damaged!<br />

Thanks to them, however, there became less bland. We<br />

watching for their next evil deed that will spice up a little if<br />

dull day. They were also admirers who rented their selfless<br />

courage. And also, with these “bad guys”, one could win<br />

with it some bonus points.<br />

Now that all the clothes available were given to the<br />

Companions of Emmaus, when someone chanced drugs,<br />

alcohol or weapons in an attic, he immediately despatched<br />

to the lovers of evil. They were nice kill many tourists from<br />

Paradise this did not prevent the affairs of the specialized<br />

agencies Turn over again. Assassination was undoubtedly<br />

a good way to die a martyr.


279 - It does not get better<br />

It was then that Lucinda decided to end his life. Bystanders<br />

found him mangled foot the Montparnasse Tower. The<br />

President had spanned the parapet for a rainy day which<br />

made the road shimmering.<br />

Jump into the void a lot of courage. Mainly in bad weather.<br />

In addition, many of those who their exit fare. It must be said<br />

that in general they choose the fourth or fifth floors. Then<br />

either they land softly on a hood of a car or a rubbish, or<br />

they end up legs crushed, paraplegic in a wheelchair.<br />

Lucinda him, did not leave any chance. He jumped<br />

the fifty-eighth floor. As always effective,<br />

was put in position a paratrooper head first<br />

to make it safe and fast.<br />

Why had he killed while all indicators polished<br />

ticks were in good shape? In retrospect, I wonder<br />

if, as Stefania, he had not been suddenly disgusted


y that company soft he had himself contributed to<br />

to create Was it that he wants to s’autocondamner and<br />

to turn into wandering soul!<br />

A housekeeper discovered the will that<br />

deceased had placed on his desk:<br />

“I finally understood that it is useless to be famous, wrote<br />

our friend. Immortality is razor. I want it removes my name<br />

from all the history books and dictionaries. I want debunks<br />

all my statues. Th want us to remove all street signs to my<br />

name. I hope the funeral of the most simple, without pomp<br />

and no procession. I do not want to be buried in a coffin<br />

padded under a marble slab. Flowers or wreaths, no tears,<br />

no requiem or funeral oration. I ask be buried under a tree.<br />

And without stele indicating my presence. I want to go<br />

directly to the earth being invaded by the roots of the tree,<br />

nibbled by slugs, earthworms, bugs. Despite my suicide,<br />

perhaps I<br />

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reincarnated I and humus fertile? If my body has served only


little in my lifetime, it is at least one good compost after my<br />

death.<br />

I long to understand, but now I see the meaning of life.<br />

President or tramp, king or slave, we are all the same. Only<br />

small grains sand lost in the universe. I claim the privilege<br />

of have been a grain of sand for humanity. I was a grain of<br />

sand, of course, but I know that without grains of sand, there<br />

would never beaches. “<br />

Of course, the interior minister decided to burn on the spot<br />

a text as subversive.<br />

The death of President Lucinda could have a new brake<br />

application movement Thanatonautes. This is not was<br />

nothing. After his magnificent funeral, unlike wishes also<br />

ignored by all, he devoted chapters integers in the history<br />

books, we built a gigantic statue in his likeness on the<br />

place of Hôtelde-City : …………………………………. The<br />

interim government decreed that the thanatodrome Buttes-<br />

Chaumont he had created would be called now<br />

thanatodrome Lucinda, as well as Medal Thanatonautes<br />

would now medal Lucinda. There are countless cities and<br />

villages which they dedicated avenues, streets and<br />

squares.<br />

You can sometimes choose his life, but it is difficult to<br />

choose death!


Richard Picpus was elected easily president. His first<br />

speech was a tribute to Lucinda. He said that his only goal<br />

was to continue the work of the great “Initiator “The<br />

Thanatonautes.<br />

At the end of the ceremonies that Raoul told me that he<br />

intends to remarry. Stefania had so away from his life that<br />

he considered himself free.<br />

280 - ADVERTISING<br />

On the TV screen, a man in white coats, Quarantine smiling<br />

in front of a blackboard.<br />

“Hello, I am Professor Filipini. I am a scientist. I have long<br />

carried out research on life. See this formula (the teacher<br />

holds up a rule to table) is that of hydrogen. An atom, an<br />

electron is simple. Watch below (the rule moves on the<br />

table). This is the formula of DNA. Deoxyribonucleic acid.<br />

Rather complicated, right? Well, life is that, and there are<br />

very few in the Universe. The Universe is up to 99% of poor<br />

hydrogen and one finds only 0.00000001% of DNA as it is<br />

complex life. Same man is unable to make, of life.<br />

Do not waste yours. Every life is precious. If you do not<br />

respect yourself, respect life chemical that is in you. “<br />

Sweet female voice-over: “This is a message from the


ANPV, National Agency for the promotion of life. “<br />

281 - Mesopotamian mythology<br />

“But you Gilgamesh<br />

What ever your belly is satiated


Be happy night and day<br />

Make every day of your life<br />

A celebration of joy and pleasure<br />

That your clothes are clean and sumptuous<br />

Washing your head and bathe yourself<br />

Flatters the child who holds you by the hand<br />

Rejoice the wife who is in your arms.<br />

These are the only rights possessed by men. “<br />

The Epic of Gilgamesh.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

282 - wedding<br />

The elect of Raoul was Amandine. I did not expect more.<br />

Neither Rose nor I had surprised tender looks, brushing of<br />

hands, stolen kisses in the evenings<br />

476


penthouse. We did not hear doors slamming<br />

during the night between the two apartments. In addition,<br />

the<br />

During his endless drinking, Raoul had stopped<br />

cry Stefania.<br />

Finally, the facts were there and the bride and groom<br />

radiant.<br />

Nine months later, Amanda gave birth to a small Burnet.<br />

The event shook the personality of Raoul’s completely. He<br />

who had always lived according his parents, that he found<br />

himself a father himself and moved to the other side of the<br />

fence. Now he threw on his own parents look quite different.<br />

We had a long discussion in his living room. Suddenly<br />

became lucid, Raoul understood how his mother was able<br />

to turn away from a man who neglected her to do concern<br />

than death. Of course, she hated her father, she had<br />

deceived him, but she had still not murdered with his hands.<br />

It was he who, realizing his solitude in a world where, just<br />

beyond, he was not interested, had decided to hang<br />

himself. His wife had not itself attached to the toilet!<br />

He spoke and Burnet shouted. It was his way of


communicate with the world. As soon as she was not<br />

receiving. the attention it wanted, it did not tend to more<br />

quickly the toy she claimed, she screamed. Amandine is<br />

undertook to calm her down.<br />

Under the decibels of the girl, Raoul told me his last<br />

reflections:<br />

- There is only one way to love his parents while forgive<br />

them, whatever they did. Then, there is no to forgive<br />

yourself for not they have forgiven before. My friend<br />

remembered the little things that make big grudges<br />

childish. Thus, when he was little he could not stand not her<br />

mother do the dishes rather than dealing him. “Wait three<br />

minutes,” she said. It in would then be neglected and not to<br />

give instant his tyranny. He closed his love for the<br />

punishment, it denying the same time.<br />

On reflection, his relationship with his parents looked like<br />

enough to mine the<br />

Burnet howling and Raoul rushed to his turn. In her arms,<br />

she began slowly her tears. Would she, too, to forgive him<br />

one day not to be ran faster? Would she one day forgive<br />

him for not not offering him all the love and all the toys in the<br />

world?<br />

283 - ADVERTISING


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lounging in an armchair in brown leather.<br />

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Agency for the promotion of life. “<br />

284 - Vedic philosophy<br />

“Man has a thousand heads It has a thousand eyes,<br />

thousand feet Covering the earth from side to side He still<br />

exceeds ten fingers. The man is nothing but this world What<br />

happened, what is to come. He is the master of the field<br />

immortal Because it grows beyond food. “<br />

Rig-Veda.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

285 - it gets harder ALWAYS


That night I had a dream.<br />

The dream was so strong, so realistic, so logical, so<br />

consistent and so scary at the same time, I hastened to<br />

record in the morning in great detail. Here is the story as I<br />

wrote this morning.<br />

“The Archangel Gabriel descends to Earth to contact the<br />

General Assembly of the United Nations. His speech is<br />

simple and straightforward. Humans do not cease to<br />

reproduce, services, he says, are completely overwhelmed<br />

by the dead each day. Seven billion humans is too much!<br />

How to weigh all these souls with only three<br />

jugesarchanges, even working twenty-four hours twenty-four<br />

! The country orange is full of souls waiting. The records are<br />

sloppy. There have been mistakes. Sages were<br />

reincarnated as gangsters while perfect scoundrels<br />

became pure spirits, with a cycle of reincarnations<br />

prematurely and unfairly interrupted.<br />

The archangel Gabriel thus has a choice to humans: or<br />

regulate finally properly births, send aid to the sky. After all,<br />

since the ectoplasm from living bodies come to the edge<br />

the Continent Ultimate, why would they stay not help identify<br />

and monitor the cards karmic?<br />

Meeting in emergency session, the Heads of State of the<br />

planet fully understand the problem. They recognize that it is<br />

impossible to impose a strict control of births. They are


switching to the second solution: sending officials<br />

ectoplasmic Paradise.<br />

A new class of pen-leather is born. Of used the paperwork<br />

to turn every morning agents ectoplasmic and sit on their<br />

thrones takeoff like others, at the same time, take subway<br />

or commuter train. Up there, the angels have planned<br />

for their offices where they analyseont all their cards to their<br />

customers. Of course, these international civil servants are<br />

sworn. However, one of them commits the first<br />

prank by warning his son, after consultation with its plug, if it<br />

does not cease to terrorize his fellow class, it will be<br />

reincarnated as a slug.<br />

This seems trivial, yet the oath is broken.<br />

No one is perfect and governments, from still developing<br />

with the growth of populations, ectoplasm sworn were soon<br />

so numerous that incidents are increasing.<br />

For example, with respect to the kid who insists on play the<br />

bad heads, his father eventually change slightly the cord,<br />

just to settle the karma of his offspring. It adds 100 points.<br />

Hop it! Quickly. Not seen, not taken.<br />

But it’s not just the family, there are friends. And friends of


friends … And those, always well informed, who, knowing<br />

that employees, even sworn never so well paid than that,<br />

manage to find their identity and address an envelope<br />

properly. A few tickets, and that’s a good reincarnation of<br />

guaranteed!<br />

Gradually, it is established a real black market good<br />

reincarnation. The rich pay to find out the exactly is their<br />

karma and how many sins they can still afford. In advance,<br />

they make sure to be reborn in affluent families and in<br />

excellent health. So that rich stay rich and healthy in their<br />

next life. The poor remain poor and sick in their next life.<br />

It is no longer a dream is a nightmare. A new bourgeoisie<br />

appears: the thanatocrats.<br />

Regardless of his behavior here, it becomes impossible<br />

sible to be reincarnated as a better if you can not afford<br />

Financial to bribe an official ectoplasmic.<br />

In the past, which frightened the most people was to<br />

commit sins. Now it is to be poor, because


you know you will remain forever, for all its<br />

reincarnations, with no way out of this circle<br />

cycle of failure.<br />

All the rules are changed. We no longer live<br />

for money. Everything is good to get: theft,<br />

prostitution, fraud, crime, drug trafficking.<br />

This is the opposite of the period virtuous. Any act does to<br />

the conquest of money.<br />

My son Freddy was attacked by racketeers at the exit the<br />

school. My wife Rose is snatch her purse the supermarket.<br />

Mafia rising from the ashes. No longer hesitate to hire<br />

professional killers to seize the property of others or get rid<br />

of a rival business. Have money can rebuild their virginity<br />

karmic, so why trouble?<br />

The world is completely dominated by money. The remains<br />

of different religions are launching a campaign for the<br />

humans stop meddling in the affairs of Paradise.<br />

But giving up the afterlife is to make again all<br />

responsibilities to the angels, or they are no longer able to<br />

manage the seven billion people on the planet. The world


ecomes more and more wild and more in addition to<br />

ignoring … “<br />

I was awake shivering and sweating. Was it possible we’re<br />

misguided at this point?<br />

I felt sure, the angels me a message their channel of<br />

communication usual: the dream. And its content was clear:<br />

stop everything before the situation escalates to the point of<br />

control.<br />

Quickly, I shower, got dressed and went down lunch with the<br />

other coffee. I found only Raoul. Junior had already left for<br />

kindergarten. Almond and Rose had gone shopping.<br />

I looked at the cat cafe. It seemed safe. Ministry kind of cat<br />

that has it all and merely lounging in its reincarnation.<br />

Happy beast. It would revive likely in the form of a very<br />

relax.<br />

Then a policeman jumped into the cafe, yelling. It was<br />

difficult to understand what he bellowed but basically it<br />

meant “Your thanatodrome, they are now ransack your<br />

thanatodrome! “<br />

286 - Jewish philosophy<br />

“Just as the human body consists of members and parts of


various ranks with all these actions and reactions to form a<br />

single body, and the wider world is a hierarchy created<br />

things, when they have each other for actions and<br />

appropriate responses, are literally one organic body. “<br />

Zohar.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

287 - ATTACK AT FORT Buttes Chaumont<br />

These were the worshipers of evil. Stefania had had their<br />

order to destroy our thanatodrome. Through the windows<br />

on the ground floor and the store, we saw demolish<br />

everything with rifle bat baseball and chain biking.<br />

Raoul gave me a nudge.<br />

- You and me against the fools? This sentence I plunged at<br />

once in the past. When Raoul and I were still best friends<br />

world and when it impressed me so much by using his<br />

voice against the worshipers of Beelzebub. The challenge<br />

was difficult and But we managed. Again, the victory<br />

seemed beyond our reach. But see the store from my<br />

mother ransacked, balls souvenir containing dry, split,<br />

letting sink their pretty liquid, the posters of Paradise torn<br />

Tshirts soiled, photos of Amanda coated whiskers or other<br />

obscene drawings, I boosted.


We passed the door. First, no one paid attention. Raoul<br />

could even take a long tube Metal protecting a giant poster<br />

and me tender.<br />

I went over. Suddenly, I forgot how we we were angry, how<br />

he became an alcoholic. Th clutching the improvised<br />

weapon.<br />

482<br />

We were together. He and I against the fools. Him and me<br />

against the world.<br />

He took also an aluminum tube. There were two hooligans<br />

quite frightening. Hairy, smelly, body tattoo skulls and signs<br />

Hell, they wore rictus of rage and cruelty.<br />

One was busy splitting with a knife scarves representing<br />

the map of Paradise while the other broke with the teeth<br />

dolls angels the most popular.<br />

- Stop it now! barked Raoul. We broke the stunned. They<br />

believed that in a world so sweet, no one would dare<br />

oppose their raid. They had taunted successfully police and<br />

soldiers. They felt invincible.


One moment they stopped, banned, but resumed quickly.<br />

The biggest approached us, almost smiling. It held out his<br />

hand as if to shake one of us, then, come near, he gave me<br />

a big kick in the lower abdomen. I should have stayed on<br />

my guard. I forgotten that the worshipers of evil did not<br />

respect anything and had no code of honor.<br />

I collapsed, cut in half. I had just enough time to see Raoul<br />

jump to punish the miscreant a blow of aluminum tubing on<br />

the head. The second we rushed ab<br />

The scene turned to boxing. I stood up and was fighting the<br />

best I could. To my surprise, I do clapped not too bad.<br />

Perhaps the wars of Paradise Had she given more<br />

confidence. After all, had I not knocked down, with the help<br />

of Amanda, of course, the terrible master of Hashishins?<br />

I take a plaster statue representing Felix and crushed the<br />

head of the great. The guy collapsed. Thank you, Felix.<br />

Ministry second does not claim his account and fled to the<br />

floors to seek reinforcements. We proceeded on.<br />

The sixth floor, we override four beefy armed axes that fun<br />

at all to smithereens. They destroyed chairs, broken one by<br />

one all screens control, and oscilloscopes for identifying the<br />

flights.<br />

He who seemed their leader had a face that was familiar.


For the first time, recognition was each other.<br />

- Well, well, who do I see? he said. Raoul recognized too.<br />

Was the big Martinez. Our class enemy that we had saved<br />

their lives in the first flights Thanatonautes. I remembered a<br />

lesson Meyer: “If someone hurts you and you do not avenge<br />

yourselves, you will want very strong. If someone hurts you<br />

and that you not only do revenge not but what more you<br />

save his life or you make it well, you hate a terrible hatred.<br />

But we must love our enemies, even if only because they<br />

see is on the nerves. “<br />

Was. Far from being grateful for having spared risky<br />

experiments Fleury-Merogis, Martinez we wanted to have<br />

denied the celebrity Félix. He rushed with his ax as Raoul<br />

tried clumsily block of the aluminum tube. It was cut into two<br />

Simultaneously, two Malabar fell upon me. Raoul, a kick<br />

properly adjusted, reached the fingers Martinez clutching<br />

the ax. The edged weapon fell.<br />

- Bastard, I will have your skin! said our former comrade<br />

.<br />

He grabbed Raoul’s head and began to shake. Corn<br />

slender and flexible, my friend pulled away to grasp the<br />

size. I had no time to follow further their duel. Already. my<br />

opponents overwhelms me. We fought like kids, I tell them<br />

pulled their hair and they’ll scratched the necks of their long


dirty fingernails. It fell to the ground. The others were about<br />

to have the upper hand when suddenly a voice is heard.<br />

- I’m here guys! Maxime Villain rushed to the rescue, armed<br />

with a nunchaku. With this weapon East it was pretty<br />

laughable, but the reinforcement was very much<br />

appreciated. It’s still useful to have friends.<br />

- You have to call the police! bawling myself. - It will not help,<br />

said Villain. They dare never fight, even the cops are afraid<br />

of damaging their karma!<br />

It was the general hubbub. The objects were flying, to the<br />

faces, hitting bat baseball whipped the air, interspersed<br />

with the dull thud of fists against flesh. We were all so busy<br />

we tap it and we strangle that we prêtâmes not pay<br />

attention to a roar Motorcycle followed not dry up the stairs.<br />

A figure appeared in the doorway.<br />

Stefania.<br />

Enough! intima does. She pointed a large revolver caliber<br />

automatic 9 mm. We raised our hands. The round Italian<br />

was much thinner in its forests. Chestnuts and squirrels, it<br />

does not feed. She was beautiful, with a large black cape<br />

with red facings. Thus, She looked a bit like my fantasy of<br />

the third country. She gazed with delight.<br />

- A long time ago that I wanted this interview, she says. - It


was enough to call. We have made an appointment,<br />

observed Raoul, sly. Apparently she did not relish the<br />

humor of his former husband. Behind her, his henchmen<br />

roared.<br />

- Stop prating, Raoul, shouted it, employing the tone of<br />

warlord had become. - But I’m listening, Stefania, I’m all<br />

ears. - Know when my men and I came here to destroy the<br />

thanatodrome. I have many, many thoughtful, Raoul. We<br />

were wrong. We are lost from the start. We must destroy<br />

the monster we have built. Martinez, who was bleeding from<br />

the mouth, proposed by massaging the cheek<br />

- Let’s begin by destroying these guys? - No, she said<br />

firmly. These are my friends. She came to me brushing: -<br />

You are my friends, Michaelese, Raoul, Maxime. In you, I<br />

will never do wrong. But all that is needed to demolish.<br />

Let’s go ! commanded she.<br />

And his band began to rampage, breaking everything.<br />

They dismembered the thrones of takeoff, they broke the<br />

devices, they crushed the vials.<br />

- Raoul, begged Stefania while continuing to keep us in<br />

playing with his gun. For pity’s sake, put an end to the<br />

Thanatonautes. Otherwise, it can only go from bad to<br />

worse. Raoul lowered his hands and approached her. I was<br />

convinced it would take, but no bullet came out of the barrel


when he took his lips.<br />

Meyer was right when he repeated: “We must love our<br />

enemies, even if only because they see deals nerves!<br />

“They were kissing and this moment of violence suspended<br />

with a kiss was something magical. Too fairytale. Martinez<br />

could not stand it. Benefiting from stupor Overall, he picked<br />

up his ax and planted in the back of Raoul.<br />

Everything happened so fast that no one had time to react.<br />

Raoul opened his eyes wide with surprise then, including<br />

he had just been assassinated, he smiled and began to<br />

embrace greedily Stefania. It was she whom he loved more<br />

and he wanted from a kiss. He had discovered the death,<br />

the ultimate meaning of life and yet, at the approach of his<br />

death, he thought only one last moment of pleasure. Love a<br />

little on this earth before leaving elsewhere.<br />

Then he fell on his knees, the ax still stuck IN THE BACK<br />

- Quick, I cried, it’s not too late, you must re-walk a throne<br />

off ectoplasmic, we will recover before the soul reaches the<br />

world of dead! No! said Stefania, sobs in his voice. No! let<br />

it die quietly. She made a sign to his henchmen and they<br />

tied him up. Hands tied, I rushed forward to m’appro<br />

expensive to Raoul. It was not yet completely gone. It


opened his eyes, recognized me, smiled and mumbled<br />

something thing I was the only one to hear:<br />

“The link is settled I knocked down all the evil in me<br />

O Osiris powerful I finally born Look at me, I have been<br />

born. “<br />

He dragged himself to kiss the feet of the Italian and had a<br />

final jolt.<br />

We were losing time, I was furious. But Stefania had made<br />

his decision: Raoul had to die “normally”. As before, no one<br />

tries to stop him. Before, I remember, people were dying<br />

and it was concerned only their funeral and their regrets. It<br />

is so common today make up the dying as I had forgotten.<br />

The soul of Raoul started with a kiss last memory this “low”<br />

world.<br />

Pretty dead, indeed! I would like to succeed and mine. I<br />

thought that Raoul had known love. He had loved his father<br />

developed to follow him in his adventure. He loved his<br />

mother as to forgive him for not having loved enough. He<br />

loved books. He had loved to the point of train in its wake.<br />

He had loved Amandine. He had like Stefania. Meyer said:<br />

“It is very difficult to love Really? In general we have only<br />

one life for this, it must not miss. “<br />

The body of Raoul was lying in the arms of Stefania. Its


eyes filled with tears. Around us, his henchmen knew very<br />

well what to do. Their leader in tears: this was contrary to all<br />

precepts of the worshipers of evil! They sat there dangling<br />

arms.<br />

- Come, let us go, she said. Motorcycles pétaradèrent. The<br />

worshipers of evil disappeared as they had appeared. I<br />

looked at the corpse of my friend. The mortal coil was<br />

probably already emptied of its soul. Could we put a spirit<br />

in that pile of meat?<br />

It was now too late, the soul of Raoul was already be in the<br />

territory orange, mixed with the billions dead. We never<br />

meet again. When I was convinced he was dead,<br />

irrevocably dead, I realized that Raoul had been my brother.<br />

My only real big brother.<br />

I wanted to howl at the moon like the coyotes of<br />

desert. Aouuuuuu. But no one understood that it is my only<br />

natural way to express my sorrow. When his best friend<br />

dies, do not howl at the moon as a coyote, we must cry.<br />

Everyone knows that.<br />

288 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS<br />

It was in 2068 that Maxime Villain, one of the masters of ia<br />

Thanatonautes, states: “As long as man is deadly, it can be


elaxed.<br />

“<br />

Was the answer to the centuries in American philosopher<br />

Woody Allen.<br />

Indeed, what is more horrible than immortality? Imagine you<br />

a life that does not finish last, to repeat, extend to infinity?<br />

It would quickly become bored of everything, sad,<br />

unmotivated, cantankerous. We would have no purpose in<br />

time, more hope, more limited, more fear. The days ticked<br />

mechanically without being appreciated. - elevators gifted<br />

could reign without end. Everything would be all over<br />

blocked by the strongest that never gets old. Names would<br />

have the opportunity to end his life.<br />

Immortality is a thousand times worse than death.<br />

Fortunately, our bodies age, our time on earth is limited,<br />

our karmas are renewed, as each new life is full of<br />

surprises and disappointments, joys and betrayals, of<br />

pettiness and generosity.<br />

Death is essential to life. Really, let’s be casual …<br />

because, by chance, one day we die!<br />

History textbook classes during elementary 2 years.


289 - Ectoplasm RAZORBAK<br />

The Archangel Gabriel greeted the ectoplasm Raoul<br />

Razorbak with the deference due to a Great Initiate.<br />

- This time for good, found he simply. After a brief confab,<br />

the three archangels-judges<br />

488<br />

remembered with a Great Initiate, there was no need to<br />

weighing or bargaining for a future life. This soul already<br />

knew everything. The procedure was necessarily different.<br />

The archangel Raphael explained briefly Raoul its merit in<br />

previous lives had earned him the death fast enough for an<br />

ax in the back. Its merits he had also gained access to all<br />

knowledge he had desired, and especially to become a<br />

Great Initiate. Time, however, was not yet come for his soul<br />

to be transformed into pure spirit: he had too sin pride, had<br />

allowed himself to drunkenness, had maintained impulses<br />

for revenge.<br />

However, facing a Great Initiate, and given the qualities that<br />

enabled him to access this place, the custom wanted the<br />

archangels abandon their prerogatives of judges. In the<br />

ectoplasm Raoul Razorbak, therefore, itself decide its next<br />

reincarnation.


The soul of our friend thanked him with gratitude. He was<br />

the first to know not to be in possession of six hundred<br />

points needed to end the cycle.<br />

- I want to be reincarnated as a tree, announced the<br />

ectoplasm of Razorbak. - What? fright the archangel<br />

Gabriel. - In the tree, repeated firmly Raoul. The Archangel<br />

Michael tried to reason with him. - Well, you know that<br />

consciousness evolves the mineral to the vegetable, the<br />

vegetable to the animal and the animal to humans. We<br />

reserve this kind of regression to frank scoundrels. Tree is<br />

unworthy of you. - Maybe, but I’m so tired! In lucidity I beg<br />

you to grant me this regression. I’m tired from the busy<br />

world of humans. Even animals move too. I want to find the<br />

stillness of the plants. For me, this is not a regression but a<br />

relief. - Let it be done according to your will! sighed the<br />

archangel Gabriel. - Okay, did the soul invigorated. Show<br />

me this you have to offer me as a body spray. It must well<br />

be somewhere pairs of plants being<br />

to copulate, pollen Daisy contacting stamens males of a<br />

congener. Put me in a seed, one potato, an onion! I gush<br />

then the ground to a lifetime of healthy immobility. Quiet at<br />

last quiet.<br />

- But plants are not at all the quiet life! exclaimed the<br />

archangel Raphael. The wind whips, herbivores graze,<br />

rainfall and drowning, animals and human crush them


without noticing. - Yes, but as the plants have no system<br />

nervous, they do not suffer. A seraph project several<br />

bubbles love plants. It was quite poetic. Together, Raoul<br />

and archangels and examined with candor.<br />

- Hey, look there! exclaimed the archangel Michael. A seed<br />

grape in Sauternes is being done fertilization in France. It is<br />

the Chateau Yquem, a great believed. See what vine! It is<br />

exposed to warm sunshine, it enjoys sufficient moisture,<br />

growers maintain it with love. It might be nice to become a<br />

small plant Vine. Raoul looked at him with tenderness the<br />

plant that was be its parent. He found his future father a little<br />

twisted but very nice. So he decided to be grape.<br />

290 - Hindu philosophy<br />

For each, there is a “Book of Life.” The Orientals call it<br />

“Archive akhashique.” On its pages are recorded acts and<br />

thoughts of previous lives of each and future lives<br />

necessary to appease the karma. The mind can choose to<br />

start with it or by this, to settle debts in a lifetime lived in the<br />

seventeenth century rather than those of his last life.<br />

Ministry harm inflicted in the latest reincarnation is perhaps<br />

already offset by the good done in a previous life.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

291 - police files


Message to the services concerned<br />

Now what?


Response services affected<br />

You were right. It is time to intervene.<br />

292 - CHAIN<br />

A cat in heat meows on the sidewalk at 2 h 11 of the<br />

morning. An insomniac annoyed swore, opens its window<br />

and launch a slipper toward the cat. The projectile misses<br />

and lands on the windshield of a car. The driver slows sec.<br />

Good for the cat crossing the street running, too bad for the<br />

vehicle that was behind, the driver has not had time to<br />

realize what was going on and pressed the first car.<br />

The shock caused a fuel leak in the tank. Everybody out.<br />

While we discuss findings and insurance, from dropping a<br />

few glowing ash of his cigarette into the puddle. Gasoline<br />

ignites. Both cars explode. A wing fiery wings to fall into the<br />

dustbin where fled pussy. Terrified, she runs to a wall,<br />

knocking the passage an empty tin which was hiding a big<br />

rat. Disturbed, the animal runs to an empty lot.<br />

Two fellows are exerted to smash in a basket Basketball in<br />

the light of a street lamp. When one sees rats, it jumps up<br />

and sends the ball high above the wall. Continuing its<br />

trajectory at high speed, it bounces against a window while<br />

a woman phones her husband. Under the broken glass, she<br />

screams piercing. However, the husband is air traffic<br />

controller and converse at work. To cry of terror of his wife


inging in the earpiece, it has a side movement. This is<br />

enough to push a wheel.<br />

It turned out that this dial indicated in an airliner<br />

approaching its precise position relative to the runway.<br />

293 - DEVELOPMENT<br />

2 h 13 in the morning at my wristwatch. I said everything.<br />

Oh no! I check my notes and see that I forgot indicate how<br />

you draw a circle and its axis without lifting his pen.<br />

Just fold a corner of the sheet of paper. Mark a big point on<br />

the edge, riding on the tails and the side face. From this<br />

point to draw a semicircle on the turned edge. When you<br />

reach the edge of the board paper stop. There is no more<br />

than unfold the paper to complete, without lifting the pencil,<br />

the circle around the point used as axis. Faced helped pile.<br />

You will have used a foray into another dimension to better<br />

achieve something seemingly impossible. Use another<br />

dimension …<br />

Raoul had reason to solve problems there Admittedly, one<br />

can go in a different type space where one has all the<br />

rights. This goes well beyond all mystics. It’s just that<br />

expand the mind. Fun to expand the mind. As said Maxime


Villain, the only goal of the writers must be there: “To dream<br />

more far. Dream on the other side of the sheet. To dream<br />

on the other side of death. Anything is possible in writing,<br />

why not enjoy it?<br />

Sometimes just by writing or reading, I gets really in other<br />

dimensions.<br />

I think it is the same with the destiny. For they are complete,<br />

they must begin in universe and end in another.<br />

If I rested now my familiar questions: “Where am I? Who I<br />

am ? Where i am going? “I think I could try to answer them.<br />

I know I am a human being, living here and now.<br />

Why ? To participate in the discovery of thanatonau<br />

tick. I know that human thought can all fly and<br />

pass through the material at the speed of the imagination,<br />

s’emma<br />

gasiner in books, any make, any change, while<br />

kill him. I know the time, space, knowledge, beauty, all


492<br />

is inside. Everything is in the center. Outside, there is only<br />

reflections.<br />

I know I’m a corpse on borrowed time.<br />

I reread it, I said everything. I just wrote, I can forget<br />

everything.<br />

Thank you to the angels for giving me the time to tell history<br />

of the conquest of the continent Ultimate. But do I publish it?<br />

This contribution will he a good or bad for<br />

{0}{0}”(L’humanite){/0}{/0}<br />

Pile, I publish. Face, I do not publish. Perpetual reflection<br />

on the obverse and reverse. I run. The play runs on a<br />

armchair. On all fours, I look. Stack<br />

One last sentence again for my book, “Until last moment, I<br />

feared they prevent me from writing This ouv … “<br />

294 - READ IN A DAILY<br />

“Michael Pinson, Amanda Ballus, Rose Finch, the leading<br />

pioneers of Thanatonautes, died yesterday night in unusual


circumstances. A Boeing 787 has cut down on their<br />

thanatodrome. The disaster would original human error,<br />

falling to a traffic controller heaven. Experts are currently<br />

looking into ruins the black box of the device that will bring<br />

more further details.<br />

Their death was instantaneous. Investigators reconstituted<br />

at the time of death Michael Pinson was writing at his desk.<br />

All sheets have been calcined in the drama, it remains<br />

unclear what message the pioneer of Thanatonautes<br />

sought to convey.<br />

 by now, they are surely in this paradise they contributed<br />

so much to discover. Peace to their souls. ” (On sale from<br />

next week: a special issue on the life and work of<br />

Thanatonautes French.)<br />

295 - Indian mythology<br />

An old Hindu legend ensure that there was a time where all<br />

men were gods. But they abused both of their divinity that<br />

Brahma, the lord of the gods, decided depriving them of the<br />

divine power and hide in a place where it would be<br />

impossible to find. The difficulty was to find a good hiding<br />

place.<br />

Summoned to a council to solve this problem, minor gods<br />

suggested “bury the divinity of rights in the land. “Brahma


said,” It will not be enough not because man dig deep and<br />

find. “<br />

The minor gods then proposed: “In this case, tokens of<br />

divinity in the depths of the oceans. - No, ‘said even<br />

Brahma, because sooner or later man will explore the<br />

depths oceans and it is certain that one day he will discover<br />

and rise to the surface. “<br />

The lesser gods concluded, “We do not know where<br />

hide the divinity as it seems to exist on earth<br />

or in the sea where man can not reach<br />

one day. “<br />

Brahma thought, and gave his verdict: “This is what<br />

we will do the divinity of man: we will hide<br />

the deepest part of himself as the only place where it<br />

never think to look. “<br />

And since then, says the legend, the man went around the<br />

Earth. He explored, climbed, dove and dug without<br />

discover what is in him.


Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

296 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS


QUIZ<br />

To prepare for the bachelor, test your knowledge<br />

growth in Thanatonautes responding in less than five<br />

minutes, watch in hand, the following questions:<br />

1. What was the name and surname of the first<br />

Thanatonautes to be formally managed a trip ectoplasmic?<br />

494<br />

2. What are the famous words of American philosopher<br />

Woody Allen. 3. How many walls comatose on the<br />

Continent Ultimate? Look out! walls, no territories …) 4.<br />

What are the three main techniques a decorporation? 5.<br />

What is a tachyon? 6. What was the first Thanatonautes to<br />

cross the second wall comatose? 7. Which was built the<br />

great thanatodrome of Paris? 8. What is the only event<br />

perceptible a flight ectoplasmic? 9. Where is Paradise?<br />

10. What does Freddy Meyer to Thanatonautes? 11. What<br />

date was the Battle of Paradise? 12. What are the<br />

Christian names of the three Archangels-judges of our<br />

destiny? 13. How to meditate for a decorporation? 14. Why<br />

Stefania Chichele turned Does it rebel? 15. How to protect


her umbilical cord silver at the flight of his soul? 16. What is<br />

the ignorant? 17. What is the wise? History textbook, class<br />

terminal.<br />

297 - police files


Message to the services concerned<br />

At your service. Are ready.


Response services affected<br />

At work.<br />

298 - TIME TO OBLIVION<br />

Again I fly to Heaven with my friends. But this time, our<br />

umbilical cords are cut<br />

and we know that for this existence, this will be the last trip.<br />

Rose, Amanda and I have died in our apartments the<br />

thanatodrome des Buttes-Chaumont, victims of Boeing<br />

crazy. Villain stumbled home in the kitchen and collided<br />

head the acute angle of his machine washing Crockery<br />

[Porcelain] We all go at the same second. Without devices,<br />

without uniforms, without thrones, without pressing pear.<br />

Without shelling our famous “six … five … four … three …<br />

two … one. Off. “<br />

We are no longer Thanatonautes. We the dead of the day,<br />

happy still to be together for this final journey.<br />

We go through at full speed the solar system and its<br />

periphery. We hover almost before spinning to the center<br />

of the galaxy.


We no longer any apprehension at the gates<br />

of death. On the Continent Ultimate, we are now<br />

with us. We have so many hikers, as<br />

others Palavas-les-Flots or Trouville.<br />

I do not pay attention to the winks of Women in<br />

white satin mask skeleton. Long ago I<br />

no longer fears his empty eye sockets and grinning<br />

toothless.<br />

We go through all the colors of an ordinary death.<br />

Blue, black, red, orange, yellow, green, white. It seems<br />

cepen<br />

ing in high places it is pressed to see us. We<br />

we go straight through the crowd of the dead waiting as if<br />

we were still Thanatonautes.<br />

Soon we came to the mountain of light.<br />

We did not wrong. The archangels are there


waiting for us. To better talk to us, they interrupt the<br />

River of the dead, regardless of protests<br />

of ectoplasm in a hurry.<br />

St. Peter seems sorry. As usual, he will<br />

is responsible for an explanation. Since the earliest times,<br />

there have always been Thanatonautes to want to explore<br />

the<br />

Continent Ultimate. The angels welcomed their rare<br />

visitors with kindness and have given willingly<br />

mysteries of Paradise. In return, some wanted to trans<br />

put these “revelations” to other humans. Abraham,<br />

Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, and many others have<br />

provided<br />

testimony. Thus were born the Bible, the Book of the Dead<br />

Tibetan, the Gospel, the Koran, the Tao Te Ching Chinese<br />

… and


all the sacred books of the world.<br />

The angels had of human Great Initiates and they had not<br />

shown themselves ungrateful. They had sought to take<br />

advantage of their knowledge all future generations so that<br />

they are progressing, getting better and move more rapidly<br />

towards a state of pure mind. The Great Initiates had thus<br />

contributed and men and heaven.<br />

However, they had surrounded their “revelations” of mystery<br />

mysticism, symbols airtight. They had hidden under a<br />

blanket of legends and mythologies strange. But we, what<br />

had we done? We had broken the secret, we had betrayed<br />

and, in turn, misled our congeners and caused confusion on<br />

Earth.<br />

Angels have always been kind to Great Initiates because<br />

until we all were wise. We, we had been unconscious. We<br />

learned all the meaning of life and sense of death. We had<br />

scattered at random through. We invited anyone who follow<br />

us. We brought the tourists mess where the mystery must<br />

remain mystery and secrecy, secret.<br />

“The wise man seeks the truth, the idiot has already found.”<br />

The archangel Gabriel annoyed us about our “work”. Battles<br />

for possession of Paradise panels advertising in the halls<br />

of death, an interview with a mortal published in the press,<br />

of karmographes galore … Ha! that disorder! It was really


great time to put an end to our stupid actions.<br />

- Very well, ‘said Rose. We’re going back down to Earth<br />

and undo everything we did! - More pain, giggles Satan.<br />

We no longer need you the bottom. We put the time, but we<br />

finally decided to leave the police angels intervene. Look<br />

what is happening right now. A cherub casts bubble<br />

images. Of thanatodromes, large and small, formal and<br />

informal, explode,<br />

struck by lightning. The thrones of takeoff lie disarticulated.<br />

History textbooks of Thanatonautes disintegrate to dust.<br />

The Museum of Death of the Smithsonian Institute in<br />

Washington is on fire, the store of my mother.<br />

Advertisements ectoplasmic dissolve under our eyes. A<br />

typhoon passes over the lower world, sweeping the<br />

passing everything from near and far, concerns the<br />

Thanatonautes, erasing forever from the minds of humans.<br />

All the work of our previous life returns to nothingness.<br />

- You wanted to play to the gods, ton the Archangel Gabriel.<br />

But men need to understand the truth themselves. Sacred<br />

knowledge can not be popularized. I wonder suddenly:<br />

- That’s why you have killed Raoul? - “Yes. He was the first<br />

and most dangerous of you. The Wrath earns up to a lovely<br />

seraph.


- A little more and your habit of putting the light where<br />

should reign the dark, there were street lights and<br />

prostitutes on their way to reincarnation. Shyly, I try to<br />

defend ourselves:<br />

- We are but mere humans and as all humans we make<br />

mistakes. - No, scolds the archangel Michael. You are<br />

Great Insiders. Instead of enjoying the silence, you spread<br />

the meaning of life and thus negated the engine of<br />

existence : Curiosity, the desire to learn, to move the way of<br />

knowledge. - But that’s just what wanted Raoul! - And that’s<br />

what earned him specifically to be initiated. Corn our<br />

knowledge does not suffer from being overused. Even the<br />

cult members the most outlandish, even the enlightened<br />

one day have always understood that they had to keep<br />

quiet and speak only in metaphors. But you raw smarter<br />

than others. You wanted to popularize “Dead”, you failed …<br />

Archangels repeat the litany of our sins.<br />

- You have designed and sold maps Paradise, today<br />

announced an air sorry the archangel Raphael. - You have<br />

published … manuals tourism. - You have developed<br />

machines to die. - You have repeated our words. - You<br />

have prompted thousands of wandering souls in<br />

encouraging suicide. - You look at us without fear. - We<br />

miss you respect. - You consider us as your servants and<br />

not as masters. The dead awaiting trial constantly impatient<br />

to be interested in the scene. Since all the time they are<br />

here, they have never seen the archangels lose their


imperturbability to get excited and cons of poor ectoplasm.<br />

- Traitors, you’re only traitors! A question bothering me<br />

since the beginning of the reprimand. I interrupt to ask.<br />

- Okay, but in this case, why did you left to do? Some<br />

angels show a sardonic expression. Maybe are these the<br />

“police heavenly” that are intervened against us.<br />

Apparently, those wanted put us out of harm’s way from the<br />

start. These are the others, those who get upset now, we<br />

have allowed to continue.<br />

The archangel Gabriel did not lead off.<br />

- We wanted to know how far you dare go. - We too feel<br />

sometimes curiosity against humans, says the archangel<br />

Michael, ashamed. They sometimes mind if crooked … For<br />

the father of Raoul there had had secret meetings. With his<br />

thesis Death this unknown, it had gone too far. Its<br />

publication would up too much sail. - Then, when his son<br />

took over, we are asked to make these Thanatonautes who<br />

considered the discovery of death as a sport. There were<br />

the curious like me, so supporters of the yes. In front, it<br />

There were supporters of the no and the “police heavenly”<br />

that stopped sounding the alarm. However, top, The<br />

majority of the seventy-two angels white main and seventytwo<br />

double blacks felt that<br />

had to wait and see. They advised the angels from below,


our police, not to panic. The Thanatonautes, pensions, we<br />

self-destruct itself. Of ordinary human would be unable to<br />

concentrate enough to complete an experience as crucial.<br />

But you were not the ordinary human. You have reached us<br />

and deserve and to become Great Initiates. Only after you<br />

have caused too much damage. Ha! These travel agencies<br />

ectoplasmic … Even with the best will in the angels could<br />

no longer tolerate such incursions into their secret world.<br />

No more than men saying, “I know everything.” You should<br />

have ponder the biblical allegory of Adam and the apple of<br />

knowledge. You should never attain knowledge absolute,<br />

only move towards it …<br />

- In you, in any case, the joke is finished, slice the archangel<br />

Raphael. The Thanatonautes died along with you. - But it’s<br />

too late, lamented Rose. Too many people read our books.<br />

The concern of karma entered the customs of all. The<br />

archangel Gabriel interrupts him with a disdainful gesture.<br />

- You commit again the sin of doubt our power, we who<br />

have already sent a Flood drowning all the sins of humanity.<br />

After all these images we’ve shown, you feel still unable to<br />

locate forgotten in our memories? In our memories? - No<br />

one will remember your action, said St. Pierre. You will not<br />

be another of these waves legends that no one really<br />

believes, as Loch Ness Monster, the Yeti of the Himalayas<br />

or the triangle of Bermuda. Myths evoke probably<br />

Thanatonautes but you hear me: no one imagine the<br />

Thanatonautes really existed. I make you solemn oath. It will


only be a second thought in the minds of people particularly<br />

susceptible. - And Stefania? I ask. - Stefania forget too. But<br />

unlike you, she will be saved because it tried to continue<br />

the work of Satan at a time when, with all these vapid, these<br />

friendly and the<br />

superstitious, he really need a helping hand. Satan nods,<br />

pleased. Mothers s’angoissent:<br />

- And Freddy Junior? - And Burnet? - They forget too.<br />

Fears nothing for them. They will not be punished for the<br />

sins of their parents. 299 - Mesopotamian mythology<br />

“Six days and seven nights spent Storms of the flood was<br />

still blowing Storms in the south covering the country. On<br />

the seventh day Storms of the flood That such an army<br />

Were all killed on their way Diminished in intensity. The sea<br />

calmed The wind subsided The roar of the flood stopped. I<br />

looked at the sky, silence reigned. I saw the men again<br />

become clay Waters stalls formed a roof. I opened a small<br />

window. The light fell on my face I knelt down and began to<br />

cry. That was all over. “<br />

Epic of Umm Napishtim, also known as … Noah in the<br />

Bible.<br />

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis<br />

Razorbak.<br />

300 - Jewish mythology


According to Kabbalah, the fetus is a great sage. Already<br />

in the womb of his mother, he knows all the secrets of the<br />

world.<br />

But just before he was born, an angel descends to do shut<br />

up. It applies a finger on his lips and said “shhh” … The<br />

fetus then forgets everything. Only his unconscious who<br />

vaguely remembers the “big secret”. It is Because of this<br />

contact angelic that we have a recess under the nose: “The<br />

gutter lip. “<br />

Freddy Meyer, Notes of work.<br />

301 - THE SOLUTION<br />

We are still before the mountain of light.<br />

No angel would dream of taking our defense, Rose,<br />

Amandine, Villain and me. All emit more than stable light<br />

indicating the final resolution and no Calls, The Archangel<br />

Gabriel took the floor again.<br />

- Later yet, in a very long time, thousands years perhaps,<br />

other Great Initiates arise here, real insiders because we<br />

will never accept more tourists. We tell them your story and<br />

slowly, very slowly, they will discover your exploits. Small<br />

consolation! We write I do not know when to us Another


Odyssey, a Bible, a novel, who knows what! Raoul had<br />

reason to believe that all these socalled “Mythologies”<br />

hiding the truth.<br />

- What will you do with us? concerned Amandine. - You will<br />

follow the common path. Like all other dead do not have<br />

600 points, you will be reincarnated and, of course, your<br />

reincarnation will remember nothing of your previous life. In<br />

my head, I hammered “I was Thanatonautes I been<br />

Thanatonautes I was Thanatonautes. “If j’imprègne my soul<br />

of this insurance that the Thanatonautes really existed and<br />

that I was a pioneer, perhaps it will remember still a bit in<br />

the next incarnation.<br />

- Go ahead, order the archangel Gabriel. You want what<br />

hides the mountain light of Judgement, indeed He smiled.<br />

502<br />

- A few steps more and you will know. - You agree finally to<br />

show us the bottom of the Paradise? surprised Rose,<br />

delighted. - Of course, since you will not return to Earth<br />

shout to the winds that you have seen. My wife ahead like a<br />

dream. Even in last moment, the astronomer is pleased to<br />

meet his curiosity. It runs nearly to discover what is on the<br />

other side of the black hole.


- To you, Michael. - I do not go to trial? - No trial for the<br />

Great Initiates. I have explained to Raoul. But trust us. You<br />

are still young. You do know that one hundred and fifty to<br />

three human forms. We have planned for you a friendly<br />

small reincarnation. I approach. Rose consider myself<br />

anxiously.<br />

- You and I together against idiots, issues I telepathically.<br />

She rushes and ectoplasm long kiss my mouth. My lips feel<br />

nothing but my soul is moved.<br />

- Together, repeats it. In my turn, I cross the mountains with<br />

light and that I see behind is truly wondrous. This is beyond<br />

any what we had seen in all other areas of Paradis.<br />

Suddenly, I understand. As we were far from account. No<br />

one could have expected it, of course. Fabulous, it’s just<br />

fabulous.<br />

I see the bottom of the bottom of the black hole and I’m just<br />

flabbergasted. It is not at all what I thought. I Trembling with<br />

emotion. Now I know.<br />

On the other side of death, there a…


MANUAL OF HISTORY


DATES TO REMEMBER<br />

1492: Started in the Americas. 1969: First steps on the<br />

moon.<br />

History textbook, second year elementary course.<br />

Thanks to:<br />

David Bauchard, John Cave, Dr. O’Brian, Jerome<br />

Marchand, Frédéric Lenorman, Olivier Ranson, Patrice<br />

Serres, Richard Ducousset William Aretos, Catherine<br />

<strong>Werber</strong>, Dr. Loic Etienne.

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