As Flies to Whatless Boys by Robert Antoni

Author:Robert Antoni [Antoni, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction, ebook, book
ISBN: 9781617751561
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2013-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

I remain, your honest companion and associate,

C.F. STOLLMEYER

___________________

30/12/45

SIRS—& those of you who would feign be called FRIENDS—

My Satellite has been stolen from me! The culprits? The undeniable roguish curs? None other than YOURSELVES. If still you count (as I do not!) those—former—members of our Society who have gone so skippingly off to Chaguabarriga, our money ringing in their pockets to see them along their merry way, as HONEST men and TRUE associates of this, our heretofore grand and most auspicious TES. For I deny them! And henceforth do proclaim to sever all ties with that ATROPHIED ORGAN of our great and one-time noble enterprise. My friends, if your left hand is found to taketh from your right, what shall you do but cut it off? This for my own part I have done already forever. I shall not rescind, never (unless my Satellite is returned to me immediately).

This is the disheartening news that reaches me from my companion, Mr. Stollmeyer—the theft of my Satellite!—here in this foreign city of Caracas where, as I have dutifully reported to you already, I have come not for my own purposes, but on urgent business of the TES to secure from the Venezuelan Government our Main Grant. In this endeavour already I have made great progress. Not the least of which is verification of my earlier suspicions that in this country may be achieved a thousand times what is possible in that small, most unneighbourly, and already overpopulated island of Trinidad. Yea, a thousand-thousand times! Friends, my question for you is this: Will you join me? Or shall I be forced to reap my reward in achieving all of these glorious things for humanity alone? Shall you turn your backs, as I have done, on those dishonest and self-serving thieves who have gone off so slouchingly to Chaguabarriga—where they remain still, utterly ashamed and in hiding—and constitute with me a NEW society of BETTER men in a more hopeful and promising land?

Our first mistake was to place any confidence in the likes of a Mr. Carr and a Capt Taylor. Who chose them? Where did they come from? For clearly these two are incompetent and small-minded, most supreme of selfishness (witness for yourselves the death of one of them already!). Men lacking in both the character and vision necessary to act in a responsible manner, since how else could they throw away monies—not belonging to them, not in the least, but placed in their hands in good faith and trust!—on such a stench-hole as Chaguabarriga? The greatest part of which is ought other than miserable and uninhabitable morass? [*Note: We find these questions posed by Mr. Etzler incomprehensible, since we had never met nor heard of Mr. Carr or the unfortunate Capt Taylor until he introduced them to us. TP, ed.]

My friends, the damage has been done. Money tossed away like leaves in the wind! Never to be found again for a million years!

Here, in this most Democratic country of Venezuela, good and fertile

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