The Simple Art of Killing a Woman by Patrícia Melo

Author:Patrícia Melo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Restless Books

M

MARCOS HAD A PLAN.

“If you want to understand the overall concept,” he said, “you have to believe in Cruzeiro do Sul as a mystical preserve, a privileged space where the final stage of evolution will take place, the last act of a spiritual revolution, which began way back with the Egyptians and that lot, which travelled via the Holy Land, following the path of our rotation around the sun, from East to West, and which, as we know, ends here, right at our feet.”

For Marcos, it was no accident that the city was full of Masonic lodges, spiritual centers, and candomblé assemblies.

“You don’t find anyone round here pulling down Umbanda meeting houses or fighting over faith issues the way they do in other Brazilian towns,” he said. “Actually, our awareness of our spiritual significance is what underpins the brotherly ecumenism here in Cruzeiro.”

Nor was it “mere coincidence” that precisely here on our planet a powerful shamanic tradition based around the ingestion of ayahuasca, “which lets us speak directly to God and to our dead,” was still alive and kicking.

“One of the most important tasks of the new world order will be dealing with the trauma of the animals now suffering from human cruelty,” Marcos went on. “You can’t imagine how bummed the whole animal world is with us right now. And I don’t just mean the bulls and cows and chickens, which live and die in the cruelest ways. I mean, the bees are livid, the whales—shit, you can’t get your head around how much the whales can’t stand us, they’ve had to eat so many tons of plastic bags; the leopards are depressed, the monkeys and frogs the same; there’s hardly a species out there that doesn’t hate us deeply for having pursued an animal massacre unequaled in the history of the world. If you’re thinking about ends being nigh, we’re more effective than wildfires, floods, hurricanes, or earthquakes. There is nothing to match human potential when it comes to finishing off the animal world.”

Marcos’s plan was to create a rehabilitation center for traumatized animals, using cipó vine tea as the basis for treatment. He had already done experiments on his own dog, Tadeu, who had been badly beaten by his previous owner, which Marcos believed had led to the dog’s habit of eating shit.

“See how smart animals are,” he said. “Tadeu started eating horse, ox, and goat droppings so he would get sick, because he knew he wouldn’t be beaten if he was sick.”

I asked if he’d ever met his dog’s last owner.

“You should be asking a different question,” he said. “How do I know my dog used to eat feces? You might think I’m just another loony ayahuasca disciple, but even so I’ll tell you: I converse with my dog. And I don’t mean I’m like one of those old bachelors who think they’re talking to their cats and it’s genuine interspecies dialogue. My chats with Tadeu are different. The ’huasca puts us in a mental space where we share a universal language.

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