RHIZOME RAW: Translation of a excerpt from "O Pica-ossos"

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Hi!
I send to you the translation of a excerpt from my last book, "O Pica-o=
ssos", that means "The Prick-bones", the name of a bird of prey that lives =
in Portugal, and it's the name of the protagonist of this fiction book, bec=
ause he survives to catching the garbage from the dead cities, in a devaste=
d world, dominate by the religion and the sectaries of the Haronits, the pr=
incipal church of the desert, have a message that announce the revival glor=
y of the pastimes and her cult, is found in a golden-edge, in the myth of t=
he Lost City.

Chapter 2

1

From one side to the other, by a row of the souk, he followed out, thr=
ough the interminable file of caravans, stalls hiding dealers, strange shel=
ters opened in front of vehicles of all kind, land conveyances along the c=
ross of the market and he walked way, from end to end, in to the arms of th=
e cross, where was the brothels, the armourers, the mechanicians, the black=
smiths and the remaining people, some of them who lefted off the caravans, =
in order to work for the employers of the few houses, existing to served th=
e nomad population that come and go, losted in the flutter of the souk, unt=
il leave for a forgotten destination, upon the desert in a unending diaspor=
a, scattered people who only knows the habits of pack animals, living in ho=
rdes, keeping the shape of a ephemeron insects, grasshoppers in a cloud lan=
d, a mirage in the desert, ilusion of men, women, childrens, meeting togeth=
er in a erratic groups, in a process of aggregation and desintegration, thi=
s clusters of beings was friends or enemys, according to the circunstances =
of survival, and as soon they find a new ued, even a mud well, it was every=
man for your self, then happaned the fightings to dead, to quench the thir=
sty, but also happaned a group to settle for a while, near that spot, drink=
ing to the last stream of water, and finally when it end's, the place was d=
evasted by the fury of the cluster, desperated and hungry beings, left way =
to another place in the wilderness, and noting lefted over of this migratio=
ns, nothing but a crowd, a mob in herds, head of cattle, going astray, tram=
pers by hazard, coming by chance to the markets, mixing up into the rabble,=
bewildered with no identity, between the dealers, wholesale traders, shopl=
ifters, shopkeepers in the night, in their stalls, crying, emphasizing, sta=
ging under the lights of the oil-lamps, shadows, speckles, shredding traces=
, dashing off a human figure, when he passed around, trought the row of the=
souk, carried away by the crowd, mistaked with the shadows, pushed betwee=
n blurred faces, unknouns, unfriendly, in a glimpse, foresaw the holstered =
belts, swerved from them as possible, to avoid misunderstandings, to meddle=
in discussions or supply a motive to be robbed, take warning to someone co=
ming closer, with naughty tricks, but he didn't deceives, as though have ba=
ndy-legged, it was no fool and lame, he already observed that was followed,=
since he has showed the stones to the Prick-bones, and just now had the im=
pression that someone spying him, in the middle of the crowd or it was take=
n by the imagination, pricked him by the treasure in her pocket, holding th=
is pledge in her hands, payment on account from the Haronits, because they =
trusted him to do the job, and he wasn't dull, in that coarse cloths, he wa=
sn't so stupid like he seems, and receiving the protection of her wardens, =
hasn't nothing to fear, and blustering he thought, the first to bring the n=
ose into her pocket, will have a surprise, and cautlously he took's with th=
e stones, a anaia, a green stone that was a safe conduct, the sign proved t=
hat he worked for the Haronits and showing this sign, no harm could be done=
to him, under the keeping of the anaia, and if someone not respected this =
sign of power, will expect them a cruel end, worse than dead a thousand tim=
es, everybody knew that, nevertheless, some hordes like the Adibes or the H=
altics, no recognized at all the Haronits codes, living outlaw in packs of =
bloodhounds, and thinking better, he wasn't free from a raid, perpetred for=
cabilas that has no mercy, and they usual practice was conform with one ru=
le, the principle to which act of them respected, that only the strongs sur=
vived, and the strongers was the Haronits, and he venerated their power, be=
cause in the present circunstances, the power of them was the force of hers=
elf, for that reason he will worshipping them, until he'll have something t=
o profit by the agreement he did with the Haronits and for a while, the wor=
d of them was the word of herself, notwithstanding that he told to the Pric=
k-bones about that sectaries, but all the words he said, was the orders tha=
t had received from them, and all he'll do and say, will be a arrangement t=
hey will do in her back and will answer to them, because he was a yes-man, =
a foot-man who licked their boots, until they paying him, other wise he did=
n't believe in the rubbish that the people by from their mouths, living fro=
m ilusions in a hand to mouth existence, but he didn't deceive with promess=
es in a dreamland, where the dream becoming real and the reality, was the a=
bsolute dreaminess, but he recognized that was a tremendous idea and the Ha=
ronits, the demons of a genius that owing to the faith in a paradise, they =
has the world in their hands, preaching the revival of the old good-times, =
the past-glory that will arrive with the coming of Harone, tutelary genius =
of the Lost City, and the distance to the town of all dreams, has the same =
distance between the desertland and the neverland, and the space between re=
ality and dreminess, stretching to the infinite and that transcendent idea,=
spreading out the desert, for all the earth, and the desert people has sub=
mitted to Harones decree, as like a irrevocable destiny, a fate that couldn=
't changed, since de begining of the times, gone beyond recall and all acce=
pting that, save the hordes of savages who living like the killing beasts a=
nd the inferior sects, all the people living below the Haronits influence t=
hat has expanded to north and south, east and west, and didn't existing any=
kind of busyness that didn't has their mark, the sign of their spiritual p=
ower that it was in the mind of men, like a omnipresence, and the people sa=
ying that they had the gift of the ubiquity, appearing like upon the air, c=
oming into sight of the travellers, like a looming in the desert sands, to =
help some of the nomad caravans, but why this good samaritans only helped a=
few that they choosed, the majoroty of this erratic groups, men, women, ch=
ildren in migration, they called in vain, but why those children cannot be =
helped, why those men and women was suffering the exclusion by the Haronits=
, like a punishment for some crime they had to pay, and the answer was terr=
ible and simple as that, because they didn't have no interest to help them,=
a charity act that was uselless and the majority of this people was good f=
or nothing, and from the Haronits point of view, help will be to take some =
gains, sharing pofits from any obscure designe, allways with a new plan, in=
proportion of their ambition and from the greeds view, the sky was the lim=
it, in the large horizon of a wideland, it seems didn't has no limits to th=
eir greed, a potencial of their spirituallty, a level of their religion tha=
t transcended all horizons, and if saying one thing, they did another thing=
, the hypocrits, and he admired them, because in their place, he'll do the =
same, but didn't believed in a single word that they told, likness to the f=
aith of them, the message that they announced, only deserved the credit tha=
t will can by, men, women, children, sold in the name of Harone, for the pr=
ice of a myth, the faith that has converted into the crutch of the hopeless=
, following with despair a looming, taken into the level of a eternal truth=
, was like a stick beating in the people back, a sheep-hook or a crook of p=
riests that was the idea of salvation in a revival glory.

in: "O Pica-ossos", pp.37, 38
By: Petrusmatox

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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I send to you the trans=
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a excerpt from my last book, "O Pica-ossos", that means "The
Prick-bones",&nbsp;the name of a bird of prey that lives in Portugal, and i=
t's
the name of&nbsp;the protagonist of this fiction book, because&nbsp;he surv=
ives
to catching the garbage&nbsp;from the dead cities, in a devasted world, dom=
inate
by the religion and the</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>&nbsp;sectaries o=
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the&nbsp;Haronits, the principal church of the desert,&nbsp;have a
message&nbsp;that announce the revival&nbsp;glory of the pastimes and her=

cult,&nbsp;is found in&nbsp;a golden-edge, in the myth of&nbsp;the Lost
City.</FONT></DIV>
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From&nbsp;one side to the other, by&nbsp;a row of the souk, he&nbsp;followe=
d
out, through&nbsp;the interminable file of caravans, stalls hiding
dealers,&nbsp;strange&nbsp;shelters </FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT face=Ar=
ial
size=2>opened&nbsp;in front of&nbsp; vehicles of all kind, land
conveyances&nbsp;along the cross of the market and he walked way, from&nbsp=
;end
to end,&nbsp;in to the arms of the cross, where was the brothels, the armou=
rers,
the mechanicians, the blacksmiths and&nbsp;the remaining people, some&nbsp;=
of
them&nbsp;who lefted off the caravans,&nbsp;in order to work for the employ=
ers
of the few houses, existing to served the nomad population&nbsp;that come a=
nd
go,&nbsp;losted in the flutter of the souk,&nbsp;until&nbsp;leave for&nbsp;=
a
forgotten destination,&nbsp;upon the desert in a unending
diaspora,&nbsp;scattered people who&nbsp;only knows the habits of&nbsp;pack=

animals, living in hordes, keeping the shape of&nbsp;a ephemeron
insects,&nbsp;grasshoppers in a cloud land, a mirage in the desert,&nbsp;il=
usion
of men, women, childrens,&nbsp;meeting together in a erratic groups, in a=

process of aggregation&nbsp;and desintegration, this clusters of beings was=

friends or enemys, according to the circunstances of survival,&nbsp;and as =
soon
they find a new ued, even a mud well, it was every man for your self, then=

happaned the fightings to dead,&nbsp;to quench&nbsp;the thirsty, but also=

happaned a group to settle for a while,&nbsp;near that spot, drinking to th=
e
last stream of water, and finally when it end's, the place was devasted by =
the
fury of&nbsp;the cluster, desperated and hungry beings,&nbsp;left way to an=
other
place in the wilderness,&nbsp;and noting lefted over of this migrations, no=
thing
but a&nbsp;crowd, a mob in herds, head of cattle, going astray, trampers by=

hazard, coming by chance&nbsp;to the markets, mixing up into the&nbsp;rabbl=
e,
bewildered with no identity, between the dealers, wholesale traders,
shoplifters, shopkeepers in the night, in their stalls, crying, emphasizing=
,
staging&nbsp;under the lights of the oil-lamps,
shadows,&nbsp;speckles,&nbsp;shredding traces,&nbsp;dashing off a human fig=
ure,
when he passed&nbsp;around,&nbsp;trought the row of the souk,&nbsp; carried=
away
by the crowd,&nbsp;mistaked with the shadows, pushed&nbsp;between&nbsp;blur=
red
faces, unknouns, unfriendly, in a glimpse, foresaw the holstered belts, swe=
rved
from them as possible, to avoid&nbsp;misunderstandings, to meddle
in&nbsp;discussions or&nbsp;supply a motive to be robbed, take warning to=

someone&nbsp;coming closer, with&nbsp;naughty tricks,&nbsp;but he didn't
deceives, as though&nbsp;have&nbsp;bandy-legged, it was&nbsp;no fool and la=
me,
he already observed&nbsp;that&nbsp;was followed,&nbsp;since&nbsp;he has sho=
wed
the stones to the Prick-bones, and just now had the impression that someone=

spying him, in the middle of the crowd or it&nbsp;was&nbsp;taken by the
imagination, pricked him by the treasure&nbsp;in her pocket, holding this p=
ledge
in her hands,&nbsp;payment on account from the Haronits, because they trust=
ed
him to do the job, and he wasn't&nbsp;dull, in that coarse cloths, he
wasn't&nbsp;so stupid like he seems, and receiving the protection of her
wardens, hasn't&nbsp;nothing to fear, and blustering he thought, the&nbsp;f=
irst
to bring the nose into her pocket, will have a surprise, and&nbsp;cautlousl=
y he
took's with the stones, a anaia, a green stone&nbsp;that was a safe
conduct,&nbsp;the sign&nbsp;proved that he&nbsp;worked for the&nbsp;Haronit=
s and
showing this sign,&nbsp;no harm could be done to him,&nbsp;under the keepin=
g of
the anaia, and if someone not respected this&nbsp;sign of power,&nbsp;will=

expect them a cruel&nbsp;end,&nbsp;worse than dead a thousand times, everyb=
ody
knew that, nevertheless, some&nbsp;hordes like&nbsp;the Adibes or&nbsp;the=

Haltics, no&nbsp;recognized at all&nbsp;the Haronits&nbsp;codes,&nbsp;livin=
g
outlaw in packs of bloodhounds, and thinking better, he wasn't
free&nbsp;from&nbsp;a raid, perpetred for&nbsp;cabilas that has no mercy,=

and&nbsp;they usual practice was conform with one rule,&nbsp;the principle =
to
which act of them respected, that only the strongs survived, and&nbsp;the=

strongers was the&nbsp;Haronits,&nbsp;and he venerated&nbsp;their power,
because&nbsp;in the present circunstances,&nbsp;the power of them was&nbsp;=
the
force of herself, for that reason he will&nbsp;worshipping them, until he'l=
l
have something to profit by the agreement he did with the Haronits and
for&nbsp;a while, the word of them was&nbsp;the word of herself, notwithsta=
nding
that he&nbsp;told to the Prick-bones about that sectaries, but&nbsp;all the=

words he said, was the orders that had received from them, and all he'll do=
and
say, will be a arrangement they will do in her back and will answer to them=
,
because he was a yes-man, a foot-man who licked their boots, until
they&nbsp;paying him,&nbsp;other wise he didn't believe in&nbsp;the&nbsp;ru=
bbish
that the people by from their mouths,&nbsp;living from ilusions in a hand t=
o
mouth existence, but he&nbsp;didn't deceive&nbsp;with promesses in a dreaml=
and,
where the&nbsp;dream becoming real and the reality, was the absolute dreami=
ness,
but he recognized that was a&nbsp;tremendous idea and the Haronits,&nbsp;th=
e
demons of a genius that owing to&nbsp;the faith&nbsp;in a paradise, they
has&nbsp;the world in&nbsp;their hands, preaching the&nbsp;revival of the o=
ld
good-times, the past-glory that will arrive with&nbsp;the coming of
Harone,&nbsp;tutelary genius of the Lost City, and the distance to the town=
of
all dreams, has the same distance between the desertland and the neverland,=
and
the space between reality and dreminess, stretching to the infinite and tha=
t
transcendent idea, spreading out the desert, for all the earth, and the des=
ert
people has submitted to Harones decree, as like a irrevocable destiny, a fa=
te
that couldn't changed, since de begining of the times, gone beyond recall a=
nd
all accepting&nbsp;that,&nbsp;save the hordes of savages who living
like&nbsp;the killing beasts and the inferior sects, all&nbsp;the people
living&nbsp;below&nbsp;the Haronits&nbsp;influence that&nbsp;has expanded t=
o
north and south,&nbsp;east and west,&nbsp;and didn't existing any kind of=

busyness that didn't has their mark, the sign of their&nbsp;spiritual power=
that
it was in the mind of&nbsp;men, like a omnipresence, and the people saying =
that
they had the gift of the ubiquity, appearing like upon the air,&nbsp;coming=
into
sight of the travellers, like a looming in the&nbsp;desert sands, to
help&nbsp;some of the nomad caravans, but why this good samaritans only hel=
ped a
few that they choosed, the majoroty of this erratic groups, men, women, chi=
ldren
in migration,&nbsp;they called&nbsp;in vain, but why those children cannot =
be
helped, why those&nbsp;men and women&nbsp;was suffering the exclusion by th=
e
Haronits, like a&nbsp;punishment&nbsp;for&nbsp;some crime they&nbsp;had to =
pay,
and the answer was&nbsp;terrible and simple as that, because they didn't
have&nbsp;no interest&nbsp;to help them,&nbsp;a charity act that was uselle=
ss
and the majority of this people was good for nothing,&nbsp;and from the Har=
onits
point of view, help&nbsp;will be to take some&nbsp;gains,
sharing&nbsp;pofits&nbsp;from any obscure designe, allways with a new plan,=
in
proportion of their ambition and&nbsp;from the greeds view, the sky was the=

limit, in&nbsp;the large&nbsp;horizon of a wideland,&nbsp;it seems didn't h=
as no
limits to their&nbsp;greed,&nbsp;a potencial of their spirituallty, a&nbsp;=
level
of their religion that transcended all horizons, and if saying one thing, t=
hey
did another thing, the hypocrits, and he admired them,&nbsp;because in thei=
r
place, he'll do the same, but didn't believed in a single word that they to=
ld,
likness&nbsp;to the faith&nbsp;of them,&nbsp;the message that they
announced,&nbsp;only&nbsp;deserved the credit&nbsp;that will can by, men, w=
omen,
children,&nbsp;sold&nbsp;in the name of&nbsp;Harone, for the price of a
myth,&nbsp;the faith that has converted into the crutch of the&nbsp;hopeles=
s,
following with despair a looming, taken&nbsp;into the level of a eternal
truth,&nbsp;was like a stick beating in the people back,&nbsp;a sheep-hook =
or a
crook of&nbsp;priests that was the idea of salvation in a revival
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Subject: RHIZOME RAW: Translation of a excerpt from "O Pica-ossos"


Hi!
I send to you the translation of a excerpt from my last book, "O Pica-o=
ssos", that means "The Prick-bones", the name of a bird of prey that lives =
in Portugal, and it's the name of the protagonist of this fiction book, bec=
ause he survives to catching the garbage from the dead cities, in a devaste=
d world, dominate by the religion and the sectaries of the Haronits, the pr=
incipal church of the desert, have a message that announce the revival glor=
y of the pastimes and her cult, is found in a golden-edge, in the myth of t=
he Lost City.

Chapter 2

1

From one side to the other, by a row of the souk, he followed out, thr=
ough the interminable file of caravans, stalls hiding dealers, strange shel=
ters opened in front of vehicles of all kind, land conveyances along the c=
ross of the market and he walked way, from end to end, in to the arms of th=
e cross, where was the brothels, the armourers, the mechanicians, the black=
smiths and the remaining people, some of them who lefted off the caravans, =
in order to work for the employers of the few houses, existing to served th=
e nomad population that come and go, losted in the flutter of the souk, unt=
il leave for a forgotten destination, upon the desert in a unending diaspor=
a, scattered people who only knows the habits of pack animals, living in ho=
rdes, keeping the shape of a ephemeron insects, grasshoppers in a cloud lan=
d, a mirage in the desert, ilusion of men, women, childrens, meeting togeth=
er in a erratic groups, in a process of aggregation and desintegration, thi=
s clusters of beings was friends or enemys, according to the circunstances =
of survival, and as soon they find a new ued, even a mud well, it was every=
man for your self, then happaned the fightings to dead, to quench the thir=
sty, but also happaned a group to settle for a while, near that spot, drink=
ing to the last stream of water, and finally when it end's, the place was d=
evasted by the fury of the cluster, desperated and hungry beings, left way =
to another place in the wilderness, and noting lefted over of this migratio=
ns, nothing but a crowd, a mob in herds, head of cattle, going astray, tram=
pers by hazard, coming by chance to the markets, mixing up into the rabble,=
bewildered with no identity, between the dealers, wholesale traders, shopl=
ifters, shopkeepers in the night, in their stalls, crying, emphasizing, sta=
ging under the lights of the oil-lamps, shadows, speckles, shredding traces=
, dashing off a human figure, when he passed around, trought the row of the=
souk, carried away by the crowd, mistaked with the shadows, pushed betwee=
n blurred faces, unknouns, unfriendly, in a glimpse, foresaw the holstered =
belts, swerved from them as possible, to avoid misunderstandings, to meddle=
in discussions or supply a motive to be robbed, take warning to someone co=
ming closer, with naughty tricks, but he didn't deceives, as though have ba=
ndy-legged, it was no fool and lame, he already observed that was followed,=
since he has showed the stones to the Prick-bones, and just now had the im=
pression that someone spying him, in the middle of the crowd or it was take=
n by the imagination, pricked him by the treasure in her pocket, holding th=
is pledge in her hands, payment on account from the Haronits, because they =
trusted him to do the job, and he wasn't dull, in that coarse cloths, he wa=
sn't so stupid like he seems, and receiving the protection of her wardens, =
hasn't nothing to fear, and blustering he thought, the first to bring the n=
ose into her pocket, will have a surprise, and cautlously he took's with th=
e stones, a anaia, a green stone that was a safe conduct, the sign proved t=
hat he worked for the Haronits and showing this sign, no harm could be done=
to him, under the keeping of the anaia, and if someone not respected this =
sign of power, will expect them a cruel end, worse than dead a thousand tim=
es, everybody knew that, nevertheless, some hordes like the Adibes or the H=
altics, no recognized at all the Haronits codes, living outlaw in packs of =
bloodhounds, and thinking better, he wasn't free from a raid, perpetred for=
cabilas that has no mercy, and they usual practice was conform with one ru=
le, the principle to which act of them respected, that only the strongs sur=
vived, and the strongers was the Haronits, and he venerated their power, be=
cause in the present circunstances, the power of them was the force of hers=
elf, for that reason he will worshipping them, until he'll have something t=
o profit by the agreement he did with the Haronits and for a while, the wor=
d of them was the word of herself, notwithstanding that he told to the Pric=
k-bones about that sectaries, but all the words he said, was the orders tha=
t had received from them, and all he'll do and say, will be a arrangement t=
hey will do in her back and will answer to them, because he was a yes-man, =
a foot-man who licked their boots, until they paying him, other wise he did=
n't believe in the rubbish that the people by from their mouths, living fro=
m ilusions in a hand to mouth existence, but he didn't deceive with promess=
es in a dreamland, where the dream becoming real and the reality, was the a=
bsolute dreaminess, but he recognized that was a tremendous idea and the Ha=
ronits, the demons of a genius that owing to the faith in a paradise, they =
has the world in their hands, preaching the revival of the old good-times, =
the past-glory that will arrive with the coming of Harone, tutelary genius =
of the Lost City, and the distance to the town of all dreams, has the same =
distance between the desertland and the neverland, and the space between re=
ality and dreminess, stretching to the infinite and that transcendent idea,=
spreading out the desert, for all the earth, and the desert people has sub=
mitted to Harones decree, as like a irrevocable destiny, a fate that couldn=
't changed, since de begining of the times, gone beyond recall and all acce=
pting that, save the hordes of savages who living like the killing beasts a=
nd the inferior sects, all the people living below the Haronits influence t=
hat has expanded to north and south, east and west, and didn't existing any=
kind of busyness that didn't has their mark, the sign of their spiritual p=
ower that it was in the mind of men, like a omnipresence, and the people sa=
ying that they had the gift of the ubiquity, appearing like upon the air, c=
oming into sight of the travellers, like a looming in the desert sands, to =
help some of the nomad caravans, but why this good samaritans only helped a=
few that they choosed, the majoroty of this erratic groups, men, women, ch=
ildren in migration, they called in vain, but why those children cannot be =
helped, why those men and women was suffering the exclusion by the Haronits=
, like a punishment for some crime they had to pay, and the answer was terr=
ible and simple as that, because they didn't have no interest to help them,=
a charity act that was uselless and the majority of this people was good f=
or nothing, and from the Haronits point of view, help will be to take some =
gains, sharing pofits from any obscure designe, allways with a new plan, in=
proportion of their ambition and from the greeds view, the sky was the lim=
it, in the large horizon of a wideland, it seems didn't has no limits to th=
eir greed, a potencial of their spirituallty, a level of their religion tha=
t transcended all horizons, and if saying one thing, they did another thing=
, the hypocrits, and he admired them, because in their place, he'll do the =
same, but didn't believed in a single word that they told, likness to the f=
aith of them, the message that they announced, only deserved the credit tha=
t will can by, men, women, children, sold in the name of Harone, for the pr=
ice of a myth, the faith that has converted into the crutch of the hopeless=
, following with despair a looming, taken into the level of a eternal truth=
, was like a stick beating in the people back, a sheep-hook or a crook of p=
riests that was the idea of salvation in a revival glory.

in: "O Pica-ossos", pp.37, 38
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I send to you the trans=
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a excerpt from my last book, "O Pica-ossos", that means "The
Prick-bones",&nbsp;the name of a bird of prey that lives in Portugal, and i=
t's
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ives
to catching the garbage&nbsp;from the dead cities, in a devasted world, dom=
inate
by the religion and the</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>&nbsp;sectaries o=
f
the&nbsp;Haronits, the principal church of the desert,&nbsp;have a
message&nbsp;that announce the revival&nbsp;glory of the pastimes and her=

cult,&nbsp;is found in&nbsp;a golden-edge, in the myth of&nbsp;the Lost
City.</FONT></DIV>
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From&nbsp;one side to the other, by&nbsp;a row of the souk, he&nbsp;followe=
d
out, through&nbsp;the interminable file of caravans, stalls hiding
dealers,&nbsp;strange&nbsp;shelters </FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT face=Ar=
ial
size=2>opened&nbsp;in front of&nbsp; vehicles of all kind, land
conveyances&nbsp;along the cross of the market and he walked way, from&nbsp=
;end
to end,&nbsp;in to the arms of the cross, where was the brothels, the armou=
rers,
the mechanicians, the blacksmiths and&nbsp;the remaining people, some&nbsp;=
of
them&nbsp;who lefted off the caravans,&nbsp;in order to work for the employ=
ers
of the few houses, existing to served the nomad population&nbsp;that come a=
nd
go,&nbsp;losted in the flutter of the souk,&nbsp;until&nbsp;leave for&nbsp;=
a
forgotten destination,&nbsp;upon the desert in a unending
diaspora,&nbsp;scattered people who&nbsp;only knows the habits of&nbsp;pack=

animals, living in hordes, keeping the shape of&nbsp;a ephemeron
insects,&nbsp;grasshoppers in a cloud land, a mirage in the desert,&nbsp;il=
usion
of men, women, childrens,&nbsp;meeting together in a erratic groups, in a=

process of aggregation&nbsp;and desintegration, this clusters of beings was=

friends or enemys, according to the circunstances of survival,&nbsp;and as =
soon
they find a new ued, even a mud well, it was every man for your self, then=

happaned the fightings to dead,&nbsp;to quench&nbsp;the thirsty, but also=

happaned a group to settle for a while,&nbsp;near that spot, drinking to th=
e
last stream of water, and finally when it end's, the place was devasted by =
the
fury of&nbsp;the cluster, desperated and hungry beings,&nbsp;left way to an=
other
place in the wilderness,&nbsp;and noting lefted over of this migrations, no=
thing
but a&nbsp;crowd, a mob in herds, head of cattle, going astray, trampers by=

hazard, coming by chance&nbsp;to the markets, mixing up into the&nbsp;rabbl=
e,
bewildered with no identity, between the dealers, wholesale traders,
shoplifters, shopkeepers in the night, in their stalls, crying, emphasizing=
,
staging&nbsp;under the lights of the oil-lamps,
shadows,&nbsp;speckles,&nbsp;shredding traces,&nbsp;dashing off a human fig=
ure,
when he passed&nbsp;around,&nbsp;trought the row of the souk,&nbsp; carried=
away
by the crowd,&nbsp;mistaked with the shadows, pushed&nbsp;between&nbsp;blur=
red
faces, unknouns, unfriendly, in a glimpse, foresaw the holstered belts, swe=
rved
from them as possible, to avoid&nbsp;misunderstandings, to meddle
in&nbsp;discussions or&nbsp;supply a motive to be robbed, take warning to=

someone&nbsp;coming closer, with&nbsp;naughty tricks,&nbsp;but he didn't
deceives, as though&nbsp;have&nbsp;bandy-legged, it was&nbsp;no fool and la=
me,
he already observed&nbsp;that&nbsp;was followed,&nbsp;since&nbsp;he has sho=
wed
the stones to the Prick-bones, and just now had the impression that someone=

spying him, in the middle of the crowd or it&nbsp;was&nbsp;taken by the
imagination, pricked him by the treasure&nbsp;in her pocket, holding this p=
ledge
in her hands,&nbsp;payment on account from the Haronits, because they trust=
ed
him to do the job, and he wasn't&nbsp;dull, in that coarse cloths, he
wasn't&nbsp;so stupid like he seems, and receiving the protection of her
wardens, hasn't&nbsp;nothing to fear, and blustering he thought, the&nbsp;f=
irst
to bring the nose into her pocket, will have a surprise, and&nbsp;cautlousl=
y he
took's with the stones, a anaia, a green stone&nbsp;that was a safe
conduct,&nbsp;the sign&nbsp;proved that he&nbsp;worked for the&nbsp;Haronit=
s and
showing this sign,&nbsp;no harm could be done to him,&nbsp;under the keepin=
g of
the anaia, and if someone not respected this&nbsp;sign of power,&nbsp;will=

expect them a cruel&nbsp;end,&nbsp;worse than dead a thousand times, everyb=
ody
knew that, nevertheless, some&nbsp;hordes like&nbsp;the Adibes or&nbsp;the=

Haltics, no&nbsp;recognized at all&nbsp;the Haronits&nbsp;codes,&nbsp;livin=
g
outlaw in packs of bloodhounds, and thinking better, he wasn't
free&nbsp;from&nbsp;a raid, perpetred for&nbsp;cabilas that has no mercy,=

and&nbsp;they usual practice was conform with one rule,&nbsp;the principle =
to
which act of them respected, that only the strongs survived, and&nbsp;the=

strongers was the&nbsp;Haronits,&nbsp;and he venerated&nbsp;their power,
because&nbsp;in the present circunstances,&nbsp;the power of them was&nbsp;=
the
force of herself, for that reason he will&nbsp;worshipping them, until he'l=
l
have something to profit by the agreement he did with the Haronits and
for&nbsp;a while, the word of them was&nbsp;the word of herself, notwithsta=
nding
that he&nbsp;told to the Prick-bones about that sectaries, but&nbsp;all the=

words he said, was the orders that had received from them, and all he'll do=
and
say, will be a arrangement they will do in her back and will answer to them=
,
because he was a yes-man, a foot-man who licked their boots, until
they&nbsp;paying him,&nbsp;other wise he didn't believe in&nbsp;the&nbsp;ru=
bbish
that the people by from their mouths,&nbsp;living from ilusions in a hand t=
o
mouth existence, but he&nbsp;didn't deceive&nbsp;with promesses in a dreaml=
and,
where the&nbsp;dream becoming real and the reality, was the absolute dreami=
ness,
but he recognized that was a&nbsp;tremendous idea and the Haronits,&nbsp;th=
e
demons of a genius that owing to&nbsp;the faith&nbsp;in a paradise, they
has&nbsp;the world in&nbsp;their hands, preaching the&nbsp;revival of the o=
ld
good-times, the past-glory that will arrive with&nbsp;the coming of
Harone,&nbsp;tutelary genius of the Lost City, and the distance to the town=
of
all dreams, has the same distance between the desertland and the neverland,=
and
the space between reality and dreminess, stretching to the infinite and tha=
t
transcendent idea, spreading out the desert, for all the earth, and the des=
ert
people has submitted to Harones decree, as like a irrevocable destiny, a fa=
te
that couldn't changed, since de begining of the times, gone beyond recall a=
nd
all accepting&nbsp;that,&nbsp;save the hordes of savages who living
like&nbsp;the killing beasts and the inferior sects, all&nbsp;the people
living&nbsp;below&nbsp;the Haronits&nbsp;influence that&nbsp;has expanded t=
o
north and south,&nbsp;east and west,&nbsp;and didn't existing any kind of=

busyness that didn't has their mark, the sign of their&nbsp;spiritual power=
that
it was in the mind of&nbsp;men, like a omnipresence, and the people saying =
that
they had the gift of the ubiquity, appearing like upon the air,&nbsp;coming=
into
sight of the travellers, like a looming in the&nbsp;desert sands, to
help&nbsp;some of the nomad caravans, but why this good samaritans only hel=
ped a
few that they choosed, the majoroty of this erratic groups, men, women, chi=
ldren
in migration,&nbsp;they called&nbsp;in vain, but why those children cannot =
be
helped, why those&nbsp;men and women&nbsp;was suffering the exclusion by th=
e
Haronits, like a&nbsp;punishment&nbsp;for&nbsp;some crime they&nbsp;had to =
pay,
and the answer was&nbsp;terrible and simple as that, because they didn't
have&nbsp;no interest&nbsp;to help them,&nbsp;a charity act that was uselle=
ss
and the majority of this people was good for nothing,&nbsp;and from the Har=
onits
point of view, help&nbsp;will be to take some&nbsp;gains,
sharing&nbsp;pofits&nbsp;from any obscure designe, allways with a new plan,=
in
proportion of their ambition and&nbsp;from the greeds view, the sky was the=

limit, in&nbsp;the large&nbsp;horizon of a wideland,&nbsp;it seems didn't h=
as no
limits to their&nbsp;greed,&nbsp;a potencial of their spirituallty, a&nbsp;=
level
of their religion that transcended all horizons, and if saying one thing, t=
hey
did another thing, the hypocrits, and he admired them,&nbsp;because in thei=
r
place, he'll do the same, but didn't believed in a single word that they to=
ld,
likness&nbsp;to the faith&nbsp;of them,&nbsp;the message that they
announced,&nbsp;only&nbsp;deserved the credit&nbsp;that will can by, men, w=
omen,
children,&nbsp;sold&nbsp;in the name of&nbsp;Harone, for the price of a
myth,&nbsp;the faith that has converted into the crutch of the&nbsp;hopeles=
s,
following with despair a looming, taken&nbsp;into the level of a eternal
truth,&nbsp;was like a stick beating in the people back,&nbsp;a sheep-hook =
or a
crook of&nbsp;priests that was the idea of salvation in a revival
glory.&nbsp;</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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From: Joao Pedro
To: [email protected]
Cc: Oliveira Pereira
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 10:39 PM
Subject: RHIZOME RAW: Translation of a excerpt from "O Pica-ossos"


Hi!
I send to you the translation of a excerpt from my last book, "O Pica-o=
ssos", that means "The Prick-bones", the name of a bird of prey that lives =
in Portugal, and it's the name of the protagonist of this fiction book, bec=
ause he survives to catching the garbage from the dead cities, in a devaste=
d world, dominate by the religion and the sectaries of the Haronits, the pr=
incipal church of the desert, have a message that announce the revival glor=
y of the pastimes and her cult, is found in a golden-edge, in the myth of t=
he Lost City.

Chapter 2

1

From one side to the other, by a row of the souk, he followed out, thr=
ough the interminable file of caravans, stalls hiding dealers, strange shel=
ters opened in front of vehicles of all kind, land conveyances along the c=
ross of the market and he walked way, from end to end, in to the arms of th=
e cross, where was the brothels, the armourers, the mechanicians, the black=
smiths and the remaining people, some of them who lefted off the caravans, =
in order to work for the employers of the few houses, existing to served th=
e nomad population that come and go, losted in the flutter of the souk, unt=
il leave for a forgotten destination, upon the desert in a unending diaspor=
a, scattered people who only knows the habits of pack animals, living in ho=
rdes, keeping the shape of a ephemeron insects, grasshoppers in a cloud lan=
d, a mirage in the desert, ilusion of men, women, childrens, meeting togeth=
er in a erratic groups, in a process of aggregation and desintegration, thi=
s clusters of beings was friends or enemys, according to the circunstances =
of survival, and as soon they find a new ued, even a mud well, it was every=
man for your self, then happaned the fightings to dead, to quench the thir=
sty, but also happaned a group to settle for a while, near that spot, drink=
ing to the last stream of water, and finally when it end's, the place was d=
evasted by the fury of the cluster, desperated and hungry beings, left way =
to another place in the wilderness, and noting lefted over of this migratio=
ns, nothing but a crowd, a mob in herds, head of cattle, going astray, tram=
pers by hazard, coming by chance to the markets, mixing up into the rabble,=
bewildered with no identity, between the dealers, wholesale traders, shopl=
ifters, shopkeepers in the night, in their stalls, crying, emphasizing, sta=
ging under the lights of the oil-lamps, shadows, speckles, shredding traces=
, dashing off a human figure, when he passed around, trought the row of the=
souk, carried away by the crowd, mistaked with the shadows, pushed betwee=
n blurred faces, unknouns, unfriendly, in a glimpse, foresaw the holstered =
belts, swerved from them as possible, to avoid misunderstandings, to meddle=
in discussions or supply a motive to be robbed, take warning to someone co=
ming closer, with naughty tricks, but he didn't deceives, as though have ba=
ndy-legged, it was no fool and lame, he already observed that was followed,=
since he has showed the stones to the Prick-bones, and just now had the im=
pression that someone spying him, in the middle of the crowd or it was take=
n by the imagination, pricked him by the treasure in her pocket, holding th=
is pledge in her hands, payment on account from the Haronits, because they =
trusted him to do the job, and he wasn't dull, in that coarse cloths, he wa=
sn't so stupid like he seems, and receiving the protection of her wardens, =
hasn't nothing to fear, and blustering he thought, the first to bring the n=
ose into her pocket, will have a surprise, and cautlously he took's with th=
e stones, a anaia, a green stone that was a safe conduct, the sign proved t=
hat he worked for the Haronits and showing this sign, no harm could be done=
to him, under the keeping of the anaia, and if someone not respected this =
sign of power, will expect them a cruel end, worse than dead a thousand tim=
es, everybody knew that, nevertheless, some hordes like the Adibes or the H=
altics, no recognized at all the Haronits codes, living outlaw in packs of =
bloodhounds, and thinking better, he wasn't free from a raid, perpetred for=
cabilas that has no mercy, and they usual practice was conform with one ru=
le, the principle to which act of them respected, that only the strongs sur=
vived, and the strongers was the Haronits, and he venerated their power, be=
cause in the present circunstances, the power of them was the force of hers=
elf, for that reason he will worshipping them, until he'll have something t=
o profit by the agreement he did with the Haronits and for a while, the wor=
d of them was the word of herself, notwithstanding that he told to the Pric=
k-bones about that sectaries, but all the words he said, was the orders tha=
t had received from them, and all he'll do and say, will be a arrangement t=
hey will do in her back and will answer to them, because he was a yes-man, =
a foot-man who licked their boots, until they paying him, other wise he did=
n't believe in the rubbish that the people by from their mouths, living fro=
m ilusions in a hand to mouth existence, but he didn't deceive with promess=
es in a dreamland, where the dream becoming real and the reality, was the a=
bsolute dreaminess, but he recognized that was a tremendous idea and the Ha=
ronits, the demons of a genius that owing to the faith in a paradise, they =
has the world in their hands, preaching the revival of the old good-times, =
the past-glory that will arrive with the coming of Harone, tutelary genius =
of the Lost City, and the distance to the town of all dreams, has the same =
distance between the desertland and the neverland, and the space between re=
ality and dreminess, stretching to the infinite and that transcendent idea,=
spreading out the desert, for all the earth, and the desert people has sub=
mitted to Harones decree, as like a irrevocable destiny, a fate that couldn=
't changed, since de begining of the times, gone beyond recall and all acce=
pting that, save the hordes of savages who living like the killing beasts a=
nd the inferior sects, all the people living below the Haronits influence t=
hat has expanded to north and south, east and west, and didn't existing any=
kind of busyness that didn't has their mark, the sign of their spiritual p=
ower that it was in the mind of men, like a omnipresence, and the people sa=
ying that they had the gift of the ubiquity, appearing like upon the air, c=
oming into sight of the travellers, like a looming in the desert sands, to =
help some of the nomad caravans, but why this good samaritans only helped a=
few that they choosed, the majoroty of this erratic groups, men, women, ch=
ildren in migration, they called in vain, but why those children cannot be =
helped, why those men and women was suffering the exclusion by the Haronits=
, like a punishment for some crime they had to pay, and the answer was terr=
ible and simple as that, because they didn't have no interest to help them,=
a charity act that was uselless and the majority of this people was good f=
or nothing, and from the Haronits point of view, help will be to take some =
gains, sharing pofits from any obscure designe, allways with a new plan, in=
proportion of their ambition and from the greeds view, the sky was the lim=
it, in the large horizon of a wideland, it seems didn't has no limits to th=
eir greed, a potencial of their spirituallty, a level of their religion tha=
t transcended all horizons, and if saying one thing, they did another thing=
, the hypocrits, and he admired them, because in their place, he'll do the =
same, but didn't believed in a single word that they told, likness to the f=
aith of them, the message that they announced, only deserved the credit tha=
t will can by, men, women, children, sold in the name of Harone, for the pr=
ice of a myth, the faith that has converted into the crutch of the hopeless=
, following with despair a looming, taken into the level of a eternal truth=
, was like a stick beating in the people back, a sheep-hook or a crook of p=
riests that was the idea of salvation in a revival glory.

in: "O Pica-ossos", pp.37, 38
By: Petrusmatox

[email protected]
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<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A [email protected]
href="mailto:[email protected]">Oliveira Pereira</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 07, 2002 10:39 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> RHIZOME RAW: Translation of a excerpt from "O
Pica-ossos"</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hi!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I send to you the trans=
lation of
a excerpt from my last book, "O Pica-ossos", that means "The
Prick-bones",&nbsp;the name of a bird of prey that lives in Portugal, and i=
t's
the name of&nbsp;the protagonist of this fiction book, because&nbsp;he surv=
ives
to catching the garbage&nbsp;from the dead cities, in a devasted world, dom=
inate
by the religion and the</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>&nbsp;sectaries o=
f
the&nbsp;Haronits, the principal church of the desert,&nbsp;have a
message&nbsp;that announce the revival&nbsp;glory of the pastimes and her=

cult,&nbsp;is found in&nbsp;a golden-edge, in the myth of&nbsp;the Lost
City.</FONT></DIV>
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From&nbsp;one side to the other, by&nbsp;a row of the souk, he&nbsp;followe=
d
out, through&nbsp;the interminable file of caravans, stalls hiding
dealers,&nbsp;strange&nbsp;shelters </FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT face=Ar=
ial
size=2>opened&nbsp;in front of&nbsp; vehicles of all kind, land
conveyances&nbsp;along the cross of the market and he walked way, from&nbsp=
;end
to end,&nbsp;in to the arms of the cross, where was the brothels, the armou=
rers,
the mechanicians, the blacksmiths and&nbsp;the remaining people, some&nbsp;=
of
them&nbsp;who lefted off the caravans,&nbsp;in order to work for the employ=
ers
of the few houses, existing to served the nomad population&nbsp;that come a=
nd
go,&nbsp;losted in the flutter of the souk,&nbsp;until&nbsp;leave for&nbsp;=
a
forgotten destination,&nbsp;upon the desert in a unending
diaspora,&nbsp;scattered people who&nbsp;only knows the habits of&nbsp;pack=

animals, living in hordes, keeping the shape of&nbsp;a ephemeron
insects,&nbsp;grasshoppers in a cloud land, a mirage in the desert,&nbsp;il=
usion
of men, women, childrens,&nbsp;meeting together in a erratic groups, in a=

process of aggregation&nbsp;and desintegration, this clusters of beings was=

friends or enemys, according to the circunstances of survival,&nbsp;and as =
soon
they find a new ued, even a mud well, it was every man for your self, then=

happaned the fightings to dead,&nbsp;to quench&nbsp;the thirsty, but also=

happaned a group to settle for a while,&nbsp;near that spot, drinking to th=
e
last stream of water, and finally when it end's, the place was devasted by =
the
fury of&nbsp;the cluster, desperated and hungry beings,&nbsp;left way to an=
other
place in the wilderness,&nbsp;and noting lefted over of this migrations, no=
thing
but a&nbsp;crowd, a mob in herds, head of cattle, going astray, trampers by=

hazard, coming by chance&nbsp;to the markets, mixing up into the&nbsp;rabbl=
e,
bewildered with no identity, between the dealers, wholesale traders,
shoplifters, shopkeepers in the night, in their stalls, crying, emphasizing=
,
staging&nbsp;under the lights of the oil-lamps,
shadows,&nbsp;speckles,&nbsp;shredding traces,&nbsp;dashing off a human fig=
ure,
when he passed&nbsp;around,&nbsp;trought the row of the souk,&nbsp; carried=
away
by the crowd,&nbsp;mistaked with the shadows, pushed&nbsp;between&nbsp;blur=
red
faces, unknouns, unfriendly, in a glimpse, foresaw the holstered belts, swe=
rved
from them as possible, to avoid&nbsp;misunderstandings, to meddle
in&nbsp;discussions or&nbsp;supply a motive to be robbed, take warning to=

someone&nbsp;coming closer, with&nbsp;naughty tricks,&nbsp;but he didn't
deceives, as though&nbsp;have&nbsp;bandy-legged, it was&nbsp;no fool and la=
me,
he already observed&nbsp;that&nbsp;was followed,&nbsp;since&nbsp;he has sho=
wed
the stones to the Prick-bones, and just now had the impression that someone=

spying him, in the middle of the crowd or it&nbsp;was&nbsp;taken by the
imagination, pricked him by the treasure&nbsp;in her pocket, holding this p=
ledge
in her hands,&nbsp;payment on account from the Haronits, because they trust=
ed
him to do the job, and he wasn't&nbsp;dull, in that coarse cloths, he
wasn't&nbsp;so stupid like he seems, and receiving the protection of her
wardens, hasn't&nbsp;nothing to fear, and blustering he thought, the&nbsp;f=
irst
to bring the nose into her pocket, will have a surprise, and&nbsp;cautlousl=
y he
took's with the stones, a anaia, a green stone&nbsp;that was a safe
conduct,&nbsp;the sign&nbsp;proved that he&nbsp;worked for the&nbsp;Haronit=
s and
showing this sign,&nbsp;no harm could be done to him,&nbsp;under the keepin=
g of
the anaia, and if someone not respected this&nbsp;sign of power,&nbsp;will=

expect them a cruel&nbsp;end,&nbsp;worse than dead a thousand times, everyb=
ody
knew that, nevertheless, some&nbsp;hordes like&nbsp;the Adibes or&nbsp;the=

Haltics, no&nbsp;recognized at all&nbsp;the Haronits&nbsp;codes,&nbsp;livin=
g
outlaw in packs of bloodhounds, and thinking better, he wasn't
free&nbsp;from&nbsp;a raid, perpetred for&nbsp;cabilas that has no mercy,=

and&nbsp;they usual practice was conform with one rule,&nbsp;the principle =
to
which act of them respected, that only the strongs survived, and&nbsp;the=

strongers was the&nbsp;Haronits,&nbsp;and he venerated&nbsp;their power,
because&nbsp;in the present circunstances,&nbsp;the power of them was&nbsp;=
the
force of herself, for that reason he will&nbsp;worshipping them, until he'l=
l
have something to profit by the agreement he did with the Haronits and
for&nbsp;a while, the word of them was&nbsp;the word of herself, notwithsta=
nding
that he&nbsp;told to the Prick-bones about that sectaries, but&nbsp;all the=

words he said, was the orders that had received from them, and all he'll do=
and
say, will be a arrangement they will do in her back and will answer to them=
,
because he was a yes-man, a foot-man who licked their boots, until
they&nbsp;paying him,&nbsp;other wise he didn't believe in&nbsp;the&nbsp;ru=
bbish
that the people by from their mouths,&nbsp;living from ilusions in a hand t=
o
mouth existence, but he&nbsp;didn't deceive&nbsp;with promesses in a dreaml=
and,
where the&nbsp;dream becoming real and the reality, was the absolute dreami=
ness,
but he recognized that was a&nbsp;tremendous idea and the Haronits,&nbsp;th=
e
demons of a genius that owing to&nbsp;the faith&nbsp;in a paradise, they
has&nbsp;the world in&nbsp;their hands, preaching the&nbsp;revival of the o=
ld
good-times, the past-glory that will arrive with&nbsp;the coming of
Harone,&nbsp;tutelary genius of the Lost City, and the distance to the town=
of
all dreams, has the same distance between the desertland and the neverland,=
and
the space between reality and dreminess, stretching to the infinite and tha=
t
transcendent idea, spreading out the desert, for all the earth, and the des=
ert
people has submitted to Harones decree, as like a irrevocable destiny, a fa=
te
that couldn't changed, since de begining of the times, gone beyond recall a=
nd
all accepting&nbsp;that,&nbsp;save the hordes of savages who living
like&nbsp;the killing beasts and the inferior sects, all&nbsp;the people
living&nbsp;below&nbsp;the Haronits&nbsp;influence that&nbsp;has expanded t=
o
north and south,&nbsp;east and west,&nbsp;and didn't existing any kind of=

busyness that didn't has their mark, the sign of their&nbsp;spiritual power=
that
it was in the mind of&nbsp;men, like a omnipresence, and the people saying =
that
they had the gift of the ubiquity, appearing like upon the air,&nbsp;coming=
into
sight of the travellers, like a looming in the&nbsp;desert sands, to
help&nbsp;some of the nomad caravans, but why this good samaritans only hel=
ped a
few that they choosed, the majoroty of this erratic groups, men, women, chi=
ldren
in migration,&nbsp;they called&nbsp;in vain, but why those children cannot =
be
helped, why those&nbsp;men and women&nbsp;was suffering the exclusion by th=
e
Haronits, like a&nbsp;punishment&nbsp;for&nbsp;some crime they&nbsp;had to =
pay,
and the answer was&nbsp;terrible and simple as that, because they didn't
have&nbsp;no interest&nbsp;to help them,&nbsp;a charity act that was uselle=
ss
and the majority of this people was good for nothing,&nbsp;and from the Har=
onits
point of view, help&nbsp;will be to take some&nbsp;gains,
sharing&nbsp;pofits&nbsp;from any obscure designe, allways with a new plan,=
in
proportion of their ambition and&nbsp;from the greeds view, the sky was the=

limit, in&nbsp;the large&nbsp;horizon of a wideland,&nbsp;it seems didn't h=
as no
limits to their&nbsp;greed,&nbsp;a potencial of their spirituallty, a&nbsp;=
level
of their religion that transcended all horizons, and if saying one thing, t=
hey
did another thing, the hypocrits, and he admired them,&nbsp;because in thei=
r
place, he'll do the same, but didn't believed in a single word that they to=
ld,
likness&nbsp;to the faith&nbsp;of them,&nbsp;the message that they
announced,&nbsp;only&nbsp;deserved the credit&nbsp;that will can by, men, w=
omen,
children,&nbsp;sold&nbsp;in the name of&nbsp;Harone, for the price of a
myth,&nbsp;the faith that has converted into the crutch of the&nbsp;hopeles=
s,
following with despair a looming, taken&nbsp;into the level of a eternal
truth,&nbsp;was like a stick beating in the people back,&nbsp;a sheep-hook =
or a
crook of&nbsp;priests that was the idea of salvation in a revival
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