The cameras were Mitchell servos; the projector was a Yashinon tabletop tank, with an adapter to permit it to receive Land Solid-Sight-Sound 4 mm. film. Shortly they were listening to and watching the events leading up to the disappearance of the empty brandy case.

Jubal watched the box being thrown at his head, saw it wink out in midair. “That's enough,” he said. “Anne will be pleased to know that the cameras back her up. Duke, let's repeat that last bit in slow motion.”

“Okay.” Duke spooled back, then announced, “This is ten-to-one.”

The scene was the same but the slowed-down sound was useless; Duke switched it off. The box floated slowly from Jill's hands toward Jubal's head, then quite suddenly ceased to be. But it did not simply wink out; under slow-motion projection it could be seen shrinking, smaller and smaller until it was no longer there.

Jubal nodded thoughtfully. “Duke, can you slow it down still more?”

“Just a sec. Something is fouled up with the stereo.”

“What?”

“<…> It looked all right on the fast run. But when I slowed it down, the depth effect was reversed. You saw it. That box went away from us fast, mighty fast – but it always looked closer than the wall. Swapped parallax, of course. But I never took that cartridge off the spindle. Gremlins.”

“Oh. Hold it, Duke. Run the film from the other camera.”

“Unh, oh, I see, That'll give us a ninety-degree cross on it and we'll see properly even if I did jimmy this film somehow.” Duke changed cartridges. “Zip through the first part, okay? Then undercranked ten-to-one on the part that counts.”

“Go ahead.”

The scene was the same save for angle. When the image of Jill grabbed the box, Duke slowed down the show and again they watched the box go away. Duke cursed. “Something was fouled up with the second camera too.”

“So?”

“Of course. It was looking at it around from the side so the box should have gone out of the frame to one side or the other. Instead it went straight away from us again. Well, didn't it? You saw it. Straight away from us.”

“Yes,” agreed Jubal. “'Straight away from us.”

“Out it can't – not from both angles.”

“What do you mean, it can't? It already did.” Harshaw added, “If we I had used doppler-radar in place of each of those cameras, I wonder what they would have shown?”

“How should I know? I'm going to take both these cameras apart.”

“Don't bother.”

“But-“

“Don't waste your time, Duke; the cameras are all right. What is exactly ninety degrees from everything else?”

“I'm no good at riddles.”

“It's not a riddle and I meant it seriously. I could refer you to Mr. A. Square from Flatland, but I'll answer it myself. What is exactly at right angles to everything else? Answer: two dead bodies, one old pistol, and an empty liquor case.”

“What the deuce do you mean, Boss?”

“I never spoke more plainly in my life. Try believing what the cameras see instead of insisting that the cameras must be at fault because what they saw was not what you expected. Let's see the other films.”

Harshaw made no comment as they were shown; they added nothing to what he already knew but did confirm and substantiate. The ash tray when floating near the ceiling had been out of camera angle, but its leisurely descent and landing had been recorded. The pistol's image in the:' stereo tank was quite small but, so far as could be seen, the pistol had done just what the box appeared to have done: shrunk away into the far distance without moving.”

Returning to the topic of this chapter, one of the elements of cultural illusion, fantasy fiction, which I encountered, paradoxically is the Bible, in which there is a fragment that is one of the most mysterious for the reason that it is alien to the rest of the text, it does not have “family connections” with other events in the book, and yes, he’s just superfluous! Although this fragment quite precedes Armageddon and other Apocalypse.

In my opinion, what is fundamental is not that there is a reference to religious literature, but that there is a reference to a source that is perhaps two thousand years old. And his religiosity, oddly enough, is the best protection of information from damage and loss during its transportation along the time line.

“Chapter 12.

12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.

12:2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.”

Apocalypse of St. John the Theologian, King James Version (KJV)

When in July 2018, I discovered and told this to my companion East, her first reaction was “how can you impinge our Jesus!” I calmed her down and said that some unknown child was being born here, nothing more…

Well, or this can be interpreted as how a certain person unexpectedly learns about his origin. It’s interesting, I read this version on the Internet, that this is not necessarily the birth of a child, but can be a cardinal event in a person’s life.

This can also be called “second birth”, or rebirth, or revelation, or if you use Greek, it is called “apocalypse”. What is curious is that the birth of a child cannot be a revelation for him, but rebirth clearly coincides in significance for his consciousness with revelation. I.e. Apocalypse (Revelation) is probably more connected with the rebirth of a person during the conscious period of his life.

(Discovered January 8, 2022 at 4:56 pm, link in Russian)

Young crocodile: interesting facts. Birth and childhood

https://fb.ru/article/383026/detenyishi-krokodila-interesnyie-faktyi

“Hearing the cries of the babies, the crocodile rakes the nest, freeing them. Scientists have repeatedly recorded how a female crocodile carries her young in a mouth lined with powerful teeth. She does this extremely carefully, without causing any harm to the children.”

Somewhere in the fall of 2018, about six months later, after I learned about The Rapture of the Bride and read chapter 12 of Revelation, I had a strong subconscious feeling that the Dragon character in it was either a close relative or even the husband of this fair Virgo. And that his goal was precisely to protect the child. But these are all just my emotions, of course. For dragons, things are probably different, not like for crocodiles…

I also remembered that as a child I liked making plasticine figures of dinosaurs.

Another fragment from Revelation 12:

“12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.”

It’s very strange that the fire dragon sends a river in the Wife’s footsteps, not fire. Water is the most difficult thing he can produce, because it is the opposite of the element of fire. A very unusual dragon, not European at all… maybe it’s Chinese?

(Opened January 20, 2022, around 12:46 am)

Chinese dragon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon

“The Chinese dragon (Chinese: 龍; pinyin: lóng), also loong, is a legendary creature in Chinese mythology, Chinese folklore, and Chinese culture at large. Chinese dragons have many animal-like forms such as turtles and fish, but are most commonly depicted as snake-like with four legs. Academicians have identified four reliable theories on the origin of the Chinese dragon: snakes, Chinese alligators, thunder worship and nature worship. They traditionally symbolize potent and auspicious powers, particularly control over water.

(link in Russian)

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Китайский_дракон

“According to Chinese beliefs, the moon serpent lives in rivers, lakes and seas, but is also capable of soaring into the skies. Traces of the deity of moisture and rain, originally associated with the cult of fertility , clearly appear in it. Rituals for making rain were not complete without images of a dragon already in the 6th century BC.”

On January 19 (or 20), 2022, a new event began in the World of Warships game, this time dedicated to the ships of Pan-Asia (including China), the Dragon port was updated with a floating little dragon.

Update 0.11.0 – Pan-Asian Cruisers: Part 1

https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/game-updates/update-0110-pan-asian-cruisers-part-1/

Research work “Could a crocodile swallow the Sun?” (section of “Exact Sciences and New Technologies”, link in Russian)

https://nsportal.ru/ap/library/drugoe/2018/05/08/issledovatelskaya-rabota-mog-li-krokodil-proglotit-solntse

Naydorf M. I. “Essays on European myth-making” ( publ. Odessa, 1999, opened January 22, 2022 at 2:46 pm, link in Russian)

https://www.sites.google.com/site/marknaydorftexts/myth-making

“Myth summarizes experience that has not lost its significance for the present and future. Therefore, the myth speaks of what always exists, although in the form of a story about what happened once upon a time. This apparent contradiction between the present and the past is easily removed by the observation that the myth interprets events that once happened and have eternal significance, or have been constantly repeated since then, i.e. about Beginnings that have an eternal continuation. For example, about the beginning of the world, about the first people, or about ‘where did fire come from’ or ‘why does an elephant have long ears’…

I.3. ‘STOLEN SUN’

Fairy tale and myth are closest relatives. The difference is that a fairy tale is a fiction, and this is accepted from the very beginning, and a myth is alive only as long as it is wholeheartedly believed in. The myth of a neighboring people or the myth of our ancestors, having lost the power of authenticity, turns into a fairy tale. Some fairy tales especially clearly preserve the features of their mythopoetic past. These include the very famous fairy tale ‘The Stolen Sun’ by Korney Chukovsky…

The disappearance of the sun appears here as an act of gigantic cosmic drama: some world evil, personified by the alien Crocodile, disrupted the normal course of life. The death of the world is coming…

It is precisely the scale of events that they acquire in this fairy tale that brings it closer to its prototype and source – myth. In our case, to the ‘sun’ myth according to the accepted classification of myths, or ‘solar’ (from the Latin ‘sōl’ – sun).

Myth exists in the collective consciousness of the people as an eternal or, better to say, timeless plot-semantic core (‘archetype’), which, when presented, can become overgrown with various and not at all necessary details. At the center of the myth cited by Chukovsky in the tale of the sun is the idea of the world as a giant pendulum, oscillating between Light and Darkness, between Existence and Non-existence, despite the fact that this oscillation itself reflects the struggle of world forces, friendly and hostile to man (tribe, clan, community, i.e. what can be designated by the concept ‘we’). In The Stolen Sun the Crocodile and the Bear personify these forces.

The choice of the Bear as a cultural hero is probably explained by the fact that the bear is the traditional totemic ancestor of the ancient Slavs, the founder of the clan, the protector of the tribe, the teacher of life. The crocodile, in contrast to the bear, is an exotic animal, familiar to our distant ancestors only from pictures, but also known for its ruthless strength. In a thousand-year-old manuscript he is depicted as a fantastic bristling monster with wings that make him look like a dragon.”

And if it is not possible to beat this “trump card”, then perhaps it will do one interesting thing. Namely, it will transfer this entire History into a fictional, fantasy, illusory, creative world, just like a small hole gives a barely noticeable leak, which over time leads to the sinking of a giant ship. (Paragraph was written on the evening of April 19, 2021)

I wondered how my Infinity might feel from the outside? The most attractive option for me is that from the outside it can be bordered by a creative Event Horizon, i.e. a working space on the border with reality, in the zone of action of which the processing of “real” and the creation and subsequent destruction of temporary fictitious, illusory events takes place. That is, people who fall within the zone of action of the Event Horizon will have creative, illusory, but at the same time false thoughts that are not related to their reality.

If this has even a slight chance of authenticity, then my desire to feel myself may well lead to the fact that I involuntarily attract to my Infinity some external events, as it seems to me, “that are directly related to me”. I.e. we subconsciously desire something, and now – oops, life gives us something very similar. There is a small flaw in this scheme, namely that I am not at all close to religious topics. This topic has never interested me, and still doesn’t interest me. Perhaps this is a consequence of my practicality.

On the importance of Rapture of the Bride event. I added it to material of the book because a specific date was mentioned, September 9–10, 2017, and of course for the reason that the associations that arise when interpreting this event fit into the general event sequence of the book. And this event is not the main or super-important for me, my Fantastic Week is a fully completed event, everything before or after it is added if a possible connection is felt.

East asked me, is there anyone else who was affected by the Rapture of the Bride event? Perhaps there is, but it is important to understand that if a person, after an event, or knowing about an upcoming event, adjusts his life or gives significance to facts that otherwise he would not have given significance without this event, then his involvement in this action is very controversial.

In my case, there were personal experiences and activity in the physical world, I was writing my first book 19+, in the middle of writing it, Solar activity occurred, and then, after finishing writing the book, I learned about the Rapture of the Bride. The impact of this Solar activity on me is quite insignificant, I “cleaned up my tails” and removed unnecessary garbage from my life, became a little more friendly towards the people around me and much more responsible for my actions, and received some additional feeling of internal stability. I am an ordinary, narrow-minded person, with “average statistics” thoughts and feelings, nothing special, an ordinary person.

The observer factor

If there is no person to whom, for some reason, these events are important, then they will very quickly “dissolve in the infinity of the world”.

There is also no need for excessive “reliability” or “plausibility” of events. The main thing is that they will be small, separated from other events, unconditional for the mind, not rejected by human feelings and have a supposedly fantasy, illusory essence, i.e. events that the personal Infinity could split and increase its potential.

This book is precisely dedicated to such “unliquid assets”, useless incidents, which I looked for from the world around me in order to first put together the puzzle, and then, perhaps, divide it into original elements. And this story is interesting to me in its further development…

Description of the Rapture of the Bride event on one of the Internet sites (the date September 9–10, 2017 is not mentioned).

Rapture of the Bride Apocalyptic date September 23, 2017 from the standpoint of astronomy and astrology (link in Russian)

http://astrokras.narod.ru/pub/sun-virgo-2017.htm

“On September 23, 2017, we will see the constellation Virgo, in which the Sun will emerge. The Bible speaks of the same phenomenon in the Apocalypse, and describes ‘a woman clothed in the sun’ – the Virgin Mary. In addition, these events will unfold exactly on the hundredth anniversary of the appearance of the Virgin Mary in the Portuguese city of Fatima. At the same time, we know that the hundredth anniversary is an important milestone.

Patrick Archbold goes on to say that ‘November 20, 2016 will begin an astronomical event that will last nine and a half months, and which, disturbingly, will culminate in exactly another Revelation event. And although I am not an astronomer, all the research I have conducted suggests that this phenomenon is unique of its kind in the observable history of mankind.

On November 20, 2016, Jupiter (the King) will enter the body (womb) of the constellation Virgo (that is, the Holy Virgin). Jupiter, given its retrograde motion, will remain in the ‘womb’ of Virgo for nine and a half months. This period corresponds to the duration of pregnancy for a normal, slightly post-term baby.

After nine and a half months, Jupiter will again leave the womb of the constellation Virgo. During his exit (birth) on September 23, 2017, we see the constellation Virgo, followed immediately by the Sun (‘the woman clothed in the sun’). At Virgo's feet we see the Moon. And on her head we find a crown of twelve stars: it is formed by nine stars of the constellation Leo, as well as three planets – Mercury, Venus and Mars.

‘By coincidence’, these apparitions will coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the apparition of the ‘woman clothed with the sun’, that is the Virgin Mary at Fatima, which occurred in 1917. The described star parade will culminate just three weeks before the anniversary of the miracle, when the sun ‘danced’ (another sign in the sky) and was observed by thousands of people.

And for almost a hundred years that followed, we were able to watch as Our Lady’s warnings were fulfilled with amazing accuracy. Humanity has not stopped trampling on God, and we have experienced terrible wars, the extermination of entire nations…

…

In 2016, scientists recorded the brightest aurora on Jupiter in the entire history of observations.”

(A fragment from another article, here the date September 10, 2017 is already mentioned).

Revelation 12 (author Slavik, link in Russian)

http://nostradamys.ru/deva12.html

“Jupiter begins to enter the womb of Virgo on October [November] 21, 2016 and remains there for about 9 months. It begins to emerge from the womb area around September 10, 2017, and after the 23rd, it flies away. This is very important, there are similar coincidences in history, but it is the 9-month cycle of the planet’s retention in the abdomen with such proximity to the center of the womb that is unique in about 7000 years.