Easy Solution Found By Walking On Water

Lauren was looking over the photographs, Danny adding his two bits, “They smashed his skull but good, cracks and even dug a hole the size of a thumb, the size of a large thumb, these thugs hadn’t a clue about human life.” Lauren searching Danny’s eyes, “Is there any point in going to the crime site? We are never going to find them, they obviously did not know him, neither did he know them, he was an engineer walking away the dreary nature of his job, there is no connection to any sensible crime here, he walked into his death Danny.” Danny checked the room to see if anyone was listening, “Lauren we have to try to find out why he was killed, that is our job, you can not arrive at a conclusion without doing an investigation.” Lauren with tears in her eyes yet sternly whispering, “Investigating is what we do, it is what we do all the time here, but finding criminals or true causes, that is not what we do here. Here we pacify the public, we pacify the politicians, though they know that we pacify them and want to be pacified, that is what they pay us to do here Danny, to help assist the system is convincing the general public that the world is really a lot nicer and quieter than it is; only problem is it is falling apart from every angle, there is little holding this semblance of a civilization together, people are digging holes through people’s skulls with their thumbs Danny, with their thumbs, and generally sane people do this, we are just the lollypop for the citizen that doesn’t want to pay homage to this reality so they pay us instead.”

At that point a now familiar face poked through, “Hello officers of the law, have you made the city safer for me today.” And with that came the general air of jolly perdition that always arrived with Habakkuk. Danny moved his head in the negative and ousted himself from the scenery. Lauren placed her palm to her forehead trying to close the shutter on her third eye. Habakkuk grabbed her palm, rubbed it between his hands, made it a little hotter than the cold within, and sat on her desk, noticing with an unspecified mask, the photos of a man dead. Without a wince, “How about I take you to lunch?” Lauren’s responsible and worried mind hesitated but Lauren’s heart could not allow Habakkuk being refused, she modestly said, “ok.”

Habakkuk suggested all kinds of exotic places, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Indian, Lauren disgracefully said, “I don’t want to have a relationship with what I eat right now I need something that doesn’t need my attention.” And she pointed to the “Chicken Palace” where they duly went to have a breast of chicken sandwich, and much to his credit the chicken kept quiet.

“It’s just that everything is going wrong, nothing is getting fixed the stuff is getting weirder, and I just can’t keep up.” Habakkuk, “remember I predicted that there would be an earthquake, there was an earthquake in Iran in the city of Bam, 40 thousand dead! I lived there once long ago, that’s probably why I felt it coming.” “Hey, hey stop it, anyone can predict an earthquake there are thousands of earthquakes all the time, some devastating some not, but forget it.” Habakkuk looked at his chicken sandwich, looked at Lauren, moved his eyes to the right, then to the left, then centered them again, and took a bite of his chicken.

They ate quietly for a while and then Habakkuk spoke again.

“Its like this, the universe is made up of energy units that are called ergio because of their tiny size and ephemeral nature much like the Latin language which is very much here but you can’t really see it and you don’t even have to learn it, but it is everywhere. These ergio energy units are what hold the background energy that comprises the sentient universe, you and I are possessed by it, those people over there, and those people over there, they all have it and they all share it, voluntarily or involuntarily the ergio energy is distributed and redistributed by human contact, a personal aura is made up of ergio units, and these units dissipate the type of feelings that generate a community and ultimately a society.” He pauses, eats a French fry, “did you get that, are you listening to me!”

She drops her lower lip to the right and raises her upper lip to the left displaying her Dracula self, “I always listen to you, I know I should listen to you, and don’t take this personally but I don’t understand what all your wisdom has contributed to my life, except maybe my lover, which now seems substantial, but you come off with this wild theories which I cant land on my desk or in my head,” her hands flustering her hair, “and yet I keep listening, do tell me.”

Habakkuk not even pausing to reflect on the rebuffing comments, “The world is going through schism, there is some kind of psychosomatic event happening to the points of space, metric tensors which govern our geometry and we are feeling it, and are manifesting it with conglomerate violence and political dysentery. I am not sure why it is happening but I see the signs. Before the French revolution could truly concretize its republican ideals we had Napoleon, you can not have republican ideals without first shitting all that is Emperor to its fullest. And before democracy you had dictatorships, the first and second world wars were predominantly the last cry of fascism, something that could have ended its final death throw with the first world war but since it didn’t finish very right, then inevitably it had to continue, the second world war put an end to the first world war, ending any preconceptions of militant rule as the standard for nations. So the first cycle kills monarchy and the second its logical inheritors the fascist dictators.”

“And how do you explain communism, the rise of China and the Soviet Union, or were they not dictators?”

“Both were the same ideologies, which were the prediction of the socialist and communist philosophers, but they arrived before their time, that is the world wasn’t ready for communism, communism is a movement that must be inherent within the psychology of the entire world, we have never been there, the young communist idealist of 20’s and 30’s were nomads, jubilant children, scared and angry, pathologically perfect criminals bent on saving humanity so as to save themselves, so they ushered in communism against the will of the very people that it was suppose to liberate. By brute force they thought to make everyone like them, it was inevitable that there would be a correction, I predicted it in another time but no matter, point is that the correction is done, communism never was, and is now back to sleep until a different world order is called upon which will follow the logical evolution of economic history.”

“Jesus what are you saying.”

“I am saying that just as Napoleon had to prefigure on the death of monarchies like him, you have Bush the president of The United States. He prefigures in the end of capitalism, I am prophesying though with all the evidence it can hardly be that anymore, but Lauren, your world is close to ending, capitalism has reached its apostasies, it has perfected itself and when things perfect themselves they cease to be, like the Roman Empire, like the Greeks, all reaching perfections caved in upon themselves, no one has to destroy them, they destroy themselves through the confectionary of their ideas.”

Lauren head was dizzying. Habakkuk wasn’t stopping.

There are the key events of history, you have to watch them, Gandhi peacefully ends empire, The British lose the Suez Canal, Martin Luther ends segregation, Botha and Mandela end Apartheid, Gorbachev ends the communist experiment. And when Gorbachev ended the experiment he left America without an enemy, even your president Nixon said that America feared being without an Opponent like the USSR. The cold war world was well divided and the powers waged their political wars mostly to keep the rest of the world watching, but then came Gorbachev, a man that boldly did what Botha did, end the system that had harbored, for them, only good will, and America was left in an exclusive club of one. More prescient Lauren, South Africa and the USSR and Indian went through bloodless political revolutions. This foretells of a new world order, but the old world that was comprised by the cold war era ought to rise like Napoleonic savagery to retain old world standards.”

“In such a club you have to find a reason for being, you can draw up ideals but the fact is that wars have always defined greatness, that is the world we have lived in, that is the war that people like Gorbachev and Gandhi point to end. America has lived its glory and now must wane, a man who blindly believes in its staying power is at the helm, he cant see anything else. That too is important, that he be blind like Napoleon was blind, for him there was only France and the French and he did the most damage to both.”

“This is magnificent, and it truly is interesting, but what does it have to do with me, sorry I don’t live much beyond myself, I haven’t lived a few centuries like you, this is my first life, am not saying I don’t like it here but I probably will not come back, so what does this have to do with me and my job of solving crimes.”

On that note they got up and walked through a park.

“We are just nobodies we walk through here but the energies that are harvested as a community are what control us, we may wish to be individuals but that is most positively what we are not and what where we will never thrive. The herd is humanity, everyone is at about the same level, more or less, plus or minus a few things and you can put the peoples of the world in the same box. They don’t know it because they don’t want to know it but the world is on lock step, it is the world today that is the world all over. The social fabric and the forces of capitalism are seeing the beginning of their end, and so they will unite so that end might not come, but it will come. I have prophesied.”

He pauses, picks ups some blades of grass and plays them on his fingers.

“It is the changing ergio energies that are causing malice throughout your city, no one knows where it will end, no one knows where it is going, but America without the Soviet Union can not exist because they ruled as one.” I have prophesied.

“Why do you always have to talk like that it is so obnoxious.”

“It is very difficult not to be obnoxious when you are a prophet. But I have a proposal for you, if you see me walk on water will you believe me?”

Taken aback, “Will there be nothing underneath your feet?”

“nothing”

“will the water be deep?”

“very deep”

“you are not going to be wearing any rubber shoes or anything like that?”

“nope none of that.”

“how are you going to do it then?”

“Just like I told you, just walk right on it, just for you?”

“Can Antoinette watch too?”

“Yes indeed the Dame can watch too.”

“why are you doing this.”

“Cause I like you.”

“You don’t have to walk on water to prove that.”

“Cause I want you to quit your job and go some place and be happy with your girl.”

Lauren enjoys that moment intensely, closes her arms around Habakkuk and says, when then?”

“I have to go practice, give me three weeks that should do me ok.”
“Three weeks! You have walked across the centuries and it takes you three weeks to prepare for a walk on water. Well alright, I suppose is worth the wait.”

She turned away from her friend, laughing within, happy.

Habakkuk kept watch on her till she blended with the crowd. He too felt good inside, he wanted Antoinette and Lauren to be truly happy, he thought he would walk on water for that.

At home preparing to walk on water, Habakkuk decided to pull the Tarot card on himself, he did the shuffle, he touched the cards, he felt them, he let his ergio energy touch them and reflect, and then he pulled one, out came the Tarot: “Disillusion.”

“Your ability to dream and to fantasize allow you to create false worlds and grandiose expectations which can only lead to disillusion.”

Habakkuk lost some spirits there, but then felt a little better as he read the final part, “never the less your fatalistic optimism and your false certitude have the ability to charm and make others happy.” And that was all he needed to know he was on the right track.