She closed her tattered copy of “1984” for the last time in the dim dawn light of the determined to sleep before her afternoon shift serving seafood to plague refugees at “Pensione Excelsior, Bar & Grill” in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Sleep was fitful and rich with the answers to thorny questions about Orwell’s deeper reasoning rising like molten bubbles bursting onto the surface of her next conscious ‘fucking day in paradise.’
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Prologue
What was left of the corporate hegemony understood, if there was ever to be continuation of their empire-based business model it would require a population capable of utilizing the technology which had both enriched the corporate overlords and doomed their customer base to extinction resulting in the unexpected outcome of “no product, no profit”, ergo free tele-communication/media access, free housing and “free lunch” provided by a guaranteed universal income. The social media platform of Zchnarkzy Marskburgh’s became a public utility providing news and interpersonal telecommunications, regulated by the “Federation,” formerly United Nations. Public Records, banking and the judicial system was consolidated under “Googol,” a resource tool that had been assigned the controversial task of uploading the “human experience” into its Artificial Intelligence (Art Intel) silicon matrix secreted in the salt caverns of an abandoned nuclear waste dump in the wastelands of Utah, a former state within the Western Hemisphere North Territory of USA.
Angela Vigoda
Guildern Seur
Pasqual Ortega–
Mordecais Liszt
Domhall Schmuck, Reynaldo Schmuck, Demsford Schmuck
Lammele Dama - executor Schmuck’s estate
Thich Tok Longh - Bhikkhu @ Từ Hiếu ‘Root Pagoda’ Hue · Pasqual’s uncle Jose Ortega had been in contact prior to becoming MIA during the Tết offensive of 1968
Perma Cauldron - grief counselor to Angela and Pasqual · Montevideo
Faik Besos
Zchnarkzy Marskburgh
Reiman Curzewel
Leslei Coerktern - operative par excellence · researching death of Demsford, France
Tieh Ngong - owner of “Duyên Dáng” (Graceful) Homestay
Ngài Trâu - artist, guide
Archdai Tryump - foil at cottage of Demsford Schmuck · Earl of Rye, 3rd Duke of Avignon. Aix-en-s Provence
Sysa Phish - Angela´s superior · Excelsior Bar & Grill, Punta del Este
Gonzo Veneno - operative Mexico, DF
Corina Abeja - last companion, Domhall Schmuck · owner of Artist Colony, Buena Vista Oaxaca; bruja, paramour to Mordecaise in transit
Sra Luz de Ley - Mordecaise Abogada in Oaxaca
Comandante Fernando Gonzalez - Oaxaca, Chief of Detectives
Rojita y Rojo - entertainers “Crocodile Cafe” Montevideo
Venceramos Brigade - entertainers sharing the venue at the Croc. due to missing a gig
- Che Chimera - charismatic front man
- Jaime Quioxote roady,
Tito - meth addict, stabbed Guildern in the arm, was punished by Mordecaise · nemesis, later tried to gang rape Angela
Madame Ouvière - landlady at Demsford’s cottage near Bibemus quarry Aix.
Prologue: 2021 - 2026
The body count in ‘merica had grown exponentially for 5 years after D.J. Trump, 45th POTUS was deposed following an unsuccessful putsch in 2021, reaching a peak of 10.5 k deaths per day in 2024. This eviscerated the health care system and neutered every effort to counter the ever increasing death toll. When Jamie Dimond sold American Health Care Inc. to China for 37¢ on the dollar in late 2023, 4.76% of the population had received the 1st vaccine inoculation, but only 3.14% received the 2nd dose in time to protect against Covid’s mutations. Angela Vigoda and Pasqual Ortega had quick-deeded their home in Simi Valley in 2023 straight across to a “coyote” for transit to Uruguay where the daily death toll at 1.5 k per day was amongst the lowest in the world of semi-permeable borders - those nations with closed borders since the beginning of the pandemic were charging a premium for entry visas.
By late 2031, internet and Wifi telecommunication channels had been automated and ruggedized to the extent that any abandoned phone could be activated by a universal sequence necessitated by the enormous number of dead and dying during the 2nd Wave. This radical corporate measure allowed for a consumer supply chain which was all that remained of the Amazon empire, after its founder hung himself at the end of the 2nd wave when his fortune was reduced by 75%
The May/December marriage of Angela (35 yo) and Pasqual (55 yo) had not survived the death of their only child baby Jesus soon after their arrival in Punte del Este, Uruguay. They parted company after she stabbed Pasqual in the liver during a violent quarrel over a too friendly waiter a year and half after their arrival. Pasqual moved to Montevideo and began working as an apprentice for Mordecaise Lizt a Bavarian piano tuner/organ builder - estate industry wunderkind. Mordecaise ran a spider web of enterprises, from international estate tracking, to a shipping concern for delicate instruments and fine art
Part I chap 4 Leslei left the continental U.S. to investigate the death of Demsord Schmuck (1 in France; Pasqual left Uruguay to research the death of Reynaldo (2, six months later at the Từ Hiếu Pagoda in Hue, though he was interred in Hoi An Vietnam,) Chap 6 Mordecaise arrived in Oaxaca; Mexico - arrested · to investigate the death of Domhall Schmuck (3 who materialized after his recorded death in Oaxaca, Mexico in Montevideo, Uruguay minus any travel documentation
Angela and Pasqual had been able to bridge the chasm of grief from the loss of their child Jesus during their divorce and remained friends. It was through Mordecaise Liszt that she had met Guildern Seur in 2026 and began commuting between Punta del Este and Montevideo where she worked weekends at the Crocodile Cafe. There had been a 2nd killing wave in 2027, and a 3rd “killing” wave erupted in late 2031 that by all known statistical models exceeded the boundaries of repopulation leaving nothing but a dwindling window during which the homo sapiens faced certain extinction, or transfiguration.
Chapters 1-9
Part II
Chapter 10
Part III
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Conclusion:
There was no vaccine devised for the rapidly mutating virus in time for the 3rd killing wave of the original Corona Virus and the remaining population lived with the unspoken reality of extinction. Guildern was the 1st of the quartet to expire, leaving his estate divided between to Angela and Mordecaise. Leslei, had traveled to France where the 3rd brother had died first at Plum Village - a Thich Nhat Hanh monastery in the South of France. Pasqual had left for Vietnam where the 2nd brother Reynaldo had died in Hue at the root pagoda of the Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Mordecaise was following the trail of a possible heir in Oaxaca, Mexico. He was joined by a Bruja poetess/artist from Oaxaca who mysteriously spoke an ancient dialect of Chiricahua that Pasqual inexplicably understood.
jts 10/01/2021
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