The Buddha of Bernicia – Part Four

Don’t Let the Truth Get in the Way of the Legend

 

“…the truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being bit a fact among others..

Brown spat into the fire. That’s some more of your craziness, he said.
Blood Meridian, Conor McCarthy, p. 256

Previous episodes – Part One – If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

Part Two – The Raw Milk Magic Mushroom Assassin

Part Three – What’s the Matter with Bob?

In which the Author picks up the narrative at the point of detention – a mental hospital near the Well of the Bull.

The circumstances are revealed – Trust lie shattered – Buddha removed from Universal Community Trust – UCT TO FUCT – within 48 hours, the false accusations were flying out of the hospital – doubling down on a fictional narrative in order to explain to whoever may be listening that it was another poisoning – the latest in a burgeoning list of failed assassination attempts, each designed to prevent the Buddha fulfilling the centuries’ old prophecy of him saving the construct from its own mathematical certainty – a fool’s errand of the highest order – an impossible poisoning – anyone who continues to buy the BS of BOB at this juncture is hopelessly hobbled by an inability to think critically – the car issue – Kylie’s return – the plea for funds – a question of donations made under false pretences? – the high faluting barrister – the disbarred barrister aka the Geordie Sicilian – displeasing his highness – the Shiva Shankar Parallel – the Cult leader is displeased – a legend in his own lunchtime

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