La Generación del Atardecer Presenta: On Route to the Golem’s Tummy. Entre los parajes del sacro territorio federalizado, en las tripas de esta ciudad de catacumbas se estiran y se transmutan leyes de supervivencia a diario. Navegación del distrito periférico, para entregar una mercancía invisible e intentar aspirar el vació de espíritus embotellados.
- There’s a rumblin’ groan down below -
Bar hunting is no easy task. Even in this unknown territory one might find clues upon where to land. Pass the Colina highway under 77th station by the Golem’s divide; the underground level of the town. The local atmosphere explodes in one hundred conversations, all jabbering about in the streets. xerxes, the twilight entrepreneur, is to deliver some solicited goods in a few hours. The pavement keeps going, and urban folks are hastily departing and arriving under the artificial lights all around. Different patterns of luminosity and colors across people’s faces, across the walls, across the stench. “Mary’s Café” read the sign, xerxes wandered inside seeking to splash his dusk breath with the provincial stiff juice. He sat down by the bar listening to the buoyant tunes, looking at the lights. Taking in the sensations and aromas that only the Peripheral District can bring forth…
- Boubacar Traore
Next to xerxes there was a uniformed soldier, sitting alone with empty jars of fluid spirits. Seemed to be quite off duty by the looks of it, his uniformed was detangled and unbuttoned. His eyes lost and intoxicated. xerxes ordered a bottle of cheap wine. He hasn’t gotten paid yet, so a night of kitsch debauchery was out of the question. A painting across the bar caught xerxes attention, a rather extravagant work of art. The painting showed a moth twirling between layers of smoke in the country side. In the backdrop a vast rainbow disappearing. Just then xerxes though he had seen the soldier glancing at the painting; but who knows? Perhaps he wasn’t eyeballing anything in particular xerxes figured; the fellow might just be irrevocably smashed, focusing on his insides, what the Cameii Shamans call self induced oblivion or what the locals know as the ultimate delight. All of the sudden the sleeping warrior came to his senses, blinked, realizing the sounds and visuals of the space. Then he peeked at xerxes. “You know sir” the drunken giant began “we are living in strange times. Even the air is opaque and dissatisfying, distorted somehow, and the taste of the food and the liquor… or just my appreciation of them conceivably. [Dis]Belief. Disbelief / doubt about the truth of something. To have nothing, a mere whisperer of deceit. To lose your hold on meanings. Nothing is what is supposed to be anymore, even when you have made the necessary sacrifices for God and State and Logo.” “Oh my, this one’s talented” xerxes though, but said nothing, he didn’t want to encourage a talking frenzy from the drunken goliath at these unholy hours. He just sought a shameful gulp of the local distill soup. But in order to honor the social protocol and appear respectful in the process, he replied “But why would you want to hold on to meaning in the first place oh gentleman. Here let me assist you. A man is dying of a brain tumor. And his son asks him, Dad, why do you keep telling people you’re dying of AIDS? So when I’m dead no one will dare touch you’re mom.” The soldier smiles. “Im Jyoti.” They shake hands, and nod. ”xerxes, with minuscule x.” “As you say, you want another round?” “Never pass a free drink my mom always said” xerxes replies covetously. “Wise mother you got there” says Jyoti “bring us two jars” he beckons.
“Because there is up and down, there is virtue and there is sin, there is good and there is, devoid of doubt, evil, and evil must be punished. Even more on these days of perpetual crisis. ”
- Ardand Dugalle, Police Superintendent
They commence drinking jars of Mary’s nectar. The strange secret formula used by the folks round these parts to celebrate, to emanate, to copulate and to channel the spirits and dæmons. Music becomes louder, the laughter intensifies, and the place becomes a gravitational field of perversity and fun. The sorts of fun people seek when they are not allowed to have fun. When pleasure is illegitimate or tightly regulated. A spectrum of those bored to death. They who rejoice with the utmost style. “You have to be careful with meaning friend. Whilst you think you have it, it has you. Let the universe be merry tonight, huh? And what’s with the outfit Jyoti boy. You with them union boys huh?, couldn’t have found more an appropriate costume to get hammered with”
“I was elected for various reasons. And one of those reasons is to protect the Union against all that would seek to destroy its noble vision of a free and civil society. The good health of an organism depends on It’s ability to recognize, contain and annihilate elements that would, if left unchecked, cause the detriment and demise of the living being. The principles of this nation guide us, as political physicians to administer the necessary tools and salvage the country upon these bleak times.”
-Councilman Haru Johnson
“Im a soldier foremost, I’ve been in the service for some time, Colonel Silverbak Jyoti of the Union. I’ve been in various hot zones for the last 20 years.” “Well you do seem to be a veteran in your profession. Must be… very proud of the honorable title. I mean, your sweat and duty ‘saved history’ in the grand ways, no? This very part of the city was established shortly after the Union’s ‘fantastical liberation’ of Charmes was it not? Mere 15 years ago?” xerxes continues “and a year after that San Ciruela fell”. “That’s correct.” Jyoti replies “I’ve seen the evolution of the political climate. The furnace this world turned into. ‘Lucifer son of the morning, I’m gonna chase you out of earth!’ was the battle cry.”
“And if there’s one thing that’s good in war, that is right and just and proper, it’s slaughtering our enemy! Getting some righteous payback! What are we waiting for?”
- Romo Lampkin
“Well as some say, the conditions were favorable for such outcome, correct? The machinery, moving its parts to do what is was design to do. And the Union and its allies were ready for it. The construction of some forces, the stirring of the significance within the social muscles, the manufacture of perceptions, hallucinating with the thing in itself. The systematization of hatreds, the oiling of essentialisms. A haunted circus ensues. A spectacle of information regulation. Political, racial, cultural, religious everyone striving to survive. The Fear. There shall be no resolve, no surrender against this residue. This residue that is the antithesis of the Unionized territories way of life. The ever ending battle against the abnormal ones right?”
“There’s a rumblin’ groan down below.
There’s a big dark town, it’s a place I’ve found;
there’s a world going on Underground.
They’re alive; they’re awake, while the rest of the world is asleep.”
- Tom Waits, Underground
“Certainly, certainly… and yet” Jyoti peeks from side to side, then he resumes “something doesn’t feel right…. ‘like a painted fever in recoil’.” he remarks eyeing xerxes. “For years I felt a lingering absence that only confirms its echoes. This internal other is an apparition of devices and machinations of most troubling ways. And this Luciferian entrance perverts me. But I see its code. It’s merit. Ever since my earliest tactical deployments. I did things because they were necessary at the time. No one else would have done them. Necessary evils right friend? And over my career I continued to serve the will of the state and its instruction and guidelines on localizing the irrational, the sick, the evil, the insane. It was so simple back then. But things got heavier and it kept whispering. Until it one day it whispered no more. And the world was turned off. I feel nothing. I have to pretend the most natural expressions of feeling to not appear as a lunatic or a monster. To be, after all this time became unbearable. Something stopped ticking, making sense in the mess things. The words, the sides all transformed continually, until you forget who you are. But at the end I am a soldier, yes, a soldier. That’s my concrete function. That’s what I have to remember to be useful. Give and follow orders efficiently. While dynamics of the times elude me. Like a madman chasing and being chased by his shadow. Unable to reconcile the promises with the consequences anymore.” Then Jyoti covered his mouth with his hands whimpering and glancing at the painting of the smoky moth and the rainbow. “Promises and consequences…” says xerxes “You my companion have just been bitten by the desert cobra. Now the shelves are not symmetric any longer, your ideas melt away in blisters of light”.
“-master, master, I have finally emptied my mind, what do I do now?-
-throw it away- says the master.
-but my mind is empty already- replies the student.
-throw it away-“
- The technician of mind dis-inflation. Axiom 56.
“Another round!” Howls Jyoti and punches the table. They talk the night away. A symbiotic relationship is formed. If it’s a mutualistic, parasitic, or commensal in nature, it’s open to debate.
To be continued…














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