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PostscriptIn writing fiction one runs the risk that the reader becomes disassociated from reality. This can be avoided when the fiction becomes intermingled with reality to such a degree that the reader can never be quite certain if an element of the novel is based on fact or is total fiction, especially when the factual appears more fictional than the fiction does. In this episode of the series of novels, The lodging for the Rose, the episode about squashing people like cockroaches, for example, falls into the category where fact and fiction appear to be reversed. The entire episode appears to be grossly unreal. Nevertheless, it reflects an actual occurrence. Only the names have been changed. The occurrence took place in the U.S.A. and had been experienced by a friend of the author. Nor is the notion of squashing people like cockroaches out of this world. The concept is already being implemented by means of economic deprivations and various other types of genocide for the purpose of depopulation. No matter how fictional the concept of depopulation may appear, human depopulation is an established policy. It is one of the chief cornerstones of an apparently permanent imperial objective. It has been repeatedly stated in the late 60s through to the 80s, that the objective is to eliminate somewhere between two to five billion people from the face of the planet. This is not fiction. The implementation has already begun in many different ways. This particular element that has been interwoven into the novel is a subtle element of reality versus fiction. This reversal of fiction and fact is also found in beginning of the novel in the story of an impending financial disintegration. The story that appears patently fictional has all the potential to become a tragic reality if the present trends are not reversed. Another element that may appear like fiction in the novel, but which is totally real, pertains to the potential for a bright future for humanity, a future that is defined by the availability of infinite resources in energy, materials, and food. The potential for nuclear fusion power that is intertwined with that future has been well proven. Its physical realization is within reach if the required efforts are made to pursue the development of its science. Equally infinite are the material resources of the planet in terms of metals that are locked within the silicates of rocks in a molecular bond that can be broken with advanced high-energy technologies. All of these resources will some day be developed in a matter-of-fact kind of fashion, since these vast resources literally lie at our feet. The question is, when. The day will come, no doubt, when humanity gives up its notion that living is too 'expensive' and that the killing of one-another is the way to go. Then we will begin to become interested in real human development. The only question that still remains for us decide, is whether we want to see that day in our time. At the moment, it looks like that we won't see it, for reasons of a total disinterest. Occasionally there also comes a time when one is not totally conscious of the reversal between fact and fiction, until the reality of the intended fiction stares one in the face. This presents us with another type of paradox. This particular paradox is found within the Antonovna story of the novel. The Antonovna love story unfolds in the novel in a tight interrelationship to the musical sequence of the First Symphony of Johannes Brahms. It must appear to the reader that the Antonovna story was purposely crafted to fit the musical sequence of the symphony. In reality, the opposite happened. The Antonovna story had been written twelve years before its tight relationship to Brahms' first symphony had been discovered, which was subsequently applied to the story without any major changes having been required to the story itself. The way in which the two elements came together appears to be totally unlikely, but it happened. The coincidence happened most likely for the simple reason that both the music and the story reflect the unfolding of the same universal principle. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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