A Brief Tale of a Lost World

By Antonio Torres-Alcala

In the beginning God created the earth. A beautiful place in a desolate universe where cosmic forces make it very undesirable to live in. Not so in this beautiful, pale blue, aquamarine jewel hanging like a subtle shimmer of light in the infinity of all of God’s creation. Here, God worked hard to make a unique paradise for men (and for women, of course) and when everything was done, He realized that perhaps it lacked some touches a s well as to correct some mistakes. It was too late though, because once he had handed all He had done to the man he had created from some mud picked up after a rainy night, he, the man, and she, the woman started to unravel their beautiful gift, and turn all that was so orderly in a supreme chaos. Just keep reading and you will see how this story develops….

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 10, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796058826

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CONTENTS

Prologue

Theme I All about man and woman

Theme II Lucifer, the devil, and his rocky relations with God

Theme III Man’s and our fate in this story

Theme IV The survival of th fittest

Theme V First Societies and governments

Theme VI First Civilizations and Empires

Theme VII The Middle Ages: God Vs. Lucifer

Theme VIII The Renaissance

Theme IX The Age of Confrontations

Theme X Technological boom and doom: The confusing 21st Century

Theme XI Religion and money: That is the question

Theme XII Politics, politicians, government and power: Man’s greatest curse

Theme XIII The democracy trojan horse: Of money and political parties

Theme XIV Human society splits open by the seams: The downfall of world order and of nations

Theme XV Something about post-history

The Epilogue

A caveat to theme XIV

About the Author

To Teresa:

the only Eve this Adam has ever wanted, and the mother of all my putative offsprings.

PROLOGUE

once upon a planet…

Once upon a planet and a time, according to well informed and unquestionable sources, God created the world and saw that it was good, full of gardens, flowers, birds, bees and yummy fruits (amongst them some apples). In other words, everything was so nice that God, being so good, decided to give all that he had done to the man that he had also created out of some mud he had picked up from the ground after a rainy night. That was a good decision; however, once everything was done, he realized that some of his initiatives could later on present some problems.

In my humble opinion, the first problem was to plant an apple tree in a garden called Eden, and the second was the extraction of a rib from the man’s rib-cage, to make the woman. Believe me thee: everything so far is true because it is written in the above-mentioned sources. All this could have been an unpremeditated minor mistake that God made, thus, of little importance; however, the third problem, according to both experts and historians, was the worst of all three. According to the same sources, he forced the man, henceforth called Adam, to marry the woman, henceforth called Eve, as to avoid living together in mortal sin. Such an unforeseen mistake shaped the world for many, many years to come. In fact, until today as we shall soon demonstrate if you keep reading. And be patient because it is not easy to put in a few words everything that has happened to us from that time to today.

For the sake of brevity, I shall only dwell on major events after God’s creation as to not bore the impatiently disgusting reader.

The same sources, plus many others, say that, God, after a full week of hard work, took an entire day to rest; which, considering what he had done, it’s understandable. Look here, he invented the light, which was very, very good, because it would have been impossible to continue creating the world, the moon, the stars, the Galaxies and, most important, the black matter, in total darkness. Then, he created the fish, the fruit trees, the toads, the snakes (one of them was really, really bad, and if you don’t believe it, ask Eve), but, before that, he separated the seas from the dry land, otherwise some animals would have drowned, and that would have been catastrophic for all of us, including myself, who writes this. So, he rested. A well deserve time off. After that, having finished his hard work, he applied for unemployment compensation, without much luck. Thus, I can understand why he went underground to avoid paying taxes. We do know that God’s real state, churches, do not pay taxes, because they are always exempt.

At this point, let me jump to the next chapter, because, everything that happened during God’s unemployment period became very, very, complicated, as you shall see.

THEME I

All about man and woman

As you will remember, unless you suffer from ADD, God created man, a noble but weak individual, but he also created woman to soothe man’s loneliness, and to have a partner in the task of having babies to perpetuate the species, that is, of both species, the man specie and the woman specie. At this point, little he knew that he had set in motion the basis for the unravelling of all his creation, but he didn’t suspect that. On the contrary, he wanted man to know his woman (to know is a biblical euphemism, according the experts, that means literally, to penetrate Eve, and have children through a well-designed process), so, Adam, after a night of heavy drinking distilled apple juice, one supposes, went ahead and said to Eve:

Eve, God, has commanded me to know you, to which Eve answered:

Well, man, good to meet you. My name is Eve, and yours?

Mine is Adam, happy to have you around. It was a bit boring to be alone in this beautiful garden of Eve, I mean, Eden.

Well, Adam -she said- now that we have introduced each other, let’s proceed to know us better

Adam took this as an invitation and did not wait a minute to really know Eve