Chapter 807 Vallejo
"Juan Lopez and John Ward" is one of the last group of works of Borges. It was published in the Argentine "Clarion" in 1982 and later included in the poetry collection "The Conspirator".
Juan Lopez and John Ward, one is an Argentine youth who loves English literature since childhood, and the other is a British youth who loves Spanish literature since childhood. They could have become good friends, but the only time they met was in Malawi. Island, and then they became martyrs of their respective countries:
They caught up with a strange era.
This planet has been divided into different countries, each with loyalty, precious memory, a past that is undoubtedly heroic, justice, injustice, a special myth, bronze pioneers, and remembrance Day, with demagogues and badges. This division, cherished by cartographers, has always championed war.
Lopez was born in the city on the banks of the Immovable River; Ward was on the outskirts of the city where Father Brown walked. He had learned Castilian in order to read the Quixote.
Another loved Conrad whom he had first met in a church on Viamont Street.
They could have been friends, but only once face to face, on a couple of all-too-famous islands, each of them Cain and Abel.
They were buried together. Snow and Mulch knew them.
The incident I relate took place in a time beyond our comprehension.
Borges once wrote an essay on forgiveness, which is also about Cain and Abel. After many years, they sit together again. Cain asks Abel's forgiveness. Abel said that he had a head. Well, I've already forgotten about it.
Forgiveness is difficult, but it can keep our hearts from being swallowed by evil and darkness. Albus Dumbledore has many reasons to hate Muggles.
Patience, then revenge, the old fool said, but I think maybe you've forgotten by then.
He let go of those aversions and became a pro-Muggle wizard.
He is not manipulating Harry to do bad things, but he thinks that Harry is really the last Horcrux that needs to be destroyed. In order to protect Harry, Albus also gave him the Deathly Hallows, hoping that this can help Harry avoid death. hunt.
He's just a human being, and the smarter a person is, the more complex a problem he can solve, and the more trouble he can create when solving a problem.
Just like the golden edict promulgated by the German emperor Charles IV, he solved the problem of emperor selection, elected a king from seven candidate countries, and indirectly recognized the legitimacy of the split, but is Charles IV a stupid king?
When Hagrid called Hufflepuff a fool, the kids forgave him.
This big half-breed giant has gone through a lot, his parents died, there is no other place to accept him except Hogwarts, and he really has a way with magical animals. Usually, people who animals are willing to get close to are not too bad-hearted. Stupidity is a kind of talent, and tolerance is our characteristic.
Hufflepuff loves hugs because it's an inclusive college.
Pomona didn't know why she translated Zodiac's ciphertext like this, maybe she made a mistake, i was i, not L, that string of characters was meaningless, she didn't need to waste any more time and energy.
HEIP ME OR II BE THE ETT.
In her eyes, "HEIP" is "HELP".
What a blind fool she was.
Food can bring happiness. After replenishing enough happiness energy, they continued to gather in the living room to investigate. Shadow not only has superb physical skills but also cooks very delicious dishes, but his paintings are really not flattering.
He always thought that he could sell one. It is strange that he can sell modernist paintings in the birthplace of the Renaissance.
But he had the same sort of obsessive confidence in it, the same way Severus thought his greasy hair was his "style," and the two of them mixed drinks at the bistro after dinner, and the by-product cocktail went into Monnie's Card, Pomona, Alessandro's stomach, Gianluca refuses to drink in the name of needing to keep his head clear, Monica puts a dry martini on the table in front of him, drink it or not.
Accompanied by good wine and fried squid, they studied the FBI's released information about Zodiac like watching a popcorn movie.
A pattern of overlapping circles and crosses represents eternal life in Christianity. Although Zodiac is crazy, he is not completely crazy. He knows that the immortality of the body is impossible. What he wants is the eternal life of the soul after death.
With how much he reads Pomona can't believe he didn't read the bible, what he did is going to hell, if he simply dies, there will be a new devil in hell, those who are killed die Afterwards, the soul cannot be liberated.
"Look at this," said Monica, holding Gianluca's printout. "His second letter, Thursday, August 7, 1969, appeared in the Vallejo Herald. I remember him A line of writing was left on the victim's car after the Zodiac Island incident."
"vallejo," Pomona said, looking at the crooked word. "What does that mean?"
"One is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area, which has a naval shipyard." Gianluca said after tapping the keyboard, "the other is a city in Mexico."
"I remember that 'fugitive' said that he wanted to rob money and go to Mexico. Is this why he chose the San Francisco area to commit the crime?" Monica asked in surprise.
"What's so special about the city of Vallejo?" Pomona asked.
"It's in Spanish," Gianluca said dryly, "and I haven't been to Mexico."
"Does any of you know Spanish?" Severus asked.
No one answered his question.
"I know one," said Alessandro, who was watching The Exorcist in another room. "Raula, she's taking Spanish."
"Mamma Mia," Monica complained, and started arguing with Alessandro in Italian.
"So the city of Vallejo is special to Zodiac," Severus said. "After committing a serial murder like that, he wants to go to that place and live in seclusion?"
"It's not him, it's them," Pomona said. "The handwriting is different. The Zodiac who wrote the letter and the murderer are not the same person."
"Writing on paper is not the same as writing on a blackboard," Severus said.
"So many Mexican cities, why Vallejo?" Gianluca asked, frowning.
"I remember that California was a colony of Spain." Shadow said, "The main black slave trading countries in the New World are Britain, Spain and the Netherlands."
"So he thinks killing people is collecting slaves, because he's a Spanish slave trader?" Pomona yelled incredulously.
"He's crazy," Severus said, "and pretentious."
Gianluca began to look up information on the Internet.
The main income of Spain in the 16th century was "Royal Pirates", slave trade and precious metals shipped from the New World.
The Spanish navy at that time was very powerful, and it became Spain's military support when Britain and Spain competed for South American trade rights.
The United Kingdom has no trading rights, but falsely claimed that it had reached a settlement with Spain, formed the South Sea Company, and then had the South Sea bubble that made Newton a fortune.
Spanish is the third most spoken language in the world, second only to Chinese and English. Spanish nouns and adjectives are divided into masculine and feminine. Usually nouns or adjectives ending in -o are masculine, and nouns or adjectives ending in -a are feminine, and the language alphabet is also inconsistent with the 26 English characters.
"Why don't you use Spanish to decipher?" Pomona began to come up with bad ideas.
Gianluca ignored her.
"What's the meaning of what he left on the car?" Monica asked while holding the photo, pointing to the last line left on the car. "There's nothing wrong with the date and time. What does 69 mean? Cancer?"
"There are two more numbers before it," Severus said. "68, 69."
"Cancer is from June 22 to July 22," Pomona said. "What the hell does that mean?"
"Maybe this is the key." He guessed irresponsibly. "He encrypted it with the human brain, without using very complicated calculation methods. Using Caesar's cipher, these numbers are vectors."
"What script has 68 characters?" Pomona complained.
"How do I know." He said irresponsibly, touching her margarita with the whiskey glass in his hand, "Salud."
