I The Supreme - pg. 10

She is never without her bezoar stone. She keeps it hidden underneath the niche of the Lord of Patience. More powerful than the image of the Bloodstained God. Talisman. Stair. Platform. Last step. The most resistant. It sustains her in the place of certainty. Place where there is no further need of any sort of help. Obsession has its foundation there. Faith is supported entirely by itself. What is faith if not belief in things that have no verisimilitude? Seeing through a glass darkly.

The ruminant-stone has its own vigil light. Someday it will have its own niche. Perhaps, in time, its sanctuary.

I The Supreme - pg. 5

Do you know what memory is? The stomach of the soul, someone wrongly called it. Though nobody is ever the first to give things a name. There is nothing but an infinity of repeaters. The only things ever invented are new errors. The memory of one person alone is useless.

Stomach of the soul. That's too clever by half!

I The Supreme - Opening

I the Supreme Dictator of the Republic

Order that on the occasion of my death my corpse

be decapitated; my head placed on a pike for three days in the Plaza de la Republica, to

which the people are to be summoned by the sounding of a full peal of bells.

All my civil and military servants are to be

hanged. Their corpses are to be buried in

pastures outside the walls with neither

cross nor mark to commemorate their names.

At the end of the aforementioned period, I

order that my remains be burned and my ashes thrown into the river ...

Where was this found? Nailed to the door of the cathedral, Excellency. A patrol of grenadiers discovered it early this morning and brought it in to headquarters. Luckily no one had read it.