Samuel Clemens arrived in Suriname at about 8:30 a.m.
on the morning of December 16, 1905. He had been charged
to explore the remains of the Jodensavanne territory, and
had been given a crude map by one of his more mystical
acquaintances in New Orleans. What the map supposed disclosed
was the place of the secret burial of the writings of the
exiled 13th member of the "Beit El" mystical brotherhood
of 16th Century, Raziel Kapilach. No reason was given for
them being there, only that they were, in a tumulus in the
form of a two-headed serpent, and that they contained essentially
a method for the capturing and harnessing of the qliphothic
shells for use as a kind of armor of intentionality capable
of incredible powers of transformation, greening the sahara,
or decimating a decadent city, or even altering a human form
into something other. Samuel Clemens was no mystic, but he had
seen things he couldn't understand, and in his grief over
Olivia, he felt he must take his cues as they came. He wanted
to bring breath back to his love Olivia. He disembarked
in Paramaribo under a sky as empty, bright and blue as he had
ever seen...
