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fbonsignore@beethoven.com (Fabrizio J. Bonsignore) wrote in message news:<768f7623.0410091305.782fb7de@posting.google.com>...
> `Do you think he has the acumen?`
> `I do`
>  
> Dan Gam was barely surviving. State help would be cut next month and
> his meager wage as a salesman was barely adequate to cover hotel and
> food, not even transport. Then he went on TV.
>  
> Not that he wanted it, it was not even in his own country, but he knew
> he had been on TV. All his acquaintances were appalled, not believing
> it. And he could hear them. Whether it was telepathy, Big Brother or
> paid agitators, he knew something was wrong. Weird, how in the
> computer appeared his computer`s name and old address...
>  
> People around Dan started commenting his life. They knew too. But for
> each A there was a Z. Then one night he heard it. Nerets.
>  
> What was Nerets? He didn`t know, but it was important. At first he
> wasn`t aware but somehow it related to some repeated phrases that
> would pop out everywhere. Wherever he was there was a raucus (from job
> to hotel, where else?), confusing everything, though clearly he needed
> to know about Nerets. He had to be there, or with them...
> 
> Little by little a smudged picture emerged: Nerets had to do with
> immortality, gods, stars and... the future. He would maintain a log
> with his impressions and the words and phrases he was picking up. Too
> fantastic it seemed and yet... a life of skepticism was being cracked
> by the undeniable corroborations he was getting. But he had enemies
> and his enemies were after him and sent people after him, confusing
> him, threatening. Dan had friends and his friends wanted to conduct
> him to Nerets, to save him from his enemies, but he didn`t know them,
> either the friends or the foes, only the rumors that were reaching him
> from everywhere at the same time. Somehow he was being prosecuted and
> a battle was being fought to define his future.
> 
> The problem was that his enemies, once very mundane, where using him
> to reach the secret of Nerets, one by one, while he was lost trying to
> understand. A group was being formed and his foes, all criminals, were
> desperate to keep him outside. They were going to the future, they
> were going to get all dreams realized, but somehow he had the key to
> it and part of that key was his computer log. By writing to it the
> future would change, the future was in the making and Dan would
> alternatively win and defeat his enemies according to the information
> he was supplying and the deductions he was arriving at.
> 
> Unfortunately he couldn`t distinguish friends from foes. One mistake
> would ruin his life, another one would give him victory. Many strange
> encounters came and go, unable to decide whether to join or not,
> whether it was help or a trap. But his enemies knew well and one by
> one reached the secret and the rewards.
> 
> The Nerets were time travelers and his Nemesis had arrived first. He
> went and came, though it was in his hand whether to grant immortality
> or not, wisdom or savagery. The only fact at the moment is that his
> great foe did go, and having the key to time was fighting him behind
> and beyond. Some battles Dan won, others he lost, lots of people were
> involved, myths and legends were created and destroyed, yet one step
> at a time the Foe was building his revenge.
> 
> Dan Gam decided to keep the secret of immortality from Nerets and let
> them fend by themselves. The rest of his foes reached the group, not
> without destroying his friends and gurus on the way there, and once
> back they would only tell: `You don`t know what he did to you!` Dan
> was left alone, the whole world against him.
> 
> In the end he kept his secrets, his aces. All his friends were
> defeated, destroyed, bribed or otherwise dissapeared from his life.
> His foes achieved a victory. The group left and came back, those who
> remain, for he was the fulcrum and, without him, Utopia turned into
> Hell and evil prevailed...
> 
> Rumors, legends, myths, stories, all mixed and copulated and were
> known by the whole world, mass confusion veiling the nature of the
> battle, while Dan Gam kept fighting to understand what was Nerets and
> have truth and goodness prevail. The future was in the making, he
> knew, he only needed to convince a few people that he hold the aces,
> the keys to the future he negated the Nerets, convinved that the door
> to Nerets was somewhere, in somebody`s hands and he would finally be
> granted the opportunity to go and confront his enemies, and win.
> 
> Dan Gam knew what the Foe had done to him. Still fighting, Dan would
> look in the mirror and see that his face had turned, without ever
> changing, into the very face of Evil... Lucifer.
> 
> ghamac.org/miniface.jpg (part of the story)

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