THE ATLANTIS QUILT

 

Note: This summary is about 15 pages long.  It presents a lot of detail, but don't get bogged down in it, just sit back, relax, and get an impressionistic view of the Quilt.  I promise,  you will not be tested on the facts. LOL. - R.B.

 



 

PART 1:

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

What is the Atlantis Quilt?

The “Atlantis Quilt” is a series of nine small books forming one large sci-fi fantasy epic.  It is a “spoof” of Star Trek and The X-Files that recaps the Traditional Catholic Life. In it, agent Wolfe Greathair (my version of Fox Muldar) encounters the Divine (Jesus) when he encounters, at first, Captain Turk (my version of Captain Kirk)  and then a remnant of the lost Atlantis (Atlantis being used to attract unbelievers and not used to mix paganism with Catholicism.)

 

Purpose of Play

The origianal overall purpose of The Atlantis Quilt is to present, in a symbolic way, the story of Jesus Christ to those who are turned off by an explicit presentation of the Catholic Life; in this way they may be able to digest it as it is fed to them in a symbolic, gradual and highly entertaining fashion.

 

(Note: Recently, I have, in effect, given up on presenting this story to a Non-Christian, and even a non-Catholic Christian, audience and instead have focused on this being a story for ultra-traditional (i.e. True) Catholics.  Therefore, one will sometimes get the impression of a somewhat split-personality duality in any particular story in the Quilt.  However, from the get go, one of the Quilts purposes has been as a type of prayer or contemplation for me and at times it comes across as this.) 

 

Theme of “The Atlantis Quilt”

The main theme is to show that we need to get back HOME and how sin keeps us away from it.  That is, we need to prepare ourselves for the “Voyage Home.”

 

The Atlantis Quilt: Narnia-like

The Quilt uses the method C.S. Lewis used in the Chronicles of Narnia.  There, Christ was the majestic Kingly Lion, Aslan.  In most of the Atlantis Quilt, Christ is the majestic Kilgon (Klingon) warrior Mr. GoRg.  That is, Mr. GoRg is the incarnation of the Second Being of the Trinity in a parallel universe, the universe which Captain Turk (Kirk) belongs to. The last half of The Atlantis Quilt deals with our Universe where Jesus is incarnated in his usual form.  The Quilt uses this Kilgon alter-ego for several reasons: 1) to acclimatize Jesus to non-Christians, 2) to shed some light on Christianitys neglected aspects.  Note, however, that Mr. G is not overly Klingon and definitely doesn't have any of their negative aspects

 

The Atlantis Quilts relation to the X-files.

It seems that agents Wolfe Greathair,  and his sidekick Dene DAnglu, bear a quite surprising resemblance to X-Files FBI agents Fox Muldar and Dana Scully.  Instead of investigating UFOs as Fox does, Wolfe investigates--in his Trek Files--Atlantis with its possible portals to the Turkian Universe.  Note however that Wolfe and and Dene do not have any of the explicit moral failings of their namesakes and they are not stridently anti-Catholic.  However, they are both weak non-believing ex-Catholics that need redeeming.

 

Intended Audience

The intended audience for the Quilt are those Trekkers, X-File fans and Sci-fi readers who are not Catholic (atheistic, agnostic or Protestant), but have a explicit or subconscious desire to know something of the Catholic faith.  Devout Catholics - who may or may not be Trekkers and such -- may also get much out of this story;  however, they must be aware of the symbolic nature of Quilt and the seemingly weak position -- at first at least -- that the plays take on the truth of the Catholic Faith.  

 

A Gradual Revealing of the Traditional

The Quilt starts off non-committal to the Faith, just being an ordinary sci-fi thriller and only in pieces and phases does it reveal the faith: first the Holy Spirit, then Christ, then the Catholic faith presented in a symbolic fashion and finally an explicit presentation of the traditional Catholic Faith.  This way, like cooking lobsters and gradually heating up the water, we will have people Hooked or “Cooked on to the Faith.

 

A Quilt of Many Elements

The Atlantis Quilt is a Quilt of many threads forming eventually one integrated unit. On the one hand it presents the Catholic Life: the sacraments, Dante, Biblical events, pro-life issues.  On the other hand it contains many cultural elements: songs from the sixties done by performers like Simon and Garfunkle, the Beatles and The Beach Boys; influences and scenes from movies such as the Sound of Music, Field of Dreams and Wizard of OZ; classical music; scenes and influences from many Star Trek Classic episodes (25) and  the seven Star Trek Classic Films, dialogue, ideas and characters from Shakespeares plays, Atlantean Legends, and the X-files.  The purpose of this diversity of cultural threads is not to create a syncretistic modernist mish-mash, but to 1) keep readers interested enough with this “loving spoonful of sugar” so that they can swallow the sometimes seemingly bad tasting Catholic medicine, and  2) to redeem this worldly cultural “meat” -- a culture that sometimes rises almost to the outskirts of heaven by itself -- by curing it with the salt of Christianity.

 

My goals for The Atlantis Quilt are J.R.R. Tolkien's goals for fairy stories

My goals in writing The Atlantis Quilt are the same as what J.R.R. Tolkien had in mind when he wrote about Fairy stories. Here is a snippet form his classic essay On Fairy Stories.

“I would venture to say that approaching the Christian story from this direction, it has been my feeling (a joyous feeling) that God redeemed the corrupt making-creatures, men,  in a way fitting to this aspect, as to others, of their strange nature. The gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of  a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. They contain many marvels--peculiarly artistic, beautiful, and moving: ’mythical in their perfect, self-contained significance;  and among the marvels is the greatest and most complete conceivable eucatatrophe. (i.e. Good Catastrophe. -- R.B.)  But this story has entered History and the primary world; the desire and aspiration of sub-creation has been raised to the fulfilment of Creation.  The Birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe of Mans history.  The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the Incarnation.  The story begins and ends in joy.  It has pre-eminently the inner consistency of reality.  There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many sceptical men have accepted as true on its own merits.  For the Art of it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is of Creation.  To reject it leads to sadness or to wrath.

I especially like the combination of the mythical with the historical: this is the core of my approach to this story: it is both, on the one side, very traditional, rational, down-to-earth and historical and on the other side very poetic, mythical, emotional and experiential.  Even though many of today's N.O. 'catholics' perhaps place too much emphasis on emotions and experience--perhaps making this the basis of their faith--this doesn't mean one can not try to integrate these two sides of the Catholic faith, for our faith was all ONE before and given that one comes to belief through the more prosaic methods (historical research, reason) one can then try to meditate-on and contemplate God in a way that perhaps deals with that other side of our nature (which God also gave to us) in the form of emotions, intuition and experience.

 

Another theme of the Atlantis Quilt is Mirth

Sometimes the tone of the Atlantis Quilt is in line with what G.K. Chesterton wrote about Mirth and Jesus.  Below is a quote from him on this very subject.

“There was something which HE covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation.  There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when he walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth.”

 



 

PART 2:

BOOK BY BOOK

SUMMARIES

 

 FORWARD: A STRANGE ORB:

Length: 10 pages

Date of event: October 2002.

Location of Event: Calgary

New Characters: R.B. (the Editor),  Doc (Media Expert)

Synopsis: I, R.B., find the Atlantis Orb and extract from it, with Doc's help, The Atlantis Quilt created by Frank Sincere on Atlantis in the year 2042.

 

PROLOGUE: THE WAY TO EDEN

Length: 30 pages.

Date of event: 2042.

New Characters:  Frank (Prime Minister of Atlantis, about 70 years old), Sandra (His wife), Sam (his Best Friend),  Truly (Frank's daughter), Bob (Truly's second husband), Roberto (Truly's wayward son.)

Synopsis: In 2042, Franks grandson, Roberto--along with Bob and Frank--is  placed in a fully functioning 3-D "Atlantis Quilt" in order to be redeemed.  Frank originally put together the Quilt mostly from the memoirs of Captain Wolfe Greathair. 

 

SAGA 1:

THE TREK FILES

 

BOOK 1: IN SEARCH OF A HERO

Length: 200 pages, 10 chapters.

Dates in Turkian Universe: 2285AC; December 31, 2999AC (the last day of the Turkian Universe.)

Locations of Turkian Events: Logicon (i.e Vulcan, in 2285AC), Turkia (in 2999 AC; a planet where the descendants of Captain Turk live) ); The UCC Edelweiss (my version of the Enterprise)

Dates of Earth events: 1964, 2000, 2002.

Locations of Earth Events:  Universitas (a cloaked island in the middle of the Atlantic that is a remnant of Atlantis); Montreal; the UCC Edelwiess II (a copy of the "Edelweiss" that Wolfe and crew use) The Agency (A secretic organization that investigates newly found Atlantean technology on Universitas.)

New Characters:  Frank, Sam and Sandra in 2002; Captain Wolfe Greathair, Dene D'Anglu, Captain Turk, Spuvock and the rest of the crew.

Synopsis: The introduction of the main heroes and themes in a seemingly disconnected series of stories over many years revealing their sinful pasts and their need for a hero who will clean their dark inner oiliness and reignite their hope for the return of love and happiness to a dreary and cold universe.

 

The most significant story involves our heros Wolfe and Dene and is the basis  for much of the Trek Files. On October 31, 1999, Dene, in trying to get information for the Trek-obsessed Wolfe, gets knifed in the abdomen by some ruffians who inadvertantly have turned up in a place where Dene was to get info (and  maybe access) to the Turkian Universe. The significant thing about this attack is that Dene was six months pregnant at the time, pregnant in fact with Wolfe's twin son and daughter. This causes her to become catatonic. However on waking for a short stolen moment she realizes that she now holds in her hand a crystal that may be a portal to Turk's Universe.  Wolfe rushes Dene to a nearby hospital, but things go awry when some Furryguys (i.e. Ferengis) try to steal the crystal from Dene and in the ensuing struggle, Dene's babes are lost and Wolfe also goes catatonic.  Luckily some 'Agency' personell spirit Wolfe and Dene to Universitas and fix their physical injuries but not their psychological ones.  The attempted cure of these psychological injuries is the heart of the next book and in fact the whole Trek Files Saga.

 

 BOOK 2: ALL OUR YESTERDAYS

Length: 150 pages in 6 chapters.

Date of event on Earth:   October 31, 1999

Location of Events on Earth: The Center (A institute under Universitas where 'Agency' scientists investigate a cache of Atlantean technology.)  The Chambre (a room in the Center where scientists investigate Atlantean mind orbs.)

Date of event in Turkian Universe:  2999AC

Location of events in Turkian Universe:  The Turkdome on Turkia (a sporting arena encased in a TV studio where participants play Turkball.)

New Characters:  G (or Mr. G or Mr George. The 'Kilgon' version of Jesus);  The G or The Holy Ship or the Edelweiss G (The Holy Spirit manifested in the form of an Edelweiss ship); Four Agency Scientists: Minuet, Libero, Borgus and JP.  JP is also a 3000 year old Atlantean that has been consecrated Bishop of Universitas by St Peter. In the Centre, His Catholic alter ego is known to none but himself.    David Turk (Turk's son and creator of the Generation Device, a device that can re-create an entire planet); Karen Carcus (mother of David and long estranged to David's Father, Turk.  Now almost a saint and a 'nun'.) Dr. Silk (an 'angelic' character of indeterminate sex who perhaps represents Satan or a devil. Tries to entrap Turk and crew in all sorts of sins and eventually eats up the ship and its crew.)

Synopsis: In the Chambre, mind probes of an injured Wolfe and Dene cause the Turkdome and Edelweiss G to appear; because it is near the end of the Turkian Universe, the G manifests itself in a curtain niche in the Turkdome.  Its presence creates a Time Portal and "The Bridge" in two other Turkdome Niches.   Is this real or a manifestation of Wolfe's Trek obsessed unconscious.  Anywhichway,  after seeing the G give Turk, Spuvock and crew one more chance to redeem themselves after pridefully sinning and causing much pain to their loved ones, Wolfe follows suite

 

BOOK 3: THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER

Length: 150 pages in 6 chapters.

Date of event in Turkian Universe: same as before

Location of event in Turkian Universe:  same as before. The Edelweiss M now appears in a Turkdome niche.  This is the Edelweiss Militant (ie. The Church and is used, at times, by Turk and Crew as a Time Travel vehicle) Two Edelweiss G pods appear in another niche of the Turkdome: in these pods three exchanges take placeat various timesfirst, Karen exchanges her blood for Turk's in order to heal him of physical injuries;  second, Spuvock exchanges mind engrams with his father in order to heal his father of a mental condition and third,  G exchanges sins for spiritual life with Turk, David, Karen, Spuvock and crew: This is an allegory of baptism.

Date of event on Earth:   same as before

Location of Event on Earth:  same as before.

New Characters:   Blitzen Greathair.  (The recently dead father of Greathair who comes from Purgatory to try to redeem Wolfe, but who instead is very roughly treated by his son. However, this may be, in a strange way, the start of Wolfe's own redemption.)

Synopsis: After Turk and crew unite with G's Barbification through the ceremony of the Jumping into the Well of Sorrows (Baptism) thereby exchanging his dirty blood with the Vigorous Clean Blood of G, Wolfe follow suites and thereby regains his relationship with G, the blessing of his father and the love of Dene; also presents the life of G'Lus, his birth, Barbification and  Refusion. David, for a time, becomes a minion of Dr. Silk and Turk and crew have a hard time bringing him back to be loyal to the Confederation of Mr. G, especially when they try to convert him through the programs in the Holy-Deck of Edelweiss M. Are they successful in their conversion of David or does he become a permanent minion of Dr. Silk.

 

BOOK 4: HOMEWARD BOUND

Length: 125 pages in 5 chapters.

Date of event in Turkian Universe: End of the World.

Location of event in Turkian Universe:  The Turkdome, The Edelweiss S (S for suffering: an allegory for Purgatory.)  Haven (Heaven)

Date of event on Earth:  Same as before.   

Location of Event on Earth:  same as before

New Characters:  Mariah (mother of G)

Synopsis: After learning to love his enemies, the Kilgons, while playing a fun and rousing game of Turkball, he receives his first confession and his first communion. After several intervening years   Turk dies; is he still in a state of sanctification and does he makes his way through Purgatory on the Edelweiss S until he reaches Haven where he rejoins all his loved ones including the Captain of Captains, Mr. G? Read and find out!  Whether he makes it or not, we have a glimpse of Haven, which seems like a perpetual fun-filled musical much in the fashion of The Sound of Music and The Beach Boys with many of their tunes sung and danced to there.  In addition, all who reach Haven get their own Edelweiss T (T for Truimphant) and become part of that fleet whose head is that wonderful person, Mr. G.

 

 

 INTERLUDE

 

THE FACE IN THE WOOD

Length: 100 pages in 4 chapters.

Date of event:  February 2001

Location of Event: The Holodeck of the Edelweiss II. When this happens, the ship itself is travelling about Universitas; this is the case since it was caught in a storm on January 1 2000. On that date, Wolfe, Dene and the crew all suddenly woke up there with cases of amnesia; since then they have been trying to remember their lives and their previous encounters with G in 1999. Dene, somehat pridefully,  enters the Holodeck to force the issue and make G present himself.

Location of events on other planets:  A watery ocean planet dotted with Volcanic islands and populated with Astarii (see below).  Dene arrives here on this very real planet through the Holodeck.  How? See Ang'thrax below.

New Characters:  Ang'thrax (an Astarii.  Astarri are beings higher than man but lower than angels. Perhaps somewhat akin to Gandalf from Lord of the Rings.   Ang is a constant companion of Wolfe and Dene and in the past has been the means of access to the Turkian Universe.  Perhaps he represents grace or a connection to God, for Ang's refractive, reflective powers can reflect a vision of angels who in turn see God.  In this book, Ang, in conjunction with the Holodeck, transports Wolfe and Dene to the watery ocean world;  The Dolphgrins (Astarii or part Astarii who take the form of Dolphins and inhabit the water world; they become friends with Wolfe and Dene in their Holodeck adventure.); John-and-Catherine or J-C (they are full Astarii Dolphgrin who reflect G's 'male' and 'female' sides and therefore also His Couple-ness and Parent-ness  They also reflect his Eagle-ness, his Lamb-ness and his Fish-ness. Although, I found this quote from St. Terese of Lisieux only after I wrote this story I think it summarizes very succintly what I have been trying to do here: "I must rely on the angels and the saints so that I may fly to you, my adored Eagle, with your own wings."  )

Synopsis: In 2001, aboard the Edelweiss II, Dene, in a state of despair apparently because she has forgotten all about G due to a case of self induced amnesia, tries to relive her memories of G by using a mind probe that manifests her mind out into a holodeck which, in addition, unbeknownst to her, is linked to the refracting reflecting powers of Ang'thrax (later Wolfe joins the adventure to rescue her); she (and Wolfe) thereby experiences a fantasy-full representation of the whole Catholic (sacramental) Life and have a meeting with the FACE!!! of G (Commuion): is this only a manifestation of their minds or did they have real contact with G and will this help renew Dene's Love of Life and her love for Wolfe and their attempts to bring new life into this world?

 

 

SAGA 2: ASTARII WARS

 

BOOK 1: THE WIZARD IN THE MIST

Length: 100 pages in four chapters.

Date of event:  Oct 31-Nov 1, 1999.

Earthly settings: The Chambre, The South Pyramid Volcano of Universitas (part natural, part man made island); Centre Isle of Universitas.  

Other Worldy Settings: The Lion and Lamb Restaurant (a restaurant where the Lounge singer of all Lounge Singers performs (i.e. G or Jesus).  It transform between a restaurant and a Traditional Chapel.  Note; it never both at the same time. It is accessed thru Ang or in another sense IS Ang); Mariah's Cottage; A park in Calgary

Main Characters:  Wolfe, Dene, JP (JP is part Astarii), Minuet (Min is one quarter aStarii), G (TheWizard),  Mariah,  Ang.

New Characters.  Draconia (An evil Astarii.  Empress of the evil Delcu Dominion in a Galaxy accessed through a portal in the evil underground of Universitas. Because of a strange prophecy just becoming known to her, she becomes Wolfe and Dene's arch enemy.); Mr. Sheen (part Astarii and chief henchman of Draconia.); The Warx Brothers (eight Astarii, four male and four female, who seem a lot like the Marx Brothers or is it vicee-versa? They show up to assist G in helping Wolfe and Dene against Draconia in the The Lion and Lamb Restaurant.)

Synopsis: On November 1, 1999, Wolfe and Dene, through the good aStarii Ang'thrax, battle the despair inducing powers of the evil aStarii, Draconia, and only come out with their souls barely intact by imprisoning Draconia and receiving the despair destroying grace of Mr. G.

 

BOOK 2: THE AMUSA-INGS

Length: 150 pages in six chapters.

Dates of event on Earth:  1979-1981, November 2, 1999.

Setting: All the Islands of Universitas: The Free Southron Islands (Multi-cultural farming community, mainly Catholic and British);  The Ambrosian Isles (artistic colonies abound there; Mr Rork and Batoo host a resort there much like Fantasy Island); Athenian Isles (College and University community); Mingolia (a Kingdom of mighty noble knights and warriors.); Centre Isle ( a tall narrow spire of an island. On a ledge at a thousand feet above the water are four churches all leading to the magnificent Cavern deep in the Isle where thousands of statues of the saints abound in a woundrous spiral around its walls right up to its dark mysterious top.)

New Characters:  Amusa (a musical magical beautiful female Astarii.); Hulkules (a descendent of the mighty Sargon the Great; a great hulking figure of a man and a fair poet. Marries Amusa.);  Romulus and Remus (the mighty twins son of Amusa and Hulk who grow up to full adulthood in two years (in 1979-1981) but who revert to their real age in 1981 and meet Wolfe and Dene in 1999.); Astareal (a good angel that is the liason between G and all Astarii); Winged Night (a dark, fiery evil Astarii which Wolfe and Dene wake up from its slumber deep in the bowels of Universitas and who battles Amusa in the Cavern.)

Synopsis: On November 2 1999, Wolfe and Dene hear a wondrous tale illuminating some of the  mysteries of Atlantis and of the equally mysterious aStarii: in 1979, the aStarii, aMusa, descends to Earth to marry and be a mother and in doing so learns from man and the Son of Man, that the relationship with G is not simply a matter of Fun and Games, but involves things like suffering and sacrifice and unselfishness, things which deepen LOVE; after hearing this tale, Dene gets a chance to join in on aMusa's story and also experiences the DEEP love of G through her own painful start of her withdrawal from sin and a 'vision' of the last week of the Life of Jesus.  

 

BOOK 3:  A DIVINE SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDY

Length: 200 pages in 8 chapters.

Date of events: November - December 1999.  

Settings:  Universitas; The Underground of Universitas (the dark deep mines where Draconia mines Anchorium,  a substance that can anchor her Astarii Powers.  The mines are worked by Bongos, hobbit like creature who are fully human nonetheless: Draconia had breeded them to be small. At the bottom of the mines is a Portal to Drac's Delcu Dominion.);  Planets in the Delcu Dominion: Draconia (Capital of the Delcu Dominion); Venusia (Planet in the 'Rim' of the galaxy.  In the Rim, the planets are more or less free, but have some connection with the Dominion.  Venusia is run by the Erotically-correct police who make sure that all people share and share alike in matters of Eros and Lust.); Sargon's Rock. (an island or rock perfectly balanced on the top of the needle-like summit of Centre Isle.  Because of a 'Bendonics Field' this Isle is really in fact the size of the Phillipines. A once happy and abundant land which has just recently left a fully Catholic Culture, it  now suffers under the fem-nazi tyranny of feminists. )

Main Character:  Wolfe, Dene, Min, JP, Romulus, Remus, Draconia, Mr. Sheen.

New Characters of the Underground and the Dominion:  King Heronymos (King of Venusia, but who has been absent from the planet for twenty years; liberal but basically good.)  Antonius and Cleopatria (Older Son and Daughter of Heronymous who now rule Venusia and who have made the planet what it is.)  Julius (Younger son of Hero; good and just returnuing to the planet.) Juliet.(Twin sister of Cleopatria; good and also just returning); Note: The twins Romulus and Remus experience all kinds of A-Mid-Summer-Nights-Dream type of mix-ups between them and the twins, Juliet and Cleopatria; Mr. Stitch: Evil servant to Antonius.  Petroleus: Lord of the Underground in Universitas.  Note: Mr Sheen, Stitch and Petroleus have a mysterious connection.  

New characters on Sargon's Rock:  King Senor (half Bongo ruler of Sargon's Rock. Now deposed by his wife, Queen Jacka, and sent off in exile, with his male court, to the Forest of Endor.) Queen Jacka (fully human ruler of Sargon's Rock. Ultra feminist.);  Bee Bob and Bee Anna (Son and daughter of Senor and his full Bongo mistress; therefore they are 3/4 Bongo. Bee Ann lives with Jacka and Bee Bob lives in exile in a far-off hill country where he commands his squadron of Zepplin sailing ships.); Bramlix (Full Bongo and Court Jester for Bee Anna.); Biker (Heroic Bongo and Beau of Bee Ann.) Berry and Boppin (A Laurel and Hardy type Bongo duo who meet up with Wolfe.) All this sets up characters and settings similar to those in Shakespeare's As You Like It.

Synopsis: In order to save the kidnapped twin sons of aMusa, Wolfe and Dene travel to the evil interplanetary Delcu Dominion of Draconia  and due to their sinful pride they not only fail at rescuing the twins, but they inadvertently release Draconia from her  prison and unleash her Despair: this takes the form of Draconia sentencing all their friends to death without giving them access to confession; Wolfe seems to die and is confused as to whether his current place of residence is purgatory or hell.  

 

Fortunately finding themselves mysteriously on Sargon's Rock, Wolfe and Dene continue on their voyage of Redemption and face certain isues: does Wolfe finally confess all his sins and does he succeed at re-acquiring his manly courage; does Dene face squarely the fem-nazi demons within and without and does she try to to submit to her recently acquired earthly husband, Wolfe Greathair, and to her Spiritual Husband, Mr. G.

 

At the end of this story, Deen has A Job-Like experience when she and Ang--in the form of the UCC Edelwisss II--goes beserk after accumulating too much stress when a strange evil storm inundates Universitas and sets Ang, Dene and the crew to half successfully rescue many forlorn, injured and badly burned victims of this fiery swirling storm.  Seeing so many dead or suffering people puts stress on Denes newly found faith.  Does Ang, together with Denes favourite poem, The Hound of Heaven, pull her through this Job-Like experience. Read and find out.

 

This book combines elements, from the two Shakespearean plays "As You Like It" and "The Taming of the Shrew."  These plays are condensed, rearranged and modified to give them a slightly new meaning -- or perhaps bringing out their true intent.

 

BOOK 4:

WHO WILL TIE UP OUR LOOSE ENDS?

Length:  100 pages in four chapters

Date of event on Earth:  2002  

Setting:  Universitas;  Sargon's Rock;  The Vine (A magical Vine coming partly from the Turk's Universe, partly from Ang and partly from Mariah (perhaps symbolizing grace); Sprouting from the Underside of ther Edelweiss II,  It can possibly do three things for Universitas: 1) during Lent,  it can destroy all evil places in Universitas and Sargon's Rock, 2) after Pentecost, it can renew all homesteads previously destroyed in the storm (and can dissipate the storm too) and 3) and in late Summer, it could meld, with the help of Mariah, Universitas and Sargon's Rock into one wondrous fecund land.  Does the Vine do all this; perhaps this depends on the prayers and sanctity of Wolfe, Dene and company.);  Wolfe's Lair I (This wondrous structures come about when the the Vine stitches the Edelweiss II to the centre of Sargon's Rock and transform it into a wondrous castle.) The Zipperweiss (On easter Wolfes Lair detaches from it anchoring point and transforms into a mighty floating castle; on Ascension Day it disappears from the face of the earth only to return on Pentecost.) Wolfe's Lair II? (Is there a Wolfe's Lair II and does it, in the form of the The Zipperweiss, re-attach to the centre of Sargon's Rock where it can be Sargonia's capital for the next while.)

Main characters:  King Wolfe, Queen Dene, Court Jester Bramlix, Prime Minister Frank, Sandra, Sam, Sherrif Berry, Boppin, General Biker, Admiral Bee Bob, Bee Ann, Senor, Jacka, Minuet, Julius, Juliet, Remus, Romulus, Archbishop JP, Heronymos; Even Doc (see foreward)  shows up for the festivities

New Characters:  Beany (Beau to Berry), Bappin (Beau to Boppin); Delcii (Evil one-quarter Astarii who tries to usurp the crown from Wolfe.); Bob (Bongo rescued from the Underground by Berry.  He is later impersonated by Delcii.)  Cassiopeia (Full Astarii whose marriage to Sargon the Great initiated the Golden Age of Atlantis in time immemorial and who now rules, with Sargon, the wondrous Anglu Federation in a galaxy far far away.  She now comes to help Wolfe, and many others, battle the evil machinations of the devious Delcii. Does she succeed? And if she does succeed to some extent, what is that great sacrifice she must do in order to be successful and help her newly found friends.

Synopsis: Years later in the year 2002, Wolfe becomes King of this remnant of Atlantis, with Dene his Queen, and tries to re-establish Catholic principals of Government there while Archbishop Jean-Paul D'Anglu tries to strengthen its much weakened Church by reintroducing good traditional Catholic principals; most of the liturgical year is presented with its major feasts.  The lovable Laurel and Hardy duet, Berry and Boppin -- two hobbit like creatures -- add merriment and comic drama to this last tale as Berry, in his most uppity pride and ambition, hinders Wolfe's attempt to create order in Universitas and helps Delcii usurp the crown.  Therefore this is a tale also of Berry's possible rehabilitation and repentance.

 

 

EPI-LOG: YOU'RE ONLY MADE FOR ME:

Length: 25 pages.

Date of event on Earth:  November 2042   

Location of Event on Earth:  Forest of Endor (in Universitas); labyrinthine caves under the Forest of Endor.  Purgatory, Heaven.

Main Characters: JP, Roberto, Bob, Father Gemina Ang, G, Turk and gang, Wolfe, Dene and gang.

Synopsis: In 2042, Roberto, who just finished experiencing the Quilt, gets a chance to bow down to God just before he dies. Does he do it and does he make it to Haven to meet Wolfe and Dene and Turk and gang and see that fantabulous FACE!!!

 



 

PART 3

Pseudo-Abortion and Pregnacy Threads

 

The Quilt is made up of many additional story threads that cant all be presented in a quick overview as this one here.  One of the Quilt Threads can be called The Pseudo-abortion Thread. Since non-Christians will be leery about confronting a story dealing with real abortions, the Quilt tells stories that on the one hand deal with events that are not true abortions, therefore not scaring off atheists, and on the other hand deal with many of the features of a real abortion, therefore immersing non-believers in the horrors and guilt of an abortion.   The four pseudo-abortions are two for Dene, one for Karen Carcus and one for the aStarii Amusa.

 

Dene #1:  When her first twins are conceived, Dene finds out that a metallic device, implanted in her, has the power of possibly giving her cancer anytime during her pregnancy and she contemplates an abortion at that time, but eventually decides against it.   However, because Dene is a feminist workaholic, she runs around dark corners with her gun doing dangerous Agency stuff while six months pregnant.  Subsequently, she is knifed in her abdomen while in the middle of a dangerous Agency rendezvous.  Rushed to an O.R. by Wolfe, her twin babes are almost saved until the O.R. is hijacked by some evil Atlanteans who want to steal something being held tightly in Dene's hand. In order to do this they need to get rid of all distractions and thereby kill all the good doctors trying to save Dene and her babies; this results in the extracted babies being left alone on their bloody trays to unfortunately splutter to death. 

 

Seemingly fortunate for Dene, her own physical injuries are rectified by Agency doctors using Atlantean technology. However, her psychological and spiritual traumas continue on throughout the first Saga of the Quilt as Agency doctors try to cure her trauma.  They only partially succeed in Saga I, but a more complete cure is only effected when we get to Saga II where Dene encounters the Spiritual Doctor through the sacrament of Confession. Does this cure have a permanent effect?  Read and find out.

 

Karen Carcus:  In the Turkdome, Karen and Turk stand before a Time Portal that shows a past Karen.  This past Karen is pregnant with David and is going for a sonogram. Dr. Silk sneaks into the Portal and forces the past Karen into an abortion by first sedating her with some poison.  The current Karen is also incapacitated with this same poison still in her body after so many years.  She calls on the stalwart Turk to save the day.  But unfortunately, the sneaky Silk has so setup things that Turks precious ship, the Edelweiss, is imperiled at the exact same time and he must choose between saving the solitary ONE Karen or the MANY on his ship.  He makes the wrong decision and the past Karen has an abortion forced on her with the current Karen seeing this right before her very eyes. Since David is the “Adam” of the planet Turkia, his abortion causes the immediate disappearance of all Turkians before our very eyes. And not only does Turks bad decision kill David, but it also results in the deaths of Karen and Turks whole crew by Dr. Silk.  Fortunately, G gives Turk another “chance” to make the right decision by setting the Portal back in time.  Will he make the right choice this time and save his dear loved ones.  Read  Saga 1 and find out.  (Note: The G doesn't really give anyone in the Trek Files a second chance: rather alternate Timelines can be thought of as a very realistic dramatization of  the results of a very bad decision. )

 

Amusa:  In 1979, on an island in Universitas, a female aStarii, Amusa, makes a visit to earth and marries the earthling, Hulkules. Getting soon married and pregnant, Amusa, a fun loving, pain-hating aStarii, has subconscious doubts about whether she wants to bring her twins to term.  Being an aStarii, she has vast powers and her subconscious has the power to kill her twins and indeed an army of poisonous acidic creatures starts to gnaw at the outer tender skins of  Amusas twin embryos.  Hulk calls on his friend, the aStarii Angthrax, to help.  Ang shrinks Hulk and inserts him and a chariot into Amusas womb to fight these caustic invaders.  Hulk is joined by Amusas “soul” and they both shrink back in horror when they see their beloved progeny being tortured in unmentionable pain before their very eyes and almost despair when they hear the heart-rending screams of pain from these two ever-vulnerable twins.  With their chariot weapons they fight the good fight slowing down this never-ending army, but eventually fall to the bottom of the womb full of injuries and blood. Now does this Red Blood of Prayerful, Loving, Sacrifice somehow start the process that will eventually save the twins.  (read The Amusa-ings ans find out.)

 

Dene # 2:  A year after this traumatic event described just above, Dene, now married to Wolfe, has recurring flashbacks to this event that continue to effect her.  Now married to Wolfe, she has trouble performing the marital act, taking four months of writing memoirs to enable her to do it.  Once pregnant, her next set of twins have problems fully “anchoring” to her womb because of these psychosomatic problems and she almost miscarries several times.   Wolfe attempts a cure by making Dene read his Divine Memoirs.  And the Doctor of all Doctors attempts a cure of Dene by presenting her with a Job Like experience. Does this cure have its effect and are Denes twins finally delivered? Again, read and find out.   (this Tread starts out in Saga 1 and culminates near the end of Saga 2)

 

Now go and read the entire Quilt; it is quite an experience...

 

May God Bless and The Blessed Virgin Mary wrap her blessed consoling Quilt around you.

 

Rick Bubric

Calgary

February 14, 2007.