But the year. Are there any signs to get know the year of the catastrophes? – Holmes asked.
The year on such pictures is specially encoded but… using the principle that the most obvious is the most unnoticeable. On the very centre of the picture there is a specific gesture of the person on the bench. In Russia one shows the number 21 with this gesture, on the West – number 3, but 2 plus 1 is 3 indeed. The first year of the third millennia without two zeros is 21. The calendar is published in “Chas Pick” number 1(201), so again 21 without zero. And at last look at the eye of the man, which glass is precisely on the 21st fence space (from left), including the one hidden beyond that man. Of course, having a sound scepticism one can consider this just a morbid imagination of a decipherer, who can see in any casual pictures everything he would like to see. But don’t you think that there are too many coincidences linked with “Chas Pick” paper?
As for me, I think the day of the suggested catastrophe to be October 4, – Paolo suddenly entered the discussion.
Why? –Andrew asked.
You’ve told that October was the month of probable catastrophes, as the largest round object in compare with nine stars in the sky. But there are other round objects on the picture. They are thirty times lesser than the Moon – the ornamental balls of the embankment fence. They are actually four. If the year as you’ve said is repeated four times in different variants, then the day is also repeated four times: there are four bull's-eyes of the steamboat; the house on the hill has four windows, and the dock too as well as whether the observatory or the church has four windows too.
Well, this is one of the probable versions, – agreed Andrew. – We shall see what we shall see. Though, this device near the church-observatory seems to be rather a missile launcher than a telescope.
Andrew, – Holmes turned to the speaker. – And what can strange picture in the calendar for 1994, printed in the last “Chas Pick” issue of 1993, mean? On the background a cart is moving to the left, and on the foreground a jade is carrying Santa Claus to the right. But her head is turned to the left; and her tail is at once Santa’s beard. Probably, it could be understood within special Russian symbolism?
We tried to interpret this picture somehow, – after a short pause answered Andrew. – In the initial period of the Soviet power formation in Russia, which still hadn’t calmed down after the revolution, there was very popular symbolist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. In one of his poems called “The Left March” there are such words: “We’ll drive too hard the jade of history! Left! Who’s going right? Left! Left!” – or something of a kind, I don’t remember precisely. Look at the horse on the background. Yes, it is going left, but… steps with its right leg. And this horse on the foreground moves right, but… steps with its left leg. It’s hard to me to explain the associations this picture arises, but it seems to me, that it very exactly reflects the two periods of Russia’s development. Before the Perestroika the USSR government, and especially in Stalin’s times, declared the Marxist slogans and the movement to the left but used right (righteous) methods. After the August putsch of 1991 the movement to the right was declared for the external world, but they used left, really Trotskyites’ methods. They at one moment pulled down all working strata of society of the richest state in the world (to dispossess, swindle with the property distribution). It was possible only under the genius guidance of the Trotskyites, who always say one and do another. The impression appears that in August 1991, fifty-one year later the murder, Trotsky returned to live and tried to finish that, what Stalin had prevented him to do. It’s not a secret today that the reforms began with Trotskyites rehabilitation held by descendants of persecuted and murdered Trotskyites. By the way, this strange 51st anniversary is shown in the jubilee paper number: 51(200), December 29, 1993. And the sum of figures in 29 is 11, and in 1993 – 22. This also is linked via the numeric measure with hierophants.
Holmes took the paper and began to examine it thoroughly. Then he turned it over and looked at the backside. The phone number of some firm called BCL – 311-1488 caught his eyes. Holmes noticed for himself that the combination of ciphers was similar to the number of “Chas Pick” issue 151(880) by October 14, 1997. He also drew his attention on the word “Грабли”[55] (it was a title of some small comic story), asked Andrew to translate it and only after it returned to the pictures of the “picnics”.
Mr. Verov, you’ve told of the “birds” drawn at the third “picnic”, as if they were the kamikaze-airplanes. What grounds do you have for such interpretation of this “feathered” symbolism, except the fact that airplanes fly as well as birds? – Holmes asked Andrew.
Well, Mr. Holmes, – Andrew continued. – I’ll try to tell you my version of the third puzzle solution taking into account my understanding of the matrix methods of ruling I’ve already told earlier. I’m not interested in its author’s name or the technology of their creation. I take these three “picnics” as the matrix-scenarios of possible events in Russia and the World. The realization probability of them is determined not so much by the symbols they consist of as by people minds condition, which takes place in the modern society. I sincerely believe God[56] and live in a permanent attempt to have a talk with the Almighty, who only doesn’t make any mistake in any case. The morality for me is not a relative thing, as cultural workers use to tell to people, but it is substantially determined, i.e. I consider the morality to be absolute and same for everybody: for people and for God too. The difference is that God Himself has established moral “standards” called the “righteousness” for Him, but for people these criteria are the ideal the should aim at in any circumstances. Thus is my attitude to all events, including tragic as well. In the modern society all is going in the best way in view of the objective (and far from righteous) morality that people have. This means that everything could be much worse ore better depending on how far does the real people’s morality deviate from or how near does it approach to the righteousness ideals, established by the Almighty.
What thoughts had he, who created this puzzle, what morality does he have – all of this is his own problems. He is responsible for them to God. The much more important is the reaction of people whose subconscious psychical levels got these pictures. With all this I of course mean the conscious, sensible reaction, which mostly is expressed in certain words. And now imagine that these pictures appeared before the look of half million Leningrad-Petersburg inhabitants. How do you think, during the two years between first and third “picnics” has just the city’s name changing change somehow the psyche of its inhabitants, their attitude to events in Moscow, in Russia at whole, in the world? I think that it has. Though, the majority of people don’t even think of this.
Well, what do we see at the pictures of the “Post Historical Picnic”? First of all the two main symbols of Russia: Kremlin’s Spasskaya tower and Vasily Blazhenny’s cathedral’s cupola, i.e. the symbols of the temporal and spiritual powers. On the right from them the “birds” fly, and their direction marked with the arrow is beyond any doubts. I won’t talk about the day’s length (7.52) corresponding to every January 20 on Moscow’s longitude, since you, Holmes, are well informed about it, as I could understand.
Yes, we discussed it with my friend Watson in London on September 22, when I left to Zurich. Moreover in Liechtenstein on a villa in Vaduz one of your compatriots has shown me the “History’s password” on the teeth of the fellow with an axe. After it I understood why the acts of terrorism took place on September 11, on the day “John the Baptiser’s Decapitation”. But I still wonder why do the “birds” associate to the planes?