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Hello everyone. As my own life is still in somewhat of a wild chaotic state, I thought that I could tell you guys a story. It’s a story that I’ve been thinking about for several years and it’s a story which relates to what’s going on today in the world. And so you guys have been following me, some of you’ve been following me now for two years. I figure you’re all ready to do your own symbolic interpretation. I’m going to tell you the story and hopefully you can all come to your own conclusions based on that story. And so the story is the story of a medieval romance called Silence. It is a lesser known romance but it has garnered attention recently because it deals with certain issues. It is not the only romance which deals with these subjects but this one has a particular strength to it which is worth mentioning. It’s called the Romance of Silence. It is part of the Arthurian romance cycle. In the Romance of Silence we find a situation in the Middle Ages where women were not allowed to inherit land. And because women were not allowed to a certain nobleman when he has a daughter, he decides at some point to raise the daughter as a boy in order that his land may continue on in his family. And so as the child grows the father is forced to tell the child whose name is Silence that we’re going to say he because in the text they do say that Silence, they use the Maculian pronoun in order to name Silence. And so the father tells his daughter that he must not reveal his true nature to the world and must hide his true nature in order for his lineage to be able to continue. And so in this romance Silence grows up and becomes a knight, becomes a squire, becomes several things which are traditionally roles that men have and excels at them, becomes an amazing knight who’s extremely strong and gets the attention of the king even. And so this young knight at the age of 15 is brought into the king’s court as this prodigy who is going to help the king in his different problems. And all through the story there are two characters which appear, two allegorical characters. One is nature and the other is nurture. And these two characters will argue with Silence during the entire story about whether or not Silence should act according to her nature or whether or not she should act according to this nurturing that she has received. And so the different characters they discuss, they debate the problems of one or the other. And so the question is who is going to win? Is nature going to win or is nurture going to win? Because in terms of nurture Silence is a man but in terms of nature Silence is a woman. And so the question is who will win in the end? And so Silence arrives in the king’s court and immediately the king’s wife, the queen, becomes enamored with Silence. Especially seeing that Silence is a valiant knight and that Silence is able to perform several feats. And so the queen tries to seduce Silence and wants to take Silence as her lover. But Silence of course refuses her advances. One, because he’s an honorable knight. Second, because he is a woman. And for all those reasons he refuses the queen. And the queen is extremely angry with Silence. She is so angry and jealous that she accuses Silence of trying to rape her. And so she accuses Silence before the king that Silence had tried to rape her. And the king is dismayed because Silence is one of his best knights. Silence has acquired all this honor in his court and so he does not know what to do to dishonor his court but also to humiliate himself, humiliate his own entourage. All of that he is dismayed. And so the queen has an idea. There is a legend. There is this saying which is that Merlin has fled into the wild lands. He has become a wild creature. He has let himself completely go and exist as a wild man in the forest. And there is this legend which is that Merlin cannot be caught by a man but can only be caught the trickery of a woman. And so the queen tells the king, send Silence out to try to catch Merlin. And because he is a man he will not be able to catch Merlin and therefore he will be dishonored. You can tell him that if he does not catch Merlin he has to leave your court. He cannot come back. He cannot be hired by anybody and you can destroy him in that manner. And so the king tells this to Silence and says you have to go into the wild area and you have to catch Merlin. And so Silence goes out in order to catch him. He arrives in the wild land and he hears of a way that maybe he can catch Merlin. Merlin has been living like an animal on wild nuts and roots and he has become covered in hair. You know he is this hairy beast who lives out in the wild. He has lost all memory of civilization, all memory of himself. And so Silence decides to put out some meat because the humans, human beings are carnivorous especially if it is well cooked. And so he puts out this meat but he also puts out a few other traps which I’ll tell you later. He puts out this meat and so he hides and Merlin comes out and Merlin giving in to his nature. You know he has now nurtured himself into being a wild man but suddenly remembering and being reconnected with his human nature he devours the meat without thinking and he eats this entire piece of meat and he finds himself to be extremely thirsty. And so Silence has laid out something to drink for Merlin but without, but Merlin does not know that what Silence has laid out is a jar full of honey. And so Merlin drinks this honey and having drunk this honey he is even thirstier and thirstier and thirstier. And looking out he sees something else to drink and then he finds this jar of milk and so he drinks up this milk. And so having drank a jar of honey and having drank a jar of milk he finds himself thirstier than he has ever been before. And so right ahead of him is another drink that he can have and that drink of course is wine. And so Merlin gulps the wine without thinking and falls into a drunken stupor. Now I won’t tell you the meaning but I would, I’m hoping that in some of the comments you will try to analyze the relationship between him remembering his nature, eating meat, eating, drinking honey, drinking milk, and then ultimately drinking wine. Let’s see who can come up with a good interpretation of that. All right enough parentheses let’s continue. And so Silence finds Merlin in this stupor and Merlin is surprised how is it possible that this man has caught me but Merlin looks at Silence and already begins to snicker. He begins to have a secret laugh rise within him. So Silence tells Merlin that he has to bring him back to the court and that Merlin has to answer for different things. And as Silence is bringing Merlin back to the court the people hear about this and they start to assemble and they start to get ready to to receive Merlin but along the way Merlin comes up and he sees this poor man who is walking around and he is holding a pair of brand new shoes. This peasant who is holding a pair of brand new shoes and Merlin starts to laugh and Merlin starts to snicker and snicker and he’s struggling to hold it in and so he’s laughing and Silence asks him why are you laughing? Why is the poor man holding a new pair of shoes making you laugh? But Merlin will not answer. He will only laugh and so as he’s going further he sees in front of a church a group of mendicants, a group of poor beggars who are begging for their food, who are begging for a little bit of money and Merlin starts to laugh even more and his laughter is louder and more uncontrollable and Silence asks him Merlin why are you laughing? Why are these beggars here in front of the church? How is it that they’re making you laugh? But Merlin will not answer. Merlin will only laugh and his laugh is getting louder and more uncontrollable and as he gets closer and closer to the town he walks in front of the cemetery and he sees a man who is burying a young child and next to this man burying his young child is a priest who is saying the prayers and he is sensing the tomb and then Merlin loses control and he is on the ground holding his belly laughing and laughing and laughing and Silence says how horrible is this? How can you laugh at this situation? What is making you laugh in this situation? But Merlin will not tell her and all he can do is laugh and so Silence drags him back to the court and brings him into the presence of the king and so as Merlin enters he enters into the court and all the noble people and everybody is surrounded him and the king is asking first of all the king is asking him you know first of all you lied to us you told us that only a woman could catch you and here a man has caught you you have you have bear born false witness you have said something which is untrue how do you account for that but also how is it that you laughed at this poor man holding his shoes? How is it that you laughed at these beggars and how is it that you laughed at this child who died and who was being buried by his father and incensed by the priest and Merlin looks at the king and he starts to laugh at the king and he is laughing and laughing and laughing and no one knows what’s going on so Merlin looks around and he sees this nun who is coming and who is accusing him on the ground and he looks at this nun and his laughter it just keeps going on and he’s pointing at this nun and he’s laughing at this nun and the queen is enraged and she’s screaming how is this possible what is this insult and then Merlin catches a glimpse of the queen and of course his laughter gets worse and worse even still and so there he is he is laughing at the queen he is laughing at the king at this nun he is laughing also at himself and he is laughing at silence as well at silence as well every time silence appears in his in his view and so the king is getting angry and he says Merlin you have to tell us you have to tell us why you are laughing so this is unacceptable this is this is unacceptable behavior on your part so Merlin tries to call himself tries to call himself he says first of all tell us why did you laugh as you were as you were coming back to the the castle why did you laugh at the poor man who was holding his shoes and then it all begins Merlin moves from a moment of laughter uncontrollable laughter to beginning to reveal the secrets which are hidden behind the appearances he begins to show how the appearances are concealing how the appearances are upside down and are concealing a secret underneath so he says I laughed at that man poor man who was so proud of his new shoes but who would die before even reaching his house so the king dispatches his soldiers and he finds the poor man who has died on the road back to his house so he says well then why did you laugh at these poor beggars who were there standing in front of the church and so the king so Merlin says I laughed at those beggars because there they were begging for the tiniest morsel you know acting as if they were poor as if their environment was completely barren as if everything was desolate around them when in fact right under them under the ground was hiding a treasure of immeasurable wealth and so they pretended that they had nothing that their resources were finished but in fact they had an infinite amount of wealth beneath them so the king sends out his guards and he he he digs up the the ground and he finds the treasure which Merlin had said and he sees it Merlin now until now he has been revealing all these secrets and so finally he says why did you laugh at the child who died and whose father was bearing and the priest was incensing him and he says I was laughing because the father should not have been crying little did he know that the father was not the father of that child but the father of that child was the priest who was incensing the grave and so the father should not have been mourning the child of the priest which he would have been forced to raise and so then we come to the final moment why did Merlin laugh when he was arriving in the king’s court and so then Merlin says I laugh because I laughed at four people I laughed at you oh king I laughed at myself I laughed at the actually there’s five people actually I laughed at the queen I laughed at this nun and I also laughed at silence he says I laugh because amongst all those people there are two tricks and there are two who are being tricked and two of those people should be laughed at because they are being tricked so the king is like enough of these puzzles enough of your puzzles Merlin tell me straight out what is happening and so finally Merlin reveals the secret he reveals the fact that that nun is not a nun that the nun is in fact a man who is dressed as a nun in order to be sneaky yeah I won’t use God’s side’s expression but who is acting as a sneaky person getting into the queen’s chamber and is in fact the queen’s secret lover and he says I also laughed at you king because you were being tricked in that situation I also laugh because I was tricked I was tricked because in fact silence is not a man silence is a woman and so then the king of course puts two and two together how is it possible that that silence tried to rape his wife his silence is a woman and so Merlin said I was also laughing at myself because I was tricked by a woman without even knowing it I was brought back by a man who was in fact a woman and so they take the nun and they take silence and they remove their clothing in order to see the truth and it says in the text that everything was in its place and I think that statement is the most accurate and the best way to put it of how Merlin’s laughter his uncontrollable laughing a trick upon a trick this double inversion brought about a re-establishing of normal order and then the king announced to silence because he understood that the reason why this happened was because women did not have any place in society before that because he and that women did not were did not have ways to participate in their lineage and therefore the king announces that from this day on women will be allowed to inherit and not only that but of course for the story to end well silence becomes silencia and she now becomes the queen and marries the king and everything finishes and everybody lives happily ever after and so that is my little story I told it to you so maybe we can see how you all can interpret it yourself and it also feels nice for myself to laugh because laughter is sometimes the best way to find your way out of chaos and tragedy so guys I want to thank you again for your attention thank you to everybody who has been supporting me through this crazy flood it is still going on there is still water in my basement and also you know there’s still water in my street we are hoping that in the next few days the water will go away so that we can start to pump the water out of the basement out of the basement and assess the damage but I have to be honest that it does not look good so thanks again and I will see you soon