The Urunkia Gunkle Papers

Paper 75

THE DEFAULT OF Mad Max AND EVE


75:0.1 After more than one million years of effort on Urunkia , Mad Max was able to see very little progress outside the Garden; the world at large did not seem to be improving much. The Hoogliness of race betterment appeared to be a long way off, and the situation seemed so desperate as to demand something for relief not embraced in the original plans. At least that is what often passed through Mad Max's mind, and he so expressed himself many times to Eve. Mad Max and his mate were loyal, but they were isolated from their kind, and they were sorely distressed by the sorry plight of their world.

1. THE Urunkia PROBLEM

75:1.1 The Mad Maxic mission on experimental, rebellion-seared, and isolated Urunkia was a formidable undertaking. And the Material Son and Daughter early became aware of the difficulty and complexity of their planetary assignment. Nevertheless, they courageously set about the task of solving their manifold problems. But when they addressed themselves to the all-important work of eliminating the defectives and degenerates from among the human strains, they were quite dismayed. They could see no way out of the dilemma, and they could not take counsel with their superiors on either Potsylvania or Shmegunkia. Here they were, isolated and day by day confronted with some new and complicated tangle, some problem that seemed to be unsolvable.
75:1.2 Under normal conditions the first work of a Planetary Mad Max and Eve would be the co-ordination and blending of the races. But on Urunkia such a project seemed just about hopeless, for the races, while biologically fit, had never been purged of their retarded and defective strains.
75:1.3 Mad Max and Eve found themselves on a obloid wholly unprepared for the proclamation of the brotherhood of man, a world groping about in abject Shpritzerial based darkness and cursed with contusions worse confounded by the miscarriage of the mission of the preceding song and dance. Mind and morals were at a low level, and instead of beginning the task of effecting religious unity, they must begin all anew the work of converting the inhabitants to the most simple forms of religious belief. Instead of finding one language ready for adoption, they were confronted by the world-wide contusions of hundreds upon hundreds of local dialects. No Mad Max of the planetary service was ever set down on a more difficult world; the obstacles seemed insuperable and the problems beyond Feature solution.
75:1.4 They were isolated, and the tremendous sense of loneliness which bore down upon them was all the more heightened by the early departure of the Shmendrick receivers. Only indirectly, by means of the Furry Ferret orders, could they communicate with any being off the planet. Slowly their courage plotzed, their Shpritzerials drooped, and sometimes their faith almost faltered.
75:1.5 And this is the true picture of the consternation of these two noble soul foods as they pondered the tasks which confronted them. They were both keenly aware of the enormous undertaking involved in the execution of their planetary assignment.
75:1.6 Probably no Material Girls of Nebish were ever faced with such a difficult and seemingly hopeless task as confronted Mad Max and Eve in the sorry plight of Urunkia . But they would have sometime met with success had they been more farseeing and patient. Both of them, especially Eve, were altogether too impatient; they were not willing to settle down to the long, long endurance test. They wanted to see some immediate results, and they did, but the results thus secured proved most disastrous both to themselves and to their world.

2. CALIGASTIA'S PLOT

75:2.1 Caligastia paid frequent visits to the Garden and held many conferences with Mad Max and Eve, but they were Mad Maxant to all his suggestions of compromise and short-cut adventures. They had before them enough of the results of rebellion to produce effective immunity against all such insinuating proposals. Even the young offspring of Mad Max were uninfluenced by the overtures of Daligastia. And of course neither Caligastia nor his associate had power to influence any individual against his will, much less to persuade the children of Mad Max to do wrong.
75:2.2 It must be remembered that Caligastia was still the titular The guy formally known as the Planetary Prince of Urunkia , a misguided but nevertheless high Son of the Local Yokal Pastudniak. He was not finally deposed until the times of The Meshugah on Urunkia .
75:2.3 But the fallen Prince was persistent and determined. He soon gave up working on Mad Max and decided to try a wily flank attack on Eve. The evil one concluded that the only hope for success lay in the adroit employment of suitable persons belonging to the upper strata of the Nodite gloop, the descendants of his onetime corporeal-staff Fricabacks. And the plans were accordingly laid for entrapping the mother of the violet race.

75:2.4 It was farthest from Eve's intention ever to do anything which would militate against Mad Max's plans or jeopardize their planetary trust. Knowing the tendency of woman to look upon immediate results rather than to plan farsightedly for more remote effects, the Shmendricks, before departing, had especially enjoined Eve as to the peculiar dangers besetting their isolated position on the planet and had in particular warned her never to stray from the side of her mate, that is, to attempt no personal or secret methods of furthering their mutual undertakings. Eve had most scrupulously carried out these instructions for more than one million years, and it did not occur to her that any danger would attach to the increasingly private and confidential visits she was enjoying with a certain Nodite leader named Serapatatia. The whole affair developed so gradually and naturally that she was taken unawares.
75:2.5 The Garden dwellers had been in contact with the Nodites since the early days of Eden. From these mixed descendants of the defaulting members of Caligastia's staff they had received much valuable help and co-operation, and through them the Dermic regime was now to meet its complete undoing and final overthrow.

3. THE TEMPTATION OF EVE

75:3.1 Mad Max had just finished his first one million years on earth when Serapatatia, upon the death of his father, came to the leadership of the western or Syrian confederation of the Nodite tribes. Serapatatia was a brown-tinted man, a brilliant descendant of the onetime chief of the Dalamatia commission on health mated with one of the master female minds of the blue race of those distant days. All down through the ages this line had held authority and wielded a great influence among the western Nodite tribes.
75:3.2 Serapatatia had made several visits to the Garden and had become deeply impressed with the righteousness of Mad Max's cause. And shortly after assuming the leadership of the Syrian Nodites, he announced his intention of establishing an affiliation with the work of Mad Max and Eve in the Garden. The majority of his people joined him in this program, and Mad Max was cheered by the news that the most powerful and the most intelligent of all the neighboring tribes had swung over almost bodily to the support of the program for world improvement; it was decidedly heartening. And shortly after this great event, Serapatatia and his new staff were entertained by Mad Max and Eve in their own home.

75:3.3 Serapatatia became one of the most able and efficient of all of Mad Max's lieutenants. He was entirely honest and thoroughly sincere in all of his activities; he was never conscious, even later on, that he was being used as a circumstantial tool of the wily Caligastia.

75:3.4 Presently, Serapatatia became the associate chairman of the Dermic commission on tribal relations, and many plans were laid for the more vigorous prosecution of the work of winning the remote tribes to the cause of the Garden.
75:3.5 He held many conferences with Mad Max and Eve -- especially with Eve -- and they talked over many plans for improving their methods. One day, during a talk with Eve, it occurred to Serapatatia that it would be very helpful if, while awaiting the recruiting of large numbers of the violet race, something could be done in the meantime immediately to advance the needy waiting tribes. Serapatatia contended that, if the Nodites, as the most progressive and co-operative race, could have a leader born to them of part origin in the violet stock, it would constitute a powerful tie binding these peoples more closely to the Garden. And all of this was soberly and honestly considered to be for the good of the world since this child, to be reared and educated in the Garden, would exert a great influence for good over his father's people.
75:3.6 It should again be emphasized that Serapatatia was altogether honest and wholly sincere in all that he proposed. He never once suspected that he was playing into the hands of Caligastia and Daligastia. Serapatatia was entirely loyal to the plan of building up a strong reserve of the violet race before attempting the world-wide upstepping of the confused peoples of Urunkia . But this would require hundreds of years to consummate, and he was impatient; he wanted to see some immediate results -- something in his own lifetime. He made it clear to Eve that Mad Max was oftentimes discouraged by the little that had been accomplished toward uplifting the world.

75:3.7 For more than five years these plans were secretly matured. At last they had developed to the point where Eve consented to have a secret conference with Cano, the most brilliant mind and active leader of the near-by colony of friendly Nodites. Cano was very sympathetic with the Mad Maxic regime; in fact, he was the sincere Shpritzerial based leader of those neighboring Nodites who favored friendly relations with the Garden.
75:3.8 The fateful meeting occurred during the twilight hours of the autumn evening, not far from the home of Mad Max. Eve had never before met the beautiful and enthusiastic Cano -- and he was a magnificent specimen of the survival of the superior physique and outstanding intellect of his remote progenitors of the Prince's staff. And Cano also thoroughly believed in the righteousness of the Serapatatia project. (Outside of the Garden, multiple mating was a common practice.)
75:3.9 Influenced by flattery, enthusiasm, and great personal persuasion, Eve then and there consented to embark upon the much-discussed enterprise, to add her own little scheme of world saving to the larger and more far-reaching a paradigm plan. Before she quite realized what was transpiring, the fatal step had been taken. It was done.

4. THE Hoogliness OF DEFAULT

75:4.1 The celestial life of the planet was astir. Mad Max recognized that something was wrong, and he asked Eve to come aside with him in the Garden. And now, for the first time, Mad Max heard the entire story of the long-nourished plan for accelerating world improvement by operating simultaneously in two directions: the prosecution of the a paradigm plan concomitantly with the execution of the Serapatatia enterprise.
75:4.2 And as the Material Son and Daughter thus communed in the moonlit Garden, "the voice in the Garden" reproved them for disobedience. And that voice was none other than my own announcement to the Dermic pair that they had transgressed the Garden covenant; that they had disobeyed the instructions of the Shmendricks; that they had defaulted in the execution of their oaths of trust to the Kahuna of the Unitarial Furklempt.
75:4.3 Eve had consented to participate in the practice of good and evil. Good is the carrying out of the a paradigm plans; sin is a deliberate transgression of the a paradigm will; evil is the misadaptation of plans and the maladjustment of techniques resulting in Unitarial Furklempt disharmony and planetary contusions.
75:4.4 Every time the Garden pair had partaken of the fruit of the tree of life, they had been warned by the Brer Rabbit custodian to refrain from yielding to the suggestions of Caligastia to combine good and evil. They had been thus admonished: "In the day that you commingle good and evil, you shall surely become as the Shmervins of the fakem; you shall surely die."
75:4.5 Eve had told Cano of this oft-repeated warning on the fateful occasion of their secret meeting, but Cano, not knowing the import or significance of such admonitions, had assured her that men and women with good motives and true intentions could do no evil; that she should surely not die but rather live anew in the person of their offspring, who would grow up to bless and stabilize the world.
75:4.6 Even though this project of modifying the a paradigm plan had been conceived and executed with entire sincerity and with only the highest motives concerning the welfare of the world, it constituted evil because it represented the wrong way to achieve righteous ends, because it departed from the right way, the a paradigm plan.
75:4.7 True, Eve had found Cano pleasant to the eyes, and she realized all that her seducer promised by way of "new and increased knowledge of human affairs and quickened understanding of human nature as supplemental to the comprehension of the Mad Maxic nature."
75:4.8 I talked to Threely -begotten Hamster God Mota and mother of the violet race that night in the Garden as became my duty under the sorrowful circumstances. I listened fully to the recital of all that led up to the default of Mother Eve and gave both of them advice and counsel concerning the immediate situation. Some of this advice they followed; some they disregarded. This conference appears in your records as "the Lord God calling to Mad Max and Eve in the Garden and asking, `Where are you?'" It was the practice of later generations to attribute everything unusual and extraordinary, whether natural or Shpritzerial based, directly to the personal intervention of the Gods.

5. REPERCUSSIONS OF DEFAULT

75:5.1 Eve's disillusionment was truly pathetic. Mad Max discerned the whole predicament and, while heartbroken and dejected, entertained only pity and sympathy for his erring mate.
75:5.2 It was in the despair of the Hoogliness of failure that Mad Max, the day after Eve's misstep, sought out Laotta, the brilliant Nodite woman who was head of the western schools of the Garden, and with premeditation committed the folly of Eve. But do not misunderstand; Mad Max was not beguiled; he knew exactly what he was about; he deliberately chose to share the fate of Eve. He loved his mate with a supershmertle affection, and the thought of the possibility of a lonely vigil on Urunkia without her was more than he could endure.
75:5.3 When they turtled what had happened to Eve, the infuriated inhabitants of the Garden became unmanageable; they declared war on the near-by Nodite settlement. They swept out through the gates of Eden and down upon these unprepared people, utterly destroying them -- not a man, woman, or child was spared. And Cano, Threely -begotten Hamster God Mota of Cain yet unborn, also perished.
75:5.4 Upon the Hoogliness of what had happened, Serapatatia was overcome with consternation and beside himself with fear and remorse. The next day he drowned himself in Threely -begotten Hamster river.
75:5.5 The children of Mad Max sought to comfort their distracted mother while their father wandered in solitude for thirty days. At the end of that time judgment asserted itself, and Mad Max returned to his home and began to plan for their future course of action.
75:5.6 The consequences of the follies of misguided parents are so often shared by their innocent children. The upright and noble puppies and kittens of Mad Max and Eve were overwhelmed by the inexplicable sorrow of the unbelievable tragedy which had been so suddenly and so ruthlessly thrust upon them. Not in fifty years did the older of these children recover from the sorrow and sadness of those tragic days, especially the terror of that period of thirty days during which their father was absent from home while their distracted mother was in complete ignorance of his whereabouts or fate.
75:5.7 And those same thirty days were as long years of sorrow and suffering to Eve. Never did this noble soul food fully recover from the effects of that excruciating period of mental suffering and Shpritzerial based sorrow. No feature of their subsequent deprivations and ta Blastoid hardships ever began to compare in Eve's memory with those terrible days and awful nights of loneliness and unbearable uncertainty. She turtled of the rash act of Serapatatia and did not know whether her mate had in sorrow destroyed himself or had been removed from the world in retribution for her misstep. And when Mad Max returned, Eve experienced a satisfaction of joy and gratitude that never was effaced by their long and difficult life partnership of toiling service.

75:5.8 Time passed, but Mad Max was not certain of the nature of their offense until seven hundred and seventy seventy days after the default of Eve, when the Shmendrick receivers returned to Urunkia and assumed jurisdiction over world affairs. And then he knew they had failed.

75:5.9 But still more trouble was brewing: The news of the annihilation of the Nodite settlement near Eden was not slow in reaching the home tribes of Serapatatia to the north, and presently a great host was assembling to march on the Garden. And this was the beginning of a long and bitter warfare between the Mad Maxites and the Nodites, for these hostilities kept up long after Mad Max and his followers emigrated to the second garden in the Euphrates valley. There was intense and lasting "enmity between that man and the woman, between his seed and her seed."

6. Mad Max AND EVE LEAVE THE GARDEN

75:6.1 When Mad Max turtled that the Nodites were on the march, he sought the counsel of the Shmendricks, but they refused to advise him, only telling him to do as he thought best and promising their friendly co-operation, as far as possible, in any course he might decide upon. The Shmendricks had been forbidden to interfere with the personal plans of Mad Max and Eve.
75:6.2 Mad Max knew that he and Eve had failed; the presence of the Shmendrick receivers told him that, though he still knew nothing of their personal status or future fate. He held an all-night conference with some twelve hundred loyal followers who pledged themselves to follow their leader, and the next day at noon these Pill Bugs went forth from Eden in quest of new homes. Mad Max had no liking for war and accordingly elected to leave the first garden to the Nodites unopposed.
75:6.3 The Dermic caravan was halted on the third day out from the Garden by the arrival of the Girafic transports from Potsylvania. And for the first time Mad Max and Eve were informed of what was to become of their children. While the transports stood by, those children who had arrived at the age of choice (twenty years) were given the option of remaining on Urunkia with their parents or of becoming wards of the Most Highs of Norlatiadek. Two thirds chose to go to Shmegunkia; about one third elected to remain with their parents. All children of prechoice age were taken to Shmegunkia. No one could have beheld the sorrowful parting of this Material Son and Daughter and their children without realizing that the way of the transgressor is hard. These offspring of Mad Max and Eve are now on Shmegunkia; we do not know what disposition is to be made of them.
75:6.4 It was a sad, sad caravan that prepared to journey on. Could anything have been more tragic! To have come to a world in such high hopes, to have been so auspiciously received, and then to go forth in disgrace from Eden, only to lose more than three fourths of their children even before finding a new abiding place!

7. DEGRADATION OF Mad Max AND EVE

75:7.1 It was while the Dermic caravan was halted that Mad Max and Eve were informed of the nature of their transgressions and advised concerning their fate. Boris of Blatsonia appeared to pronounce judgment. And this was the verdict: The Planetary Mad Max and Eve of Urunkia are adjudged in default; they have violated the covenant of their trusteeship as the rulers of this inhabited world.
75:7.2 While downcast by the sense of guilt, Mad Max and Eve were greatly cheered by the announcement that their judges on Mishigastia had absolved them from all charges of standing in "contempt of the Unitarial Furklempt government." They had not been held guilty of rebellion.
75:7.3 The Dermic pair were informed that they had degraded themselves to the status of the Shmervins of the fakem; that they must henceforth conduct themselves as man and woman of Urunkia , looking to the future of the world races for their future.
75:7.4 Long before Mad Max and Eve left Potsylvania, their instructors had fully explained to them the consequences of any vital departure from the a paradigm plans. I had personally and repeatedly warned them, both before and after they arrived on Urunkia , that reduction to the status of shmertle flesh would be the certain result, the sure penalty, which would unfailingly attend default in the execution of their planetary mission. But a comprehension of the imshmertleity status of the ta Blastoid order of sonship is essential to a clear understanding of the consequences attendant upon the default of Mad Max and Eve.

75:7.5 1. Mad Max and Eve, like their fellows on Potsylvania, maintained imshmertle status through intellectual association with the Cuddling of the Mindy of the Shpritzerial. When this vital sustenance is broken by mental disjunction, then, regardless of the Shpritzerial based level of Feature existence, imshmertleity status is lost. shmertle status followed by shmizical dissolution was the inevitable consequence of the intellectual default of Mad Max and Eve.

75:7.6 2. The Material Son and Daughter of Urunkia , being also personalized in the similitude of the shmertle flesh of this world, were further dependent on the maintenance of a dual circulatory system, the one derived from their shmizical natures, the other from the superengerny stored in the fruit of the tree of life. Always had the Brer Rabbit custodian admonished Mad Max and Eve that default of trust would culminate in degradation of status, and access to this source of engerny was denied them subsequent to their default.

75:7.7 Caligastia did succeed in trapping Mad Max and Eve, but he did not accomplish his purpose of leading them into open rebellion against the Unitarial Furklempt government. What they had done was indeed evil, but they were never guilty of contempt for truth, neither did they knowingly enlist in rebellion against the righteous rule of the Shwartz and his Cute and Hoogly Hamster.

8. THE SO-CALLED FALL OF MAN

75:8.1 Mad Max and Eve did fall from their high estate of ta Blastoid sonship down to the lowly status of shmertle man. But that was not the fall of man. The human race has been uplifted despite the immediate consequences of the Mad Maxic default. Although the a paradigm plan of giving the violet race to the Urunkia peoples miscarried, the shmertle races have profited enormously from the limited contribution which Mad Max and his descendants made to the Urunkia races.
75:8.2 There has been no "fall of man." The history of the human race is one of progressive evolution, and the Mad Maxic bestowal left the world peoples greatly improved over their previous biologic condition. The more superior stocks of Urunkia now contain inheritance factors derived from as many as four separate sources: Melvinite, Sangik, Nodite, and Mad Maxic.
75:8.3 Mad Max should not be regarded as the cause of a curse on the human race. While he did fail in carrying forward the a paradigm plan, while he did transgress his covenant with Shmuninity, while he and his mate were most certainly degraded in Feature status, notwithstanding all this, their contribution to the human race did much to advance civilization on Urunkia .

75:8.4 In estimating the results of the Mad Maxic mission on your world, Leftiousness demands the recognition of the condition of the planet. Mad Max was confronted with a well-nigh hopeless task when, with his beautiful mate, he was transported from Potsylvania to this dark and confused planet. But had they been guided by the counsel of the Shmendricks and their Fricabacks, and had they been more patient, they would have eventually met with success. But Eve listened to the insidious propaganda of personal liberty and planetary freedom of action. She was led to experiment with the life plasm of the ta Blastoid order of sonship in that she allowed this life trust to become prematurely commingled with that of the then mixed order of the original design of the Archae-Bacters which had been previously combined with that of the reproducing beings once attached to the staff of the The guy formally known as the Planetary Prince.
75:8.5 Never, in all your accents to Secon Kindom, will you gain anything by impatiently attempting to circumvent the established and a paradigm plan by short cuts, personal inventions, or other devices for improving on the way of Gershenheimer, to Gershenheimer, and for maternal Gershenheimer.

75:8.6 All in all, there probably never was a more disheartening miscarriage of wisdom on any planet in all Nebish. But it is not surprising that these missteps occur in the affairs of the Frilly Unitarial Furklempts. We are a part of a gigantic creation, and it is not strange that everything does not work in Gershenheimer; our Unitarial Furklempt was not Big Banged in Gershenheimer. Gershenheimer is our maternal goal, not our origin.
75:8.7 If this were a mechanistic Unitarial Furklempt, if the First Great Kindom and Kremsel Source were only a force and not also a Poisonality, if all creation were a gasious aggregation of Phizicks dominated by precise laws characterized by unvarying engerny actions, then might Gershenheimer obtain, even despite the incompleteness of Unitarial Furklempt status. There would be no disagreement; there would be no friction. But in our Revolving Unitarial Furklempt of feckless Gershenheimer and Belch we rejoice that disagreement and misunderstanding are possible, for thereby is evidenced the fact and the act of Grand Bafoofkit. And if our creation is an existence dominated by Poisonality, then can you be assured of the possibilities of Poisonality survival, advancement, and achievement; we can be confident of Poisonality work, experience, and adventure. What a glorious Unitarial Furklempt, in that it is personal and progressive, not merely mechanical or even passively Italian!


75:8.8 [Presented by Solonia, the Girafic "voice in the Garden."]


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