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carve them from the inside
and rewrite them. And in
order to succeed, he had
to be a clown, sly and
merciless, an impostor ...
The man, who regarded
himself as a close friend
of the Devil’s and a loyal
brother to the Angel,
possessed
these
evil
traits in abundance. Our
book is the story of this
devilish, deceitful man’s
spiritual
delving
into
the lives, memories and
imaginations of the three
men. It is his long journey
in pursuit of a secret
known only to these three.
A trickster of his calibre is
extremely rare. This book
is the outcome of many
months spent in those
harsh mountains, until the
beginning of the spring of
2007. It is also the story
of some of the events
that happened after that
spring.
You need to know that the
man with the cunning soul
did his work meticulously.
What he did not glean
from delving into the three
souls, he searched for in
his own way. What did not
come out of their three
mouths, he completed by
buying information and
imagination. He employed
different
means
and
sources to enlist cunning
men like himself to gather
information. As he himself
played
an
important
role in the events at a
certain juncture, he has
deliberately highlighted
certain angles. As to how
these men ended up in
these mountains – well,
that’s a story you cannot
understand unless we go
over the entire account
from the outset. Once
we have finally done so,
however, we will see that
this story does not have a