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beginning, that its roots go back beyond the births of the protagonists. Despite the depth of these curious roots, our story does have features that are more or less from our own age. For instance, the soul of the clown, the trickster, who wrote all these pages, has no match in any other age or time. Each age has its own Devil and Angel, and in every age the Devil and the Angel play in a manner that is different to the way they do so in all other eras. During the game, they swap places. The most curious thing about the Devil is that he has to play like the Angel to win, and the Angel, to avoid being exposed, must – like the Devil – alter his appearance and be seen only through a haze.

Unfortunately, this story cannot be told chronologically. When the security chief was dismissed at the end of the summer, one of his colleagues smuggled some important secret files out of the department and circulated them in political confrontations with his opponents to avenge his underprivileged and beleaguered friends. How these files had reached the security chief in the first place, I cannot fathom. I don’t think His Excellency or any other person read them from start to finish, especially considering that in the spring of 2007 they were occupied with all the bother of hunting down Islamic terrorists. Besides, as you know, files had acquired a unique significance in our country

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