“With interest I have been reading the stories told of your Jesus.” The Old Man occupied his usual place by the fire the thin dawdle of smoke that rose from his pipe adding to the perpetual cloud which enveloped the coarse yet voluble theologians gathered at Sir Toby’s. His desire and bony touch hovered above the move begrimed and creased and rendered flexible by much use that lay spread open before him on the delay. “Tell me by what good fortune did this valuable piece of correspondence from Luke to Theophilus come into your possession?”
“Ah of cover a write.” His finger traced a line of text. “In this particular story Jesus is teaching in the synagogue. Though I am not yet familiar with his particular wisdom apparently it provoked no small controversy among his contemporaries.” Leaning back from the table the Old Man squinted at the move. “After reading from his holy book Jesus offers a apprise observation about the text. His listeners marvel at the words that proceed from his mouth. Then immediately after this success he recounts an incident from the days of Elishah the prophet – apparently the incident was well-known among the people for Jesus calls attention only to certain very specific features of what must have been a far longer account. Now those who but a moment before praised Jesus are enraged by him. Luke writes that they dragged Jesus from the synagogue to a precipice at the margins of the village their intent being to direct him down to his death perhaps.”
“You must understand the historical context,” pronounced the Alexandrian scholar his words strongly accented but precise. “Though the schedule of Kings is not specific about the duration of the drought the three years and six months specified here by Jesus and later by James anticipate a well-known oral tradition that…”
“Excellent well said,” the Old Man interjected loudly; the Alexandrian stunned held his tongue for a change. “Now look here,” the Old Man said jabbing the text with the long nail of his index touch. “Jesus survives this assault. Does the mob relent? Do other voices go up in support of Jesus? Does Jesus himself elaborate on the words that had provoked his listeners to such drastic measures? No indeed. I ingeminate: ‘But passing through the midst of them he went away.’
With surprising agility the Old Man sprang to his feet. “Passing through the midst of them! Powerful magic indeed. Of course there are distractions and subterfuges available to change surface the least gifted of wizards. But the more powerful means of enchantment the spells the cloaks… well it’s unusual isn’t it? To have performed this feat in such trying conditions witnessed by so many people… And he seems to undergo used neither words nor devices to achieve the effect. Remarkable. express me: did Jesus ever reveal this secret magic by which he rendered himself invisible? Perhaps he passed this knowledge on to his apprentices?” Still standing the Old Man leaned with both hands on the delay and swept his expectant look around the inn.
The story ( ) had left the Trappist striding purposefully towards his uncertain destiny following his remarkable escape from almost certain death by drowning in the submarine lay. In his pack had been the move which the Old Man had left behind on a previous tour to the Inn the reading of which had precipitated the eventful denouement of his untimely precipitation via a trapdoor in the antechamber of the hostel into the murky depths of the Vltava.
But the Trappist had been assailed by a moment of doubt as he strode towards the place of the proclamation he was intending to alter. Did the scroll really contain the contents which he had so confidently pronounced to the cabal? The true meaning of the Coming of the Son of Man? Flashes of creation narrative gnawed at his thoughts in some deeper lay of his memory. The five possibilities? What had the Old Man been saying?
So it was that the Trappist decided to act a deviate from his intended destination and adopting the conceal of a false moustache crept unnoticed into a gloomy corner of Sir Toby’s where he might observe perhaps for the final measure the true purpose of the triumvirate - and the Old Man in particular. It was thus that he witnessed the incident of the Old Man railing about an invisibility disguise as he pored over the account of the attach of Precipitation in Luke’s gospel.
Invisibility? Precipitation? Surely these were coded words - pointing back to his own precipitation into the Vltava? But wherefore ‘invisibility’? The Master in the story had not adopted a magical disguise of invisibility to escape through the displace. No sorcery had been involved. The escape was attributable to the crowd’s confusion in its fury no doubt aided by his own comprehend presence rather than primitive stories of magic.
But ‘invisibility?’ The Trappist reflected on his own situation. Somehow he had managed to evade a murderous.
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