The Secret Priory (il segretissimo Codice del Saliano)
[Ed.: Fragmentary Poets have been uncommonly fortunate to receive this text. We were instructed to go to the Gard du Nord in Paris and try to buy a TGV ticket to Biarritz from the fourth window. (No TGV goes to Biarritz nor does any train from the Gard du Nord--this was to be the sign.) At that point, two men in fancy dress (one as a WWI-era pilot, the other as a veruca) approached me and told me what is written below. Upon leaving, they gave me a roll of serviettes, in which the following fragment was found. Before turning it in to the proper libraries, Fragmentary Poets hope to break this story first to the scholarly community. We will receive queries for submissions of translation and commentary. ]
The Secret Priory
The Secret Priory is a more secret organization of men devoted to keeping a really big secret about another secret. These men were the greatest thinkers and artists of their respective time, or at least very close to those who were, but chose to relegate themselves to lesser positions that they might keep safe the greatest secret: the “Other Secret” kept by another allegedly secret society is secretly known to The Secret Priory to be false. The Secret Priory has a better secret, one that, according to a member who did not win the Nobel Prize for physics in 2003, would expose the 'Other Secret' as false. Why not expose it?
'We like to think of ourselves as the keepers of the disorder. We do our best to make sure that the Church’s more obsessed legionnaires and the Priory of Sion will always stay in business. Their conflict is important to the stability of things'.
He added that many of their past High Overseers were either nearly famous or dubiously famous men such as il Saliano and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The current High Overseer of The Secret Priory was not elected to high office in a G8 country recently.
Despite these views on maintaining the stability of Church conflict, another member of The Secret Priory, who was not selected for the Armenian Winter Olympic Team in 1998 and 2002, has chosen to release a papyrus fragment that will not reveal the secret but should have people guessing.
'This is our way of keeping the Secret but saying to the world "You’re getting warmer,"' said non-Olympian.
'Precisely. We’ll never tell, but, wow. It’s pretty cool. You should know if you’ve figured it out,' added non-Nobel laureate.
When asked why release this 'clue' now, both men added that they fear that pieces of their secret will get out sooner or later.
'This proactive near-release of our Secret will help put us in a stronger position for negotiating rights. We want to maintain world rights on publication but are willing to negotiate on screen and stage rights', said non-Olympian.
An excerpt of the text of the lost Epistle of Amber to Mary Magdalene
ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΕΚΤΡΙΔΟΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΗΝ ΜΑΓΔΑΛΗΝΗΝ ΜΑΡΙΑΝ
Ἐλέκτρις ἡ πρώτη γυνὴ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ διὰ θελήματος θεοῦ τοῖς οὖσιν σὺν Μαγδαλήνῃ Μαρίᾳ, ἀλλὰ οὐ Μαγδαλήνῃ Μαρίᾳ αὐτῇ· χάρις ὑμῖν, ἀλλὰ οὐ Μαγδαλήνῃ Μαρίᾳ αὐτῇ, καὶ εἰρήνη ἀπὸ θεοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν καὶ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. τῶν προτέρων ἐτέων ἔβημεν κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν ὅδον ἐν Ἰερουσαλήμ. ἆρα αὐτὰ νῦν ἔλαθέ σε, ὦ ἁγία; αὐτῶν μεμνήμαι καὶ ἐσοῦ. πολλοὶ ἀπείρχοντο σὺν ἐσῷ, ἀλλὰ παλινείρχου μόνη, κἔγω. πόρναι ἦμεν ὡς καλλίσται ἐν Ἰερυσαλήμ. αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ ὁτὰν Ἰησοῦς ἔβλεψε ἐμὲ στᾶσαν πρὸς τὴν εἴσοδον πόλεως καὶ εἶπε ‘ὦ ἄνθος γῆς Ἰούδας, ἕπου ἐμοὶ εἰς ἐρημίαν τεσσαράκπντας νυκτός.’ ἀλλὰ σὺ ἔβαλες μίτρᾳ ἐμὲ σὺν αὐτῷ μολοῦσαν καὶ εἴρχετο σὺν αὐτῷ. κατηλαλάζον ‘ὦ Μαγδαλήνη Μαρία, καὶ σὺ, κύων!’ πολλὰ δάκρυα ἐμοί· γυνὴ δὲ θῆλυ κἀπὶ δακρύοις. δύων ἐτέων ἐπυθόμην ἐσὲ τεκνοῦσθαι δύας θυγατέρας Σαρὰν καὶ Τριξίν καλοῦσας. ὁτὰν σὺ εἵπετο τῷ Ἰησοῦ πρὸς Γολγοθάν, ἔλαβον αὐτὰς καὶ ἤμειψα αὐτὰς ἀντὶ ἀλλὰς. πάντως σφ’ ἀνάγκη κατθανεῖν· ἐπεὶ δὲ χρὴ, ἐγὼ κτενῶ αἵπερ ἐξέφυσε. πάντως πὲπρακται ταῦτα κοὐκ ἐκφεύξεται. ἐπεὶ ἐγὼ […κτλ...
The Secret Priory
The Secret Priory is a more secret organization of men devoted to keeping a really big secret about another secret. These men were the greatest thinkers and artists of their respective time, or at least very close to those who were, but chose to relegate themselves to lesser positions that they might keep safe the greatest secret: the “Other Secret” kept by another allegedly secret society is secretly known to The Secret Priory to be false. The Secret Priory has a better secret, one that, according to a member who did not win the Nobel Prize for physics in 2003, would expose the 'Other Secret' as false. Why not expose it?
'We like to think of ourselves as the keepers of the disorder. We do our best to make sure that the Church’s more obsessed legionnaires and the Priory of Sion will always stay in business. Their conflict is important to the stability of things'.
He added that many of their past High Overseers were either nearly famous or dubiously famous men such as il Saliano and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The current High Overseer of The Secret Priory was not elected to high office in a G8 country recently.
Despite these views on maintaining the stability of Church conflict, another member of The Secret Priory, who was not selected for the Armenian Winter Olympic Team in 1998 and 2002, has chosen to release a papyrus fragment that will not reveal the secret but should have people guessing.
'This is our way of keeping the Secret but saying to the world "You’re getting warmer,"' said non-Olympian.
'Precisely. We’ll never tell, but, wow. It’s pretty cool. You should know if you’ve figured it out,' added non-Nobel laureate.
When asked why release this 'clue' now, both men added that they fear that pieces of their secret will get out sooner or later.
'This proactive near-release of our Secret will help put us in a stronger position for negotiating rights. We want to maintain world rights on publication but are willing to negotiate on screen and stage rights', said non-Olympian.
An excerpt of the text of the lost Epistle of Amber to Mary Magdalene
ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΕΚΤΡΙΔΟΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΗΝ ΜΑΓΔΑΛΗΝΗΝ ΜΑΡΙΑΝ
Ἐλέκτρις ἡ πρώτη γυνὴ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ διὰ θελήματος θεοῦ τοῖς οὖσιν σὺν Μαγδαλήνῃ Μαρίᾳ, ἀλλὰ οὐ Μαγδαλήνῃ Μαρίᾳ αὐτῇ· χάρις ὑμῖν, ἀλλὰ οὐ Μαγδαλήνῃ Μαρίᾳ αὐτῇ, καὶ εἰρήνη ἀπὸ θεοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν καὶ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. τῶν προτέρων ἐτέων ἔβημεν κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν ὅδον ἐν Ἰερουσαλήμ. ἆρα αὐτὰ νῦν ἔλαθέ σε, ὦ ἁγία; αὐτῶν μεμνήμαι καὶ ἐσοῦ. πολλοὶ ἀπείρχοντο σὺν ἐσῷ, ἀλλὰ παλινείρχου μόνη, κἔγω. πόρναι ἦμεν ὡς καλλίσται ἐν Ἰερυσαλήμ. αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ ὁτὰν Ἰησοῦς ἔβλεψε ἐμὲ στᾶσαν πρὸς τὴν εἴσοδον πόλεως καὶ εἶπε ‘ὦ ἄνθος γῆς Ἰούδας, ἕπου ἐμοὶ εἰς ἐρημίαν τεσσαράκπντας νυκτός.’ ἀλλὰ σὺ ἔβαλες μίτρᾳ ἐμὲ σὺν αὐτῷ μολοῦσαν καὶ εἴρχετο σὺν αὐτῷ. κατηλαλάζον ‘ὦ Μαγδαλήνη Μαρία, καὶ σὺ, κύων!’ πολλὰ δάκρυα ἐμοί· γυνὴ δὲ θῆλυ κἀπὶ δακρύοις. δύων ἐτέων ἐπυθόμην ἐσὲ τεκνοῦσθαι δύας θυγατέρας Σαρὰν καὶ Τριξίν καλοῦσας. ὁτὰν σὺ εἵπετο τῷ Ἰησοῦ πρὸς Γολγοθάν, ἔλαβον αὐτὰς καὶ ἤμειψα αὐτὰς ἀντὶ ἀλλὰς. πάντως σφ’ ἀνάγκη κατθανεῖν· ἐπεὶ δὲ χρὴ, ἐγὼ κτενῶ αἵπερ ἐξέφυσε. πάντως πὲπρακται ταῦτα κοὐκ ἐκφεύξεται. ἐπεὶ ἐγὼ […κτλ...
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