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Автор: W. E. Gutman
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       Table of Contents

       Table of Contents

       Cover

       Also by W. E. Gutman

       Prologue

       PART ONE – THE TALES

       IN DRANAMOS

       TIME FLIES

       DEATH & TRANSFIGURATION

       PAST IMPERFECT

       IN HIS OWN IMAGE

       THE LONGEST NIGHT

       NEITHER APE NOR ANGEL

       DREAMFARER

       THE VAMPIRE STATE

       A HARVEST OF SORROWS

       THE FOOT FETISH

       ONE NIGHT IN COPÁN

       LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MAX

       PART TWO – THE STORIES BEHIND THE TALES

       THE OPPOSITE OF SILENCE

       POSTSCRIPT

       THE END STORY

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       Back cover

      One

      Night

      In Copán

      Chronicles of madness foretold

      Tales of Mystery, Fantasy and Horror

      W. E. Gutman

      CCB Publishing

      British Columbia, Canada

      One Night in Copán: Chronicles of Madness Foretold, Tales of Mystery, Fantasy and Horror

      Copyright ©2012 by W. E. Gutman

      ISBN-13 978-1-77143-017-3

      First Edition

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Gutman, W. E., 1937-

      One night in Copán [electronic resource] : chronicles of madness foretold, tales of mystery, fantasy and horror / written by W. E. Gutman – 1st ed.

      Electronic monograph in PDF format.

      ISBN 978-1-77143-017-3

      Also available print format.

      Additional cataloguing data available from Library and Archives Canada

      Photo and cover design by the author.

      This is largely a work of fiction. Allusions to real persons, living or dead, and the dramatization of actual events are meant to lend the narrative epic realism. All other characters and events are fictitious or fictionalized.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the express written permission of the author.

      Publisher:

      CCB Publishing

      British Columbia, Canada

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      FOR LINDA

       Also by W. E. GUTMAN

      JOURNEY TO XIBALBA -- The Subversion of Human Rights in Central America (c) 2000. Reporter’s Notebook (out of print).

      NOCTURNES -- Tales from the Dreamtime

      (c) 2006. Surrealistic fiction.

      FLIGHT FROM EIN SOF

      (c) 2009. Satire.

      THE INVENTOR

      (c) 2009. Historical fiction.

      A PALER SHADE OF RED: Memoirs of a Radical.

      (c) 2012. Autobiography.

      ONE LAST DREAM. Screenplay (English-language version). Registered 2010 with the American Writers’ Guild. (c) 2012.

      UN DERNIER RÊVE. Screenplay (French-language version; translated by the author). (c) 2012.

      Evil has a wandering, fluid quality;

      It drifts like thought.

      Lance Morrow

      PROLOGUE

      I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies,

      but not the madness of people.

      Isaac Newton

      There exist ill-defined forms of mental illness, so subtle, so skillfully concealed and so utterly undetectable that they elude even those trained to recognize the myriad faces behind which they hide. Is he demented who pretends to be sane? Is he who fakes madness -- mad? Is conformist behavior proof of sanity? Is a clown “crazy?” Would his buffoonery be sanctioned outside the circus tent? He’s only play-acting, you say? What about motorists who willfully exceed the speed limit: are they clear-headed? Are citizens who, time after time rush to the polls and vote into office inept or corrupt politicians under the ludicrous pretext that they’re taking part in the “democratic process” -- in full possession of their faculties? Or are they imbeciles who deserve the scoundrels they