harlow town essex

harlow town essex	a case like the colonel’s can remain in the active file maybe for ten years, and then, while you’re in the middle of a different case, taking some confession, there’s a hint, a clue, and, wham!, a short circuit in the brain, you get an idea—or else you don’t, and that’s it. the colonel came up again by chance. we were keeping an eye on a character, for quite different reasons, and found he was spending time at the picatrix club. people a bit loony, maybe, but well behaved.
	then i remembered that ardenti used to go there—a cop’s talent consists entirely of remembering things, a name, a face, even after ten years have gone by. and so i began wondering what was happening at garamond. see here: if you look at the world in a certain way, everything is connected to everything else.” a nice hermetic philosopheme, i thought. he immediately added: “i’m not saying that those people are connected with politics, but.there was a time when we went looking for the red brigades in squats and the black brigades in martial arts clubs; nowadays the opposite could be true.
	there are times when i think of switching to narcotics. there, at least you can rely on a heroin pusher to push heroin. then, from his pocket, he produced a notebook the size of a missal. “look, casaubon, you see some strange people as part of your job. you go to the library and look up even stranger books. i heard it mentioned in connection with saint-yves; that’s all. to be frank, it sounds like fascism to me. i find a group that talks about synarchy and i can give it a political color. but in my reading, i’ve learned that in 1929 a certain vivian postel du mas and jeanne canudo founded a group called polaris, which was inspired by the myth of the king of the world. they proposed a synarchic project: social service opposed to capitalist profit, the elimination of the class struggle through cooperatives.it sounds like a kind of fabian socialism, a libertarian and communitarian movement. note that both polaris and the irish fabians were accused of being involved in a syn-archic plot led by the jews.
	and who accused them? the revue internationale des societes secretes, which talks about a jewish-masonic-bolshevik plot. many of its contributors belonged to a secret right-wing organization called la sapiniere. and they say that all these revolutionary groups are only the front for a diabolical plot hatched by an occultist cenacle. now you’ll say: all right, saint-yves ended up inspiring reformist groups, but these ! days the right lumps everything together and sees it all as a demo-pluto-social-judaic conspiracy.
	but why accuse them of being controlled by an occultist cenacle? according to the little i know—take picatrix, for example—those occultism people couldn’t care less about the workers’ movement. but now we’re coming to the good part. the more i read on the subject, the more i get confused. in the forties various self-styled synarchic groups sprang up; they talked about a new european order led by a government of wise men, above party lines.
	and where did these groups meet? in vichy collaborationist circles. but hold on! having read this far, i begin to see that there is one theme that finds them all in agreement: synarchy exists and secretly rules the world. it was said then that la cagoule was guided by a secret synarchy and that navachine was killed because he had discovered its mysteries. a document originating from left-wing circles during the occupation denounced a synarchic pact of the empire, which was responsible for the french defeat, a pact that was a manifestation of portuguese-style fascism.
	but then it turned out that the pact was drawn up by du mas and canudo and contained ideas they had published and publicized everywhere. but these ideas were revealed as secret, extremely secret, in 1946 by one husson, who denounced a revolutionary synarchic pact of the left, as he wrote in his synarchie, panorama de 25 annees d’activite occulte, which he signed. “charnay was a companion of molay, the grand master of the templars.
	here we have a neo-templar attacking synarchy from the right. unfortunately, it only increases the confusion. so, on the right, a synarchic pact of the left is denounced as socialist and secret, though it’s not really secret; it’s the same synarchic pact, as you saw, that was denounced by the left. and now we come to new revelations: synarchy is a jesuit plot to undermine the third republic. a thesis expounded by roger mennevee, leftist. to allow me to sleep nights, my reading then tells me that in 1943 in certain vichy military circles—petainist, yes, but anti-german—documents circulated that prove synarchy was a nazi plot: hitler was a rosicrucian influenced by the masons, who now have moved from hatching a judeo-bolshevik plot to making an imperial german one.
	yet another revelation: synarchy is a plot of the international technocrats. the techno-synarchic plot wants to destabilize governments and, to do it, provokes wars, backs coups d’etat, foments schisms in political parties, promotes internecine hatreds. and now what does inspector de angelis do if he finds a reference to synarchy somewhere? he asks the advice of dr.
	come and read the manuscripts that turn up at manutius. but if you want a more down-to-earth explanation, it’s like the story of the man with a bad stammer who complains that the radio station wouldn’t hire him as an announcer because he didn’t carry- a party card. we always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together. as the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong. because perhaps i’m relieved to see you can’t make head or tail of it either. you say you have to read lunatics by the carload and you consider it a waste of time. what a lunatic writes may explain the thinking of the man who puts the bomb on the train. besides, looking for things in card catalogs is my business.
	if the right piece of information turns up, i’ll keep you in mind. i’ve heard it mentioned, and it occurred to me in connection with your lunatics. say hello to your friend belbo for me. tell him i’m not keeping tabs on any of you. he had told me a number of things; i’d told him nothing. if i wanted to suspicious, i could think perhaps that he had got something out of me without my being aware of .. ..