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THE BROTHERS WHO HAVE his foster mother hostage because of things _ range also seemed to be boundless. LIVED FOR CENTURIES he knew about illicit land deals in the early Joel always claimed that he'd had a y entire family comes from 19th century, which would have jeopardised _ mysterious life, but refused to speak about Mess (part of France), and _ her holdings in the present. She tried to _ it during the time that we were best friends. though I was born in the USAI have Joel and Patrick incarcerated several However, a few very old peasant types told lived in Quimper, Brittany, for a few years times because she was afraid of this and me that Joel had "been around for ever". "I and went to college in Brest, Brittany. I other things. knew him when I was a child," one said. have lots of family in that part of the world, Many, many people in Quimper were "He had a different name and lived on a and I speak, read and write French as well afraid of Joel and Patrick. I was afraid of farm a little way out of town, but it was as I do English. them, too, and I was glad Joel had for some him." Other old people in Breton villages While living in Quimper (the third reason chosen me as a friend because, _ said more or less the same thing: Joel and largest city in Brittany), I hada friend frankly, these two were ominous. Good _ Patrick didn't age; they just changed names named Joel, an exceptional person who, rumour had it that Patrick had gouged _ from era to era and reappeared in different though not well educated, seemed to know someone's eyes out and that Joel had killed homes. everything. Joel was a native of Quimper, someone. I say "good rumour" because it The time we broke into the Quimper city but he was also an orphan. A fairly well- was repeated by so many normal-seeming hall, Joel found a folder...I think it was an to-do lady had taken him and his brother __ people. old police folder...which had perfect—and Patrick in as foundlings. All around Quimper, there are tiny I mean perfect—likenesses of him and his Both Joel and Patrick were violent, Breton towns. Joel was known by the _ brother in middle 19th-century garb, reckless, dangerous young men. They had damnedest people in all of them: surrounded by strangers. "My ancestors," been in jail many times for disregarding the extremely old sailors, café owners, pea Joel said in such a way that I didn't believe law. If, say, they wanted a car, they stole farmers and especially peasants. Lots and him. The pictures were of him and it. If they wanted to climb up to the top of lots of really old people knew and feared Patrick—period. And he'd pulled them out a 500-foot cathedral spire and tie on their Joel and Patrick. All of what I've written of a forgotten locker in a sub-basement of shirts to show they'd been there, they did it happened in my 20s. an ancient building. despite the Quimper municipal authorities. Joel and Patrick were respectively one These and many other things convince: If they wanted to go to Ireland fora few year and two years younger than I, more or me that Joel and Patrick were indeed days, they commandeered a boat and sailed less 21 to 26 years old. Both considere: "superannuaries". over—not a small task considering the _ themselves better than anyone, aristocratic This all happened between 1970 an coasts of both Ireland and Brittany. Both even, superior. Both knew Nazi types left 1979, and both men have since were excellent sailors, athletes, etc. Infact, over from the occupation of Brittany. They disappeared. Relatives of mine in Quimper what made them so scary is that there endorsed vehemently ideas of racial an say they are not gone but living somewhere seemed to be nothing they were incapable _ ethnic superiority. They called themselves _ else in Brittany, some other village, under of doing. I remember others immediately "evolutionary mutants" and told others that, new names. There seems to be evidence of dropping out of athletics contests when while they possessed no supernatural _ this. oo Patrick and Joel were involved (and not in powers, they were evolutionarily superior (Source: by Timmistral, from the jail). And speaking of jail, Joel broke out — in all other ways. And their looks, brains, Paranormal Story Archives, June 2001, of the gendarmerie jail in Quimper four connections, language, points of reference http://paranormal.about.com/library/ times because he "knew the way out". and physical abilities seemed to confirm it. —_ bistory_june01_05.htm) In Brittany, buildings like cathedrals, School city halls and even jails are ancient, some dropouts, dating initially to mediaeval times. Joel they should f How Lov and Patrick knew everything about every have been | HAME ou FEET building, especially the ancient ones. They country oy ALE MATER 2 | knew which stones moved, revealing umpkins, ~ 5 unknown passages, etc. I once but Joel accompanied Joel in the middle of the night could, for = into an abandoned medieval chateau,a example, property of the French state. He knewa quote entire passage from outside which was totally ages of invisible. I also went into the Quimper city Kant and hall with him through an unused sewer. He especially broke into these kinds of places for fun...or Nietzsche by to say he could do it because he "knew the _ heart. town" and "knew all its secrets". This They spoke seemed to be true in incident after incident. no language 2! — . Joel knew things that were true in ut French, Pr Bomecni tle Quimper families hundreds of years ago— but their things like skeletons in the closet. He held intellectual / How Lone | WE PI FEL s ALIENaTED? / | ale = Somerset fle 64 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2006