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— gladly sir — said the colonel. And he added:

— after what we might call the "baptism of fire" of the inmates, they met in a villa´s corridor where there was still a light bulb and there they deliberate to professional as usual, to write their new situation and most of all, their decisions. It was a document with a stranger (and obvious) "Urbi et Orbi" style. A style filled with numerous "waterproofing" trifles for all concepts that were poured in the text and probably in their previous life. Somehow, the whole document, had also an "air" as of "no power experiment" because it was clear that the reader not only must abide it with humility, but also spread it as far as he could.

— I keep Colonel — I said — A document technically known at your department, but I fear that the space is narrow in this area.

— Indeed, sir. — And the colonel continued  —  Drafted the paper, there was some new discussions about how, where, and whom to deliver it immediately. In the end, they brought the document in liturgical, ie solemn procession to the outer gate of the garden and they left it on the floor a few feet outside the fence.This detail of procession and solemnity, makes our department still discussing what kind of idiots are these people.

—  Ha, ha, ha ...  —  I can not stop laughing loudly at the last statement of Colonel. When I am able to talk I say:

—  Really, it is strange and hard for intelligence to have to analyze imbecility. I have no doubt, colonel, that the people of God is like this and they do these things.

— All performance there, sir. — Again I laugh openly by the comment of Colonel. Maybe his circumspect and serious aspect increases the comic effect of his words, though what he describes is more than a good collection of anecdotes.

— Continue Colonel, I hear you.  — I said.

—  In short, sir, — replied the colonel — and here you will see the reason for my visit, sir, the document introduces some points all inalienable for their editors. First, (they said) we declare our group the new (and only) intellectual group of M-1 + M-17, (1)  what is called in the secular world "intelligentsia". We could not determine still if we are group or tribe. In any case, in the future we shall call by the both forms depending on the circumstances. Second: our union in Catholicism is just a technical issue and procedural because our relationship with God is always the same and unchanging through any religious method.
Therefore, we choose to be received, installed and supported in M-1 + M-17 (1) as the country with more theological deposits in the world, and also, because its people are already accustomed to similar situations.

 — With a few machine gun butts, — continues the colonel — they were loaded into a truck covered with canvas and returned to the labor camp of origin.

— End of "no power" experiment, I guess, colonel. — I said.

—  Yes, sir.  A happy end for us, sir. — And the colonel added — We know, sir, that what more mortified them was the lack of people, (or public). People who cry for them, or feel impressed by their example(?).
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(1) I am field marshal and the president of the military Government of this country.