The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
Number of pages: 416
Cover: Softcover
The real text, also known as "A Khuli", is a clumsy literary forgery, made by an unknown author in the first quarter of the 21st century. Most experts agree that it is not the manuscript itself that is interesting, but the method by which it was thrown into the world. The text file, entitled "A Khuli", was allegedly located on the hard drive of a laptop computer found under "dramatic circumstances" in a Moscow park. The police report describing the find testifies to the orchestration of this action. It seems to us that it gives a good idea of the virtuoso technologies of modern PR.
The protocol is genuine, all seals and signatures are present, although the exact time of its compilation is unknown - the upper part of the title page with the date was cut off when the protocol was bound and filed in a folder before being sent for storage at the end of the calendar year, as required by the official job description. It follows from the protocol that the interest of the police officers was aroused by strange natural phenomena in Bitsevsky Park in the Southern Administrative District of Moscow. Citizens observed a bluish glow, ball lightning and many five-color rainbows above the trees. Some of the rainbows were spherical (according to the testimony of witnesses to the incident, the colors in them seemed to shine through each other).
The epicenter of the anomaly was a vast vacant lot on the edge of the park, where a bicycle jump ramp is located. A half-melted frame from a Canondale Jekyll 1000 bicycle and the remains of wheels were found near the ramp. The grass within a radius of ten meters around the ramp was scorched, and the burnt spot had the shape of a regular five-pointed star, beyond which the grass was not damaged. Items of women's clothing were found near the bicycle frame: jeans, a pair of sneakers, "weekly" type panties with the word "Sunday" and a T-shirt with the inscription "skif" embroidered on the chest.
Judging by the photographs from the protocol, the third letter of this word looks more like the Cyrillic "И" than the Latin "U". It can be assumed that this is not an anagram of "fuck", as M. Leibman claims in his monograph, but the word "Scythian". This is confirmed by the line "Yes, we are Asians" on the back of the T-shirt - an undoubted allusion to A. Blok's poem "Scythians", which M. Leibman, apparently, did not read.
Among the items of clothing was a backpack with a portable computer, which was already mentioned in the report. All these things were not damaged, and no traces of fire were found on them, which indicates that they were thrown to the scene of the incident after the star-shaped spot was burned on the grass. No criminal case was opened on the fact of this event.
The fate of the text (allegedly) on the hard disk is well known - at first it was circulated in occult fringe circles, and then it was published as a book. The original title of the text seemed obscene even to today's book trade profiteers, so when it was published it was renamed "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf".
This text, of course, does not deserve serious literary or critical analysis. Nevertheless, we note that it reveals such a dense network of borrowings, imitations, rehashes and allusions (not to mention the bad language and rare infantilism of the author) that the question of its authenticity or genuineness does not arise for a serious specialist in literature, and it is interesting solely as a symptom of the deep spiritual decline experienced by our society. And the pseudo-Eastern pop metaphysics, a nodding acquaintance with which the author is eager to boast to the same sad losers, is capable of causing only a compassionate smile in serious and successful people. I would like to assure Muscovites and visitors to the capital that cleanliness and order in Bitsevsky Park are maintained at the proper level and the Moscow police guard the peace and safety of strollers day and night. And most importantly, friends - may there always be room for a joyful song in your life!