Twisted Fables for Twisted Minds: This’ll either heal you or make you go insane

230 Pages·2017·3.567 MB·English

by  Barefoot Doctor,Cinematiko Meditori

TWISTED FABLES FOR
TWISTED MINDS
by
Professor Cinematiko
Meditatori
with a forward by the Barefoot
Doctor
This will either heal you or make
you go insane

© Professor Cinematiko Meditatori 2017
First published by Element in 2003
This edition published by Wayward Publications Ltd © 2017
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For Jake
A word from the author
This is a reprinted updated version of Twisted Fables
for Twisted Minds, though we still welcome any
feedback on references, items or chunks that need
updating in your opinion as we can adjust manuscript
mid-flight – and in return the author will reward you
with an acknowledgment in the revised version.
Cinematiko Meditatori, 2017
Professor of Ontology, University of Awasa
FOREWORD
by Barefoot Doctor
When first approached by Professor Cinematiko
Meditatori to write the foreword to this collection of
fables, I was, flattered that a man of his ilk should ask
me.
The fact that I’m credited with writing it initially
anyway, was actually a cover up. It was in fact the
good doctor who wrote this unlikely tale and had me
front it for him because he didn’t feel the time was yet
right to distract himself from his important work by
coming forwards with such an offering.
But now with the world situation as it is, and there
probably being not much time left to set things in
order, he feels that the time is now right for him to
come forwards and claim rightful authorship over the
title.
Now that he’s finally come out I expect you’ll be
hearing a lot more from this rather interesting fellow.
Personally, I can attest to him being possessed of one
of the most brilliant minds in history. If I had a
fraction of his genius, I would be a very different man.
Meanwhile having spent since 2004 when the book
was first published being the face of the project, I feel
in a position to give you the gist of it as I understand
it.
My father was fond of telling me shaggy dog stories
as a child and Cinematiko’s approach is very
reminiscent of this, which is why I relate. It’s the
absurdist, surreal, borderline nonsensical dimension
that he creates which is so similar in fact to how
things are in so called real life. Indeed, I know for a
fact that every detail and every aspect of every part of
every story is based entirely on fact: Things that
actually happened around him, people he actually
met. In his work he travels even more extensively
than I do and meets even more people than I do, and
so has a vast wealth of details and nuances to draw
from. Just like any great work of art you’ve got to be
in the mood for it. Even Mozart can get on a music
lover’s nerves if played at the wrong time. But if you
are in the mood for it, you’ll find this a rip-roaring
tale, which if it catches you at the right moment will
often have you collapsing on the floor in
uncontrollable laughter. I say this from personal
experience. When I was fronting the promotion of the
book originally, going round doing readings in
bookstores, I never managed to finish reading a single
chapter because I would invariably fall apart with
tears of laughter rolling down my cheeks, unable to
see a word on the page, just before I got to the gag
each time, so instead of the audience receiving their
pay off line and their ticket to join me in the mirth of
it all they had to content themselves which watching
me laughing uncontrollably in front of them for five
minutes before saying I can’t handle it, I’ve got to go.
And each time it happened I would phone Cinematiko
and we would giggle together like children.
I’m also flattered that he chose me as his model for
one of the main literary devices in the book. Each
chapter comprises a story or fable in its own right.
And yet all of the chapters interlink as the story of
this growing cast of characters unfolds. And at the
critical point in each chapter where the subject is
faced with complete breakdown or redemption, a
being appears ‘maybe an angel, maybe a barefoot
doctor’ who makes an intervention and sends the
story off in a new twist. He based this character
entirely on me from having observed me making such
interventions in real life. People talk a lot these days
about having mentors and the more the word is used,
the less value it seems to have. So when I call Dr
Meditatori my mentor, I want you to know that I
mean that in the truest sense. I have never met
anyone, with the possible exception of R.D. Laing,
who has such a grasp of the human condition. Yet
because he was so busy doing his real work, he has
been unable until now to share the incredible fruits of
it with the world. I confess I’ve been rather
instrumental in inducing him to finally come
forwards in order to make his valuable contribution