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THE SNAKE OIL WARS

( or Scheherazade Ginsberg Strikes Again )

By PARKE GODWIN


Prologues Godhead, or doing hard time



A few million years ago aliens invaded Earth.

Well, not really an invasion, just a class of graduating students who thought
the young planet would be a fun place to party. Even more fun was leaving two
annoying brothers, Barion and Coyly, stranded on this uncharted world where the
highest form of life was a dismally unpromising ape. Everyone knew humanoid apes
were losers that began primitive and violent ended religious and lethal.

Where the party got home, no one could rem mbar exactly where they'd left the
brothers. Not to worry. Being close to immortal, someone would find them sooner
or later.

With nothing else to occupy their time, Baryon and Coyly took a dead-ending ape
and boosted its intelligence far earlier than was legal or even prudent. Though
briefly fashionable, anthropoids were never a major study among their kind. The
field work was spotty and accepted theories disastrously inacurate.

For example, the post-life energy pools. These carbon cycle creatures continued
after death as personal energy. As time went on, Barion and Covul had to take
charge of a growing mass of restless human personalities whom death rendered
more permanent than improved-vicious, vain and self-deluding as ever. They
polarized according to taste around Baryon or Coyul, conditioned to expect an
uppercase god, devil or other deities. To their pleasure or consternation, they
found only the unassuming Barion in a place/state of mind called Topside, or an
equally bewildering Below Stairs where Covul ran his office like a salon and
tried amid constant and colorful interruptions to compose music and keep his
guests from each other's throats.

By the time Sorlij found the beleaguered brothers he'd marooned as a student
prank, their experimental ape had evolved into a formidable creature whose
emotions lagged far behind his intellect, capable of brilliance and mayhem in
consecutive breaths.

Coyul, known by then as the Prince to his intimates, was left to clean up the
mess and reeducate the results of their irresponsible meddling. Baryon was taken
home for trial and sentence.

EXTRACT FROM THE TRIAL OF Baryon UNAUTHORIZED EXPERIMENTATION
AND PREMATURE SEEDING (From Sorlij's testimony)