The Cloud That Lifted

[NewKid]

If this has been addressed elsewhere, please forgive me. <br><br>In Sinister Forces, Levenda talks about a play called "The Cloud That Lifted" by Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck. Levenda's description of it is rather interesting:<br><br>

In this play a political leader by the name of Bielensky is murdered by unknown assailants. Either three or four shots are fired; the number is controversial. The mortal wound is received in the rape of the neck. Bielensky dies without regaining consciousness. The shots come from a garden wall near a thicket of aspens (the grassy knoll?). The victim had been receiving death threats, which he decided would not cause him to alter his routine. Further, the assassin-Axel Thorild-thought "he was serving his master and Holy Russia." He was a member of an underground political faction under surveillance by the secret police; he believed he killed Bielensky, but someone else takes the blame and commits suicide. Was Axel set up? Was he . . . a patsy?

<br><br>SF p. 211 (grassy knoll parenthetical in original).<br><br><br>Levenda goes on to state that even this brief summary doesn't do the play justice because the dramatic elements are so close to Kennedy. And of course this play was written around 1923, 40 years prior to Dallas. <br><br>Maeterninck was also the writer of "The Blue Bird," which is much discussed in the book and whose title should ring a bell for readers of this site. <br><br>I'm not terribly familiar with the JFK literature; is this something that's discussed at all in it? I couldn't find anyone who has mentioned this except Levenda. In fact, I couldn't even find a basic plot summary of the "The Cloud That Lifted" on the internet. This to me is almost as amazing as the plot similarity. Surely, (no disrepect to Levenda) he isn't the first person to pick up on this is he?<br><br><br>On a somewhat unrelated note, does anyone have any insight into Graham Hancock? There's an interesting interview and review of his new book Supernatural in latest Sub Rosa. And check out the article on Crowley, DMT, and Magick as well. <br><br>[link=http://subrosa.dailygrail.com/PDF/SubRosa_Issue2-Spread.pdf newwindow]subrosa.dailygrail.com/PDF/SubRosa_Issue2-Spread.pdf[/link]<br> <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

My interest is piqued - Maeterlinck...do not know him, but now i would like to know more. Levenda is stuck in my reading list-cum-chicken coop bird flu quarantine. What little I know of Hancock is as presented in P & P's <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Stargate Conspiracy</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> (highly recommended, if you have not yet...) <br><br>*****<br><br>"The shots come from a garden wall near a thicket of aspens "<br><br>Those aspens again. You know, they turn in clusters, because they are joined at the roots. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=gouda@rigorousintuition>Gouda</A> at: 10/21/05 11:27 am<br></i>