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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: {2}{50}(birdsong) {3091}{3181}Orchard Falla is a|Capistan- speaking young male man. {3184}{3285}He suffers from aching teeth, gross|anaemia and a marrow deficiency. {3288}{3347}For his age and his condition,|he is heavy. {3350}{3413}There is no known photograph of him. {3416}{3482}Orchard lives outside Arklow,|County Wicklow, {3485}{3587}and works in an ironmonger's that|makes a profit selling chicken wire. {3590}{3678}It is not known what he thinks|of the Violent Unknown Event. {3681}{3796}He is very noncommittal|about the Responsibility of Birds, {3799}{3904}though in an unguarded moment, he|has described his enemy as the FOX. {3907}{3954}This might be no more enigmatic {3957}{4053}than a reference to his profession|as a seller of chicken wire. {4138}{4259}At least once every 24 hours, Orchard|drives five miles to the coast, {4262}{4331}ostensibly|to collect the skulls of seabirds. {4334}{4449}He often returns with one hidden in|the toe of a pair of perished waders {4452}{4495}he keeps in the back of his car. {4498}{4573}Concealment is a precaution|in case he is challenged. {4615}{4704}His finds are usually limited|to the jaw of an oystercatcher {4707}{4809}or the head of a herring gull|sliced from its tar- covered body {4812}{4914}with the penknife given to him|by his employer last Bird- Fall Day. {4995}{5077}Orchard often spends his time|at the beach, day or night, {5080}{5181}staring at the sea with both hands|clamped tightly to his lower jaw {5184}{5258}in the unlikely hope|of squeezing away the toothache. {5261}{5346}In such a position,|he stares fixedly to the southeast. {5349}{5428}If he had turned his gaze 45 degrees|and stared due east, {5431}{5530}he might have faced the horizon that|hid the Lleyn Peninsula of Wales, {5533}{5586}which is what he wanted to stare at. {5589}{5681}As it was, he misplaced his time,|his energy and his anxiety {5684}{5753}by staring at the horizon|that hid Pembrokeshire, {5756}{5825}which was much too far to the south. {5889}{5930}Constance Ortuist Fallaburr {5933}{6010}is a Sackamayer- speaking|middle- aged female woman. {6013}{6095}She would admit her interest|in flight has been a long one. {6098}{6142}Since the Violent Unknown Event {6145}{6253}she has developed an earthbound|shape due to an engrossed coccyx. {6256}{6332}She harbours doubts|about the Responsibility of Birds {6335}{6448}and having an exaggerated respect for|gravity, now shuns flight herself. {6472}{6609}Constance has two houses side by side|on the coast at Southwold, Suffolk. {6612}{6673}The one on the left|was rented by her husband, {6676}{6733}aviation historian|Melorder Fallaburr. {6736}{6804}It served as a holiday home|for air orphans. {6807}{6871}The other house|was for Constance's own use, {6874}{6991}and was crammed with furniture|thrown out from airport lounges. {6994}{7029}It was called le nid {7032}{7099}after the initials|of Nathan Isole Dermontier, {7102}{7192}who threw himself from|the Eiffel Tower in 1870. {7195}{7277}Melorder said|the story was a fabrication, {7280}{7372}not least because the Eiffel Tower|did not exist until 1889. {7375}{7486}Constance replied that Dermontier|must have jumped from Les Invalides. {7489}{7554}Both houses|have since been demolished {7557}{7631}and the bricks used|to strengthen sea defences. {7634}{7735}Constance now lives in a house beside|the main runway at Z�rich airport. {7738}{7815}And her favourite Tulse Luper story|is The Cassowary. {7818}{7907}A jet aircraft on a cloudless night|began its landing flight path {7910}{7994}20 miles due east from the|airport where it was due to land. {7997}{8130}For the first five miles, the noise|from its engine disturbed no one. {8133}{8206}At the sixth mile,|an ornithologist on a reservoir {8209}{8269}was irritated by the jet noise|just enough {8272}{8360}to give the aircraft a glance.|He turned into a swan. {8363}{8449}At the seventh mile, a naturalist|and his wife saw the aircraft {8453}{8529}through their bedroom curtains|and turned into crows. {8532}{8598}At the eighth mile,|four children in a dormitory {8601}{8672}saw it through a skylight|and turned into herons. {8675}{8771}At the ninth mile, seven nurses|in an old people's home saw the plane {8774}{8815}and turned into swallows. {8818}{8900}At the tenth mile, 21 members|of eight families saw the plane {8903}{8943}and turned into gulls. {8946}{9047}By the 19th mile, 24,927 people {9050}{9150}in two towns, four villages and|a camping site had seen the plane. {9153}{9210}Most of them|had turned into penguins. {9213}{9271}When the plane exploded|on the airstrip, {9274}{9339}a cassowary|stepped from the wreckage {9342}{9391}and checked into the VIP lounge. {9429}{9515}Melorder Fallaburr,|the husband of Constance Fallaburr, {9518}{9570}is a comparative- flight historian, {9573}{9670}about to make his first flight|from one of London's tall buildings. {9673}{9748}What number, Melorder,|is this building on your list? {9751}{9883}It's in the top 20, but there's some|trouble getting a permit to land. {10143}{10176}Is it high enough? {10179}{10290}It's a possibility, though|the draughts are inauspicious. {10293}{10428}L don't want to end up in the Thames.|L can't swim, even if l can fly. {10431}{10517}His last words in English|were recorded on a tape recorder {10520}{10601}in a hotel bedroom at The Crane|at Bungay, Suffolk, {10604}{10684}where he was making a survey|of East Anglian decoy airfields {10687}{10727}for the Imperial War Museum. {10730}{10829}... two land mines dropped, making a|crater big enough to hide a hayrick. {10832}{10893}Present owner,|Phoenix Insurance Company. {10896}{10984}Decoy airfield half a mile from fork|in Carrow to Redroads Lane. {10987}{11066}From 1940, had lights and fires|to attract enemy bombers. {11096}{11216}Your researchers have surely told you|that success has been very limited? {11259}{11331}We all know|there has been a conspiracy. {11334}{11408}Only the failures have been recorded. {11411}{11519}We are all too interested in Icarus|and not enough in his father. {11522}{11618}Melorder had been employed as a|witness of the Violent Unknown Event, {11621}{11692}and because of what he saw|he had himself sterilised {11695}{11766}as a precaution|against making his wife pregnant. {11769}{11888}He need not have worried.|Most of those affected by the VUE, {11891}{11957}male and female alike,|became sterile anyway. {11960}{12031}Melorder's brother- in- law,|Rapper Begol, {12034}{12145}had flippantly said that a true VUE|mutant could only reproduce itself {12148}{12247}with the aid of a placenta|that had developed an eggshell. {12250}{12357}Melorder and his wife rarely lived|together after he was sterilised. {12360}{12461}Is it true you were married in|a DC 10 flying over the Eiffel Tower? {12464}{12509}That was the intention. {12512}{12596}But by the time the chaplain|recovered from airsickness, {12599}{12646}we were over Les Invalides. {12649}{12696}Will your wife watch the flight? {12699}{12777}No. She said,|"Too much entertainment, {12780}{12832}and not enough research." {12835}{12876}What about the timing? {12914}{12998}For the inaugural flight,|l intend to use lights, {13001}{13120}so the most auspicious time would be|in the evening, round about now. {13123}{13194}L'll make it down|into the shadow of the building {13197}{13251}when the shadow is at its longest. {13254}{13302}That shadow is important to you? {13305}{13404}Consider the times it's rotated|around this building. {13407}{13518}L was born down there. My mother|started labour in that shadow {13521}{13625}and had to wait until it came around|again before she was finished. {13715}{13784}When his duties as|an official observer were over, {13787}{13874}he had turned to publishing|an encyclopaedic history of flight {13877}{13973}and to the formation|of an aircraft museum at Rishangles. {14107}{14177}It's said that,|having started life in shadow, {14180}{14226}that's how it will end for you. {14242}{14305}No. L can't help them out. {14308}{14412}L've no intention of fulfilling|that particular forecast. {14415}{14524}Besides, if l fail,|it will ruin your producers. {14527}{14663}The BFI, the Bird Facilities|Investments, might never film again. {14858}{14930}The VUE had affected Melorder's sight|for the better {14933}{14974}and his hearing for the worse. {14977}{15043}And the muscles of his arms,|chest and back {15046}{15116}had become enlarged,|engorged and strengthened. {15119}{15207}His doctor referred to the phenomenon|as petagium fellitis {15210}{15253}or skin- wing aggrievement. {15256}{15317}This characteristic|persuaded Melorder {15320}{15409}that his historical and theoretical|knowledge of human flight {15412}{15456}should be put to practical use. {15605}{15714}L hear Armeror Fallstag|has ordered you a wreath. {15717}{15820}He should save his money.|L'm not dying by gravity. {15823}{15883}L'd rather be pecked to death|by penguins. {15934}{16034}Appis (Arris) Fallabus is|a Regest- speaking young male man. {16037}{16148}He is partially blind, sensitive to|temperature and has poor circulation. {16151}{16231}Nightly, he has to lubricate|himself with Spanish oil. {16234}{16300}(speaks Dutch) {16303}{16392}Is it true|that you are plagued with body lice? {16395}{16424}Yes, it is. {16427}{16514}Everything you can imagine,|ticks, lice, {16526}{16639}termites, tapeworms. Everything.|You name it. {16702}{16773}After a change in the weather,|it's especially bad. {16789}{16888}Worse in summer, and impossible|to get rid of at sea level. {16891}{17009}Within reason, l have been advised|to make them moderately comfortable {17012}{17081}by wearing wool. But l live with it. {17163}{17268}Appis, whose comprehension of urban|Dutch has not entirely disappeared, {17271}{17340}had been born in Zeelem,|an isolated village {17343}{17445}surrounded by canals that only|appeared to empty due to evaporation. {17448}{17521}In winter, every inch of water|in Zeelem turned to ice {17524}{17601}and the body predators|that worried Appis slept, froze {17604}{17662}or otherwise temporarily capitulated. {17716}{17807}It is said that you identify|with swallows. Is this correct? {17904}{18013}Yes, it's true. But nowadays,|that's not unique, is it? {18032}{18113}Appis would have been|an expert long- distance ice skater {18116}{18171}but his mother believed|it was dangerous {18174}{18293}for his poor circulation to spend too|much time out of doors in the winter. {18296}{18380}Appis's mother was not a victim|of the Violent Unknown Event. {18383}{18452}As she grew older and her son|remained the same age, {18455}{18530}she discovered a new worry|for each new season. {18533}{18607}She could not have|too many seasons left, {18610}{18718}so Appis patiently waited to be set|free to enjoy immortality on his own. {18721}{18776}Meanwhile, he managed a kite factory, {18779}{18866}in some part satisfying a desire|for unaided flight in himself {18869}{18961}and in the 19 million other victims|of the VUE. {19055}{19165}Is it true your father was killed by|a bird counter named Van Hoyten? {19168}{19272}My father was at the Amsterdam zoo|studying saltwater fish, {19275}{19369}when Van Hoyten was employed there|as a bird counter. {19439}{19473}They quarrelled, {19476}{19611}apparently because my father|had a fox tattooed on his chest. {19632}{19693}It was said they were rivals. {19751}{19836}In the summer, Appis flew|a stunt kite to intimidate the birds {19839}{19906}who he blamed directly|for his predicament. {19932}{20027}L'm told you drink salt water|to crack the ice in your pancreas. {20044}{20186}L do? Perhaps you're confusing me|with someone else. {20209}{20330}My father was always experimenting,|putting plaice in the canals {20333}{20437}and stimulating the salt glands|in pelagic birds. {20527}{20630}What do you think of the Theory|of the Responsibility of Birds? {20633}{20754}Well, the coincidences|seem inexhaustible, obviously. {20757}{20832}But l leave it entirely|to the experts. {20835}{20914}When flying his kite,|Appis left swallows alone {20917}{21003}knowing that a single bird of|that species could be preyed upon {21006}{21073}by a dozen different types|of parasite, {21076}{21127}and that was punishment enough. {21172}{21283}Standard Fallaby has a DC3 single|berth caravanette with a glass roof. {21286}{21392}In winter, he hides it in|caravan sites in the west of England, {21395}{21507}ostensibly that it might escape the|scrutiny of his sister Tasida Fallaby {21510}{21591}whose attentions, says Standard,|are not ornithological {21594}{21685}and exceed those of an orthodox|brother- and- sister relationship. {21688}{21748}The VUE Directory Commission|have, as yet, {21751}{21834}not been able to locate|Standard Fallaby or his caravan. {21881}{21977}The VUE has contracted Standard's|intestine and paralysed his legs. {21980}{22067}He is obliged to cling to a|hanging brace when asked to stand up. {22070}{22118}He speaks Curdine. {22121}{22174}Curdine is a cursive language {22177}{22271}that deliberately fosters ambiguities|and encourages punning. {22274}{22350}Tulse Luper has said that|in the larynx of the right man, {22353}{22411}Curdine would be|a superlative language, {22414}{22470}an antidote|to all the world's feathers. {22554}{22588}Since the VUE, {22591}{22676}Standard Fallaby has developed|an interest in the Corvidae. {22679}{22762}Every rook- nesting season,|he parks beneath a rookery {22765}{22839}somewhere in West England|in sight of the Atlantic. {22842}{22932}He has made a claim to the World|Society for the Preservation of Birds {22935}{23062}to have discovered a rook subspecies,|Corvus frugilegus atlanticus, {23065}{23193}whose diet is largely shellfish and|whose call imitates young seagulls. {23196}{23279}The WSPB|has not recognised his claim. {23344}{23469}(reads aloud in Curdine) {23472}{23601}"My brother and l|were born holding hands." {23604}{23690}"My mother says so.|His father denies it." {23693}{23801}"L sometimes think l took the first|small step out of the womb." {23804}{23918}Tasida Fallaby is two years and seven|months older than her brother. {23921}{23969}"He deferred to me." {23972}{24074}"This contradicts what might|be read on our birth certificates." {24111}{24181}"But then l have no patience|with bureaucracies." {24184}{24256}"It's water off a duck's back|to them." {24273}{24341}Apart from a thickening|of the exterior muscles, {24344}{24433}the Violent Unknown Event|has only modified Tasida's interior, {24436}{24543}leaving her exterior unmolested and|encouraging her belief in naturism. {24591}{24719}"When l was 15, my hair was longer|than his, but he was taller." {24722}{24790}"It didn't matter. He got over it." {24793}{24881}The Directory credits Tasida|with a partially collapsed lung, {24884}{24950}a singing tinnitus,|black- and- white vision, {24953}{25001}a doubling|of the menstrual cycle, {25004}{25110}and, unlike her brother, a twisting|of the intestine into tighter coils {25113}{25229}so that Tasida suffers intense cramps|and often has malodorous breath. {25232}{25316}"Malodorous" is a translation|of the adjective that she used {25319}{25402}in the autobiography she presented|to the VUE Commission {25405}{25496}to counteract the statistics|she was sure to find describing her {25499}{25556}in the VUE Directory. {25589}{25696}Tasida's autobiography runs to more|than 300 pages written in Curdine, {25699}{25785}though the Directory has registered|her as a speaker in Katan. {25788}{25866}At her insistence|the autobiography was read aloud {25869}{25948}for the benefit of the Commission|who recorded the whole, {25951}{26012}taking a greater part of a day|to do so. {26058}{26141}"L married Messenger|after my great disappointment." {26216}{26304}"L took to nursing|like a duck takes to water." {26307}{26357}"Messenger married me for it." {26421}{26454}"But as time went on, {26457}{26553}l realised that he was too interested|in the clothing industry." {26556}{26632}"He was even selling stockings|to my friend Sanchia." {26635}{26703}"L told him to stop making|his business interest {26706}{26753}break up our relationship." {26773}{26849}Tasida has painstakingly learnt|a mechanical Curdine {26853}{26897}so she might talk to her brother. {26900}{26956}Since he only wanted to talk|about birds, {26959}{27026}she pronounced ornithological terms {27029}{27094}with an exactness|suggesting enthusiasm. {27195}{27303}"It is essential that my version of|the facts be taken into account." {27306}{27360}Curdine, notorious for ambiguity, {27363}{27444}is certainly antipathetic to being|spoken mechanically. {27447}{27541}Tasida therefore spoke it|with some courage, if not rashness. {27544}{27658}Her blunt pronunciation contained|layers of unconscious innuendo {27661}{27735}and the ambiguous imagery|had a hazardous relevance. {27738}{27877}"...since a mere list of Commission|Statistics compiled by assistants {27880}{27983}who don't know a ruff|from a decorated neckband, {27986}{28111}it's bound to be unacceptable, and|on this Standard is bound to agree." {28143}{28252}Lacer Fallacet, after the Violent|Unknown Event, had a dark head, {28255}{28357}calloused hands and barked in Agreet|like a person unwilling to use words. {28360}{28464}She owned a succession of voiceless|bitches, named after female aviators, {28467}{28565}and her favourite Tulse Luper story.|Was The Photographer's Dog. {28568}{28642}A naturalist took a photograph|of a dead dog on a beach. {28645}{28683}The corpse was a week old... {28686}{28766}Lacer Fallacet suffered from|rheumatism, muscular spasms {28769}{28808}and a loss of taste buds. {28811}{28875}She was classified|as an elderly female woman. {28878}{28938}The VUE knocked three inches|off her height {28941}{29007}and added three stone to her weight. {29010}{29120}According to her godson Rapper Begol,|Lacer was born on Bardsey Island {29123}{29239}where dogs hunted seagulls|and learnt to imitate their cry. {29242}{29324}Before the VUE, Lacer|had variously been a child- minder, {29327}{29409}a maths teacher and a pastry cook.|She had worked in Sweden {29412}{29527}as a swimming instructress, a|dietician and a veterinary assistant. {29530}{29586}Lacer married a pharmacist|from Brougan {29589}{29655}and had two daughters|who married Russian pilots. {29658}{29747}Her granddaughters came to|England on Bird- Fall Scholarships {29750}{29824}and, having gained political asylum,|live in Canada. {29827}{29901}- Puffin.|- Black- headed gull. {29904}{29949}Whatever her other attributes, {29952}{30032}Lacer Fallacet has not been able|to teach her dogs to fly, {30035}{30126}though she may have witnessed,|on a visit to the Ukraine, {30129}{30243}laboratory tests that suggested|dog flight was not impossible. {30279}{30325}Six months after the VUE, {30328}{30415}the first dog Lacer took up in a|plane was a spaniel named Harzy {30418}{30466}after Frau Esterh�zy. {30469}{30508}But the first solo flight {30511}{30614}was reserved for a three- year- old|boxer bitch called Louise. {30617}{30728}At Lacer's command, Louise jumped|from a helicopter at 1,000 feet {30731}{30813}and landed on loose straw|in a field outside Copenhagen. {30816}{30903}The second jump was from 2,000 feet|and was unsuccessful. {30906}{30970}The dog landed|in a children's playing field. {30973}{31071}Lacer was threatened with prosecution|but the charge did not stick. {31074}{31118}She was fined three kroner {31121}{31196}for exercising a dog|in a public place without a lead. {31258}{31305}Nine days after the VUE, {31308}{31394}Arris Fallacie gave evidence|of being a dreamer- of- water, {31397}{31482}Category One, Flight,|which is nearly always illustrated {31485}{31602}by the Bedfordshire Level Sequence|from HE Carter's film The Last Wave. {31910}{31975}Questioned, Arris found no difficulty {31978}{32039}identifying his dream|with the sample. {32057}{32093}At the time of the VUE, {32096}{32183}Arris was travelling to London|from boarding school in Perth. {32186}{32305}He was in a second- class non- smoking|compartment facing the engine. {32308}{32382}Both schoolboys|developed identical VUE symptoms, {32385}{32505}but the friend spoke Carn- est- aero|and Arris spoke Itino Re. {32508}{32579}The language conversion|was abrupt and complete. {32582}{32687}Their last collaborative work in|English had been a mild punishment. {32690}{32761}Arris began to spend|more and more time asleep. {32764}{32822}He developed a stammer|round the letter H, {32825}{32905}a lung inflammation and|a shrinkage of the stomach wall. {32908}{32966}He was sent to a dietary counsellor {32969}{33065}at the isolation hospital|at Bryne Boars, Chesil Beach. {33068}{33107}But Arris never arrived. {33110}{33188}On the train journey,|searching for the toilet to be sick, {33191}{33275}he opened the wrong door and fell|into the path of an oncoming train. {33307}{33404}Mashanter Fallack was registered|as a speaker in English and Karnash, {33407}{33457}with a knowledge of Allow- ease. {33500}{33572}To identify herself with|the victims of the VUE, {33575}{33637}she insisted|in speaking Karnash in public. {33640}{33689}(speaks Karnash) {33749}{33789}English to her was a language {33792}{33897}prepared to debase ornithological|nomenclature to an unacceptable level {33900}{33969}demonstrating the paucity|of the English concern {33972}{34041}with the phenomenon|of the Violent Unknown Event. {34069}{34169}Do you think these film biographies|are going to profit the VUE victims? {34193}{34360}Of course. Think of who's involved,|the IRR, the BFI, the COI, {34363}{34502}the European Section of the WSPB,|not to miss the Directory Commission. {34526}{34626}These bodies have access to a viewing|public that covers half the world. {34629}{34723}Do you think public money is well|spent on making films like this? {34726}{34824}Do you ask about the public money|being paid to all these people {34827}{34874}in all these government offices? {34877}{34958}L'm surprised that you of all people|can ask that question. {34961}{35057}Mashanter was born in the Canary|Isles, though at times she denies it. {35060}{35117}She now has an office|in Berkeley Square. {35199}{35233}Her parents were Danish. {35236}{35320}Her father was an architect|now employed building aviaries. {35323}{35402}Her mother, a doctor,|drowned in a ship's swimming pool. {35405}{35461}Do you think there's any point|in the IRR {35464}{35525}making a separate case|for VUE victims? {35528}{35607}On the night of the VUE|Mashanter was on holiday in Venice. {35610}{35717}Apart from some migraine and insomnia|Mashanter suffered little physically. {35720}{35764}Her metabolism was invigorated. {35767}{35838}At night, she studied|ornithological literature. {35841}{35941}She began to campaign for a better|appreciation of avian terminology. {35982}{36062}Soon she was spending her|income in the magistrates' courts {36065}{36142}paying fines for disturbance|of the peace, harassment, {36145}{36222}being a public nuisance|and defacing public monuments. {36263}{36351}Mashanter's favourite Tulse Luper|story was Sparrow Week. {36354}{36467}To curb flocks of sparrows eating|one- third of its food production, {36470}{36524}a nation organised Sparrow Week. {36527}{36608}Day and night, for seven days,|the country's population {36611}{36681}rang bells, banged saucepan lids|and shouted. {36684}{36790}The sparrows, frightened to settle,|eventually fell dead out of the sky. {36793}{36889}Flight exhaustion from the same cause|also killed gulls on the coast, {36892}{36953}herons in the marsh,|eagles in the mountains {36956}{37004}and pigeons on the town square. {37007}{37066}On the seventh day,|Sparrow Week ended. {37069}{37168}Next year two- thirds of the country's|food supply was eaten by insects {37171}{37239}and the money standard|changed from gold to eggs. {37242}{37308}Were you speaking metaphorically|when you said {37311}{37380}you were preparing|to lay your own golden egg? {37383}{37425}(laughs) {37464}{37502}Can l take it that... {37634}{37752}The compilation of the biography of a|living person is a sensitive matter. {37755}{37859}Where necessary, and in nearly every|case where the subject wanted it, {37862}{37931}various forms of anonymity were used. {37934}{38028}The VUE Commission offered a choice|of ten pseudonymous identities {38031}{38128}and Squaline Fallaize, the subject|of biography 10, chose identity 10 {38131}{38197}for she recognised|it for another bird victim. {38200}{38283}She has requested that|accounts of her life should be brief, {38286}{38393}unillustrated and translated for her|mother's benefit into Kath- a- ganian. {38431}{38491}She also insisted|it be narrated by a woman. {38494}{38545}"Squaline Fallaize had shining eyes, {38548}{38602}yellow skin|and a blaze on her forehead {38605}{38691}in the shape of the Austro- Hungarian|double- headed eagle." {38694}{38739}(Kath- a- ginian) {38894}{38948}"Squaline Fallaize had shining eyes, {38951}{39005}yellow skin|and a blaze on her forehead {39008}{39090}in the shape of the Austro- Hungarian|double- headed eagle." {39093}{39154}"She spoke whatever language|took her fancy, {39157}{39272}her whims influenced by her appetite,|which was usually small." {39275}{39345}"She was known|as a reticent conversationalist." {39348}{39429}"Squaline was paid a retainer|by the Language Commission." {39432}{39493}"When it learnt|she was getting an appetite, {39496}{39546}the Language University at Caracas {39549}{39643}sent several senior professors|to her flat on Cappis Island." {39646}{39721}"A large meal was cooked slowly|in her small kitchen {39724}{39805}whilst the linguists sat on|the floor of her dining room {39808}{39879}to listen to her fluency|in 47 languages." {39882}{39969}"The two chefs and the waiter|who served the meal were paid for {39972}{40076}out of a university expense account|reserved for ringing storks." {40079}{40180}There is some evidence to suggest|that Squaline Fallaize is a fiction. {40240}{40302}(telephone rings) {40332}{40396}(speaks French) {40571}{40629}Carlos Fallantly lost his wife... {40712}{40776}...at the time|of the Violent Unknown Event. {40881}{40933}She was a voluble, untidy woman... {40969}{41017}...who made her own clothes... {41067}{41151}...and washed once a week|in the water... {41246}{41293}...wrung out of the laundry. {41367}{41414}She was invaluable to her husband. {41459}{41516}She looked after his poultry, {41534}{41568}kept his accounts... {41609}{41648}...and when roused... {41717}{41775}...was as uxorious a wife... {41833}{41903}...as Carlos could wish to have. {42030}{42133}On the night of June 12th of the VUE,|Carlos's wife suffered a stroke. {42136}{42206}Carlos transferred his affection|to a turkey. {42305}{42355}The VUE Directory records for Carlos {42358}{42455}a malfunction of the left ventricle,|bone- marrow disease {42458}{42521}and, save for|the VUE immortality clause, {42524}{42595}would have normally given him|six months to live. {42643}{42723}Carlos had buried his wife|in the floor of his greenhouse. {42726}{42791}The local authorities|had the body exhumed. {42794}{42880}Now Carlos lived in the greenhouse|to keep his turkey company. {43056}{43140}A fowl pest epidemic finally erased|Carlos's other poultry. {43143}{43184}Two veterinary officials {43187}{43264}came to make sure he had burnt|or buried all the corpses. {43279}{43355}Insisting the one remaining bird|should be destroyed, {43358}{43457}the vet promised to compensate Carlos|with at least a set of photographs. {43510}{43596}These were taken as the vet|stalked the bird with his camera {43599}{43687}whilst the vet's assistant|stalked the bird with a shotgun. {43713}{43774}Carlos was not happy|with the photographs. {43777}{43847}He is now awaiting trial at Clichy|for shooting the vet. {43899}{43948}(sings) {44196}{44273}Musicus Fallantly|had quickly acclimatised himself {44276}{44336}to the effects|of the Violent Unknown Event. {44339}{44413}A sufferer of petagium fellitis|and a speaker of Allow, {44416}{44509}he moved to Port Madoc, learnt to|sing in Welsh, practised illusionism {44512}{44597}and began a study of linguistics|he called aero- ethnography. {44600}{44665}Musicus worked|on an Allow/Welsh dictionary {44668}{44739}and adapted da Vinci's notes|on human flight {44742}{44799}as a text for the VUE anthem. {44802}{44868}Musicus also wrote|a Welsh/ Allow choral work {44871}{44929}celebrating 92 early flight pioneers. {44932}{45019}This work, of great complexity|and an excess of narrative, {45022}{45084}proceeded|by listing categories of flight. {45087}{45173}The characters were pilots,|night pilots, airmen, flyers, {45176}{45253}aeronauts and female aeronauts,|birdmen and gullers. {45256}{45294}A "guller" was an Allow word {45297}{45378}for those whose attempts to fly|had taken place over water. {45381}{45431}Icarus had been a guller. {45476}{45575}Musicus called his work Sky Lists|and dedicated it to Van Riquardt, {45578}{45631}the French patriot and pioneer airman {45634}{45703}who threw himself|from the Eiffel Tower in 1889. {45706}{45797}Cadence, Musicus's wife, said that|the film was a reconstruction {45800}{45895}because the moving- picture|camera wasn't invented until 1895. {45898}{45946}Van Riquardt had been a linguist {45949}{46039}and a baritone|in the Lyc�e Nouvelle M�nilmontant. {46101}{46209}Musicus Fallantly's eldest son|Vanrick was named after Van Riquardt {46212}{46288}but although interested|in his father's illusionism, {46291}{46410}he had no interest in choral work,|language or self- propelled flight. {46592}{46631}He became a sound recordist. {46697}{46787}"Dear sir, In reply to your query|about Wrallis Fallanway, {46790}{46900}my husband was on artificial lake 11|early on the morning of June 13th." {46903}{47006}In this dry overflow gully, Wrallis|Fallanway began his post- VUE life {47009}{47079}after three hours|of artificial resuscitation. {47082}{47146}His body had been found floating|above the weir {47149}{47210}on the Lake Marmion Complex, Ontario. {47213}{47300}"At half past five, he said|the lake shook three times, {47303}{47389}the ripples coming from the edge|of the lake towards the centre, {47392}{47488}the reverse of what would happen|if you threw a stone into the water." {47491}{47602}"L'm not hiding the fact that my|husband was a nationalised Canadian." {47605}{47699}"He took his Canadian name from the|road where we lived at Kashabowie." {47702}{47795}"The road had been named after|Lewis Fallan the lumberjack, {47798}{47892}a second- generation|Patagonian Welshman like Wrallis." {47895}{47962}"He'd worked for the Goldhawk|Company as a topman, {47965}{48022}and he'd been crushed|by a giant redwood, {48025}{48123}the ones you don't find any more|as they've all been pulled down." {48182}{48244}"The second time|Wrallis felt the lake shake {48247}{48323}he fell into the boat and|banged his head on the rowlock." {48326}{48413}"When he sat up again he felt sure|he'd got something in his eye." {48416}{48513}"He felt sick at the back of his|throat and nose, and his eyes ran." {48516}{48574}"He was giddy for a long time." {48578}{48657}"L learnt from my neighbours|it was common knowledge {48660}{48754}that Lewis Fallan had been|awarded damages for his accident." {48757}{48842}"The Goldhawk Company presented|his widow with a certificate {48845}{48941}and a tray of eagle eggs and named|a road in Kashabowie after him." {48944}{49015}"The road is supposed|to be exactly 57 metres long, {49018}{49097}as long as the redwood|that crushed Fallan's chest." {49101}{49170}"The third time,|my husband fell into the lake." {49173}{49238}"Air in his anorak|must have kept him afloat {49241}{49290}as he remembers nothing else." {49293}{49379}"He was picked up|by a Goldhawk vessel from the weir {49382}{49495}about ten in the morning.|He'd been in the water five hours." {49498}{49595}"They gave my husband the day off and|said he was lucky they'd found him." {49598}{49688}"Wrallis became blind two days later|and he kept falling over." {49691}{49772}Wrallis Fallanway is registered|as a middle- aged male man {49775}{49879}suffering from M�ni�re's disease,|migraine and apoplexy. {49882}{49951}His lips grew calloused,|his tongue diminished {49954}{50018}and a nictitating membrane|on his left eye {50021}{50101}operated involuntarily|in conditions of bright light, {50104}{50179}making his vision sparkle|with refracted lights. {50198}{50236}"They sent me a certificate {50239}{50324}which said that the Goldhawk|Fisheries Company named the lake, {50327}{50412}number 11 lake, after my husband,|the Wrallis Fallanway Lake." {50415}{50537}"They gave me a case of stuffed fish.|They look like flying fish." {50540}{50630}"Here's hoping my knowledge|of my husband's case can help you." {50633}{50706}"Sincerely yours,|Asecretor Fallanway." {50735}{50825}Allia Fallanx is the fourth|Custodian of the Boulder Orchard, {50828}{50942}the recognised geographical epicentre|of the Violent Unknown Event. {50961}{51053}The Boulder Orchard's first permanent|Custodian was HE Carter, {51056}{51174}painter, film- maker, banjo- player,|hydronomist and indexer. {51200}{51260}The second Custodian|was Rapper Begol, {51263}{51311}photographer, embryologist, {51314}{51407}saxophonist, fire- watcher|and writer of Egg Tales. {51410}{51468}L noticed a brown sort of ball... {51471}{51538}The third Custodian|was Catuso Phelpis, {51541}{51627}singer and ornithological registrar. {51630}{51717}Allia Fallanx, as pianist,|ornithologist, cataloguer, {51720}{51790}apiarist|and expert on flying reptiles, {51793}{51866}perpetuated and expanded|the Custodian tradition. {51869}{51993}However, the publication of personal|details of VUE Commission employees {51996}{52087}is forbidden. This embargo|does not extend to their families, {52090}{52172}so it is possible to consider|the VUE history of Allia's wife, {52187}{52232}Starling Fallanx. {52299}{52348}(The Lady is a Tramp) {52398}{52475}Starling Fallanx, singer,|firework enthusiast, {52478}{52572}wanderer, collector of berets,|bird hats and cardboard boxes, {52575}{52618}authority on the nightingale, {52621}{52708}was struck down by the VUE near|a late- flowering hawthorn bush {52711}{52762}on the road into the Manifold Valley. {52854}{52923}Starling met Allia|just eight hours after the VUE. {52926}{52983}They were both suffering|from sore feet. {53006}{53047}After some wanderings, {53050}{53131}with or without the VUE's|disorienteering experience, {53134}{53228}she moved into the Tyddyn- Corn|Farm with her children and hats {53231}{53330}when Allia became the Fourth|Custodian of the Boulder Orchard. {53479}{53603}She likes green grass|underneath her shoes {53606}{53685}Perhaps finding it difficult to|cripple a moving target, {53688}{53769}the VUE's interest in Starling|Fallanx has been sporadic. {53772}{53844}But now she has settled|she can no longer taste salt, {53847}{53963}open her eyes under water, wear|velvet or smell hawthorn blossom. {53984}{54072}But she can teach her daughters|the 32 songs of the nightingale {54075}{54145}and astonish them|by locking her Achilles tendons {54148}{54204}to grip apples with|the soles of her feet. {54207}{54305}She likes the theatre|but she never stays late {54308}{54380}Of all the VUE's attributes|Starling felt the most, {54383}{54480}and, at the same time, the least|enthusiastic about, was immortality. {54515}{54616}Barring accidents she would outlive|her daughters and granddaughters. {54619}{54694}Her kinship with her|great- great- granddaughters {54697}{54789}would be so diluted that she could|scarcely claim a relationship. {54792}{54899}She ought by then to be back on the|road, maybe starting another family. {54902}{54955}There would be chances|to begin again. {54958}{55083}She goes to opera|and she knows every line {55115}{55213}She goes to Shakespeare|and she thinks him fine {55238}{55310}She goes to the opera|she knows every line {55313}{55375}On the long drives|to distant jazz clubs, {55378}{55467}Starling kept an eagle eye on|the fields looking for scarecrows, {55470}{55509}the only site to be buried in {55512}{55596}if a VUE victim wished to|terminate a relationship with birds. {55599}{55708}She likes to go swimming|down in Abersoch Bay {55711}{55816}She goes to the eisteddfod|and she stays wide awake {55868}{55976}Ipson and Pulat Fallari were brothers|in fiction and half- brothers in fact, {55979}{56054}or, thanks to Tulse Luper,|maybe the other way around. {56057}{56113}Either way they were inseparable. {56162}{56237}Ipson Fallari on the right|is marginally the eldest, {56240}{56347}his mother being Iloge Kyle, who was|the elder twin sister of Cloge Kyle {56350}{56449}who was the mother of Pulat. The next|improbable fact is more difficult. {56452}{56534}The 14th VUE Directory|declared the brothers to be dead, {56537}{56602}shot in an airport hotel|in Medina Sidonia {56605}{56677}by the only legitimate son|of their father. {56680}{56738}The Directory is then silent|for two years {56741}{56802}only to resurrect them|in the 17th edition, {56805}{56869}this time spelling Ipson as Ipsan. {57135}{57221}The father of the Fallari brothers,|Crozier Fallari Raphael, {57224}{57287}was a feathering and marbling|caf� painter. {57290}{57359}In 1939, he'd married|a caf� proprietor's widow {57362}{57415}in the Carcenne District of Brussels. {57418}{57499}To this lady he'd given a son,|Tason Raphael. {57502}{57588}Next year, Crozier Raphael|joined the British Royal Air Force {57591}{57685}and met the refugee Walloon twins,|Iloge and Cloge Kyle. {57688}{57737}Crozier was killed at Dunkirk {57740}{57826}and the Kyle twins each had|a son in the same three- hour period. {57829}{57928}They were christened Fallari,|their father's second Christian name, {57931}{58005}and reached their 18th birthday|before being aware {58008}{58076}of yet another|and legitimate stepbrother. {58096}{58154}Thinking of themselves|as twins of twins, {58157}{58234}Ipson and Pulat believed|they possessed charmed lives, {58237}{58340}took great physical risks, became|air couriers and learnt to fly. {58343}{58422}They practised parachuting|and worked for a circus. {58425}{58496}One New Year's Eve|they climbed Cologne Cathedral, {58499}{58598}and for an encore, crossed the Rhine|jumping from ice floe to ice floe. {58601}{58709}They ended up in the freezing water,|and against expectation, survived. {58774}{58859}But the Violent Unknown Event|abruptly changed their luck. {58862}{58969}From now on they were to share only|the symptoms of high blood pressure {58972}{59037}and perfectly synchronised blackouts. {59051}{59129}They were obliged to relinquish|their pilot's licence. {59132}{59184}For Ipson|it was not an enormous loss. {59187}{59283}Pulat took any chance he could to sit|at the controls of a small plane {59286}{59367}and taxi it in small circles|until the fuel was exhausted. {59370}{59469}Ipson spoke Allow- ease|and Pulat spoke Capistan. {59472}{59570}Allow is terse and impersonal,|full of abbreviations and imperatives {59573}{59637}as though invented for use|on a parade ground, {59640}{59700}or for the writer|of instruction manuals. {59703}{59816}Capistan is a lazy, gentle language,|spoken from the front of the mouth {59819}{59930}and requiring unusual amounts of|saliva and exposure of the tongue. {59933}{60031}The two languages are as remote from|one another as appears possible. {60034}{60149}The brothers' adroit, inexhaustible|crosstalk was at an end. {60152}{60186}Previous to the VUE, {60189}{60265}only one event in their lives|had so come between them. {60268}{60344}That had been Ipson's marriage|to Stachia Lacquer. {60398}{60447}The introduction of the third party {60450}{60516}stretched fraternal loyalties|intolerably. {60519}{60610}After two years of impossible|situations, swapped identities {60613}{60682}and frustrated privacy,|Stachia had walked out. {60685}{60754}There was no way|of persuading the VUE to leave. {60877}{60978}The half- brothers had experienced|several years of VUE's malevolence, {60981}{61074}when, with a party of naturalists,|they visited Medina Sidonia {61077}{61135}on a forced fuelling stop. {61138}{61215}They befriended|the airport controller and his wife. {61218}{61269}As was usual|when meeting strangers, {61272}{61376}before long the Fallari brothers had|communicated their complex origins {61379}{61458}to the amused delight|of the airport controller's wife. {61461}{61509}At three the following morning, {61512}{61591}the airport controller burst|into the Fallari hotel room {61594}{61685}and shot at Ipson and Pulat|with an emergency distress pistol. {61688}{61752}The controller|turned out to be Tason Raphael, {61755}{61855}the Fallaris' stepbrother, the only|legitimate son of their father. {61858}{61940}All three were found unconscious.|They'd blacked out. {61943}{61997}The Fallaris|with high blood pressure {62000}{62050}and the stepbrother with alcohol. {62135}{62195}From this incident|and with assistance {62198}{62281}from Tulse Luper's fictional account|of the Fallaris, {62284}{62360}the Commission Directory|drew its conclusions. {62363}{62472}A close scrutiny of a plane's|passenger list leaving the day after {62475}{62560}would show, if not the names of Ipson|and Pulat Fallari, {62563}{62623}then the names of|Ipson and Pulat Raphael, {62626}{62697}save Ipson's name|had been spelt Ipsan. {62781}{62830}(birdsong) {62875}{62950}Stachia Lacquer|was an authority on vegetable oils. {62953}{63041}She was a portrait photographer,|a writer and an illustrator. {63586}{63681}Stachia finished writing and|illustrating The Tar- Barrel Crow {63684}{63746}five years|before the Violent Unknown Event, {63749}{63831}and three years to the day|before she met Pulat Fallari. {63869}{63960}Stachia Lacquer had gone to Madras|to cremate her father {63963}{64030}who had been killed|in a public disturbance. {64033}{64095}She was drinking lemonade|on a hotel veranda {64098}{64163}when Ipson Fallari|fell on top of her. {64166}{64272}He'd been tightrope walking|the balustrade of the veranda above. {64275}{64365}He was awaiting the return|of his half- brother Pulat {64368}{64453}from conducting a party|of English naturalists in Sri Lanka. {64456}{64532}Stachia suffered a sprained wrist,|a bruised shoulder {64535}{64623}and a sliver of lemonade glass|had sliced into her thigh. {64626}{64681}She was in hospital for three days. {64684}{64778}Ipson stayed with her and|afterwards helped her to convalesce. {64781}{64893}On Stachia's recovery,|they flew to Hamburg and got married. {65009}{65095}Five days later, Pulat,|Ipson's half- brother, found out. {65098}{65189}Determined not to be disturbed,|he played down its significance. {65192}{65258}He helped them set up house|on the Vogelstrasse {65261}{65382}opposite the statue of Haberlein,|the discoverer of archaeopteryx. {65385}{65474}For three months, they vastly enjoyed|each other's company, {65477}{65589}then Pulat began flying long trips,|alone to towns without airfields. {65592}{65677}Eventually he crashed in North Africa|and broke both legs. {65694}{65771}Ipson found him and promised|to repudiate the marriage. {65774}{65886}For a time this worked, then Ipson|began seeing his wife again. {65918}{65995}Again Pulat found out,|and crashed at sea. {65998}{66098}He turned up five months later on|Smith Island in the New Hebrides. {66101}{66219}Stachia suggested Pulat should|come and live at the Vogelstrasse. {66222}{66312}But after months of impossible|situations, swapped identities {66315}{66433}and frustrated privacy, Stachia could|stand it no longer and walked out. {66533}{66588}She wrote and illustrated a story {66591}{66669}about a wooden chair that grew|back again into a tree, {66672}{66748}bore fruit|and propagated a forest of chairs. {66751}{66802}The story was bought|by a seed company {66805}{66878}and Stachia wrote|their advertising copy. {66881}{66950}With funds from the company's|publicity account, {66953}{67016}she built up an aviary|of tropical birds {67019}{67130}in Mexico City and then in Amsterdam.|Before long she met Van Hoyten, {67133}{67217}the Head of the Ornithological|Department of Amsterdam zoo {67220}{67301}and they were living together|at the time of the VUE. {67465}{67552}Stachia's VUE complaint is rare.|It has been diagnosed as {67555}{67637}de faire blessure|or the opening of old wounds. {67640}{67699}The first sign|was inflammation of the skin {67702}{67764}around an old scar tissue|on her left elbow. {67767}{67849}Stachia had fallen on her elbow|when she was three years old. {67852}{67939}This was followed by the opening|of scar tissue on her ears. {67942}{68004}Her ears had been pierced|when she was seven. {68007}{68137}Then bleeding under her arm. Stachia|at 15 had cut herself shaving. {68140}{68196}Scar tissue on her thigh|started to bleed {68199}{68244}and she was brought to hospital. {68247}{68313}It was the scar|from the Madras lemonade glass. {68316}{68396}Stachia has spent most of her life|in hospital since then. {68399}{68450}A recipient of blood transfusions, {68453}{68543}prone to persistent low blood|pressure and periodic blackouts. {68618}{68716}The Directory Certificate states|Stachia's condition was caused {68719}{68837}by blood emulsification due to|an inability to absorb organic oils. {68840}{68978}Stachia Fallari is registered as|an Allow speaker but rarely speaks. {68981}{69070}Her doctor says his patient felt|that terse, impersonal Allow, {69073}{69184}full of abbreviations and imperatives|was antipathetic to her sympathies. {69187}{69279}She is now learning Capistan,|the language that is lazy and gentle {69282}{69380}and requires unusual amounts of|saliva and exposure of the tongue. {70169}{70243}Aptesia Fallarme,|for the purpose of this biography, {70246}{70332}has been persuaded to adopt|a pseudonymous identity. {70335}{70427}It's relevant that she chose a|bird victim who was also an actress. {70430}{70478}In this unprofessional capacity, {70481}{70538}Aptesia received|dedications of thanks. {70750}{70847}Aptesia Fallarme is supposed to have|been the model for the character {70850}{70941}Happy Enido|in Leo- dee- nine's novel A Sea- Vue. {70944}{71021}"She could fill a warm porcelain bath|in 20 minutes, {71024}{71088}a warm tin bath|took a little longer." {71091}{71206}"To fill a cold tin bath in less than|an hour needed other inducements {71209}{71344}like a view of the sea, a cow being|milked, or the sound of a waterfall." {71384}{71453}Much has been written|about Aptesia Fallarme, {71456}{71535}most of it exaggerated|and most of it scurrilous. {71538}{71634}The fair- minded Tulse Luper|said, "She was a waterfall on legs." {71637}{71668}Majority Powels said, {71671}{71764}"She was a creature designed to|render the services of an oasis." {71788}{71837}"The water poured from her skin, {71840}{71908}from the corners of her mouth,|from her nose." {71911}{71999}"As to the orifices more specialised|for the expulsion of water {72002}{72064}the audiences|were rarely disappointed..." {72238}{72302}"...and in the little bathrooms|of the suburbs, {72305}{72355}the water splashed upon the carpet {72358}{72422}and they clapped|and threw coins into the bath." {72451}{72582}"In summer she was asked to stand on|bare patches of lawn in the garden." {72694}{72808}Aptesia herself was responsible for|part of her exaggerated reputation. {72811}{72890}Within months of the VUE,|she was travelling far and wide, {72893}{72944}exploiting her new characteristics {72947}{73038}at disreputable fairgrounds,|obscure cabarets and eventually {73041}{73134}in the house of a photographer|in Barons Court, West London, {73137}{73191}where Leo- dee- nine|must have seen her. {73206}{73269}"The opening of an umbrella|was enough." {73272}{73364}"Every minute this human waterfall|would shake her body like a dog {73367}{73421}and wring out her hair." {73424}{73487}"HE Carter|would run in with a dressing gown {73490}{73546}embroidered with a running faucet." {73748}{73824}"At the clinic, she was kept away|from the radiators {73827}{73881}as she soon fogged the room." {73884}{73940}"She got locked|in the surgery cold store {73943}{74038}and an orderly had to chip|away the ice with a nail file." {74107}{74196}"After an appearance at Palm Springs,|she collapsed, {74199}{74288}suffering from nervous exhaustion|and obesity." {74291}{74390}"The hospital arranged a programme|to regulate her output." {74425}{74492}"Then, against advice,|she allowed her name {74495}{74569}to be used by|a plastic- swimming- pool manufacturer {74572}{74621}and the hospital discharged her." {74686}{74780}Aptesia's latest and much publicised|ambition is to have a baby, {74783}{74875}though she is frightened|that the baby might drown at birth. {74960}{75011}Starting at the buzzer,|in 30 seconds {75014}{75065}name as many birds|as you can think of. {75068}{75117}(buzzer) {75120}{75297}Partridge, parrot, peacock, bluetit,|coal tit, willow tit, bearded tit, {75300}{75430}marsh tit, long- tailed tit,|great tit, woodcock... {75433}{75506}One factor that influenced|the selection of names {75509}{75577}for all the other|Violent Unknown Event victims {75580}{75669}was a collection of interviews filmed|18 months before the VUE {75672}{75744}by Erhaus Bewler Falluper. {75747}{75796}...whooper swan...|- (buzzer) {75813}{75865}Starting at the buzzer,|in 30 seconds, {75868}{75918}tell me as much as you can|about the emu. {75921}{75963}(buzzer) {75966}{76027}The emu|is the national bird of Australia... {76031}{76142}Falluper, a statistician interested|in assessing the public's knowledge, {76145}{76227}conducted one particular survey|by asking 41 interviewees {76230}{76296}three elementary|ornithological questions. {76299}{76390}To assure a random sample,|Falluper chose to use all the names {76393}{76471}in the same Public Records Office|file as himself. {76481}{76570}Seven of these 41 subjects|later became VUE victims. {76573}{76629}And Corntopia Fallas was one of them. {76677}{76767}Although happy for us to use material|of her filmed before the VUE, {76770}{76852}Corntopia had no wish to be|photographed at the present time {76855}{76901}for her sleep would be disturbed. {76904}{77006}For Corntopia spends the cold months|in hibernation in this cottage {77009}{77096}a few miles from the Boulder Orchard|on the Lleyn Peninsula. {77099}{77168}The VUE had lowered Corntopia's|body temperature {77171}{77257}and slowed her circulation.|She suffered badly from the cold. {77260}{77358}She was happiest when asleep|and she dreamt of water. {77508}{77547}The dreams, said her doctor, {77550}{77627}compensated for her|experiences of the Event, {77630}{77705}when she had been|rescued from a serious forest fire. {77708}{77760}You can see the black part there... {77763}{77839}Rapper Begol, Second Custodian|of the Boulder Orchard {77842}{77880}and friend of Corntopia's, {77883}{77970}was working as a Forestry|Commissioner at the time of the VUE. {77973}{78063}- He remembers the fire.|- We thought we'd won the battle. {78066}{78140}The wind changed,|whipped the fire up again. {78143}{78217}It started going round the hill. {78220}{78316}About the first of May, Corntopia|emerges from her hibernation, {78319}{78371}and needing little sleep in summer, {78375}{78434}is prepared to work|up to 18 hours a day {78437}{78505}on the weekly WSPB magazine,|The Rooster. {78508}{78561}Starting at the buzzer,|in 30 seconds, {78564}{78628}name as many birds as you can|that start with W. {78631}{78680}(buzzer) {78683}{78749}Whooper swan, widgeon, wagtail... {78752}{78844}To announce Corntopia's return|the magazine printed on its cover {78847}{78937}a photograph of the will or the|poor- will, known as the sleeper, {78940}{79029}a bird that lay dormant for weeks|without detectable heartbeat {79032}{79088}in the cliff crevices|of the Sierra Nevada. {79091}{79112}...wagtail. {79272}{79358}In case of reprisal associated|with the death of his two wives, {79361}{79480}Anteo Fallaspy made use of a VUE|Commission pseudonymous identity. {79631}{79728}At the time of the VUE,|Anteo Fallaspy was in Germany. {79731}{79846}A trained philologian, inventor of|fictitious languages and a traveller, {79849}{79942}he carried a camera to record his|enthusiasm for the written word. {79945}{79994}(whispering) {80098}{80187}On the night of the VUE, he was|in Stuttgart at the Hotel Mack. {80207}{80264}Anteo received retractable thumbs, {80267}{80359}soft, serrated, fleshy earlobes|and a six- part heart. {80362}{80460}Registered as a public speaker of|Capistan and privately of Althuese, {80463}{80559}his major language credential|is as inventor of Hartileas B. {80562}{80634}Anteo Fallaspy's interest|in this new language {80637}{80695}has nothing to do|with the normal ambition {80698}{80764}of creating|the invidious universal language, {80768}{80848}but is about furthering|communication with vertebrates, {80851}{80923}mainly birds and their precursors,|the reptiles, {80926}{81020}along the lines anticipated|by Messiaen and Max Ernst. {81199}{81263}Anteo had undergone|an operation on his tongue {81266}{81361}to reshape the spaces of his mouth|to approximately coincide {81364}{81452}with the proportions of the|singing apparatus of the starling. {81455}{81539}He chose the starling for the|variety of noises it could make, {81542}{81639}its ability to mimic, its dual|plumage and its sociability. {81957}{82049}Anteo travelled, extolling|the virtues of his pioneer language {82052}{82166}and persuading converts to remedy the|defects of their ill- shaped throats. {82169}{82258}He persuaded the operation|on his associates with mixed results {82261}{82348}and the death of both of his wives|aroused public suspicion. {82351}{82450}Although cleared of their deaths,|Anteo declined to marry a third time, {82453}{82566}considering his marriage certificate|to be a guarantee of fatality. {82719}{82751}Pandist Fallaspy, {82754}{82846}biography sub judice, pending|investigation for embezzlement {82849}{82915}from the World Society|for the Protection of Birds. {83014}{83137}It's awfully considerate of you|to think of me here... {83179}{83234}Three years after the VUE, {83237}{83301}Anteo Fallaspy was in Holland|with his camera. {83304}{83395}He met music and language teacher|Sashio Tempesta in Amsterdam, {83398}{83465}where they were at|a linguistics conference. {83468}{83570}They travelled through Holland|and married at Valkenswaard. {83672}{83743}The Directory states Sashio|had webbed underarms, {83746}{83808}a bone- marrow deficiency,|a scratched face {83811}{83906}and that she is a dreamer,|Category One. Water. Flight. {83932}{83991}She is also a sufferer|of apr�s- radiance, {83994}{84084}a radiant, flushed condition|after exertion and stress. {84180}{84269}Sashio was converted to the use|of Hartileas B by her husband {84272}{84339}and had alterations|made to her mouth cavities {84342}{84439}to better accommodate the shrill|characteristics of that language. {84442}{84545}She accepted an invitation to train|with the birds on Bardsey Island {84548}{84600}off the Lleyn Peninsula. {84646}{84768}In good weather, the boat trip|to Bardsey lasts about 20 minutes. {84771}{84855}The small boat, laden with books,|surgical instruments, {84858}{84905}a cello, a portable harmonium, {84908}{85000}a tea chest of cosmetics and|valuable recording equipment, sank. {85003}{85107}Only the helmsman escaped, saying the|boat had been attacked by cormorants {85110}{85197}soon after his lady passenger|started singing and shrieking. {85200}{85290}It was presumed that Sashio|had been practising Hartileas B. {85379}{85484}Sashio's decomposing body|washed ashore four days later. {85487}{85536}It still shone with apr�s- radiance, {85539}{85638}so excessive had been her|physical determination not to die. {86258}{86342}Three years after the death|of his first wife, Anteo Fallaspy {86345}{86427}was in Paris recording his enthusiasm|for the written word, {86430}{86526}and teaching Hartileas B at|the French Ornithological Institute. {86570}{86694}The Institute allocated Anteo|an assistant, Vyanine Entasis. {86716}{86803}Thanks to the VUE,|Vyanine was a speaker of Ipostan, {86806}{86908}suffered intestinal blockages,|was allergic to the house- dust mite {86911}{87006}and had an incurable desire to stay|in a different place every night {87009}{87086}and never to eat two successive meals|at the same table. {87089}{87189}She married Anteo for the opportunity|to travel that he represented. {87212}{87283}Vyanine had been a student|of linguistics at Cairo {87286}{87378}and had a working knowledge|of some ten different VUE languages. {87381}{87455}She studied with Parmitter|on the Ayers Rock graffiti {87458}{87526}and with Tulse Luper|on the bogus Olduvai Papers. {87529}{87624}Any likelihood that she was overawed|by Hartileas B was remote. {87653}{87734}After the marriage, Anteo and|Vyanine were awarded a grant {87737}{87802}to study the song|of the aurally dull godwit {87805}{87871}on its long- range migration|around the world. {87874}{87951}They had made plans to travel|to Australia, Antarctica, {87954}{88059}Alaska and Hawaii, when Vyanine was|knocked down by an electioneering van {88062}{88098}in the Rue des Oiseaux. {88124}{88190}Making too slow a recovery|for her own liking, {88193}{88260}Vyanine discharged herself|from the hospital. {88263}{88322}Travelling by metro|to the flat of a friend, {88325}{88378}she had a relapse in the Rue Moineau. {88381}{88465}The ambulance taking her to hospital|was delayed by crowds {88468}{88577}and Vyanine died, officially outside|the Caf� Hirondelle, {88580}{88646}unofficially|opposite the Caf� Renard. {88776}{88825}One, two, three, four... {88828}{88871}Capercaillie, {88874}{88922}lammergeyer, {88925}{88984}cassowary... {88987}{89078}Castenarm Fallast, occasional|pianist, professional indexer {89081}{89165}and itinerant propagandist|for a well- known opera company. {89168}{89222}The VUE|has not impaired his livelihood {89225}{89276}but has widened his outlook on birds. {89279}{89316}... dotterel, {89319}{89361}pratincol, {89364}{89408}phalarope, {89411}{89458}sanderling, {89461}{89524}bufflehead, tanager... {89527}{89619}Castenarm acknowledges the Theory|of the Responsibility of Birds {89622}{89699}and believes the epicentre|of the Violent Unknown Event {89702}{89793}was the Goldhawk Road,|Hammersmith, West London. {90004}{90101}Somewhere on this western section|there are two places, maybe three, {90104}{90188}where the epicentre of epicentres|might have been situated. {90191}{90249}The first|is Stamford Brook Underground. {90252}{90311}And the second|is The Raven public house. {90314}{90391}27 people died in the lounge bar|on the night of the Event {90394}{90466}and 14 had died in the saloon|on the morning after. {90469}{90575}Seven more had been variously blinded|in the beer garden at the back. {90578}{90635}Capercaillie, {90638}{90692}lammergeyer, {90695}{90751}cassowary... {90754}{90882}The VUE has introduced Castenarm to|insulin, Ventolin and praemocetylene, {90885}{90958}widened his feet|so that he now takes a larger shoe, {90961}{91000}and has given him arthritis. {91003}{91100}He now indexes for a publisher of|popular ornithological literature. {91103}{91135}... sora, {91138}{91184}grosbeak, {91187}{91217}hawfinch, {91220}{91275}lanner, {91278}{91331}barbet, {91334}{91381}lory, {91384}{91444}mooruk, trogon... {91447}{91541}A third possible VUE epicentre|is this maternity hospital {91544}{91629}where 30 children born|in the 24 hours following the VUE {91632}{91710}all showed a physiology|that would suggest flight. {91713}{91766}... scoter, {91769}{91798}chukar, {91801}{91872}killdeer... {91875}{91974}In celebration of the Goldhawk Road,|Castenarm researched the indices {91977}{92063}of the ornithological text books|sent to him by the publisher, {92066}{92169}and compiled a list of the 92 most|unfamiliar bird names he could find. {92184}{92272}With this list he is hoping|to achieve several ambitions. {92275}{92331}One is to find|a sympathetic composer {92334}{92406}willing to use the bird list|as the libretto for an opera. {92613}{92669}Ardenaur Fallatter died at sunset {92672}{92773}on the 17th anniversary|of the Violent Unknown Event. {92776}{92877}The VUE had increased his stature,|and had given him nine lives {92880}{92941}the first four of which|he used in the Gabon, {92944}{93034}diving off the Letoke cliffs|to rescue VUE suicides. {93037}{93125}The remaining five lives,|along with details of his biography, {93128}{93200}became the property|of the United African Congress, {93203}{93311}who persuaded Fallatter to export|his skill at exhibitionist- jumping. {93314}{93357}Fallatter lost his ninth life {93360}{93432}leaping from a grain store|into a barley field {93435}{93505}at a VUE flying gala|at Stowe in Cheshire. {93508}{93603}His body was flown back to the Gabon,|and fulfilling his last wishes, {93606}{93679}it was ceremoniously|thrown off the Letoke cliffs. {93792}{93880}Agropio Fallaver alone|represented the 92nd language. {93883}{93938}His language|began and ended with him. {93941}{94036}He was classified as a middle- aged|female man and he spoke Fallaver. {94039}{94095}That is|to state the fact three times, {94098}{94202}and make up for the incomprehension|he was treated with for so long. {94205}{94302}But at present, no further facts can|be published, broadcast or used {94305}{94402}until he and his unique language|have been totally investigated. {94405}{94502}It has been suggested that Agropio|is an unsuspecting vehicle for FOX, {94505}{94581}the Society|for Ornithological Extermination. {94730}{94804}Despite attempts|to amalgamate them into one person {94807}{94901}there have in fact been three|Cissie Colpitts in Goole since 1931. {94920}{94989}Propine Fallax|is chronologically the third. {95019}{95102}The accident of a marriage licence|got her into the survey, {95105}{95165}which is fitting,|for she was President {95168}{95277}of the Goole Water Tower Film Vault,|home of the VUE Commission's archive. {95496}{95594}Cissie Propine Colpitts grew up|in the streets around the water tower {95597}{95674}and must have known many|of the Yorkshire cameramen {95677}{95763}who made up|the Goole Experimental Film Society. {95893}{95983}The original brick water tower,|the Pepper, built in the 1900s {95986}{96065}became inadequate|for Goole's growing population {96068}{96170}and in 1933 a new and larger|concrete tower, the Salt, {96173}{96252}was erected by the Humber Authority|on allotment land {96255}{96310}leased from Propine's grandmother. {96344}{96445}The tower filld the space between|the railway line and an abattoir. {96665}{96787}The tower was bequeathed to Propine|on her fifth birthday {96790}{96874}on the understanding that|the rents were paid into an account {96877}{96913}whereby half the interest {96916}{97008}was available for the Goole|and District Camera Society {97011}{97081}and the other half|paid for dancing lessons. {97142}{97188}The second Goole Cissie Colpitts {97191}{97260}married a bicycle manufacturer|and moved to York. {97263}{97359}She bequeathed her local film|material collection to her namesake. {97434}{97501}It was stored in hen coops,|in the abattoir {97504}{97559}and in the base|of the old brick tower. {97606}{97686}Propine, worried|about the collection deteriorating, {97689}{97764}felt it imperative|to find it a permanent home. {97870}{97988}In 1951, due to demand for yet more|water, the tower became obsolete, {97991}{98080}and after a two- year conversion,|Propine, on her 18th birthday, {98083}{98144}reopened it as a film vault. {98272}{98388}On the night of the VUE, along with|Arturo Fallax, owner of the abattoir, {98391}{98470}Cissie Colpitts was on top|of the tower with some friends {98473}{98512}watching the fires at Hull, {98515}{98592}when she fainted|and began to bleed from the mouth. {98595}{98680}She now suffers from anaemia,|splayed thumbs and vertigo, {98683}{98765}and to underline her new aversion|to the darkness of cinemas {98768}{98829}she has made a clean break|with her past, {98832}{98938}changing her Christian name by deed|poll and her surname by marriage. {99212}{99287}Biography number 28|has been meagrely reconstructed {99290}{99419}from evidence found in an overturned|car, licence number NID 301. {99435}{99460}The occupant, {99463}{99554}inconclusively identified from|laundry marks on his underwear, {99557}{99608}was a middle- aged man|with red hair. {99611}{99669}The carrion crow|has a deep, hoarse caw {99672}{99773}that often punctuates|the other bird sounds of March. {99797}{99859}Evidence|of the VUE's influence on the body, {99862}{99928}an engorged throat|and petagium fellitis, {99931}{100009}were obscured by|injuries sustained at the accident. {100012}{100109}It's possible that Cash Fallbaez|was the victim of bird strike. {100112}{100204}A large white bird, probably a swan,|maybe two swans, {100207}{100292}had smashed the windscreen.|On the seat beside the body {100295}{100388}was a shopping list|written in the VUE language O- Lev- Lit {100391}{100449}and a commercial recording|of birdsong. {100452}{100501}Sometimes in February and March, {100504}{100595}you can hear a strident motor- horn|note from the crow as well. {100598}{100673}(crow caws like a motor- horn) {100785}{100826}Antopody Fallbats. {100829}{100916}Biography sub judice pending|cruelty- to- birds investigation. {101023}{101092}The Directory has registered|Coppice Fallbatteo {101095}{101151}as an Italian- speaking|young male man, {101154}{101213}though the VUE|has taken away his teeth, {101216}{101280}made him short of breath,|flattened his nose, {101283}{101331}made him allergic to cats and rats, {101334}{101401}changed his balance|and restructured his colon, {101404}{101501}it had left him with the language he|had learnt as a two- year- old child. {101504}{101543}Coppice wished it had not. {101546}{101638}Coppice tried very hard to learn|one of the VUE languages {101641}{101700}but ambitiously|he had chosen Betelguese, {101703}{101759}the language of unlimited vocabulary {101762}{101821}and rapidly changing|grammar and syntax. {101824}{101912}As fast as he had mastered|one small area of its possibilities, {101915}{101975}he found that the same area|had developed, {101978}{102090}aligned with a new set of meanings|or had become entirely obsolete. {102108}{102192}Dispirited, Coppice had made|a hesitant start on Katan, {102195}{102274}one of the more popularly spoken|of the mutant languages. {102277}{102328}But his experience with Betelguese {102331}{102406}was like studying|a consonant alphabet of two letters {102409}{102480}after experiencing|a vowel alphabet of 200. {102483}{102533}Coppice was an art historian who, {102536}{102609}trying to make a novel|cultural theory out of the VUE, {102612}{102708}had wholeheartedly taken to the idea|of the Responsibility of Birds. {102711}{102805}After exploring the significance|of birds in European painting, {102808}{102895}Coppice focused his interest|on Francesca's Brera Virgin, {102898}{102947}also known as the Egg Painting. {102950}{103037}Coppice knew everything|about this painting. {103040}{103130}Its conception, mathematics,|the constituents of its colours, {103133}{103176}the hagiography of its saints, {103179}{103275}its value in lire, dollars,|gold and osprey feathers. {103278}{103361}The centre of all this fascination|was the suspended egg, {103364}{103439}to Coppice, the symbol|of the Violent Unknown Event, {103442}{103532}and the one perplexing feature|for which he had no explanation. {103535}{103632}Coppice asked his students to copy|the painting and kept the results, {103635}{103679}some bad, some indifferent, {103682}{103748}some eccentric,|some three or four inspired, {103751}{103817}two almost impossible|to tell from the original {103820}{103917}and one considerably better, painted|by a girl who spoke Betelguese. {103920}{103983}Her name, Adioner Perdona. {103986}{104058}When Coppice had first tried|to learn Betelguese, {104061}{104156}"Adioner" could be translated|into Italian to mean "yellow". {104159}{104254}At the time Coppice began to take|an interest in the della Francesca, {104257}{104344}the word had shifted its meaning|to suggest the concept of yolk, {104347}{104454}and when Adioner had told Coppice|her name it had meant "embryo". {104457}{104521}The coincidence|was too great for Coppice {104524}{104606}and his wish to possess, marry|and own Adioner was violent. {104609}{104673}He found a reason to fail her|in her finals exam, {104676}{104743}and under the excuse|of giving her extra tuition, {104746}{104849}he won her confidence|and seduced her. She had a child. {104852}{104921}Coppice had the boy fostered|by his married sister {104924}{104998}and had him christened|Piero dell'Adioner. {105001}{105068}By that time "Adioner" in Betelguese {105071}{105174}could only legitimately be translated|into Italian as "egg". {105202}{105270}Agrendo Fallbazz.|Drowned in a ship's swimming pool. {105273}{105328}Bereavement clause|honoured for 16 weeks. {105331}{105389}Full biography|in later versions of The Falls. {105499}{105570}Cisgatten Fallbazz|lived off the Goldhawk Road {105573}{105660}in a house|fronted by a monkey- puzzle tree. {105663}{105750}He was a designer and manufacturer|of VUE novelties. {106046}{106141}Soon after the VUE, Cisgatten had|bought a licence to sell bird hats {106144}{106212}and made avian upholstery|for several years {106215}{106319}until the Responsibility of Birds|Theory became commonplace. {106390}{106448}He turned to|the children's toy market, {106451}{106547}and in partnership with his brother,|Agrendo, was very successful. {106550}{106645}Thanks to the VUE, Cisgatten|was obliged to wear rubber gloves {106648}{106695}to stop his hands from drying out. {106698}{106798}The VUE also robbed him of his|sense of smell and impaired his sight {106801}{106864}though apparently not at night. {106867}{106951}His enemies and competitors|called him Moreau Fallbazz {106954}{107017}and accused him|of experimenting on birds {107020}{107078}to make the|species interchangeable. {107081}{107147}They hinted he kept owls|illegally at his house {107150}{107244}and that his brother had committed|suicide for fear of prosecution. {107247}{107346}The brothers bought a cottage on the|Lleyn Peninsula, since burnt down, {107349}{107443}where Cisgatten had met|Cathine Fallbutus as a child. {107446}{107542}They had both gone to the same|primary school in the Goldhawk Road. {107545}{107653}Against his brother's opposition|Cisgatten proposed marriage to her. {107656}{107718}Now that his brother|was out of the way, {107721}{107817}Cisgatten is keen to approach|Cathine Fallbutus a second time. {107960}{107996}The Violent Unknown Event {107999}{108075}concentrated its vehemence|on the head, face and neck {108078}{108121}of Hasp Fallbazz. {108124}{108216}Inoperable glaucoma, muscular|collapse and skin discoloration {108219}{108274}had persuaded Hasp to wear a mask. {108277}{108382}For this film he asked that he might|use the face of Jean- Paul Marat. {108385}{108480}He agreed to an interview under|conditions of his own choosing. {108483}{108600}Hasp Fallbazz was a U- thalian-|speaking convert from Entr�e. {108603}{108703}Hasp made the difficult language|conversion from Entr�e to U- thalian {108706}{108781}as his interests|were mechanical and technological {108784}{108854}and Entr�e|had lacked even a word for "wheel". {108857}{108959}The sketchy introductory nature of|that language well deserved its name. {108984}{109094}As a dreamer- of- water, Category One,|Flight, it was not lost on Hasp {109097}{109162}that U- thalian also had|47 words for water, {109165}{109268}each one describing it in less than|three syllables and under 14 letters, {109271}{109346}for various of its states,|like its purity, scarcity, {109349}{109449}temperature, weight, salinity,|iridescence, distance from the sea, {109452}{109560}height above sea level, colour,|rapidity of movement and its age. {109578}{109660}Hasp has respiratory problems,|is lame in the left leg {109663}{109721}and is partly paralysed|in the left arm. {109724}{109818}He has been advised to keep exertion|to a minimum, to eat no meat, {109821}{109893}avoid the dark and stay near water. {109896}{109938}Catuso Phelpus has said {109941}{110027}it is fortunate Hasp is|creatively interested in technology, {110030}{110073}especially hydraulics, {110076}{110163}for these irritating prohibitions|could be eased to an extent {110166}{110223}by machinery of his own invention. {110226}{110292}Hasp's machines, drawings and patents {110295}{110378}are die- stamped with the emblems|of an inverted left leg, {110381}{110439}taken, according to HE Carter, {110442}{110555}from the last evidence of the birdmen|in Breughel's Death of lcarus. {110558}{110636}Rapper Begol has stated|that after years of experiment, {110639}{110711}Hasp made a claim|that he was able to grow bone {110714}{110760}and manufacture feathers. {110763}{110865}He works alone and is financially|supported by the WSPB, {110868}{110984}and the Kite Association, who send|a weekly cheque from the Yellow Bank, {110987}{111062}a fund financed|by the sale of kites in China. {111204}{111253}(artillery fires) {111332}{111439}Thanks to the Violent Unknown Event,|Canopy Fallbenning was immortally 83. {111442}{111481}She spoke Abcadefghan, {111484}{111561}and her favourite Tulse Luper story|was The Cassowary. {111564}{111645}(speaks foreign language) {111793}{111831}During the First World War, {111834}{111898}she worked in an armaments|factory at Stoke, {111901}{111968}and suffered|from sympathetic tinnitus. {111971}{112036}(artillery fires) {112088}{112185}The VUE had neither ameliorated or|exaggerated the tinnitus in any way {112188}{112253}but had regulated it|to a cycle of 30 seconds. {112256}{112308}Canopy could time an egg by it. {112311}{112347}To suit her pragmatism {112350}{112428}and perhaps allow her|some measure of self- retribution {112431}{112551}Canopy gave the VUE an explosive|origin, no doubt man- made. {112554}{112653}She kept a diary and with home- made|inks whose strength waxed and waned, {112656}{112717}wrote authoritatively|about everything. {112720}{112790}(artillery fires) {112854}{112931}For example, at a time|when the ink was running strong, {112934}{113002}she argued|about the sexual quadrimorphism {113005}{113087}that was a perplexing characteristic|of the VUE. {113114}{113214}She was old enough to have|read Tulse Luper's Quadruple Fruit {113217}{113283}and saw the implications|of quadruple bonding {113286}{113376}in the Violent Unknown Event's|division of two orthodox sexes {113379}{113424}into a heterodox four. {113427}{113486}(artillery fires) {113621}{113678}However,|Canopy believed the division, {113681}{113819}like so much else about the VUE,|had been inconclusive, even bungled. {113822}{113908}There had been too much indecision,|too much hesitancy. {113911}{113999}There was no clear role for the four|newly formulated genders. {114002}{114084}The original explosion perhaps|had not been strong enough, {114087}{114163}had been sidetracked|by unnecessary adjuncts {114166}{114249}like compound articulacy|and immortality. {114300}{114382}Canopy's original insistence|on the VUE's incompetence {114385}{114451}mellowed as each 83rd birthday|passed by. {114454}{114515}It took a strong personal event|to revive it. {114518}{114557}Like the death of a daughter, {114560}{114618}when she wrote|of a god who was a charlatan, {114621}{114713}an inexperienced quack whose|sense of time was irresponsible. {114716}{114785}Three days after this entry|she relented a little {114788}{114879}and put the unsatisfactory|incompleteness of the VUE's efforts {114882}{114967}down to a god who had suffered|the loss of a necessary skill. {114976}{115030}A day later,|in a pale and yellowing ink, {115033}{115116}she softened more,|and wrote that it was difficult {115119}{115228}for one magician to accomplish|successfully another's magic. {115231}{115331}At a perpetual 83, her problems were|not going to involve reproduction. {115334}{115393}She was determined|to enjoy immortality {115396}{115498}and to reserve her splenetic attacks|for agents of the VUE Commission, {115501}{115592}especially those who believed|in the Responsibility of Birds. {115729}{115754}Cole Fallbird. {115757}{115837}Biography sub judice pending trial|for misconduct with a mynah. {115962}{116056}It's a good field. It runs|from a north- south direction... {116059}{116108}Before the Violent Unknown Event, {116111}{116217}Castel Fallboys was a competent pilot|and a hang- glider enthusiast, {116220}{116276}happy to discuss|his enthusiasm on film. {116297}{116424}After the VUE, Castel's ability|at both skills became phenomenal. {116427}{116510}The VUE added four inches|to his height, shed him of 3 stone, {116513}{116591}encouraged hair growth,|raised his blood temperature, {116594}{116691}shortened his vocal cords|and taught him Instantaneous Dekis. {116694}{116800}...where you just take off|and become part of the elements. {116888}{116964}Castel achieved his significant|personalised flight {116967}{117063}by a prodigious mastery of technique|and by the use of new materials. {117066}{117129}He was able to stay in the air|for long periods, {117132}{117186}his record was five days|and four nights {117189}{117269}and his longest recorded|flight being 917 miles. {117315}{117431}...designs into computers and getting|much better designs out of computers. {117434}{117498}His skill at assessing|weather conditions, {117501}{117594}and his ability to manoeuvre|in poor visibility were not equalled. {117597}{117688}He left his competitors so far behind|that his skill isolated him. {117814}{117874}He bricked up|the doorways of his house {117877}{117954}making it compulsory for himself|to enter by the roof. {117957}{118036}To minimise muscular growth|that would inhibit flying {118039}{118143}he used his legs seldom, until|his gait resembled a starling. {118223}{118321}Castel developed a great restlessness|at every change in the weather {118324}{118438}and on autumn nights accompanied|migrating birds far out to sea, {118441}{118515}always turning back|with the greatest reluctance. {118546}{118615}To extend his range|and comparability with birds, {118618}{118710}Castel ruthlessly streamlined|his body by exercise and diet, {118713}{118792}growing very lean in the leg,|muscular in the shoulders, {118795}{118849}long in the arm|and short in the neck. {118897}{118969}He was finally|and fatally caught out. {118972}{119063}Flying with a flock of terns, he|banked too steeply, too sharply, {119066}{119115}too suddenly and broke his neck. {119118}{119199}His corpse dropped like a stone|into the sea at Hell's Mouth {119202}{119290}and his last pair of nylon wings|are preserved at Slimbridge. {119514}{119606}Acataloope Fallbus. A last- minute|entry into the VUE Directory {119609}{119663}due to very late- developing symptoms. {119666}{119718}No details of biography|as yet available. {120043}{120135}Of all European countries affected|by the Violent Unknown Event, {120138}{120207}France has only a known total|of 512 victims {120210}{120314}and on investigation it seems only|seven of these were French by birth. {120317}{120418}The VUE Commission have put forward|various reasons for this immunity {120421}{120475}and rejected them all. {120478}{120536}The A�rospace Nationale|have suggested {120539}{120648}that France had already paid|an excessive quota of flight victims {120651}{120713}in the early days|of experimental flying. {120716}{120758}(speaks Italian) {120761}{120808}Was anything wrong with the car? {120811}{120859}The Italian Institute of Languages {120862}{120942}hypothesised that|the French language is responsible. {120945}{121072}...30 mph.|- Had you been here before? {121075}{121150}No. It was the first time|and this is the second. {121242}{121285}Astraham and Loosely Fallbute {121288}{121378}were touring on holiday in central|France at the time of the Event. {121381}{121469}On the night of June 12th they were|driving on a little- used road {121472}{121545}near Voile d'Argent|when their car stopped. {121548}{121654}The clock on the dashboard showed|11:41, Greenwich Mean Time. {121990}{122055}Is this the place where it happened? {122058}{122139}Yes. The engine stalled|and the car stopped. {122156}{122238}Astraham Fallbute, formerly|a designer of sports facilities, {122241}{122300}is now a designer|of hospital equipment. {122303}{122396}Loosely Fallbute, once a cosmetician,|is now a catalogue researcher. {122649}{122722}Did you have any sensation,|any clue what had happened? {122725}{122784}The Fallbutes|both began to speak Cathanay {122787}{122870}within 24 hours|of the Violent Unknown Event. {122873}{122946}Loosely Fallbute was employed|by an insurance firm {122949}{123079}to examine a possible topographical|pattern in VUE incidents. {123082}{123188}Among the many sites receiving her|especial attention were number 23, {123191}{123266}the maternity hospital|in the London Goldhawk Road, {123269}{123335}with special reference|to delivery room seven. {123352}{123464}Number 37, room number three|of the Commission's own library. {123467}{123547}The room was once the office|of a film- production company {123550}{123611}specialising|in ornithological projects. {123674}{123710}And site number 59, {123713}{123808}the intersection of Broad Street|and the Yarmouth Road, Norwich. {123811}{123891}Appreciating firsthand accounts|in her research, {123894}{123991}Loosely was happy to help|the Italian Linguistics Laboratory {123994}{124076}investigate the paucity of VUE|incidence in France. {124079}{124122}What happened then? {124125}{124223}Astraham, now an authority on the|rehabilitation of VUE paraplegics, {124226}{124341}suffered from partial paralysis and|was keen to aid his wife's research {124344}{124424}on sites where there had been|a high toll of VUE malignancy {124427}{124517}appearing as muscle collapse|or muscle deterioration. {124520}{124573}As at site number 119, {124576}{124672}the railway bridge and electricity|station at Cloudheath, Suffolk, {124675}{124782}where Tulse Luper says the|information on signs is significant. {124785}{124898}And site number 171 at Fountains|Abbey, near Ripon, Yorkshire, {124901}{125004}where 310 people complained of sudden|and involuntary muscle paralysis {125007}{125073}which intermittently froze|their lower limbs. {125203}{125278}Both Astraham and Loosely|share certain VUE symptoms {125281}{125397}suggesting that proximity to a site|or another victim might be relevant. {125400}{125521}Most noticeable in the Fallbute case|is the matching skin discoloration. {125824}{125898}The Fallbute pulled themselves|together and drove on {125901}{125962}and at about midnight|they arrived in Nevers {125965}{126041}where a film company was|making a film about a holocaust {126044}{126130}and the Fallbutes were not surprised|to be taken for extras. {126335}{126414}Six members of the Fallbutus family|living in England {126417}{126497}are registered victims|of the Violent Unknown Event. {126500}{126578}They have an especial relevance|to this study of the VUE {126581}{126666}by owning property near|the two main accredited VUE centres, {126669}{126711}off the Goldhawk Road, London {126714}{126801}and near the Tyddyn- Corn Farm|on the Lleyn Peninsula. {126827}{126916}Betheda Fallbutus had come to England|with her American husband {126919}{127006}to take advantage of the Welfare|State to raise a large family. {127009}{127095}She wanted the best gynaecological|attention she could find, {127098}{127209}anticipating labour pains to rival|a wren laying the eggs of an ostrich. {127234}{127355}So she insisted on being close to the|Maternity Hospital in Goldhawk Road. {127434}{127497}Betheda had been|an air hostess, a milliner {127500}{127542}and the owner of a restaurant. {127545}{127617}She had flown too often,|wasted too many feathers {127620}{127666}and cooked too many chickens. {127669}{127762}On her admission, sufficient excuse|for herself and her family {127765}{127841}to be plagued by the VUE|in both their houses. {127866}{127961}The family lived in various|apartments along the Goldhawk Road {127964}{128035}whilst they continued the search|for a family home. {128074}{128140}After the birth|of her only daughter, Cathine, {128143}{128226}Betheda's husband inherited|his parents' Lleyn farmhouse {128229}{128325}where Betheda could recuperate|from further pregnancies. 87019