In pursuit of those things normally invisible to human sight, I have roamed over this globe many times. I have scaled mountains, waded through swamps, traversed deserts and wandered the forests and jungles of the globe, investigating the hidden places where dwell the protozoa, nature’s most interesting and diverse creations. I have also sought out locations where ghosts, paranormal entities, and unusual aerial phenomena have been sighted. My quest for information on these topics has led me to the finest archives and museums on earth.
My wife Fayaway accompanies me on these journeys, in order to practice what she so blithely calls 'urban archaeology'; our travels do not allow us to come to rest often, but when we do it is usually in one of three places: a grass hut in the South Pacific Island of Typee, a geodesic dome in Malibu Lake, California, or a seventeenth century mansion in the Catskills, which we share with the shades of the Dutch courtesan Katrina van Katzenellenbogen and her noisy visitors.
I am currently Visiting Professor of Mostly Invisible Organisms at the University of Ediacara, and Professor of Protozoology at Miskatonic University. I am also the founder of the University of Ediacara Howler Monkey SETI Team
In my spare time, I am writing my memoirs, tentatively titled The Autobiography of a Jackalope. Until that is done, you can read bits of my adventures in my reviews, or go to my website, Cenotaph of the Jackalope.
Infundibularity,
Hermester Barrington
Oh, that I had used my powers for good, and not for trivia!
My publications:
Death Trap at La Puente: El Físico Nuclear and The Agents of Cal-International Pro Wrestling, Inc.
(Diamond Bar, CA: Viva la Lucha Publications, 1994).
Available for $5 from Hermester Barrington
A Brief History of Invisible Cities, Imagined Communities,and Visionary Empires of the Twentieth
Century (New Haven, Conn.: False Paper Trail Press, 1975). Translation by Hermester Barrington of
Eine Kurze Geschichte unsichtbarer Städte, eingebildeter Gemeinschäften, und hellseherischer
Kaisertüme der zwanzigsten Jahrhundert, by Nicolas Bourbaki (Zürich: Bibliographisches Institut AG,
1974.
"The New Valkyrie," winner of the Tundra Prize at The Emily Chesley Reading Circle
Rosy Penn has this to say about herself:
Occupation: Being human
Favorite pastime: reading about alternative ways of seeing the world, and using them, like dowsing and channeling, hiking along ley lines--it gives me such a rush!, working in my garden, writing. I also hold a Ph.D from the University of Natural Law in Illinois; my dissertation was on the use of ley lines to find proof of extraterrestrial contact in the past.
Favorite book: "Revelations for the Coming Millennium" by Aldregast. He is a twelfth century Tibetan monk who speaks through a medium here in Los Angeles about the great changes that are coming before the turn of the century. Everyone better get ready!
Most inspiring person in my life: After from El Físico Nuclear-- whom I hope to meet in person someday!--I would say it was Hildegard of Bingen, a 10th century nun who talked to God directly and was shunned from her community by her unorthodox ways. She was an early feminist, and had visions of the universe and our place in it.
Most influential event: Once when I was hiking, I encountered a sort of purple humanoid blob that warned me away from the trail I was taking by ringing and making my ears hurt when I got close to it. I had to go back the way I came, but later I found out that the humanoid figure had saved me from being eaten by a mountain lion! I am sure that this was El Físico Nuclear saving me from a certain death! I was a skeptic before this happened, but now I believe that we are being taken care of by higher powers.
This is the biography that Rho(n)da Vue Morgenstern (the pseudonym for Denise Hopenhaym) submitted to The El Fisico Nuclear Experience:
First onscreen crush: Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk
Favorite books: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's On Growth and Form, because it shows how all events and objects take the shape they do because of natural forces, such as gravity, rather than metaphysical models. It is definitely descriptive of my life. My favorite book of fiction is Et ego in Arcadia by Shelby Donovan, about a group of people who begin remembering their common origins in a pastoral paradise--nostalgic and bittersweet.
Favorite songs:
"Highway Patrolman" by Bruce Springsteen, "End of the World as We Know It" by REM, "Life during Wartime" by The Talking Heads, "Dreamline" by Rush
Pastimes: Hiking, collecting curios and folktales from diverse cultures, sacred geometry
Favorite movies:
Lawrence of Arabia, Repo Man, The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao
Single most powerful event in my life:
having been born on the 33 1/3 gradient across California during a solar eclipse
Aspirations:
to be an irreverent polymath
Philip Katzenellenbogen, Secretary of this archive, is a graduate student in the Program in Comparative Literature at a university with a power structure and philosophy similar to those of Dante's Inferno. He is currently writing his dissertation on popular conceptions of the biogeography of protozoans. He lives with his lovely wife Elizabeth, two cats, and lots of books in the Valley of 1000 Donut Shops. Aside from languages and literatures, he likes to hike, bike, and pursue the odd. The fourth most important goal in his life is to become the protagonist of a Jorge Luis Borges story.
© 1998 Denise Hopenhaym
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