THE PANAMANIAN RUNNING MAN
パナマのランニングマン
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80 20’N, 780 W – TRINIDAD, CARIBBEAN SEA - トリニダード、カリブ海
トリニダードは、南米ベネズエラの北西海岸沖に浮かぶ、幅わずか
120
キロメートル、面積
3,080
平方キロメートルの小さな植民地島です。人口は
1960
年代の
85
万人から現在は約
150
万人に増えており、これはトリニダードとその姉妹島であるトバゴの慣習の多くが由来するイギリスの
1/70
の比率とほぼ同じです。両国の裁判所の運営は非常に似ており、事件はロンドン タイムズ紙の週刊法律レポートで報道され、その後すぐに世界中の権威となります。皮肉なことに、知識の輸入と輸出の役割が逆転しています。
ドアの方を振り向くと、ドアの前に立っている美しい日焼けしたブロンドの女性の視線が目に入った。彼女は身長約
5
フィート
10
インチで、アスリートのような体型だった。彼女は、サポートのないぴったりとした白いレースのシャツと、彼女の体型を完璧に引き立てるオフホワイトのデニム ショーツを履いていた。一瞬、彼は言葉を失った。彼は何か違うものを期待していた。バックパッカーはたいてい、無愛想で知識人のような生き物だ。
多数のビューグル読者は、ランナーが宇宙人だと思った。映像が早送りされていると思った人もいた。一方、地球上で最も速い男は公式には時速
20
マイルしか出せず、それは
100
メートル走だった。専門家はマージョリー・ボイルの
YouTube
映像を検証し、ランナーは確かに時速
30
マイル、つまり
1
秒あたり約
15
メートルを出していたと計算した。彼らは、第二次世界大戦直前のベルリン オリンピックでアドルフ・ヒトラーを大いに怒らせたジェシー・オーウェンの驚異的なパフォーマンスを思い出した。オーウェンの記録はその後
20
年間破られなかった。このスタントにはパフォーマンス向上薬が関係していた可能性があることは、放送関係者も見逃さなかった。80
年代には、オリンピック ランナーのベン・ジョンソンが禁止薬物の検査で陽性となり失格となり、彼の
100
メートル
9.78
秒の記録は記録簿から抹消された。
Trinidad is a small colonial island, just one hundred and twenty kilometres wide and 3,080 square kilometres in area, lying off the north west coast of Venezuela, South America. The population is roughly 1.5 million today from 850,000 in the sixties which is proportionally analogous to the United Kingdom at 1/70th ratio, where many of
Trinidad’s customs and its sister island, Tobago, stem from. Their courts operate in such similar fashion that cases are reported in The
London Times newspapers’ weekly law reports, soon after to become authorities around the world. The irony is the knowledge import-export role reversal.
“Thanks Joe. I’ll do that.”
Sam had his feet up on the desk, at the time of the call lazily gazing out of an open window, appreciating the fresh onshore sea breeze, as it wafted heavenly scents of the season to tease his senses. He tilted his straw sun hat back. He was wearing a tan short sleeved sport shirt and light coloured trousers, perfectly suited to the
increasingly hot climate. Sam knew that the report must be a hoax, but what a scoop if it turned out to be even partially true.
“Miss Boyle, Miss Boyle.”
The front door opened wider. The reporter knocked again harder looking back up the path. “Anyone home?”
As he turned back toward the door he met the gaze of a beautiful tanned blonde standing in the doorway. She was about 5’ 10” and of athletic build. She was wearing a tight white lace shirt, unsupported, and off-white denim shorts, which complemented her figure perfectly. For a moment he was speechless. He’d expected something different. Backpackers were usually crusty intellectual,
creatures.
Marjorie Boyle stood in the doorway smiling. She knew she had this effect on men. Pity they all turned out to be simpletons after a good time – at least the ones she’d come across to now.
“What kept you? Fancy a cold one?”
“I’m Sam Hollis.”
“Yes.” She said, “I know who you are Mr Hollis.”
“Call me Sam Miss Boyle.”
“Call me Maj, Sam.”
Sam enjoyed the repartee as much as Marjorie. “Where’s your accent from?” said Sam.
Marjorie spoke in British tones with a hint of colonial Africa.
“Fools everyone. I’m from New Zealand. I just travel a lot.”
She led Sam into her kitchen and opened the refrigerator, looking over a few cans on the middle shelf. She’d forgotten it was shopping time. Sam spotted the problem, between admiring the curves of her denim shorts.
“Oh, anything you’ve got.”
“That’s lucky.” She handed him a Solar Tonic™ – a new health drink sensation from the mainland, but Sam wouldn’t know about that.
“Hey, I’ve been meaning to try one of these.”
Marjorie looked on mystified as she handed across a can. Sam cracked the lid on his can at the same time as Marjorie. They both tilted the heads back and took a big gulp. Ahhhh, and went to belch instinctively, but stopped themselves and looked at each other awkwardly; then both laughed.
“Strewth,” said Sam, affecting an Australian accent, “that’s bloody nice.”
He looked at the picture on the can interestedly, then at the stunning features of his host.
Marjorie beckoned Sam to follow her to her study where she had a 32” LCD screen running a sweeping planet saver program. He followed, mesmerized by her shorts. She bent over her desk and moved a mouse to reveal several files in a folder called ‘Panama Holiday,’ then opened the middle one.
“This is the one you’ll be interested in.” Marjorie played it full screen.
Sam, who was now standing beside her, dragged his eyes away from her lace top. The runner was a well tanned Caucasian wearing a tight silver track suit. He looked to be about five feet ten inches tall and superbly toned.
“Christ,” blurted Sam, almost spraying the screen with Tonic. “That’s really moving.”
The clarity was several times that on the web, it made a heap of difference to the perception of speed. Sam turned to Marjorie mouth agape. Marjorie gave a knowing smile back.
“I know,” she said “it’s unbelievable, that’s why I had to film it.”
“Was anyone with you?”
“No. I’d wandered off that morning, to powder my nose. I went to Panama with a friend. You’ll see her on the camera before and after the runner." Marjorie handed Sam her phone. "Check the time of creation of the files.”
Sam was already on to that. “Hey, nice phone.”
He scrolled through the saved images, admiring the metallic pearl finish on the mobile and oyster shell undulating pattern. The dates checked out and Marjorie was indeed with a very attractive looking brunette. He looked up at her.
“Can you meet my friend?” she said. “Yes of course you can.”
“Thanks Maj, perhaps I should take up hiking.”
He played the clip a couple more times, noting the change in pace of the athlete as he breezed up to 30 miles and hour to jump over a mound. He seemed to take it all in his stride.
“Wish this guy was in our running club. He’d wipe the floor with Usain Bolt’s record.”
Usain Bolt was a six foot tall
Jamaican who set a new world record of 9.58 seconds over 100 metres at the 2009 Berlin Olympic Games.”
Countless Bugle readers thought the runner was an alien. Others thought the footage had been speeded up. Whereas the fastest man on earth officially was only capable of 20mph and that was a 100 metre dash. Experts had examined Marjorie Boyle’s
Youtube footage and calculated that the runner was indeed doing 30 mph at times, equal to roughly 15 metres a second. They recalled the stunning performance of Jesse Owen at the Berlin Olympic Games just before the Second World War, much to the annoyance of Adolf Hitler, and Owen’s record had stood for a further 20 years. It was not lost on broadcasters that performance enhancing drugs may have played a part in this stunt. In the eighties the Olympic runner Ben Johnson had been disqualified when he tested positive for a banned substance, when his 9.78 second 100 metre record was struck from the record books.
"Well folks, it looks like someone’s gone and built the perfect man!"
The BBC's Jill Bird, commented: "For my money, that's got to be the world's fastest man."
Little did they know how close to the truth they were?
Marjorie was inundated with enquiries for her film clip and eventually sold the exclusive rights to a documentary film company for an undisclosed sum, after which other media companies left her alone, but not Sam.
PROLOGUE INNER CIRCLE OF SIX - Nazi funded medical human research laboratories Joseph Mengele's Fourth Reich escape to Brazil reserve plan. CHAPTER 1. THE POISON ASP - Pharaoh Queen Cleopatra takes her own life in a suicide pact with Mark Antony CHAPTER 2. WRATH OF THE GODS - The destruction of Thonis and Alexandria 365 AD CHAPTER 3. NEW WORLD ORDER - A Neo-Nazi plan to regenerate Aryan supremacy CHAPTER 4. CYBERCORE GENETICA - Nano computer technology is purchased at an auction by a religious sect. CHAPTER 5. INCUBUS - Italian scientist Franco Francisco invents a cloning machine and is head hunted by Neuwelt Rittertum CHAPTER 6. SPLICE - Klaus and Eva Kolreuter's search for everlasting life, the fountain of youth CHAPTER 7. TREMORS - Cleopatra's tomb lay lost for centuries. Until a shift in the tectonic plates triggered a tremor off the coast of Alexandria. CHAPTER 8. PANAMANIAN RUNNING MAN - Backpacker Majorie Boyle's Blog features Panama running at incredible speed CHAPTER 9. THE AMAZON - The largest river by discharge volume, 2nd longest after the Nile CHAPTER 10. TOMB RAIDERS - Safiya Sabuka and Musa Bomani dive among sifting sands to discover precious artifacts and golden treasures. CHAPTER 11. SCOTLAND YARD - Metropolitan police headquarters in London, Harold Holland, Chief Constable CHAPTER 12. OPERATION ALEXANDRIA - Neo-Nazi occultists recover Cleopatra's sarcophagus from underwater tomb near Palace. CHAPTER 13. KIDNAP - Charley is taken prisoner by Neuwelt Rittertum near Manaus, along the Amazon River CHAPTER 14. UNESCO - Catholic Church fear grave desecration heritage theft, asks agencies for help. Interpol issue Red Notice. CHAPTER 15. REPLICANT - The Society reproduce Cleopatra using Francisco's RepliVator™, uploading synapse sequence and implanted memories. CHAPTER 16. FULL STEAM AHEAD - Storm speeds to Thonis, then uses the Swann's AI sensors and the Ark database to find tomb has been plundered. CHAPTER 17. RITUAL FERTILIZATION - The Baron prepares a drugged Cleopatra for ceremonial impregnation. CHAPTER 18. SANCTUM INTERRUPTUS - John finds secret Nazi hideout near Alexandria, disturbs ritual - rescues Cleopatra, arresting conspirators. CHAPTER 19. THE CHOSEN ONE - The reincarnated Cleopatra falls for her rescuer. John comes under her spell, despite her being a replicant. CHAPTER 20. MILITARY INTERVENTION - The military detain Cleopatra to appease stakeholders, despite media & medical protests. Storm distraught. CHAPTER 21. DÉJÀ VU - History repeats itself, military lock up technology as gross violation of human rights, John left disillusioned: FINALE FOR NOW
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