Mark Meltzer Writings: Days 68-78

==Birthday Note==
:HAPPY BIRTHDAY
::CINDY…
I promise I will find you.
::  Love,
::   Daddy
== Notes on Rod Killian Quain ==
:::Mark G. Meltzer
:::P.O. Box 4668 #32890
:::New York , N.Y. 10163
::R KILLIAN QUAIN = RØD QUAIN
:::RØD (Norwegian) = RED
:::RØD QUAIN = Red Queen?
::::::::↑
(What’s the significance           ANOTHER OF
:of Killian? MARTYR?)         LUTWIDGE’S GAMES?
:::It’s been under my nose –
:::almost from the start!
:I’ve been running the RED QUEEN’S RACE <- Just like Alice
:::Running as fast as I can…
:::to get right back where I started… 
::TOLLEVUE – a padded cell –
:::where people like me
:::and Lutwidge belong 
::Chasing mirages… 
:::Hunting phantoms…
::If RAPTURE is real… 
:::the only man who’s found it
::::is even crazier then
:::::ME.
== Letter to Benny Stango ==
::::Mark G. Meltzer
::::P.O. Box 4668 #32890
::::New York , N.Y. 10163
Det. Benny Stango
c/o NYPD
Benny:
I wanted to warn you – maybe you were right. Maybe there’s something
wrong with me. Feel like I’m losing my grip…If I need to be stopped…
you are the one to stop me. Tell Amanda I
== Letter to Celeste Roget ==
::::Mark G. Meltzer
::::P.O. Box 4668 #32890
::::New York , N.Y. 10163
August, 1968
Dear Celeste,
I'm at a crossroads… Your own story is an object lesson - of why it's
necessary to remain suspicious of "proof" of the fantastic. Yet I've
just been confronted with a piece of evidence that's got me ready to
believe the IMPOSSIBLE. In short, Lutwidge's new riddle suggests that
"RAPTURE" may lie at some incredible depth beneath the sea. And now
I'm looking back through the most unlikely material from my various
contacts - rumors of a new Atlantis, outlandish stories of underwater
cities filled with futuristic technology & inhuman monsters.
I know you crossed the Rubicon yourself - when your researches
convinced you of the old legends of "Hidden Masters" and lost cities in
the Himilayas - legends you now believe to be mere folktales. That's
the one thing that's holding me back.
But something you said on the phone last week keeps nagging me. You
suggested that Lutwidge buried those bottles we found on the
beach. Or that maybe he arranged for it. As if he were still up to
his old tricks. As if he were still alive…
…but Lutwidge vanished in Sept. 1958 when he set off to find "true
Rapture". We both know he was never seen again.
Don't we?
:::::::::Yours - "in the spirit of Truth" -
::::::::::::Mark
:::::::::Mark Meltzer
==See Also==
*Mark Meltzer
*There's Something in the Sea
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