In a very different tone, and with an elliptical brevity that has disconcerted his commentators, the life story of Vincent1 confirms no less precisely what took place, right up to the pathetic episode of the suicide of Gérard, the one whom Daniel1 had nicknamed “Joker,” found hanging in his cell after dragging himself around for a few weeks, and at a point when Slotan1 and Jérôme1 were beginning, for their part, to think of eliminating him. Turning more and more to drink, Gérard became carried away with tearful memories of his youth spent with the prophet and of the “good tricks” they had played together. Neither of them, it seemed, had believed for a second in the existence of the Elohim. “It was just a joke…,” he repeated, “a good joke between stoners. We had taken some magic mushrooms, we went for a walk among the volcanoes, and we began to hallucinate the whole thing. I never thought it would go this far…” His chatterings were beginning to become embarrassing, for the cult of the Elohim was never officially abandoned, even though it quickly fell into disuse.
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