As Dead as a Dodo

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As Dead As a Dodo

Noel Joshua Hadley

 

 

 

EVERYBODY knows that Charles Dickens

famously employed the term to describe

a Jacob Marley ghost sighting.

 

Ebenezer Scrooge first observed Marley’s eyes, nose, and jaw

fixed on the doorknob of his London home,

held in place of course by a scarf.

 

Moments later, Marley appeared as a Class IV apparition

locked in bolts and chains, prompting Scrooge to exclaim,

“By Jove, if it isn’t my old partner, Jacob Marley!

Why, you’re as dead as a dodo!”

 

Freud once prematurely used it

to reference early twentieth century America

as a failing Capitalist experiment.

 

In a far more devastating career blunder,

Charlie Chaplin resisted making ‘talkies’ for the studio,

famously shrugging them off with the singular line

written on a title card.

 

“Now that I think upon it,” Pauly Hart holds a carving knife and fork in his fingers,

“It is a rather odd phrase in popular culture.”

 

He holds the blade to the dodo, stuffed and cooked,

whom his wife has lathered with a baster and lovingly decorated on a bed of lettuce.

He then pauses to silently ponder the matter.

 

Across the table, I frantically flip through the pages of a history book, hoping to catch up with reality.

From the Island Empire of Mauritius, Madagascan kings

conquered the Tartarians and ruled the world.

 

And as everybody knows, pilgrims avoided starvation

by popcorn dripping with butter and the dodo,

thanks largely to the American Indian.

 

Did you know that Benjamin Franklin considered

printing the dodo as our nation’s bird rather than the eagle?

Fun facts. I just now read it in a book.

 

“Don’t say it.” Pauly cuts into the bird.

“The dodo is extinct in your universe rather than the cockroach.”

Slicing off a piece of its breast, he lays it on a plate.

“That’s what you were going to say, wasn’t it?

What next, the Confederacy lost the war; Nixon never became dictator?

There is only one reality, and it exists within the Pauly-verse”

 

Pauly points to his shirt as evidence.

It is black with a bold white font which reads,

‘DODO’S NEVER SAY DIE.’

Apparently a line from his favorite

Richard Donner movie.

 

Rebecca is the first to bite into the dodo.

She closes her eyes to savor the flavor.

 

“You all should be grateful,” she finally says.

“When I was a girl all that we could afford was a turkey.”

IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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