Deipnotymbosyloi, or the tomb robbers on feast, or adventure of Friedmann van Opnieuw-Feestvieren (1)
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
——Richard III, Shakespeare
There is a famous tale among all Chinese learned men and tomb robbers, although as the very nature of tales, it has never been confirmed by anyone (nor can it be), it is certainly considered as true by the approval of the many; so be it, he will be deemed as an absolutely illiterate and dumb man by all means, whoever may dare to claim that he knows not about the tale. The tale goes like below:
In a certain mountain, according to some rumor, an empress dowager was said to be buried. When it came to be known to all that the empress dowager dug the massive part of mountain into hollow to make herself mausoleum which would contain countless luxuries in its endless palaces for one single dead, neither the obscurity of hearsay nor the roughness of wild rocks could stop daring young men's lust. Thus, some certain bandits made their way to the aforesaid mountain, being fanned up by the hope of unexpected fortune. However, there to their surprise, as they were breaking through the hardly passable path, they encountered a line of maidens in elegant and antique clothes, with samely good-looking youths, and in the centre of the line, a noble old woman on sedan chair. Although none of the bandits could ever foresee such an unusual sight, they reacted as they concealled their true purpose, pretending as travellers getting lost. Luckily the noble woman did not inquire so much, introducing herself as widow of a rich merchant, she invited the bandits to dine with her. Again they were largely surprised when they reached her house, for the house was bigger than one even be able to imagine, the furtherest light was nearly unseen, as if the whole hill, valley and cliff were built into palace with servants going hither and yon, all were soft and handsome. The old woman explained that, in order to shun from the unstable situation outside, their entire tribe rebuilt the place their ancestors lived, and retired here. She then let them to the dishes, where foods were flowing to them, tasted like immortals' victuals. The happiness of the night was beyond description, while the next day, as soon as the bandits found themselves lying in trench, they started to vomit toads, earthworms, whatever bugs and filth which they were enchanted to believe as ambrosia and willingly ate up.
Such is what people said on the tomb robbers' feast. But in my opinion, why wouldn't the robbers eat up once more what they vomitted, lest from which anyone should know they were enchanted for intending to raid the tomb? However, i shall call the tomb robbers honest men, when i saw recently how Chinese dissidents reacted to Friedmann van Opnieuw-Feestvieren's unfortune case, namely Friedmann, with his boyhood barely ending arrived at the fame of a celebrated warrior of freedom and democracy, lives ignobly as a well-known scammer. Many beheld this as many held their peace, until one journalist who used to work with him, perhaps from finding how the police in Netherlands, Germany and France were slandered and mocked to fit the heroic story, out of some kind of deliebration, reveal two things which were known long before, that to say, how Friedmann faked things which were well kept for at least three years and how did the tomb robbers ate toads and earthworms.
To me is the right to ask for pardon. For obviously,
Ἐὰν ταῖς γλώσσαις τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαλῶ καὶ τῶν ἀγγέλων,
ἀργαλέον δέ με ταῦτα θεὸν ὣς πάντ' ἀγορεῦσαι.
Here firstly i would not mention any related individual's name directly, but translate them in a literal way; Since the protagonist, Friedmann van Opnieuw-Feestvieren currently live in Netherlands, i made it Dutch. If really i cannot tell everything from beginning to end or explain what INDEED happened and how people's minds differed, let it be unfair to blame me, for who wrote about Socrates' childhood, or what happened actually when unhappy Clodius met Milo on Appian Way? If i am only to show the way people produce the masks of virtuosi and good-for-nothing, namely how do they cut wood, mix pigments, polish them and carefully preserve or fix, how should i be obliged to know why people produce masks at all or from what unmoving substance do they get inspirations? No, let philosophers go shipwreck therein, but i will hence speak on ambition, greedy, treachery and all kinds of despisable characters as long as they will always bear gentle or heroic names.
Although Sayeed Friedmann van Opnieuw-Feestvieren is, for sure, among not many political figures who were highly rated by both Al-Jazzera and Haaretz at same time, his life before 19-year-old is unfortunately covered in obscurity. Many stories were offered to explain his former life, that to say, before the land of Arab Emirates made him known to most parts of earth, but it's still nearly impossible for me, an observer to gain entire truth. Now we can be sure that Friedmann was born and spent his early year in the city Opnieuw-Feestvieren built on mountains in south western China, from where he is named van Opnieuw-Feestvieren; about his family, Friedmann asserted his father served in the air force and became a respected member of the city council after ending the service in military, his mother was a member of the Discipline Inspection committee which censors the local officers, in this version of story, as the ancient proverb goes,
τίς πατέρ᾽ αἰνήσει, εὶ μὴ εὐδαίμονες υἱοί;
Concerning himself, Friedmann asserted that he received typical education for urban elites, namely studying in international school, but was driven out of school at the first persecution he underwent for supporting the Hong Kong protest in 2019. There was no information about his activities during his 17-year-old to 19-year-old even by himself, so it seems that we need to just skip it. However, there is another version of Friedmann's former life offered, in which everything is right opposite to what he himself said. Friedmann, as they said, is son to a normal worker in a factory of pumps in the countryside near the city, his mother, although once hired by a gasoline station, is currently jobless. Yet about Friedmann, they said he has never attended school for a single day after his 14-year-old for his mind was smited by mental sickness under which influence he was tortured in turn of exultation and depression and lost control of himself. At age 15, they said he scammed 1000 rmb through DNF Dual; Only one year later, with the very art the followers of Miles Kwok, a convincted scammer and most famous claimant for the president of future China, yielded their money. It's still unclear that why he left China in Jul. 2019, some suggested his large debt as reason, while if true, he was supposed to leave China sometime in between his birthday in September 2019 and 2020 because as a minor nevertheless he wouldn't be taken to court. However, according to a woman who's identified to be his spouse Dolores, she left China for Dubai in august of 2020, while the Chinese media, Global times asserted it was July of 2019 that they left. Up to now, no one has accurate information about this period, except Global Times mentioned Friedmann said something in favor of the protestors in Hong Kong 2019 and according to himself, after posting clip of the song "Glory to Hong Kong" on Tiktok, his parents' were forbidden from going abroad by confiscation of their passports, at the night of 9th Jul 2019, he fled to Shanghai then to Hong Kong. However, report show that at 15th Jan 2021 Bosnia, heading Sarajevo as he stated, Friedmann with Dolores accidently drove into a pile of trash and were trapped there until local firemen came rescuing. This implies Friedmann must have once been in China for at least two months before that to get his driving license, for only adults can get that and to have international driving license in Bosnia to rent cars. It seems that if we trust global times, Friedmann and Dolores left China at Jul. 2019, but went back and left again at Aug. 2020, with the report of his scam's victim and prank calls he done to police in Apr. and May 2020, it sounds reasonable; He either got driving license during this time, or this coupled returned after Aug. 2020. While before his destiny day, that to say, 21th of Feb. 2021, from 2nd Feb. to 5th Feb, he was reported to scam in Serbia, namely with Dolores lived in Hilton hotels and rented Porsche then ran away without paying. Records show on 3rd Feb he told the victim he was heading Sarajevo for passing night and would arrived at Beograd to complete payment the next day, which of course he did not.
I must pay attention not to make my narrative in the style of Chronica, lest it become like a catalogue of his triumphs,
καὶ πολιοῦ πέραν πόντου χειμερίῳ νότῳ
χωρεῖ, περιβρυχίοισιν
περῶν ὑπ᾽ οἴδμασιν.
that to say, from the peninsula of the Arabs to Franks' endless fertile low lands, from where once beheld the cannons raging between Greeks and kaftan-ed Turks to where the revenging bullet of Yugoslavians echoed, via land, sands and sea, his adventure should not be treated more carelessly than that of ancient Telemachus.
The goddess of Fortuna, as she is commonly said, smiled to Friedmann at 21st, Feb, 2021 as a consequence of the following event:
there has been contests concerning borders of China and India since long ago when the immortal gods were still caring human's business, we have the testimony from Lucian the Samosatese in his Cataplus, that Indopates and Heramithres, two Chinese men died in fighting for borders were waiting for Clotho to take them to the underworld. it seems to me to be reasonable if we are persuaded that this happened on the border of China and India, for it was obvious that the name Indopates comes from India and the verb πατεῖν which means someone who often trampled into the land of India, namely a Chinese soldier on the border; Heramithres, on the other hand, combined with ἐρεμνός and θρασύς, which means a bold man with murky dark skin; similar to the Boeotians live in the mountains who say not "Hedy" but "Hady" for a sweet thing, here near Himalaya the e was changed into a, also, because of the height, breath became rougher there, that's why an aspiration was added, also, as all of us knows, people who dwelled on the height exposed to sun with much fewer clouds in between got their skin blackened, all these suggested that this Heramithres was also a Chinese soldier. When similar things happened, namely several Chinese soldiers were killed during the battle with Indians concerning their borders, Friedmann found his chance. In the comments of the news, he wrote as below:
"they deserved death. the people's liberation army stirred it. well done. well beat. nice slaughter by the Indians. merited to be killed. wonderful to be killed. "
"great killing, merited killing, i would kill and kill had i got chance, long live the USA."
with also showing off permanent residency of the united states and 100.000USD in bank account which he asserted to earned through his father, who was a high official of the local government and then in national company in his narrative, Friedmann kindled such rage on the internet that a warrant was published for him. As someone said, he was in Turkey as that time, and only two days later, he became the heroic 19 year old protagonist on Radio Free Asia, there he was said to "not believe the number of dead reported by national medias" for he is "unwilling to live in a country of falsehood".
We don't have Friedmann's whereabouts until in May. whether for
beatis nunc Arabum invidet gazis,
on the 20th of May, a female "friend" of him, high probably Dolores, made a post on twitter that Friedmann, during flight transferring to New York, was arrested in Dubai, UAE on 5th Apr and was still detained. Although officially Friedmann was accused of Blasphemy and insulting, namely from the end of 2019 to the beginning of 2020, he lived in a VIP hotel in Dubai and left insults on the vistors' book of the hotel insults to both the employees and Allah, or as some people said, when passing the customs, he humiliated the security guards there, saying they are swine. the next day, article with his photo shadowed with UAE flag was published on Radio Free Asia, showing his case was a special one under the controlling of Chinese embassy according to his own testimony, and only three days later, a certain Cleophanus would change his destiny completely.
Cleophanus gained his name Cleophanus through being a vicar of almighty god in the church of That Genevian, he has an interesting surname if you take it Italian, as there are people in Romania surnamed Bud, suppose what if they go to Iran and get called bud/budand; for that reason let us rename Cleophanus as RPCW, RP because while Friedmann is said by himself to be PR, on the other hand Cleophanus is Reverendus Pater, W, for let him be surnamed "Was/Were", and C surely for Cleophanus, in this way, he is "Reverendus Pater Cleophanus Was", RPCW. His experience with the sole salvation from sin and the holiest church of That Gnevian was (past indictive of the verb "be") even earlier than his being a youth with brilliant future in the central seminar of Chinese Communist Party later, and perhaps because of something happened in those years, as some people they for themselves may describe,
τὸν δὲ δὴ κόσμον πάλιν ἀνέστρεφεν εἱμαρμένη τε καὶ σύμφυτος ἐπιθυμία,
alike many others of that period, PRCW with his family moved to Hong Kong then the united states in middle 1990s. His business, or in a way fitting for our brothers and sisters in Christ, his Ministerium, as the word he prefers, was to save the religious (whatever religion they may in) and dissidents from the tyranny of the Communist Party. RPCW followed up this case and confirmed our young hero was not lying, nor about whether he was a PR, which after roughly 3 years PRCW again denied. of all, we should have in mind that it's said that he who has faith removes the mounts, in three days, not even long enough for the dead to come back to life, RPCW informed Friedmann's case to the department of state of the united state and as it's said to, the white house has already intervened to rescue. if you ask what happened then, of course he was released later, while that was the beginning of story which i doubt hardly anyone might have wished it be an end.