Nov 3, 2026 · 37 min · 10 segments
Recorded June 7th 2026: Peter and Flora discuss how Peter saved Alice’s cat and the subsequent celebration at the pizza pub. Peter and Flora read a letter from Rudolph Bäcker and discuss the film…
My dear young friend.
Not a day passes without me missing the daily walks we used to take together by the Chesapeake.
It's March now, my favorite season for such walks.
particularly on foggy days when the mist obscures our view of the opposing shore, I often bring a mug of black tea on these walks and reminisce about our times together.
I had to write you regarding a recent and dramatic development in our theosyncratic theory.
As we have kept this clandestine from the rest of the world during our research, I have come across a madman screaming the very word that you and I had dreaded hearing.
To catch up any potential colleagues whom you may wish to share this with, You and I have engaged in research about a single symbol that shares the same shape and exists across isolated locations in the world thousands of years apart.
Three separate instances of this symbol have occurred in Nepal, the Amazon Rainforest, and the Sahara Desert, in societies far before written history.
So far before, in fact, that some doubt they even exist, given such limited evidence.
But the texts that you and I have unearthed, based on their writings on this movement of the stars, have given us an indication that these societies did truly exist.
Nothing remains, however, other than a few sparse ruins in these three isolated locations.
We have done tireless work comparing and contrasting their languages and have focused on this one symbol that is so prevalent in their writings.
A symbol that exists not only in these societies, but in descendant cultures around the globe.
We have come across a breakthrough in identifying the name of this symbol.
Several primitive cultures, whose languages have endured to this day, without means to communicate with one another, use the same three syllables to denote this symbol.
A psychiatrist friend of mine invited me to the St. Seraphim Sanitarium for the Insane, where there was a raving madman.
he wouldn't stop repeating the same phonetic word.
Puck.
Jum.
Ah.
I asked where they had found him, and they said they had found him in a large patch of wilderness in West Virginia called the Idlewood Wilderness.
Apparently, they found him in a neighboring small town raving about an ancient city deep within the woods that is only accessible if you know how to navigate certain ancient paths.
He made strange allusions to paths that change in the forests, an architecture that appears small on the outside but is massive and labyrinthian on the inside.
His incoherent ramblings made little sense, I am quite unsure what to make of this.
But very little is written about the Idlewood Wilderness.
My dear young friend.
Not a day passes without me missing the daily walks we used to take together by the Chesapeake.
It's March now, my favorite season for such walks.
particularly on foggy days when the mist obscures our view of the opposing shore, I often bring a mug of black tea on these walks and reminisce about our times together.
I had to write you regarding a recent and dramatic development in our theosyncratic theory.
As we have kept this clandestine from the rest of the world during our research, I have come across a madman screaming the very word that you and I had dreaded hearing.
To catch up any potential colleagues whom you may wish to share this with, You and I have engaged in research about a single symbol that shares the same shape and exists across isolated locations in the world thousands of years apart.
Three separate instances of this symbol have occurred in Nepal, the Amazon Rainforest, and the Sahara Desert, in societies far before written history.
So far before, in fact, that some doubt they even exist, given such limited evidence.
But the texts that you and I have unearthed, based on their writings on this movement of the stars, have given us an indication that these societies did truly exist.
Nothing remains, however, other than a few sparse ruins in these three isolated locations.
We have done tireless work comparing and contrasting their languages and have focused on this one symbol that is so prevalent in their writings.
A symbol that exists not only in these societies, but in descendant cultures around the globe.
We have come across a breakthrough in identifying the name of this symbol.
Several primitive cultures, whose languages have endured to this day, without means to communicate with one another, use the same three syllables to denote this symbol.
A psychiatrist friend of mine invited me to the St. Seraphim Sanitarium for the Insane, where there was a raving madman.
he wouldn't stop repeating the same phonetic word.
Puck.
Jum.
Ah.
I asked where they had found him, and they said they had found him in a large patch of wilderness in West Virginia called the Idlewood Wilderness.
Apparently, they found him in a neighboring small town raving about an ancient city deep within the woods that is only accessible if you know how to navigate certain ancient paths.
He made strange allusions to paths that change in the forests, an architecture that appears small on the outside but is massive and labyrinthian on the inside.
His incoherent ramblings made little sense, I am quite unsure what to make of this.
But very little is written about the Idlewood Wilderness.
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