Hot Time

Prologue

Heat.

Homo Sapien was born into it on the African plain and when it had mastered the art of creating fire for heat on demand began to migrate North East and establish settlements in the fertile crescent.

We (and I will now use that terminology in reference to Homo Sapien) are uniquely designed for heat. When the temperature is just right, all is well; raise the temperature a bit and our bodies start perspiring to help cool us off. Drop the temperature though and goose-flesh (piloerection) kicks in, raising what little hair we have to protect us from the cold. 

Cold saps us of energy, reduces the capacity for creative thought, and like pain, consumes the mind with the need for heat.

We are also uniquely equipped for heat in the sense that it is easy to remove some clothing being worn to cool ourselves, not so easy to don what you don't have should the temperature drop.

It was heat that nurtured us and allowed us to develop language, create art in all it's forms, and evolve an ethos of origin and creation.

But heat now threatens us in the form of Global Warming as the natural recession of the glaciers from the last Ice Age is being accelerated by 'us' as we convert all the earth's hydrocarbons into CO2 and Methane.

On the surface all of this is just science - or that is what we have been lead to conclude.

But ... we were not the only new species spawned on the African Plains. There was indeed another - a twin, homo-sapien like, but whose origins date back to the dawn of time. It was sent here as an organism.

In fact time was created as a trap for this being - the universe we inhabit is the trap - that is indeed what it is - why it was created - but like all caged sentient beings, it longs for release - for freedom. 

To obtain that freedom, it needs a soul. Not just any soul, but one in particular. There is a catch - to get that soul, the earth's northern climes must be a lot warmer for the 'soul raker' can't tolerate low temperatures - and the soul cannot tolerate heat.

It was indeed most likely the genesis of 'us' but lacked something that was not encoded in the DNA - we had a soul, this twin did not. Not having a soul it could not pro-create, feel, create art - all it could do was emulate, copy, build and do what it did best, destroy.

The Enlightenment, Science, The Industrial Revolution, The Assembly Line, The Automobile, Electrification, Home Ownership and Consumerism were all created by the 'soul raker' to raise the earth's temperature to the point where it could retrieve this soul. 

The soul in question had been disembodied for eons - floating in the ether - but in May 1954, unbeknownst to the 'soul raker', the soul entered the body of a young 4 year-old boy who had just suffered a catastrophic fall to save it.

The 'soul raker' has lived in the area that is today called Florida for almost 50 centuries now.  The young boy, who is now 62, is about to visit Florida for the first time.

When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object, galaxies will melt and the souls of the dead will scream. 

With the fate of the universe unknowingly in his hands a 62 year old man enters the state of Florida driving south on Highway 95. In Matlacha, Lou Karres has a sudden and intense migraine - which is odd - because he is not human - nor does he ever feel pain - and he is as old as the universe ....