HELEN AND IVAN
A Fictional Saga of the
Future
A Utopia by any Other
Name…
By Izzy Ess of Smartness
Sir
Jonathan McMaster was in charge of co-eds at the newly integrated School of
Alabaster, in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies, eh? He was uncertain that the coming of the
co-eds was a beneficial move for Alabaster which had been male, exclusively,
from 1888, when it was just established as a Western School by Malcolm Meagre,
Knight, of Harvard’s Group of Schools, in Boston, Massachusetts. The co-eds coming had profound effects on
student life at Alabaster, as well as greatly altering the teachers’
attitudes. Some teachers asked for
transfers at the onset. Some students
did drop out. All settled down in 18
months as students, teachers and their parents settled in to make the most of
it. The offerings of Alabaster were
sincerely graded up to meet the needs of all ambitious students who had paid tremendous
fees and social consequences to attend the Alabaster institution.
Ms. Helen
Sokolowski was a fireball student who had garnered all scholastic and athletic
firsts since she was kindergartener. By
high school in Chicago, in La Grange, a western suburb, where there was the
famous school of Lyons Township, on a Cossett Street, named after John Q.
Cossett, Jr., who had successfully established the La Grange development in
1878, and then had killed himself in agony because he was again accused of
stealing funds from his investors, as he had done in the original La Grange,
Louisiana, where he’d run to Illinois just after tar and feathering, Ms.
Sokolowski was its number one. In this
atmosphere, the Lyons Township High School and the Cossett Street Elementary
had become the shining stars of Illinois with superb athletic and top academic bold
accomplishments, where Helen Sokolowski was a special star. At Alabaster, Helen rose to head the class in
everything! Charismatic naturally, she
became the president of Student Councils, where e’er she went. And so it was at Alabaster.
Ivan
Rabinowitz was the son of Jewish Russian immigrants to the New World who’d
finally escaped the stifling atmosphere of Russia’s government. The Doctors Rabinowitz were psychologists,
professors at the famous Neurological Department at the famous University in St.
Petersburg. They lived in special
quarters near the Hermitage and had together written many papers on conditioned
reflex actions of all people starting in their childhoods, which were published
in all languages, including English, and appeared in many esoteric journals
including those of the American Psychiatric Association. They had been suspended many times for
writing things the government did not approve about the stresses of the
Communist Ideal as opposed to Democratic writings of such people as Sir Thomas
Jefferson and Herr Professor Doktor Sigmund Freud. Their only son received the private tutoring
of both courageous parents who were shunned by higher ups and Commissars in
Moscow, who attempted first to censor everything the Doctors Rabinowitz published
and second to prevent their brilliant thoughts to be expressed outside the
Soviet Union, as well as inside Russian academic circles. The CIA arranged to have the family defect in
New York City when they came to ostensibly attend an annual grand meeting of
the APA. Two assassination plots were
thwarted by Homeland Security. The
President’s own Secret Service was involved and guarded carefully the quarters
at St. David’s underground facility where all the Rabinowitzes were sequestered
and very closely guarded. Ivan was
afforded special educational opportunities at Universities in Washington, DC,
and Bethesda, MD, the site of Naval Academia and the origins of Navy’s famous
football teams. Ivan starred as the
great quarterback and won for them the College Championship. As it became much safer for the family, they
were allowed to move to Denver, Colorado, where their brilliant son enrolled in
Alabaster where the Sokolowskis had brought Helen.
One
could say the match was made in Heaven, easily, because it was. Ivan met with Helen and their plight was
trothed. They fell in love immediately
and were hard to separate for four whole years while both of them would garner
every single prize available in academia and athletics. Besides, they were a handsome item of
society. Magazines just loved them and
their grand accomplishments, and their beauty as a couple. Just before their graduation, when Helen
secretly was pregnant and the couple had been secretly betrothed and married in
a Catholic Campus Church, they disappeared.
The kidnapping was done by some professionals and was successfully
accomplished with not a word to anyone.
Neither Russians nor Americans came forward. Everyone involved, including highly placed
officials of the USA and Russia seemed baffled.
Speculations flew in all directions and even after six whole months, no
one came forward to announce the whereabouts of Ivan and his Helen. The parents and police set up a fund and
offered millions for the information that could bring them back, alive. Though many claimed the millions, there was
no information that was valuable.
Two
years had passed and most gave up their hopes that Ivan and his Helen were
alive. The parents offered all they
owned, to no avail. The Sokolowskis and
Rabinowitzes became fast friends and met at frequent intervals to try and
ferret out the guilty parties. No
successes were reported. Their children
had just vanished and no traces gave a clue to what had happened.
Ivan
and his pregnant Helen had been whisked away by Theodore Q. Clinton and his
elite group of intellectuals who claimed to have the smartest people on the
Planet, Earth, as members. They were
secretive and had a code of languages that was exclusive to the members who
could easily discern the key to speaking Earthy in amongst each other. It was loosely based on old Enigma, which in
its secret form of Earthy, was not broken by anyone without a special key. Some huge amounts of money had been offered
by outsiders for the key. The code word
was one’s own heartbeat, distinctive ID for all the members of the Earth
Intelligentsia Incorporated Society, EIIS, or EYES, from the
pronunciation. When Helen was quite
pregnant her recorded code was double, a heartbeat for the fetus and a
heartbeat for Helen. At the time of
entry into EYES, Helen and Ivan and Joachim, the name of their first child,
were duly coded in and had the keys to Earthy, their new language. Their quarters were completely simplified:
three tiny bedrooms, one large computer room, a tiny kitchen, a large
living-dining room, fiber-optic windows for suffused sunlight throughout. The most distinctive feature of their new
home was a customized computer console with huge monitors, television, radio,
short-wave, (KW,) long-wave, (LW,) middle-wave, (MW & AM,) and
ultra-short-wave, (UKW,) for FM radio and TV channels, as well as
citizens-tuned radios for CB communications and an old fashioned telegraph
machine for Morse-coded type messages on which Earthy could be quickly sent to
all the members of EIIS. The founder,
Clinton, organized internal conferences for the members who were so inclined to
discuss their ongoing projects and discoveries.
If there were advances made that would be beneficial to the outside
folks, the ideas were introduced completely free of charge in such a way as to
hide the sources and the creative members of EIIS.
Sir
Ivan and his Lady Helen soon discovered that private liaisons with their
neighbours and their colleagues were quite commonplace. They often led to sexual adventures, and
extra pregnancies, all quite acceptable to all concerned. All the love affairs were openly acknowledged
and encouraged by the members. There
seemed to be no envy here. Some members
had the reputation for fertility and potency and all society was geared to take
advantage of the procreative talents of the few. No love affairs seemed to disturb the
tranquil intercourse of their society.
Helen became a kind of Queen Bee to the rest while Ivan was the Don Juan
of his circle. As younger much more
vigourous new members they were often sought out for these love affairs and
everyone was happy with them. It seemed
to Helen and her Ivan that a plethora of aunts and uncles, grandpas and
grandmas, were always present to make their lives more comfortable and to
provide things like live-in baby-sitting, cooking, cleaning an some decorating
and house repairs. Electronic experts did
abound for any quirks of their computers which arose.
Sir
Ivan and his Helen and their newborn Yoky, as he was nicknamed, would miss
their biological beginnings with their parents but they quickly realized there
was another family surrounding them of huge proportions. Their new neighbours, Tom and Janette Applebee,
with their three kids, Sean, Pierre and Maggie, who had lived here in the
underground huge village of Helvetica for over a decade, befriended them and
showed them all the ropes, the ins and outs and introduced them to their
friends. Tom and Ivan hit it off with
their shared interest in modern music; Janette and Helen were enthralled by
their shared interest in ancient art forms, pottery and sculpture as well as
classic mathematics, geometry, algebra and trigonometry. All the members of EIIS were encouraged to
keep track of their own biological and social beginnings, without, of course,
making any contact which would compromise security. Outside publications were allowed so long as
the authorship was never linked to EIIS.
Conferences could only be attended if there was a strictly followed
procedure of disguise and aliases to protect the integrity of EIIS. Clinton arranged a weekly scientific and a
weekly artist conference for all members. These were well attended an lively in
exchanges of ideas and information.
Helen
and Ivan became aware that many open rendezvous were e’er occurring. In fact, they recognized that as the newcomers
they were being urged to share their obvious fertility and potency great
talents, almost if, there was a planned renewal of the gene-pool of the
underground society. Without significant
in-fighting, Helen became a kind of Queen Bee while her Ivan was appointed
winning stag of all the females in the herd of ready females in the large
community. It was as if Helen acted like
the famous Catharine of ancient Russia or the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria
who would eventually have many children by just as many men as could approach
her. Likewise, Ivan was like the Scottish
poet, Robert Burns, who went about the countryside seeking out receptive women
and thus seducing many with his charming poetry and and thus begetting many
children. He could also be so likened to
the Brigham Young of yesteryear who had some 50 wives and over 150
offspring. Marriage still had spiritual
meaning while the population size was more determined by Helen and her Ivan and
similar good members who were potent and quite fertile.
In
many ways, the younger couples had a plethora of built in baby-sitting grandmas
and older aunts as well as grandpas and older uncles who would chip in for the
house repairs and garbage details.
Another important member, male of female was the electronics experts who
could troubleshoot the computing consoles and keep all of them in tip-top
form. The leader and the founder,
Theodore Q. Clinton, was ever present, smiling and encouraging for all to find
their niche and optimize their time for thinking and creating. Technical support for everything in art and
science was available. Technicians were
themselves supported by myriads of modern manuals and learning opportunities
for all the new advances. Helen and her
Ivan conceived that they were self-contained like a very modern USS Enterprise. Clinton was thus seen as a modern Captain or
Commander Kirk, or Jean la Duc, who were seeking out new worlds and going where
Humanity had never been! Clinton really
liked the analogy and quickly named his associates the Star Trek Adventurers. Helen was nicknamed Seven of Nine, and her
Ivan took the moniker of the half-breed Vulcan, Mr. Spock.
Security
was breached one summer day and soon after, all was lost when two atomic bombs
destroyed the underground society of EIIS.
The KGB and CIA co-operated in this, as a clandestine operation, KILL
THE EGGHEADS, was carried out and covered up as an accidental explosion of some
old warheads that both the Americans and Russians had secretly sequestered just
for this kind of eventuality. Every single
member was vapourized and all the infrastructure was strewn up into the
atmosphere as the largest mushroom cloud for years occurred. Nothing was recorded that could have
implicated anyone, so it was publicized as some big accidental, harmless damage
with the loss of some one thousand innocents up on the surface of the foothills
of the Rockies. The funerals were lavish
and attended by officials of all governments.
THE
END
© izzy sommers, md
Welland, Canada
September 5, 2013
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