He's all the time in the East. He's going to be tracing PT, a tool for tracking facts. She is called. Hello, good morning. Well, be with me if my English is not very good. Any time, interrupt me and ask, please. Well, this talk is about a tool that was developed during the last 12 months inside the pack group, but it was then found out that it was useful to other groups and individuals. It's based on some needs that are very important for a packaging group, especially if you're a big one. You have many packages and you need to know some information about them. You need to know, for example, which of the packages are in need of work. If you have 600 and 66 packages, it's difficult to know which one of them has a new upstream version or has bugs or whatever. It's important to have all this information in one single place, because if not, you have to lose a lot of time looking for what are the different problems, like the BTS for bugs or the QA pages for the status in the archive and so on. And related to that is the fact that having all this information in a visually clear way and just looking at the screen, you can know more or less how are the status of your packages. And also, it's important to make the teamwork easier, to allow people to interact not only by IRC, but also looking at what they are doing or what is the status of other people's packages. And for example, what we do a lot, especially when I was not at ED, I wanted to signal the DDS in the group that my packages were ready to be upload. And also something very important that is most of the tools only know about the archive. And when you're working in a packaging group, it's very important to also know what is the status in your repository, because you might be so many problems there, so you don't want that problem showing up after you fix them in the repository. This is one of the existing tools. This is a really great tool, like the QA pages. It has lots of information, but it's only for one package. So if you have 800 packages or so, you cannot use this to know what is the overall status. Another nice tool, the package overview. It has lots of information in one single place, but there's no way of having a television filter in there so you know which one of your 803 packages are in trouble now, or sort them or classify them, et cetera. The first tool was an example of good information, but dispersed in many places. The lack of categorization, filtering, sorting, whatever. And the most important problem of those tools are that they don't know anything about your repository, the changes you have been done in the last weeks, for example. And also, all these tools work with the maintainer email as a grouping key. So if you're in your group, there's different ways of saying that these packages of the team, you won't see them in the same report. And also, another problem that was important to me at the time was that even each time I needed to do an upload, I couldn't do an upload, I had to ask for DD to respond for me. So this tool evolved in some key ideas. Firstly, the core of the information is the BCS. In this case, it's subversion, but in the future will be other BCS tools. Instead of the email of the maintainer or whatever. Also, it's important to know that on every commit to retrieve the information that was changed and update the reports instantly. So you have real time information of what every person in your group is doing. It relies on a few conventions, not many, that are based on common practice at the per group, at least, that allow it to be more powerful without making things more complex. It also doesn't build reports. It doesn't build HTML files or XML or whatever. It just gathers data. Gathers data, and then there are some other scripts that make the reports. There's the web page or RCC feed or whatever. And also in the initial idea was to make it better than the former code that was there that was a bunch of ad hoc scripts. So making modular and more extensible, especially very important is separate the presentation from the logic. So other people that doesn't want to know the gory details of all this can make nice web pages. So this is temporarily called, I guess, it will stay like this, Pet Package Entropy Tracker. As I said, it started as a few scripts, was rewriting last year. And not only me working on this, also Gregor here and Damian Hope watching us from Europe work a lot on this. This is an example of a running instance from the BOAP team. This is the CCI script. You see, there is a high density of information there. There is lots of links and stuff that pop up when you hover on them. But the nice thing about this is that in just one screen, you see all your packages that need a new option version, for example, here. This is another example that I lack a lot, because I didn't do anything about this, but they made a really nice template without changing one line of code. It's the same code behind this, but it's just a different template. Also, it's not only for packaging groups. Myself, I use it for my very few packages. This is the example of the Gregor personal repository. It's quite useful because even if you're not interacting with other people in a packaging group, it's very useful to have a reporting on upstream versions, bugs, status in the archive, et cetera, all in one place. Well, something about the way of working. There are many sources of information here. As I said before, the idea is to build a database that is meant to be used later for reporting. So it gathers information from many different places and it's easy to send to other places. Firstly, the Demian Archive, it downloads the source indexes, the SBN as it now, but it's meant to be used by any other BCS. The BTS, of course, for retrieving all the bugs. The watch files are used to watch the versions in upstream websites. And also, there are many ways of sending it. I can think of the popularity contest, the DEHS or S7 build stat, which is one of the tools that I really like to integrate with this. The other archive, the tool retrieves. Firstly, the most important is know which version the package has on the different distributions, source stable and stable testing experimental. And so that it can know where a package has been removed from testing or from unstable or isn't experimental. And also, it can show you when a package disappeared. Sometimes it happens that you upload a package and it takes many hours to know where is the package now, especially after new processing or so. So it keeps track of it and it shows, OK, you have to wait, it's being processed. Don't worry. I also read all the control data from the packages that provide good information to see which packages you have in your repository, which are not officially maintained by you. Look at the DM upload allowed flag, especially important for DMs, and sponsors of DMs. And also very important, mob source and binary packages because this is the authoritative source of that information. So because in your repository you have source packages and then you have to map bugs which are applied to binary packages and so on. And also read the queues that are new and incoming to track where the packages are. From Subversion or whatever other repository you can think of, the idea is to retrieve. Use it as a repository of files because the most important thing is to retrieve the deviant directory all the files include, but also to read the tags because the tags are used. In a special way, that's one of the conventions that I will get back later. So firstly, the same information is the archive, read the deviant slash control file, but in the current status. For example, you have adopted a package. In the archive it's not yours, but you have it in your repository. You're working on that. So you need to keep track of it until you upload. Know which are your packages. The other way around, you can have something in the archive that is in your name, but you don't have it in your repository, so this is only what is really there because the repository is the key of this. Also it detects patches, change logs are read to track versions and also to track the bugs that are being closed in a commit, et cetera. Watch files which are used to later retrieve the information from AppStream. And what I said recently about tags combined with the distribution using the change log, you can detect which is what can progress. So if anybody commits and the change log displays and release distribution, the program knows that it's not meant to be uploaded now but it's working progress, so it classifies it differently. And it acts also because when you tag, you're saying I have just upload. That's all the conventions I was talking about. A few conventions that I think are good practices and it was based on what was really done in the group. Using the change log of a communication form is very flexible, it's really easy to see it in the web page and everybody has to edit it before committing if you are using the commit which makes it more easy and the change, et cetera. So you put the notes to other people, warnings, et cetera, use the release tag, not tag, the distribution to signal if the package is ready or not and to create a tag on the hit shop load. These only few conventions are always needed to make it work properly. Sorry, my throat is not very good today. Well, from watch files, the obvious question is, is there a new option version? But also from the watch files you can know if after you just put a different version and now it went down instead of up. So it also flags that and also tells you when the upstream website is not working, et cetera, so you can fix your watch file. Sorry about the people who doesn't like watch files but these two considers lack of watch files or problem in watch files an error. Also in the code I needed to write a new scan almost replacement to avoid calling use scan 800 times each hour, which is not very useful. And well for the per group we also use a small optimization which is to download all the indexes from CIPAN which are the module indexes, outer indexes, et cetera and avoid going to the web all the time. As you have seen in one of the examples the per group has in the repository over 900 packages now. So there are some bias to the per group but in any case it's quite a stress tested by now. I don't think many groups have more than 900 packages in their repositories. Well, some visual niceties can be seen from that. You can read it. Well, I will have to read for you. Well, this is the main visible script. This is the CCA, it's currently running on alias. Many groups have their own versions. This is the place where the database is red, the data is mined and classified and then it's passed through a template. This is showing the compressed view with the filters here. You can filter bugs and have some options there. And each one of these blocks are blocks of packages classifying different things. The first reads newer option available. Newer option release available, that should be corrected. Newer option release available but already worked on is the second category. Packages that are ready for upload. Packages that are tagged. So somebody said I have a load but I'm not in the archive so something is happening there. Packages that are new and incoming. Package we have version problems because Aftrin says that it has an older version of the package or something like that. Packages with RC bugs. Packages that are work in progress which is more or less, what doesn't fit everybody else? No, whatever. What doesn't fit in other categories put it there. And also packages that they only program are bugs. It's important to know that if package only belongs to one category, it's just a way of altering the work to make it more easy to read. But it's also, this is just 10 lines of code that can easily change to everyone needs. Well, this is just demand bill. This cannot be seen very well from far. This is the first block, the newer Aftrin version available category. You see in the right that they're all blue boxes. The blue box signals that there is a problem in that part of the report which is Aftrin. The says that Aftrin has a new version than you. You see that in the middle column, the says archive. That's the version, the latest version on the archive, usually experimental or unstable. But it's flagged when it's experimental. And also the version in your repository. You see there that many packages have two versions. One is inside codes, parentheses. The big one is the latest version you have, say, that is released. The latest version that in the change says that is meant for unstable or stable or whatever, but not unreleased. And the small one is the version that is being worked on, the unreleased version. And you see the mouse is hovering on the box column when you hover on any of those links that have a line behind them. You have a pop-up when they show all your bugs and any one of them can be clicked. You see when you go to the version in the repository, you see the last person that changed the changelog, the same for the two versions, the unreleased and the released one. And when you click on the maintainer's name, you see the snippet from the changelog with all the text. So that's why I said that changelog can be used as a communication medium because you always need to see what was the last commit saying in there. So it's very useful, it works like that nowadays. You see there, there was an unreleased version, so the fonts are quite a little smaller. And that's the other version from the same package that was uploaded on this table. It has also some other nice things like reloading the box without reloading all the pages. Web 2.0 stuff. Well, this is the other interesting parts I wanted to tell you. This is the first one here, it's ready for upload. This was a package that was in the last commit was, the distribution was set to an stable, but there is not a tag in the repository with that version. So the tool recognized that as somebody who finished their work and is waiting for them to upload. So you're a DD, you have many non-DDs in the group and you want to help them. You go to this place and say, okay, I will upload this and sponsor this. The next one is a package that is tagged. So somebody said that it has uploaded but it's not in the archive. So maybe it's a problem because you forgot to upload or the packages going through incoming or new whatever and the tool hasn't seen it yet. And the next one is the packages that are new and incoming. This example only shows six packages in incoming. Also, I forgot to mention, these numbers are the number of packages shown and the total number of packages. It's very important that this filters a lot. It tries to show you only the packages that need work because if it were showing 900 packages all the time, it won't be useful. Well, this is just an explanation of the assumed work flow for all the stuff to work as is intended. It's nothing new, it's just what was being used at the per group at the moment. You just first do an initial import or a new upstream version gets merged. You put all your source changes in different patches, so that's also seen by the tool. You use unreleased always when you're still working. You commit often so other people know and the tool gets updated often too. That's useful also because if you put your commit messages on the changelog, the changelog gets really useful information and other members can see what are you doing and can help you. It's quite common to put in the changelog, need help with this and somebody will see it and just try to help and fix it. When you're done, you just change the distribution to unstable, they change, I don't always say anything, and then commit and never forget to tag after upload. If you're not a DD, as I said before, you just end on the commit and somebody will take it after there, hopefully. The components of the stuff. The first component, the complicated one, is the retrieval script. It's a big, not a big script, but it's used a lot of models that retrieve different stuff from all the data sources I mentioned before. The archive, the BTS, SBN, and whatnot, and after. It runs on each commit in a special mode, which is faster. It only retrieves the information that you change and if you change something like a watch file, it takes the upstream version, but only if you have changed the file. All the running, the long running task are done in a Chrome job. It's the same script with just, just with a different command line. Knows how to manage the data relationship, so it doesn't have to reread everything on each run. So it only will go to upstream if the watch file changes it or the time has expired. Same for change log and bugs and et cetera. Currently use storeable files, which is a model, which is quite easy to use as a backend. It should be changed someday in the future. Reporting tools, small scripts, really small scripts, that just take this data on the, on the pseudo database that is the storeable file, which is only a hash stored in the file. The mini script, which is the one I showed you before, is the qirreport.ccha. Gregor has written a nice RSE feed, which show you the new packages that need uploads. It's also a command line tool, which is mostly for testing, but it's also handy. That does the same as the CGI, but just in text and smaller. And there also, a couple of months ago, I was asked for, was asked by the C-PAN people, C-PAN people, to do some reports from them, because they are very interesting in how we work and the tools that we are reusing. They have put some metrics on C-PAN that give points to a package, to a distribution in C-PAN parlance. If the package is in devian, the version is current, there are no bugs and no patches in devian, et cetera. So that's quite inspiring to be useful, even to people outside devian. And it was quite easy just to give a report of data that was already there. The plans for the future is to remove the dependency of subversion, make the component pluggable, so it can support Git or CBS or whatever. And also to build a meta repository over that, so you can have many repositories, for example, having a report of the whole archive, but based on the BCS repositories. Well, also tidy up at the cover a little because the data structures doesn't have any structure at all because they are just hashes, which are easy and well, but that had to be changed so it's more manageable because there's so much data in there that you get lost without structure. And also to integrate more sources of information, I think that many people will think of creative ways of improving this. Oh, I mean, I'm talking too fast, as usual. Well, that's the introduction to the tool. This talk was meant to be, it was meant for presenting the tool to other people that doesn't know about it. I think it's very useful for teams and for individuals. In our experience, this tool, also the previous tools, did a lot of to the work of the team. You allowed for a very few people, very small group of people to manage this sheer amount of packages. And I think it promotes a good way of working. So I want to promote it, but also I would like more people to join the development effort and improve it. So any questions? This looks all very similar to GDPO. Have you thought about maybe doing a joint work and integrating with GDPO or maybe what should be changed in GDPO to make it useful for the Perl Group? Well, for starters, the most important thing is that this tracks the current status of the subversion of the story, not what is in the archive. So that is the most important part, the most important difference to the GDPO. Yes, it could be integrated, it would be nice. And most of many ideas were taken from there. So yes, it could be a good idea to integrate it and allow it to be useful by everybody automatically. Yes. Yes, I liked your mental notes about the new OOSCAN and the new watch file format. What, could you a little bit more elaborate on this? I forgot about that, yes. We talked about that on the other day. And on the both, we were with Andreas and some other people, it came up this question about the OOSCAN. I don't know if many people have tried to write an OOSCAN, watch file browser from scratch, which is quite difficult. But these two OOSCAN are completely separate code. And the way I discovered that there was some problems with the current OOSCAN tool, some inconsistencies, most especially some things that cannot be done easily. So yes, one of my mental notes over here, there. Yes. Yes, I have the idea to release it some day when I have the time after that, of course, as a replacement of OOSCAN. And also to design a new format, version four or five of watch files, yes, to make it completely different and sane, which is really needed. Anything else? You have plenty of time. I just speak so fast. Please talk to the Dev Scripts people about that. So you don't, maybe the old OOSCAN can just be replaced. I know it's a horrible mess of spaghetti code. Sorry again, please. The old OOSCAN is a horrible mess of spaghetti code. So I think the Dev Scripts people would be happy if you wrote, gave them a replacement. Oh, good. Yes, it's really spaghetti code. I spend days and understand it. I guess this will be a short talk. Anything else? Hello. So there's a poll group bias at the moment. How easy is it to put up new instances of this? To what? To put up new instances of this tool. Ah, to install it from scratch. Yes. Well, it's not really hard, but it takes some work. This is not currently in the archive, it's not package it. It should be at some point. It's the official version is in the package parallel group repository. You have to put in the same server as the SVN repository nowadays because it relies on direct access to that for the commit notifications, yes. And also for speed. You just have to put a hook on the commit and the post commit. You have to put a cronjo, set up the configuration and just a few links in your web server. It's not that hard. It takes maybe one hour to set it up completely. There's already, I don't have the list here, but there are like 10 installations by now in different groups and personal installations I don't know how many, but it's not that hard. It's only a little heavy, I have to say, because all of the information, but for modern machines it's okay. Fedon? As a user, it's fairly easy. As being one of the installations, having done one of the installations, it's fairly easy. We have it for the VoIP group. It's nothing to set up. It's like half an hour or less and extremely easy. Great to know. Well, that's it for the question. Well, thank you for coming and listening.


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Welcome to Toffy TV, this is the Everton News Daily. Everton striker Neil Mopay has been offered to Fenerbati, that is according to news outlet Photomac in Turkey. A fee of around 9 million euros has been sorted for the 26-year-old Frenchman. Mopay was apparently offered to Salon Atana in January, but Everton changed the manager, obviously Frank Lampard went up the door and Sean Dyche coming ending in Mopay staying. The striker has made 20 appearances in the Premier League so far for Everton and scored one goal. No surprise really if he has been offered. His agent was speaking a couple of weeks ago and talked about reassessing the situation in the summer, mentioned Italy, where apparently Mopay's got some suitors. So I'm quite sure he's going to be offered all over the place if he wants out of Everton. He's fallen down the peck and all that and then the last Everton game obviously other sims came on before him and went on to score a vital goal for Everton so it looks like Mopay may be moving on. MSP are still interested in investing in Everton and talks are currently still on go and that is according to Alan Myers. He spoke about that last night. It's also in a couple of news outlets today as well, the same thing Farad Meshiri had admitted in January that he was close to securing that investment into the club. He wanted 100 million plus to finish the stadium. Obviously we've had other things have gone on in the last week or so which has took the focus off that but like I said quite a few journalists today reporting that the MSP deal is still in progress and it looks like they're in advanced talks now and we may hear something in the very near future. We'll wait and see. There was reports of course that it was off wasn't it last week so let's see what happens. Jarrod Branthwaite is still interesting PSV in terms of making his loan move to Holland Permanent. The Dutch side have been really impressed with Branthwaite this season. Obviously Marcel Brands is over there. He was the original director of football. He brought Branthwaite to Everton from Carlisle. Everton has thought to won over £10 million for the young defender. I hope Everton won a lot more than £10 million for Branthwaite. I want to see him giving his opportunity here. I think he's got two-footed. I think he's got everything to be a real good defender for Everton football club young defender. We've got three centre backs here with 30 at the moment in the squad. He may not have gone out the door as well. I'd rather Branthwaite be given the opportunity but like I said he has done well for PSV this season so you can understand the attraction to make that permanent from both sides but hopefully he'll return to Everton. Adrisha Garnagay has won his 100th cap today for Senegal. They faced Mozambique so congratulations to him. Sheamus Coleman played the full game last night for the Republic of Ireland but they were beaten 1-0 by France. Scotland played tonight against Spain. Hopefully Nathan Patterson can get some more minutes there. Amadou O'n Arna involved with Belgium as they take on Germany as well.


I don't really consider it Islamophobia. Islamophobia means to fear Islam. So these people who run this industry are not really afraid of Islam. Certainly there are people that are afraid of Muslims and that's unfortunate. These are people that we should reach out to and people that we should educate. But this industry known as the Islamophobia industry is really an industry that is fueled by anti-Muslim bigotry. So if anti-Muslim bigots with financial incentives define our terminology, and this is very, very important, but we define our own terminology. Terms like jihad and sharia and even like taskiyah or tasawuf, which they're defining as this kind of anti-Nomian sharia rejecting tradition within our religion. If we let these people with financial incentives define our terminology, then they will control the discourse and whoever controls the discourse will tell our narrative. And whoever tells our narrative will educate the masses or miseducate the masses. There are Muslims in America that become atheists all the time and these are people whose ancestors were awliya, they were urnama, they were masayih. And in one generation Islam is gone. They've apostated, they become atheists, they've left their religion altogether. So one point of miseducation I want to begin with is this idea, this theory that Muslims are violent people. So there is a good book by a political science professor at UC Berkeley named M. Stephen Fish, F-I-S-H, like the fish that swims. He has a book called Our Muslims Distinctive. A look at the evidence using reliable data set sound scientific methods and objective frameworks of analysis as one Princeton professor put it. So Professor Fish found that most Muslims in America, sorry, most Muslims in Muslim majority countries are not inclined to favor the fusion of religious and political authority or even remotely prone to mass political violence. He finds that while gender inequality is severe and a lot of that is culturally based, murder rates and class based inequities are far less severe among Muslims than non-Muslims. So I want you to look at this and according to the FBI, according to the FBI, according to the Department of Justice and I realize people in this message are probably not taking notes but you can watch this book by later and write down these numbers from 1980 to 2005 that 94% of terrorist acts committed in America were carried out by non-Muslim elements from 1980 to 2005. According to the Department of Justice, according to the FBI, 94% of terrorist acts carried out in the U.S. were done by non-Muslims. More acts of terror were done by Jewish elements. More acts of terror were done by white supremacists, Christian elements, Jewish defense league, the order, the Aryan nation, the Ku Klux Klan, the army of God, the Houtaris, we never even heard of these people. The question I get a lot because I talk to a lot of non-Muslim audiences is why don't you Muslim scholars denounce ISIS more? The question I get all the time. So one of my colleagues had an interesting way to deal with this and I tried this, I was speaking with a group of about 400 people and 90% of which were probably non-Muslim. So I said to them, have you ever Googled? Muslim scholars denounce ISIS? Have you ever Googled it? And nobody raised their hand. Why haven't you Googled it? You expect it to come to you? Have you heard of the open letter to Baghdadi? Have you heard of this? No one raised their hand. 120 signatories. And these are just not, you know, Joe Schmo, Joe Abdul or something. There's a ulama that have swayed over the hearts and minds of tens of millions of people signing this document. 700 ulama in Tulab-ul-Irm in India alone signed a document denouncing ISIS. 700,000 in India alone. So don't expect MSM, mainstream media, to give you the truth. You have to search for it. The reality is information is selected for us. We're not getting the whole picture. We're not even getting half the picture. Every year Google has to submit something called the annual transparency report. This is when the government orders Google to take things off of YouTube and search engine results. The number one reason why is hate speech. Hate speech, right?  What's interesting is Voltaire said, if you want to know who controls you, determine whom you're not allowed to criticize. So hate speech is the number one reason. The second reason is copyright infringements. The third reason is criticism of the government. This is the third reason why the government orders Google to remove things from YouTube results and from search engine results. I'll give you a simple example. We all know the first African-American professional baseball player. Jackie Robinson, number 42. His number has retired. In every team in the league, no one can wear number 42. Who's the first African-American NFL player? Who knows? Was he any less of a pioneer? Did he suffer any less racism? Why don't we know about him? Because he just wasn't that good. Right? But he's not less of a pioneer. So I talked to a lot of non-Muslims, as I said. And a non-Muslim woman one time stood up and said, I hate to name drop, but I think it's important and sometimes. I'm a professor. So we have to have honest dialogue. A woman stood up and she said, tell me about Joe Harzanayev. I said, who? And she said, Joe Harzanayev. I said, who is that? She said, don't you know? Of course I do. One of the alleged Boston bombers. And I asked her, old lady, old Caucasian lady in her 70s or something. I said, how do you memorize that name? Exactly. You hear it all the time. I said, have you heard of Eric Rudolph, Brian Stone Jr., Wade Michael Page, Anders Brevik? Have you heard of these names? Never heard of them. Why not? Check this out. Wrap your minds around this one. Since 1970, there have been 140,000 terror attacks worldwide according to the Department of Justice. 140,000. If all of these were committed by Muslims, which is nowhere near the reality, this hypothetical, if all of them were committed by Muslims, that's 0.0009% of the Muslim Ummah. And people want to say Islam is violent? Muslims advocate violence? This is a terrible, terrible, non-sequitur argument. You'll be laughed out of any logic class.  In 1925, 60,000 hooded clansmen marched on Washington DC. Did you know that? In 1925, 60,000 hooded clansmen according to PBS, the national membership of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s was between 3 and 8 million. According to Pew Research, the number of Muslims in America right now is about 3.3 million. That means there was a time in America in the 1920s there was potentially double the number of clansmen than there are Muslims in America right now, double the number, possibly triple the number. Yet I would never characterize Christianity is a violent, racist religion. There's a billion and a half Christians. It's a terrible argument. Why do people make these arguments? It's mind-boggling to me. Sometimes we have to take people by the hand and lead them a little bit. People don't know the difference between Muslim and Islam, believe it or not. People try to convince me that my religion is violent. I ask them what's the difference between Muslim and Islam? Is Islam the country? Are you Islam? This is what I get. Are you Islam? That's a pretty deep question. It's a deep existential question. Am I Islam? I don't know. So we have to make things simple for people. Islam is the active part of the world. Islam is a... Muslim is to Islam as Christian is to Christianity. Let's start there. We have a senator, Santorum, who gives us two-hour speech on the dangers of Sharia law. It's a dangerous thing. Sharia law, two hours. A Muslim 20 years old asked him after his speech, excuse me senator, what are the five maqas of the Sharia? What are the five aims of the Sharia? Sharia 101. What? That's like me giving this impassioned, critical analysis of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica. When I'm breaking down the Latin, it's always wrong here, and he's ruining this over here. And then the Christian asks me, what are the four Gospels? And they say, John Paul, Gringo, George, Frank? No. People don't know the difference. ISIS is to Islam, the KKK is to Christianity. Use that one. That's a good one. Terrorism is to Jihad. This is from Abdul Hakim Mura. Terrorism is to Jihad. As adultery is to marriage. To the untrained eye, to the uninitiated, they look the same, but they're very, very different. Did you know you're more likely to be struck by lightning than to be shot by a Muslim terrorist in America? Did you know you're more likely to slip in the bathtub and kill yourself than to be shot by a Muslim in America? Did you know you're more likely to get shot and killed by a toddler ever so often a toddler, a little child finds his parents gone and shoots and kills someone?  And in Europe, over the past five years, 2% of terrorist acts in Europe are done by Muslims. People haven't heard of Anders Brevik, the so-called Neo-Crusader, who killed 77 people in the name of Christ. Obviously that is in Christianity, but it's so easy in our minds to differentiate the two. But we've been indoctrinated. We've been brainwashed in thinking that terrorism in Islam are one and the same thing. Another point of miseducation is that Muslims worship a different God. You hear this from the likes of Lanit Shabbat, who describes himself as a former Muslim terrorist. These con men who perpetuate this idea, Allah was the Babylonian moon god, and then he has this ridiculous theory that I've already debunked. Look at my talk online. Is God Allah? Totally debunked of the sign of the beast, the mark of the beast, the Book of Revelation. You sit there and laugh for 10 minutes, but then you look at the number it hits. 500,000 hits. 600,000 hits. 1 million hits. People listening to this guy, because he speaks Arabic, he must know what he's talking about.  Another logical fallacy, an appeal to unqualified authority. People don't study logic. In early Christianity, there was a movement called Marcianism, where some Christians said that Jews worship a different God. We worship the real God. Now the paradigm has shifted. You know the alif lamb in the word Allah? There's an opinion. It's a definite article. Al-Ilah became Allah. That's not the dominant opinion, according to Edward Lane and his beautiful lexicon. He says the alif lamb in the word Allah is cognate to the alif lamb in the Hebrew. Allah, Elohim, Elohim. These are cognates. That's how you say God in Hebrew. That's what it says in the Bible. In the Arabic translation of the Bible, done by Christians, Genesis 1-1, Kitab-ul-Tabweem. In the beginning, Allah created the heavens and the earth. Isa, alaihi salam. He spoke Syriac. This is a Semitic language. According to a Christian text, a Christian text called the Peshita. Jesus says in Mark 1-15, Shram al-Zimne wa matyaf mal-kutha da Allah. The hour has come. The kingdom of God. Mal-kutha da Allah is at hand. This is how Isa, alaihi salam, said God. Not only did Isa, alaihi salam, call God Allah. There is no theological difference between the teachings of Isa, alaihi salam and the Prophets of Allah, alaihi salam. In the awlaan nas, bi'isa bni Maryam, fit dunya wa l-akhira, wa l-aisa bani wa bani hu nabiyun, awkama qawla alaihi salatu wa salam. The nearest person, the nearest person to Isa, alaihi salam, is me, the Prophets of Allah, alaihi salam, is saying. In the dunya and in the akira, there is no prophet between us. Isa, alaihi salam, according to Christian sources, he described Allah is ikhad. This is probably the only time you're going to hear some Hebrew in the Muslim. Shema Isa, alaihi salam, this is what he says according to Christian sources. God is ikhad. God is ahad. If you ask a Christian at random, I'm not picking on Christians. I'm not trying to disrespect the religion, but ask a Christian at random. How do I get to heaven? If they're a Trinitarian Orthodox, majority say, oh, Jesus is God and he died for your sins. Now he sacrificed himself to make an example. If he died, he took on your sin, his vicarious atonement. Isa, alaihi salam, according to Christian source, Matthew chapter nine, is quoting the Old Testament, is quoting the Hebrew Bible, because Allah tells us, musad niqalima bayne yadeyya min atorah, that Isa, alaihi salam said, I confirm the theology of the Torah. And Matthew, alaihi salam, he says, I require mercy, and not sacrifice, but and the knowledge of God may all of overburnt offerings. It's about it's about and knowledge of God, not burnt offerings and sacrifices. This is what he says according to Christian text. Another point of this education, that there is no love in Islam you hear this a lot. You have these so-called former Muslims going on satellite television from Muslim countries. I can pick on the Persians, the Iranians, I'm Persian. We prefer Persian over Iranian, by the way. It sounds more friendly. And you know, this guy goes on TV and I challenge him through a debate. And I said, what's your beef? And he said, he says, alaihi salam, there is no love in Islam. There is no love in Islam. Islam is just violence. Ask this guy, this former Muslim, what are the six articles of faith? Allah, he couldn't name them. He didn't know what they were. Subhanallah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us that there is no love in Islam. Islam is just violence. Ask this guy, this former Muslim, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us that the Quran, liyaabudun, Ibn Abbas, he is the founder of Quranic exegesis, Mufasiro el-Quran. Meen ahlihei tyi Rasulillah. Meen az habi Rasulillah. He said liyaarifoon, liyaabudun means liyaarifoon. I did not create jinn and humankind, except to worship me. Really means except to know me. To have ma'rifat. And then he says, and if you knew Allah, you would love Allah. So the entire affair is about love. The whole point of creation is love. There's no love in Islam. You have these challenges on social media. Show me one verse of the Quran that says God is loving and people can't do it. What are you talking about? What are we? What are we doing? What are we doing? He is all forgiving. He is loving. The prophet is, the prophet of love. This is his station. And these Hadith and Turmini and the Sahabah were sitting and discussing the various maqamah of the prophets. And they said, Adam, alaihi salam, is chosen by God. And Noor, alaihi salam, he's chosen by God. And Ibrahim, alaihi salam, is Khalilullah. Musa, alaihi salam, is Kaleemullah, the confidant of Allah. And Iris, alaihi salam, is Ruh Allah. What Kaleemah to who? The prophet, alaihi salam, he emerged and he said, I've heard your conversation. And what you're saying is true. Alayla wa ana Habibullah, wa nafakhur. Indeed, I am the beloved of God. And I do not boast. This is who he is, sallallahu alaihi wasallam. When we say, Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, what does it mean? Do we know? We just say it? Something my father says all the time. I don't know. In the name of God, the indiscriminately compassionate, the intimately loving, the indiscriminately compassionate, the intimately loving, when the woman lost her son and the Sahaba spread out to look for her son. And they found her son and gave her, gave him back to her and crawled away. And she started to hug and kiss and breastfeed her child. The prophet said, can you imagine this woman taking her son and throwing him in a fire? La wa lahi, by God, no. Allah will be everybody, min hadhihi wal adiha. He said, did you know? Did you know Allah is more compassionate and merciful? Allah is more compassionate towards his servants than this woman is to her son right now. There's no love for this tradition. When the better one came into the masjid, the prophet was on the minbar and he was giving the khutbah and the better one came in and he said, matah sa'a, matah sa'a, and the prophet motion, sit down. Don't talk to him, the khutbah, sit down. And then after the khutbah, the prophet said his salams and he said, man is sa'il. Who's the one who was questioning you earlier? He said, Ina, ya Rasulullah, what was your question? Matah sa'a, what is the hour? Wa ma na adihta lahah, what did you prepare for it? The sahaba said, we were so annoyed at this better one. Interrupting the khutbah, what? Annoyed. And then the prophet said Allah, he said, what did you prepare for the hour? And he said, la shayah, nothing much, nothing with respect to a lot of prayers and fasting. I just do the minimum. I just do the minimum, ilah adiho khidbullah, wa rasulah. But I love Allah and his messenger. Now the Sahaba are listening very intently. Ta'ala rasulullah, al-mal'u ma'a man a'hab. A person will be with the one whom he loves. And as Sidr Malik said, we were so annoyed at the better one, but we had never been happier that he had come and asked this question. We had never been happier than when we heard those words from the prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam. How do we increase our love for the prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam? Benedictions upon him. How do we increase our love for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? Vikrullah. I'll give you a case study in love. The transformative power of the love of Allah and the love of Rasul, Sayyidina Ahmad wanted to kill the prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam. This is the most evil intention in the history of humanity. When he was struck, Sayyidina Ahmad was marred standing in the mihrab of the prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, in the masjid. His feet were touching where the place of the prophet's feet used to touch. He was stabbed under his belly button six times. I'm sorry to say it by a Persian, Abu-lub-du-ah. And Sayyidina Ahmad, he falls down. He grabs up the Ahmadiyyid and out from the front row and pulls him up to leave the prayer. Some of the Sahaba broke ranks. They throw a shawl over this man and Abu-lub-du-ah takes his own life under the shawl. And Sayyidina Ahmad says, was he Muslim? They say, no. He said, Alhamdulillah. And they give him some milk and it comes out of his stomach. They can see the milk flowing down his clothes. They know he's going to die. He knows he's going to die. And he said, what do you want us to do? Yeah, Amir al-Mu'minin. Just go to my mother Aisha. This is what he's thinking about. This is what he's thinking about. Go to my mother Aisha and ask her. Not, you know, my son, my daughter, my son, no, no. Go to my mother Aisha and ask her, can I have that spot? The greatest real estate in the universe next to my Habib. Some of them, you said them, can I have that spot? So Dr. Levin Omar goes to Aisha and says, Amir al-Mu'minin, Omar is asking for your spot in the road and she says, yes. And she goes back to Omar and he says, Alhamdulillah, laysa shaytan fi nafsih aham min dalik. There's nothing more important to me in this world than that. And then St. Omar tells the son, Abdullah ibn Abbas, he says to him, when I pass away, go back and ask her again. Maybe she said, yes, out of deference for me. And don't say, Amir al-Mu'minin, say, my father Omar, my father Omar. So St. Omar passes away and Abdullah ibn Omar, he goes back to the mother Aisha and says, my father Omar is asking for that space. She says, I already said yes. I already said yes. It's a testimony of love. Another point of, another important point. We have our young people going to colleges and universities without a broad grounding of Islamic tradition. You know if you do a PhD program, you have to submit something called statement of broad grounding, which is basically bragging about yourself for four or five pages about why you're qualified to even write a PhD. We have to have broad grounding. This is important. We need to have our own academic institutions. We have to have the courage to send our children there. Many of our children come out of the university system more unintelligent than when they went in. More unintelligent. They used their common sense. They went in believing in a benevolent creator who loves and sustains his creation and they came out believing that we're on some planet, on some backwater solar system, on some random galaxy that's spinning out of control in some endless universe that's going to collide with the Andromeda galaxy. Nothing special about us. There's a trillion universes. There's probably a trillion Earths in the world. What's special about you? Oh, so what about Karamla, that the Adam? That's not true then because the scientists told me there's nothing special about us. I know about the universe now. It created itself by causing itself to explode for no apparent reason. It's philosophical materialism. Systematically removes the divine. This postmodern, nihilistic, critical theory that people study now in the university, right? That there's no objective morality. Everything's subjective. There's no objective truth. They quote these philosophers and Derrida and Foucault is total garbage. This is where your 50 K is going in tuition. They go into the university knowing that there's two genders. This is common sense, X, X and X, Y. They come out of the university. I think gender is a social construct. There's no biological gender. There's only biological sex and it depends on your feelings, right? They have two terms for the gender fluidity, gender non-binary. I can wake up tomorrow and decide I feel like a woman. Therefore I have a woman.  That's not mental illness.  There are people who say I feel like a rhinoceros. I'm not joking. Look at the logical conclusion of this. It's called trans-species. I'm not joking. Trans-species. There are people who say I'm a rhinoceros. Don't call me he and his. Call me re and riz. These are my pronouns. This is totally serious. This is what's happening. Their parents are asking their children, 10-year-old children, what gender do you want to be?  Suicide rate in the transgender community is a steady 40% because people keep reinforcing mental illness and delusion. They don't give them help. Somebody comes up to you and says, I'm a rhinoceros. You shake them. What are you talking about?  You're doing them a disservice.  A woman can never be a man. We're physically different. We think differently. Men and women think differently. This is politically indirect signs apparently. Our rods and cones interact with light differently. That's how different we are. Doesn't mean that we're unequal, but we're different. Somebody can transition into a woman who's a man every cell in his body has a white chromosome. They go into these universities knowing that homosexuality is a sin and unnatural and harmful. I met this master's degree student and Muslim in psychology who said to me, I'm having issues with my iman. My iman is damaged. I said, why?  That's the reason why this is your argument. So we should sanction his loss. What about a heterosexual male who has a sleep around with 1,000 women? Let him do it. Forget about the commandments of Allah. You know what? He's a nice guy. This is your argument? Interesting. Do we ignore Allah to sanction our lusts or do we strive against our lust to uphold Allah's commandments? Who tooks priority? They go into the university knowing that the human being is Khalifa to Allah. We need ja'inu fil ardi Khalifa. The human being is the viceroy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And then they come out believing after this random big bang, that inanimate objects, inanimate matter, like wood and gas, formed living cells, that happens all the time, right? Formed living cells and that eventually there was this goo in the ocean and this goo became a fish. And then this fish eventually crawled out onto the beach.  Don't you hate when that happens? What are you talking about? What?  This is what people are taught, right? It became us. If that's true there should be millions, trillions of mutations and transitional form skeletons in the earth. Where are they? Darwin said we dig up the earth and find them. We didn't find anything. We barely found a dinosaur. Where are they? We should have trillions of transitional form skeletons. They have a two or three, you know, pilt down man, which is a hoax and Lucy probably extinct apes or eight bones mixed with human bones with two things. Here they are. Here's the missing link. There should be trillions of them. Say 98% of our DNA is the same as a chimpanzee. Didn't you know that? Did you know that a watermelon and a jellyfish are 98% the same? Let's eat some jellyfish. There's 2%, that's different. That's not even true, by the way, but we're entertaining what they're saying. There's 2% difference, but in this 2%, there's something called the akal. Right? I like to say a group of chimpanzees do some engineering and build a skyscraper, do some spherical trigonometry. This is our differential. Halaq Allahu ana ala suratihi God created Adam in his form. What is the form of Allah? It's majazz. It doesn't mean Allah as a surah. They used to commit to the Hisha'i one just as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has any luck, absolute knowledge that is perfect. We also have knowledge that is contingent, derived from Him, but limited. We have the ability to reason. This is why the Khalifa of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the human being. But they want to tell us we're just animals. This is why people stop coming to the masjid. This is why the youth don't come to the masjid. They're harboring these things. They don't tell you. They tell me. I'm in academia. We have people who are criticizing circumcision. Oh, this is brutal. Child abuse, circumcision. We have advocating abortion. The killing of children. Most of them are girls, by the way. There used to be laws in countries where you can only have one child.  What is that about? Who does who is that? The ayidah of the people is that. When the little girl buried alive, it's going to ask why was she killed? You have people who criticize the killing of animals. They protest. There was a guerrilla shot at the Cincinnati Zoo. And there was protest. Harambe, because there was Harambe, by the way. Harambe, long-lived Harambe. People protest walking in the streets of Cincinnati. Protests. Oh, animal rights cruelty.  He was shaking around until the child at any time. What are you talking about? During that week, bombs were dropped on Syrians. Who cares, right? No protests. Civilians, men, women, and children. Not priority. We're just animals. There are people who go into the university believing that ultimate justice is with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and Yom Al-Tiyama. And they come out these radicalized neo-Marxists who want to establish their utopia by any means necessary, even to the detriment of their own values and beliefs. Even if it'd be slandering and insulting, Ahmullah, Ulama of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, because you disagree with them. Man'ada li waliyan faqat adhantahu bil haram. Whoever shows enmity towards my friend, my wali, take notice of war from me. People who attack the Ulama because of a different opinion, you put yourself in danger of Su'al Khatima, of a bad ending. This is mujarra. This is tested and tried over time. People who attack the Prophet, Sallallahu alayhi sallam, the mustahziyoon, the those who abuse the Prophet and make fun of him. Not a single one of them became Muslim. Read your seerah. Not a single one of them is very dangerous. But this is what's being taught to a lot of these kids, our children, and we're paying for it. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give us a tawfiq to build our own institutions. And they give us the courage not to fear loss of wealth, not to fear, not to love the dunya so much that we don't have the courage to send our children to these institutions. I ask Allah to accept this.


This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. This reading by Andrew Sorcini. Extracts from Adam's Diary. Translated from the original manuscript by Mark Twain. Note, I translated a portion of this diary some years ago, and a friend of mine printed a few copies in an incomplete form, but the public never got them. Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam's hieroglyphs, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication. MT Monday This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this. I'm not used to company. I wish it would stay with the other animals. Cloudy today, wind in the east, think we shall have rain. Where did I get that word? I remember now. The new creature uses it. Tuesday Been examining the Great Waterfall. It is the finest thing on the estate, I think. The new creature calls it Niagara Falls. Why, I am sure I do not know. Says it looks like Niagara Falls. That is not a reason it is mere waywardness and imbecility. I get no chance to name anything myself. The new creature names everything that comes along before I can get in a protest. And always that same pretext is offered. It looks like the thing. There is the dodo, for instance. Says the moment one looks at it, one sees at a glance that it looks like a dodo. It will have to keep that name, no doubt. It wearies me to fret about it, and it does no good anyway. Dodo. It looks no more like a dodo than I do. Wednesday Built me a shelter against the rain but could not have it to myself in peace. The new creature intruded. When I tried to put it out, it shed water out of the holes it looks with and wiped it away with the back of its paws and made a noise such as some of the other animals make when they are in distress. I wish it would not talk. It is always talking. That sounds like a cheap fling at the poor creature, a slur, but I do not mean it so. I've never heard the human voice before, and any new and strange sound intruding itself here upon the solemn hush of these dreaming solitudes offends my ear and seems a false note. And this new sound is so close to me it is right at my shoulder, right at my ear, first on one side and then on the other. And I'm used only to sounds that are more or less distant from me. Friday The naming thing goes recklessly on in spite of anything I can do. I had a very good name for the estate, and it was musical and pretty. Garden of Eden Privately I continue to call it that but not any longer publicly. The new creature says it is all woods and rocks and scenery and therefore has no resemblance to a garden.  Consequently, without consulting me, it has been new named Niagara Falls Park. This is sufficiently high-handed, it seems to me. And already there's a sign up. Keep off the grass. My life is not as happy as it was. Saturday The new creature eats too much fruit. We're gonna run short, most likely. We, again. That is its word. Mine too now from hearing it so much. Good deal of fog this morning. I do not go out in the fog myself. The new creature does. It goes out in all weathers and stumps right in with its muddy feet. And talks. Used to be so pleasant and quiet here. Sunday. Pulled through. This day is getting to be more and more trying. It was selected and set apart last November as a day of rest. I already had six of them per week before. This morning found the new creature trying to clot apples out of that forbidden tree. Monday. The new creature says its name is Eve. That is alright. I have no objections. Says it is to call it by when I want it to come. I said it was superfluous then. The word evidently raised me in its respect. And indeed it is a large good word and will bear repetition. It says it is not an it, it is a she. This is probably doubtful, yet it is all one to me. What she is were nothing to me if she would but go by herself and not talk. Tuesday. She has littered the whole estate with full names and offensive signs. This way to the whirlpool. This way to goat island. Cave of the winds this way. She says this park would make a tidy summer resort if there was any custom for it. Summer resort? Another invention of hers. Just words without any meaning. What is a summer resort? But its best not to ask her. She has such a rage for explaining. Friday. She is taken to beseeching me to stop going over the falls. What harm does it do? Says it makes her shudder. I wonder why. I have always done it. Always liked the plunge and the excitement and the coolness. I supposed it was what the falls were for. They have no other use that I can see and they must have been made for something. She says they were only made for scenery like the rhinoceros and the mastodon. I went over the falls in a barrel. Not satisfactory to her. Went over in a tub. Still not satisfactory. Swam the whirlpool and the rapids in a fig leaf suit. It got much damaged. Hence tedious complaints about my extravagance. I am too much hampered here. What I need is a change of scene. Saturday. I escaped last Tuesday night and traveled two days and built me another shelter in a secluded place and obliterated my tracks as well as I could. But she hunted me out by means of a beast which she has tamed and calls a wolf and came making that pitiful noise again and shedding that water out of the places she looks with. I was obliged to return with her, but will presently emigrate again when occasion offers. She engages herself in many foolish things, among others trying to study out why the animals, called lions and tigers, live on grass and flowers when as she says, the sort of teeth they wear would indicate that they were intended to eat each other. This is foolish because to do that would be to kill each other and that would introduce what, as I understand it, is called death. And death, as I've been told, has not yet entered the park, which is a pity on some accounts. Sunday. Pulled through. Monday. I believe I see what the week is for, is to give time to rest up from the weariness of Sunday. It seems a good idea. She's been climbing that tree again, clotted her out of it. She said nobody was looking. Seems to consider that a sufficient justification for chancing any dangerous thing. Told her that. The word justification moved her admiration and envy, too. I thought it is a good word. Thursday. She told me she was made out of a rib taken from my body. This is at least doubtful, if not more than that. I have not missed any rib. She's in much trouble but the buzzard. This grass does not agree with it, is afraid she can't raise it, thinks it was intended to live on decayed flesh. The buzzard must get along the best it can with what is provided. We cannot overturn the whole scheme to accommodate the buzzard. Saturday. She fell in the pond yesterday when she was looking at herself in it, which she is always doing. She nearly strangled and said it was most uncomfortable. This made her sorry for the creatures which live in there, which she calls fish, for she continues to fasten names on to things that don't need them and don't come when they are called by them, which is a matter of no consequence to her as she is such a numbskull anyway. So she got a lot of them out and brought them in last night and put them in my bed to keep warm. But I have noticed them now and then all day and I don't see that they are any happier there than they were before, only quieter. When night comes I shall throw them outdoors. I will not sleep with them again for I find them clammy and unpleasant to lie among when a person hasn't anything on. Sunday. Pulled through. Tuesday. She is taken up with a snake now. The other animals are glad for she was always experimenting with them and bothering them. And I am glad because the snake talks and this enables me to get a rest. Friday. The snake advises her to try the fruit of that tree and says the result will be a great and fine and noble education. I told her there would be another result too. It would introduce death into the world. That was a mistake. It had been better to keep the remark to myself. It only gave her an idea. She could save the sick buzzard and furnish fresh meat to the despondent lions and tigers. I advised her to keep away from the tree. She said she wouldn't. I foresee trouble will emigrate. Wednesday. I have had a variegated time. I escaped that night and rode a horse all night as fast as he could go hoping to get clear out of the park and hide in some other country before the trouble should begin. But it was not to be. About an hour after sun-up as I was riding through a flowery plain where thousands of animals were grazing slumbering or playing with each other according to their want and taste of frightful noises. And in one moment the plain was a frantic commotion and every beast was destroying its neighbor. I knew what it meant. Eve had eaten that fruit and death was come into the world. The tigers ate my horse paying no attention when I ordered them to desist and they would have eaten me if I had stayed which I didn't but went away in much haste. I found this place outside the park and was fairly comfortable for a few days but she has found me out. Found me out and has named the place Tana Wanda. Says it looks like that. In fact, I was not sorry she came for there are but meager pickings here and she brought some of those apples. I was obliged to eat them, I was so hungry. It was against my principles but I find that principles have no real force except for one as well fed. She came curtained in bows and bunches of leaves and when I asked her what she meant by such nonsense she snatched them away and threw them down. She tittered and blushed. I've never seen a person titter and blush before and to me it seemed unbecoming and idiotic. She said I would soon know how it was myself. This is correct. Hungry as I was, I laid down the apple half eaten certainly the best one I ever saw considering the lateness of the season and arrayed myself in the discarded bows and branches and then spoke to her with some severity and ordered her to go and get some more and not make such a spectacle of herself. She did it and after this we crept down to where the wild beast battle had been and collected some skins and I made her patch together a couple of suits proper for public occasions. They are uncomfortable it is true but stylish and that is the main point about clothes. I find she is a good deal of a companion. I see I should be lonesome and depressed without her now that I have lost my property. Another thing she says it is ordered that we work for our living hereafter. She will be useful. I will super intend. Ten days later she accuses me of being the cause of our disaster. She says with apparent sincerity and truth that the serpent assured her that the forbidden fruit was not apples, it was chestnuts. I said I was innocent then for I had not eaten any chestnuts. She said the serpent informed her that chestnut was a figurative term meaning an aged and moldy joke. I turned pale at that for I have made many jokes to pass the weary time and some of them could have been of that sort though I'd honestly suppose that they were new when I made them. She asked me if I had made one just at the time of the catastrophe. I was obliged to admit that I had made one to myself though not allowed. It was this. I was thinking about the falls and I said to myself how wonderful it is to see that vast body of water tumble down there. Then in an instant a bright thought flashed into my head and I let it fly saying it would be a deal more wonderful to see it tumble up there.  There she said with triumph that is just it. The serpent mentioned that very jest chestnut and said it was co-evil with the creation. Alas, I am indeed to blame. Would that I were not witty or would that I'd never had that radiant thought? Next year we have named it Cain. She caught it while I was up country trapping on the north shore of the eerie caught it in the timber a couple of miles from our dugout or it might have been four, she isn't a certain witch. It resembles us in some ways and maybe a relation. That is what she thinks but this is an error in my judgment. The difference in size warrants the conclusion that it is a different and new kind of animal a fish perhaps. Though when I put it in the water to see it sank and she plunged in and snatched it out before there was opportunity for the experiment to determine the matter. I still think it is a fish but she is indifferent about what it is and will not let me have it to try. The coming of this creature seems to have changed her whole nature and made her unreasonable about experiments. She thinks more of it than she does any of the other animals but is not able to explain why. Her mind is disordered, everything shows it. Sometimes she carries the fish in her arms half the night when it complains and wants to get to the water. At such times the water comes out of the places in her face that she looks out of and she pats the fish on the back and makes soft sounds with her mouth to soothe it with sorrow and solicitude in a hundred ways. I've never seen her do like this with any other fish and it troubles me greatly. She used to carry the young tigers around so and play with them before we lost our property but it was only play. She never took on about them like this when their dinner disagreed with them. Sunday. She doesn't work Sundays but lies around all tired out and likes to have the fish wallow over her and she makes full noises to amuse it and could laugh. I've not seen a fish before that could laugh. This makes me doubt. I've come to like Sunday myself super intending all the weak tires of body so. There ought to be more Sundays and the old days they were tough but now they come handy. Wednesday. It isn't a fish. I cannot quite make out what it is. It makes curious devilish noises when not satisfied and says, It is not one of us for it doesn't walk. It is not a bird for it doesn't fly. It is not a frog for it doesn't hop. It is not a snake for it doesn't crawl. I feel sure it is not a fish though I cannot get a chance to find out whether it can swim or not. It merely lies around and mostly on its back with its feet up. I've not seen any other animal do that before. I said I believed it was an enigma and heard the word without understanding it. In my judgment it is either an enigma or some kind of bug. If it dies I will take it apart and see what its arrangements are. I never had a thing perplex me so. Three months later the perplexity augments instead of diminishing. I sleep but little. It is ceased from lying around and goes about on its four legs now. Yet it differs from the other four-legged animals in that its front legs are unusually short. Consequently this causes the main part of its person to stick up uncomfortably high in the air and this is not attractive. It is built much as we are but its method of travelling shows that it is not of our breed. Its short front legs and long hind ones indicate that it is of the kangaroo family. But it is a marked variation of the species since the true kangaroo hops whereas this one never does. Still it is a curious and interesting variety and has not been catalogued before. As I discovered it I felt justified in securing the credit of the discovery by attaching my name to it and hence have called it kangarooim adamensis. It must have been a young one when it came for it has grown exceedingly since. It must be five times as big now as it was then and when discontented is able to make from 22 to 38 times the noise it made at first. Coercion does not modify this but has the contrary effect. For this reason I discontinued the system. She reconciles it by persuasion and by giving it things which she had previously told it she wouldn't give it. As already observed I was not at home when it first came and she told me she had found it in the woods. It seems odd that it should be the only one yet it must be so for I have worn myself out these many weeks trying to find another one to add to my collection and for this one to play with for surely then it would be quieter and we could tame it more easily. But I find none nor any vestige of any and strangest of all no tracks. It has to live on the ground it cannot help itself therefore how does it get about without leaving a track. I've set a dozen traps but they do no good. I catch all small animals except that one animals that merely go into the trap out of curiosity I think to see what the milk is there for. They never drink it. Three months later the kangaroo still continues to grow which is very strange and perplexing. I never knew when to be so long getting its growth. It has fur on its head now not like kangaroo fur but exactly like our hair except that it is much finer and softer instead of being black is red. I'm like to lose my mind over the capricious and harassing developments of this unclassifiable zoological freak. If I could catch another one but that is hopeless. It is a new variety and the only sample this is plain. But I caught a true kangaroo and brought it in thinking that this one being lonesome would rather have that for company than have no kin at all. Or any animal it could feel a nearness to or get sympathy from in its forlorn condition for strangers who do not know its ways or habits or what to do to make it feel that it is among friends but it was a mistake. It went into such fits at the side of the kangaroo that I was convinced it had never seen one before. I pity the poor noisy little animal but there is nothing I can do to make it happy. If I could tame it but that is out of the question. The more I try the worse I seem to make it. It grieves me to the heart to see it in its little storms of sorrow and passion. I wanted to let it go but she wouldn't hear of it. That seemed cruel and not like her and yet she may be right. It might be lonelier than ever for since I cannot find another one how could it? Five months later it is not a kangaroo. No for it supports itself by holding to her finger and thus goes a few steps on its hind legs and then falls down. It is probably some kind of a bear and yet it has no tail as yet and no fur except on its head. It still keeps growing that is a curious circumstance for bears get their growth earlier than this. Bears are dangerous since our catastrophe and I shall not be satisfied to have this one prowling about the place much longer without a muzzle on. I have offered to get her a kangaroo if she would let this one go but it did no good. She is determined to run us into all sorts of foolish risks I think. She was not like this before she lost her mind. A fortnight later I examined its mouth. There is no danger yet. It has only one tooth. It has no tail yet. It makes more noise now than it ever did before and mainly at night. I have moved out. But I shall go over mornings to breakfast and see if it has more teeth. If it gets a mouthful of teeth it will be time for it to go. Tail or no tail bear does not need a tail in order to be dangerous. Four months later I have been off hunting and fishing a month up in the region that she calls buffalo. I don't know why unless it is because there are not any buffaloes there. Meantime the bear has learned to paddle around all by itself on its hind legs and says papa and mama. It is certainly a new species. This resemblance to words may be purely accidental of course and may have no purpose or meaning even in that case it is still extraordinary and is a thing which no other bear can do. Three months later it has been a weary, weary hunt yet I have had no success. In the meantime without stirring from the home estate she has caught another one. I never saw such luck. I might have hunted these woods a hundred years I never should have run across that thing. Next day I have been comparing the new one with the old one and is perfectly plain that they are the same breed. I was going to stuff one of them for my collection but she is prejudiced against it for some reason or other so I have relinquished the idea though I think it is a mistake. It would be an irreparable loss to science if they should get away. The old one is tamer than it was and can laugh and talk like the parrot having learned this no doubt from being with the parrot so much and having the imitative faculty in a highly developed degree. I would be astonished if it turns out to be a new kind of parrot and yet I ought not to be astonished for it has already been everything else it could think of since those first days when it was a fish. The new one is as ugly now as the old one was at first has the same sulphur and raw meat complexion and the same singular head without any fur on it. She calls it Able. Ten years later they are boys we found it out long ago it was their coming in that small immature shape that puzzled us who were not used to it there's some girls now Able is a good boy but if Cain had stayed a bear would have improved him after all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the garden with her than inside it without her at first I thought she'd talk too much but now I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life blessed be the chestnut that brought us near together and taught me to know the goodness of her heart and the sweetness of her spirit