This is part two. We're with JQ. And again, the series is entitled Poetic Perplexities,

emerging vision of global empire visions. And you've heard part one just before, obviously, folks,

but before we go into any deeper into the anarchy, I don't want to tease it any longer,

but it did occur to

jq that you like to address something that goes back to the keeper of list jedediah morse

so by all means jq you take it away absolutely um what we had been talking about was the point

was that uh seeing jadadaya morse as uh someone coming from the so-called federalist side of the fence,

if you will, might intuitively, to those of us who are looking into this side of history,

seem an unlikely figure to be raising this type of conspiracy theory, quote-unquote, concerning the Illuminati.

But that took me, later in the intervening a couple of weeks here, it took me back a little bit

to a good number of years ago to when I first first become aware of quote-unquote conspiracy theories.

And I don't remember if it was during undergraduate or grad school.

Some of my spare time I would kind of nose around the stacks of the university library

looking for some of these old books about this kind of subject matter.

And there's something really curious that I stumbled over that I really wish I could get my hands on again.

And I don't think I even saw it in the online catalog or anything like that at the time.

I was kind of, I was looking for, I believe, one of Nesto Webster's books.

And I was kind of just browsing the shelves and the stacks.

And I came upon this old book that looked like it had been very custom-bound and almost self-published in a way.

And the author was self-published in a way. And the author was somebody, a woman of at least lower nobility origin, and this was published around,

I only have a rough window somewhere in the late 19th century, very early 20th, you know, let's say 1880 to 1900, somewhere in that vein.

And she had a title, she was a countess or something, and the book was written in English, but I don't think she was British.

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