Olga Rachmaninoff and Leon Theremin
Olga Rachmaninoff reading a book (written in Italian) of the work of Francesca de La Mancha a Spanish Italian musician, singer and inventor who lived in early 18th Century Venice.
Olga Rachmaninoff was a distant relative of the famous Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.
She was the girlfriend of a young Russian physicist and inventor named Leon Theremin.
Theremin had recently started work at the Physical Technical Institute in Petrograd (formerly the city of Saint Petersburg later the city of Leningrad and later still reverting back to the name Saint Petersburg) Russia 🇷🇺.
The year was 1920 and the month was March.
The Bolsheviks had been in power in Russia for almost 3 years.
Theremin had recently purchased a book (written in Italian) at a used book store in Petrograd.
The book was written by a 19th Century Italian researcher who had studied and researched the notebooks of one Francesca de La Mancha a Spanish Italian musician, singer and inventor who lived in early 18th Century Venice.
Francesca had made extensive notes in her own personal studies of music, mathematics and physics.
Her goal was to have musical instruments in one place have the ability to play musical instruments in another place through the use of vibrations and sound waves being able to pass through the air from instrument 🎻 to instrument 🎻.
Leon Theremin was unable to read Italian so he had his girlfriend Olga Rachmaninoff (who had studied in Italy prior to the Great War now known to history as the First World War) translate for him.
Olga Rachmaninoff translating Italian for Leon Theremin.
Theremin was quite taken with Francesca de La Mancha’s ideas and thoughts.
Although he was unable to achieve Francesca’s desire (of playing musical instruments from other musical instruments afar), he did use her research, her math and her ideas to invent an electronic musical instrument that is controlled without physical contact by the performer.
He invented this instrument in October 1920.
He called it the aetherphone (or etherphone).
It was able to be played without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist).
The instrument’s controlling section consists of two metal antennas.
Each of the antennas forms one half of a capacitor with each of the thereminist’s hands serving as the other half of a capacitor.
These antennas capacitively sense the relative position of the hands and control oscillators for frequency with one hand and amplitude (volume) with the other.
In 1927 Leon Theremin went on a tour of Europe with his invention visiting London, Paris and various cities in Germany.
He performed to full audiences.
Theremin then went to the United States arriving on December 30th 1927 with his first wife Katia (he and his girlfriend Olga Rachmaninoff had split up back in 1921 after a violent argument over a bowl of burnt borscht soup).
He performed the theremin (as it was now called in the U.S.) with the New York Philharmonic in 1928.
He patented his invention under the patent name Theremin in 1928 and granted commercial production rights to RCA that same year.
The theremin became a popular instrument with various orchestras throughout the U.S. in the 1930s.
Alexandra Stepanoff playing the theremin on NBC Radio in 1930.
Since that time, the theremin has never been as popular although it has enjoyed a brief renaissance with some musicians and bands and has been used as the soundtrack for some films
such as Miklos Rozsa’s The Lost Weekend and Bernard Herrmann’s The Day The Earth Stood Still as well as theme songs for television shows such as the British ITV drama Midsomer Murders and the Disney + series Loki.
It would take its next step with a former operative for Israeli Military Intelligence who went on to become a musician with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra upon his retirement from Israeli Military Intelligence.
A former intelligence officer and musician who would study the research and work of Venice’s Francesca de La Mancha and Russia’s Leon Theremin.
But that is another story.
-A vampire novel chapter
Written by Christopher
Tuesday March 26th
2024.
Francesca de La Mancha
Francesca de La Mancha reading a book
Francesca de La Mancha sang in the all female ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà a convent, orphanage and music school in Venice.
A group of Venetian nuns called the Consorelle di Santa Maria dell’Umilta established this charitable institution for orphans and abandoned girls in the 14th Century.
By the 17th and 18th Centuries the Pietà was well known for its all-female musical ensembles that attracted tourists and patrons from all over Europe.
The Pietà’s orchestra was made up of 60 females.
The Baroque music composer Antonio Vivaldi was appointed a violin 🎻 teacher at the Pietà in 1703 and served in various roles there until 1715.
He taught there again from 1723 until 1740.
The year was 1724 in which Francesca de La Mancha sat there reading her book.
And Vivaldi had returned the year before to teach at the Ospedale della Pietà.
Francesca de La Mancha as a member of the ensemble both sang and played a musical instrument the psaltery.
The psaltery is a fretboard-less box zither.
As a simple chordophone, it is considered the archetype of the zither and the dulcimer.
The bells rang for the call to practice.
Francesca turned the page she was reading and then closed the book.
She headed off to practice.
When practice was finished, she returned to her room.
Being an accomplished craftswoman, she had made herself two miniature psalteries.
She placed one on one side of her room and the other on the other side.
She then started playing on one miniature psaltery and then looked across the room at the other.
No appearance of strings moving and no sound.
She was not disappointed but only placed the two miniature psalteries back in the box from which she had taken them.
She then sat down and started writing.
The books she read were not only music and fine literature and the Bible but also books on science and philosophy.
From her study and research, she wondered if it was possible for the vibrations and sound frequencies that she played on one psaltery to travel through the air and start playing the strings on the psaltery on the other side of the room.
She wrote down her theory and then added some mathematical concepts.
The bells rang for dinner.
She stood up and thought, there is always tomorrow.
From the research and notes of this female student of Antonio Vivaldi who sang and played the psaltery in the 60 female ensemble that Vivaldi conducted would eventually come the basis of those theories in physics that postulated the idea of teleportation- the idea that material things and even people could be quickly and immediately transported from one place to another.
Allowing some future Captain Kirk in the 23rd Century to say, “Beam me up, Scotty.”
-A vampire novel chapter
Written by Christopher
Sunday March 24th
2024.
Countess Draculina Meets Dracul Van Helsing
It was a forested area of Maryland not far from Washington DC.
Senile old fool Joe Biden was giving his State of the Union address in Washington.
At the CIA headquarters in Washington, Nazis and Communists had signed a pact to jointly take over America.
And the Countess Draculina was in this Maryland forested area to meet with Canadian vampire hunter Dracul Van Helsing.
A friend of hers named Robur The Conqueror had been kidnapped by the American CIA back on Chinese New Year’s Day of this year.
She still wasn’t able to find out where he was being held.
So Countess Draculina decided to turn to Dracul Van Helsing for help.
On his smart phone, Van Helsing commented in a text message to a friend that “today March 7th 2024 is the 750th anniversary of the death of my favourite philosopher Thomas Aquinas who is considered the greatest philosopher of the Middle Ages in Europe”.
“How many years ago would that be? What was the exact date?” Amadeus Emanon messaged back.
“March 7th 1274,” Van Helsing replied.
“That was a long time ago,” Amadeus commented.
Van Helsing was tempted to message back “Brilliant deduction” like Sherlock Holmes often said in exasperation to Dr. Watson but thought better of it.
“Hello, Mr. Van Helsing”,” the Countess Draculina said as Dracul approached.
“What can I do for you, Countess?” Van Helsing asked.
The Countess Draculina told Van Helsing of her friend Robur’s kidnapping.
“Any idea why?” Van Helsing inquired.
“My friend Robur invented a craft back in 1903 that he called The Terror,” Draculina explained, “It is a craft that can operate as either a speedboat, submarine, automobile or aircraft. It operates using electrical charges generated from the Earth itself based on experiments that Nikola Tesla carried out at Colorado Springs Colorado from 1899 to 1900. I imagine he was kidnapped by the CIA to get the prototype of the plans for his craft The Terror.”
“It can travel at high speed? This craft?” Van Helsing was curious.
“His first craft The Terror that he came out with in 1903 could travel at the then unheard of speeds of 150 miles per hour on land and at more than 250 miles per hour in the air,” Draculina answered, “The last craft he came out with last year on December 18th (the same day that Pope Francis announced he was blessing same sex unions) which was The Terror #666 could travel at thousands of miles per second in all sorts of environments- earth, water and air- at speeds as those shown by craft that the U.S. government says is “not terrestrial in origin”.”
“So the U.S. government now has plans to develop a craft that can compete with ET?” Van Helsing phoned home but got a busy signal.
“Yes,” Draculina nodded, “and I found out in a conversation I had last night with Elon Musk that all of the big U.S. aerospace corporations are now doing secret work for the U.S. government in building some sort of new secretive aircraft and spacecraft.”
“Did you find out in your conversation with Musk last night whether Donald Trump has decided to name him (Elon Musk) as his Vice-Presidential running mate?” Van Helsing asked.
“That I did not find out,” Draculina shook her head.
-A vampire novel chapter
Written by Christopher
Thursday March 7th
2024.
Dr. Jekyll’s Dream of Zombies
Dr. Henry Jekyll was walking through an Ottoman occupied Bulgarian city.
He noticed the huge former Bulgarian Orthodox Cathedral towering in front of him.
The cross across its steeple had of course been knocked down long ago by the Ottoman Turks.
And a crescent 🌙 moon in the sky hung across the cathedral and the entire city.
Somehow symbolic of this entire land and its environment.
Dr. Jekyll walked into a brothel on this particular street.
Even though he had not yet invented the chemical potion 🧪 that would turn him into Mr. Edward Hyde, he was already starting to develop Hyde like tendencies.
He was no longer the pure Dr. Henry Jekyll that his friends and his family imagined him to be.
Inside the brothel, Dr. Jekyll met the three vampiresses Al-Lat (also known by the name Lilith) and her two sisters Al-Uzza and Manat.
Finding out that he was an important London physician, the three vampiresses neither killed him nor turned him into a vampire.
Instead they instructed him how to concoct that chemical potion 🧪 that would fully bring out his Hyde like tendencies and turn him into Mr. Edward Hyde.
They also provided him with something else.
A formula that would be be able to turn human beings into zombies.
When Dr. Henry Jekyll eventually returned to London, he developed the formula that turned him into Hyde.
But he died (along with his alter ego Hyde) before he could fully develop the formula that would turn human beings into zombies.
The formula was in his laboratory notes 📝 and papers.
Notes and papers that would be purchased at a London Christie’s Auction House sale by Dr. Leviathan Mascot a research scientist for Bill Gates.
Leviathan Mascot contracted with the Wuhan Institute of Virology to develop the formula.
-A vampire novel chapter
Written by Christopher
Monday February 26th
2024.
Leanne Dubois
Leanne Dubois
The year was 2011.
Renfield R. Renfield the Chief of Security and Intelligence Gathering for Set Enterprises was having a conversation with his friend the concert pianist Amadeus Emanon.
“I find it interesting,” said Amadeus Emanon who had just finished reading C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, “that the children who went through the wardrobe into the land of Narnia lived entire lives as adults in Narnia before they went back through the wardrobe into the professor’s house where they once again reverted to being children.”
“Yes, I suppose that is interesting,” said Renfield who was busy reading an article about the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland 🇨🇭.
Later that day, Renfield went to fly in a Set Enterprises private jet 🛩️ to Switzerland.
He then went to the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
Although most people today are unaware of it, Renfield once had the ability to shapeshift into a hamster 🐹.
Renfield wasn’t sure of the reason for it.
As far as he could recall he had never been bitten by a supernatural hamster 🐹 (just like people are, according to legend, said to be able to shapeshift into a wolf during the full moon after having been bitten by supernatural werewolves).
After Renfield was elected Member of Parliament for the constituency of Tewkesbury In The Cotswolds in the June 2017 United Kingdom 🇬🇧 General Election, he lost the ability to shapeshift into a hamster 🐹 for some reason.
Back in 2011 however Renfield had the ability to shapeshift into a hamster and did just that to escape detection as he entered the heavily guarded tunnel.
The Set Enterprises Intelligence Gathering Chief wasn’t sure what he was looking for as he entered the tunnel.
He just wondered whether any time travel experiments were going on within the CERN Particle Collider.
Rather stupidly Renfield as a hamster 🐹 entered the Collider just as such an experiment was going on.
And Renfield found himself back in the town of Helena Montana in 1889.
Seeing as how he was oddly dressed (wearing 21st Century clothes), Renfield found himself shot through the chest by a group of Montana cowboys who thought that he was one of these crooked Establishment New York State based bankers.
Renfield found himself in a log cabin being nursed back to health by this woman.
Leanne Dubois
Leanne’s mother was a Cherokee woman and her father was a French-Canadian from the province of Quebec.
Somehow her parents had their life paths crossed meeting in the Montana Territory back in the late 1860s.
Leanne’s parents fell in love and were wed.
And now in this year of 1889…
Renfield fell in love with his nurse.
Renfield’s nurse.
And Leanne Dubois fell in love with her patient.
Leanne Dubois: fell in love with Renfield
They had a whirlwind romance.
And they wed.
They bought themselves a small ranch north of Helena.
All was well until a German gentleman acting as an agent of the crooked New York State banking interests (who were naturally aligned with the crooked European banking interests) arrived.
The German gentleman had the rather audacious name of Mephistopheles Faust Klaus Schwab.
Schwab demanded that Renfield R. and Leanne Dubois Renfield sell their ranch to him and the interests he represented.
Of course Schwab’s price was quite below what would have been considered natural market value at the time.
But even if the offer had still been generous, Renfield and Leanne would have refused.
For they loved their ranch.
They didn’t care that their ranch land provided the only means of access to a large silver mine that Mephistopheles Faust Klaus Schwab and the crooked New York State and the crooked European banking interests that he represented were anxious to get their hands on.
One day Renfield returned from town to see his wife arguing with the pompous arrogant Mephistopheles Faust Klaus Schwab.
“You’ll pay for this,” Schwab shouted, “You will own nothing and be happy.”
Schwab pulled out a gun and shot Leanne.
He then rode off on his weird spectral looking pale gray horse that had the unusual name of Vaccine.
Leanne died in Renfield’s arms.
Back in 2011, someone hit a switch at the CERN Large Hadron Collider reversing the direction of the colliding particles.
The result of that was Renfield found himself transported forward in time to the year that he had originally left- 2011.
Transported to the same time.
But not the same place.
Renfield found himself at Lake Louise Alberta Canada in the year 2011.
After wiring his friend Amadeus for money, Renfield stayed at the Chateau Lake Louise Hotel for a couple of weeks to recover from his psychological wounds.
During that time, he also wrote a poem.
Recalling the time that he had spent with his love and his wife Leanne Dubois.
I was born when I met you.
I died when you left me.
I lived those few weeks you loved me.
-Renfield R. Renfield
-A vampire novel chapter
Written by Christopher
Wednesday February 21st
2024.
Countess Draculina and Robur The Conqueror
The Countess Draculina the daughter of Count Dracula
The Countess Draculina rushed up the stairs of the small London apartment building where she rented a flat.
She had been sitting in the lobby of the apartment building where she heard a very interesting conversation between three people present.
Now she was rushing up the stairs to her flat (because the elevator wasn’t working now that the City of London elevator inspection had been done last week and the elevator had been officially certified as being in excellent condition) to tell her house guest Robur the Conqueror the gist of that conversation that she had overheard.
Robur The Conqueror had had two books written about him by the great French science-fiction writer Jules Verne.
One was called Robur The Conqueror (published in 1886) and the other was called Master of The World (published in 1904).
The Countess Draculina had first met Robur The Conqueror at a Wild West saloon called The Wild Tomatoes and Mushroom Saloon in the Wild West town of Hayden Colorado back in the year 1900.
Countess Draculina was visiting the place in order to see where her father Count Dracula had got his comeuppance paid to him 20 years earlier by Sherlock Holmes’ lesser known professional dominatrix twin sister Sherrielock Holmes who then owned The Wild Tomatoes and Mushroom Saloon.
Robur the Conqueror had paid a visit to The Wild Tomatoes and Mushroom Saloon on that same date because he had just come back from visiting Colorado Springs Colorado to observe the equipment used by Nikola Tesla at his Experimental Station there for the study of the use of high-voltage, high-frequency electricity ⚡️ in wireless 🛜 power transmission.
Robur would use Tesla’s concepts and ideas to build himself a combination hybrid speedboat, submarine, automobile and aircraft (that he had named The Terror) that used the earth and the air as the conductors of that wireless transmission.
Robur used the strange craft in the summer of 1903 to cause a series of unexplained events across the eastern United States that summer.
Pursued by a federal police inspector named John Strock of Washington D.C., Robur flew his craft The Terror straight into a Caribbean thunderstorm 🌩️ where it was struck by lightning, broke apart and fell into the ocean.
As Jules Verne noted in his 1904 book Master of The World, Robur’s body was never found.
That was because on that final flight of The Terror, Countess Draculina had been aboard the craft (a fact of which Verne was unaware) and Draculina had turned Robur The Conqueror into a vampire just before the craft plunged into the ocean.
Now three drunken American CIA agents in the lobby of her apartment building had boasted about how Tesla’s Colorado Springs Experiments might be similar to what powers the crafts used by ET aliens 👽 that causes them to fly at such high speed and become invisible sometimes.
This was similar to the work Robur had done back in the early 1900s.
Robur must be made aware of what the U.S. government was now up to, Draculina had decided.
-A vampire novel chapter
written by Christopher
Thursday February 8th
2024.
Countess Draculina At The Wild Tomatoes and Mushroom Saloon
The Countess Draculina in the dining room of The Wild Tomatoes and Mushroom Saloon in the Wild West town of Hayden Colorado.
Countess Draculina was the daughter of Count Dracula.
The year was 1900.
And the Countess was visiting The Wild Tomatoes and Mushroom Saloon in the Wild West town of Hayden Colorado.
Twenty years earlier in 1880 her father Count Dracula had visited this very same saloon.
Back in those days the saloon was owned by Sherrielock Holmes the lesser known twin sister of world famous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes.
She had heard that her father’s vampiric buttocks had been tomatoed by Sherrielock Holmes who was a professional dominatrix.
For some reason she felt compelled to come to this place where her father had met the wrath of Sherrielock.
Countess Draculina contemplating how her father Count Dracula met the wrath of Sherrielock Holmes.
As she sat there a stranger entered the elegant dining room.
He immediately noticed her.
“Are you dining here?” He asked her.
“I wasn’t planning to,” Draculina answered, “I just thought I’d sit here a moment.”
“Oh,” said the man, “I just thought it would be nice to have a dinner companion.”
“Where are you from?” Draculina asked the man.
“From all over,” said the man, “although I have just now come from Colorado Springs where a man named Nikola Tesla recently set up a laboratory.”
“I have heard of Nikola Tesla,” Countess Draculina nodded, “What were you doing at Tesla’s experimental station in Colorado Springs?”.
“Studying his use of high-voltage high-frequency electricity ⚡️ in wireless transmission,” the man answered.
“For what purpose?” Draculina asked.
“To see if it could power an aeronef flying machine rather than using batteries and a propeller to fly it through the air,” the man replied.
Interesting fellow, Draculina thought to herself.
“All right,” she said aloud, “I will dine with you and you can tell me more of your ideas using Tesla’s research. What is your name?”.
“My name is Robur,” the man bowed, “although my enemies call me the Conqueror.”
-A vampire novel chapter
Written by Christopher
Monday February 1st
2024.
Magdalena
Magdalena waited outside the door of her flat.
British MP Renfield R. Renfield had come in to the building to meet with a British MI-6 agent.
But the man wasn’t there.
He had been kidnapped by agents of a foreign government.
Renfield noticed the girl sitting in front of her door.
“Are you all right, Miss?” He asked her.
“I’ve locked myself out,” Magdalena explained, “and the building manager isn’t in at the moment to let me in.”
“We’ll see what we can do about that,” Renfield said.
He had plenty of break and enter experience in his former capacity as Chief of Security and Intelligence Gathering for Set Enterprises.
Within minutes, the door was open.
“Thanks,” Magdalena stood up, “Can I offer you a coffee ☕️ in appreciation?”.
“Sure,” Renfield nodded.
After Magdalena had made coffee, Renfield asked her, “I was supposed to meet a gentleman in a flat a few doors down from you. You didn’t see him while you were out in the hall did you?”.
“The man who always went out with a walking stick,” Magdalena replied, “You don’t see many people do that these days. He reminded me of a gentleman from the 19th Century or a government civil servant during the 1950s at the start of the Cold War. Yes, two men came down the hall, knocked on the door and then took him away. I was surprised. Because that was the first time I had seen him leave his flat without his walking stick.”
“So, he was probably kidnapped,” Renfield sipped his coffee.
“Kidnapped?” Magdalena was shocked.
“Yes, he had phoned me this morning,” Renfield nodded, “I don’t know if you recognize me but I’m a Member of Parliament who sits on both the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and also the House of Commons Intelligence Committee. He said he had information that various intelligence agencies throughout the world were planning to fake an ET alien 👽 invasion sometime this year. He said he’d show me the evidence.”
“Should you be telling me an ordinary civilian all this?” Magdalena asked.
“Probably not,” Renfield answered, “Which is probably why I’m always finding myself in hot water as my friend Amadeus is always telling me.”
“Did he give you any reason why various intelligence agencies throughout the world would be faking an ET alien 👽 invasion this year?” Magdalena inquired.
“Something to do with the 100th anniversary of Lenin’s death plus the implementation of the UN 2030 Sustainability Agenda,” Renfield replied, “Plus Pope Francis trying to detract attention from the fact that he named a gay porn writing pervert as head of the Vatican’s Dicastery For The Doctrine of the Faith.”
“Those are certainly interesting reasons,” Magdalena admitted.
“Here’s a business card with my private number on it,” Renfield handed her a card before he left, “If you happen to see anything suspicious in this building, give me a call.”
“All right,” Magdalena took the card.
About half an hour later, Magdalena heard a commotion out in the hall.
She opened the door and recognized a man (although he would have thrown a pronoun Fascist fit if she Magdalena had used that term about him) who was one of Joe Biden’s most famous cross-dressing drag queen biologically born male members of the U.S. Administration cabinet enter the room where the man with the walking stick had been kidnapped earlier in the day.
Magdalena gave Renfield a call on his private number.
-A vampire novel chapter
Written by Christopher
Wednesday January 10th
2024.
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