(This is a rush translation. The version may not be in its final form.)
"To begin our analysis," said the director of the investigation department, "I would like to make it clear that the case involves an Asian republic that no country in the world wants to see destabilized. Any leaking of information would put world leaders in a panic.
"I understand, sir, you can count on my discretion," said Momai.
"Mr. Moon is here to follow up the investigation." The fact is that the powerful leader of this republic is in trouble with his eldest son, his likely successor, who has proved to be an inconsequential playboy. Because of this, his brother, who studies at a renowned school in Switzerland, can become the new president. The boy has already been described as "effeminate" by his classmates. However ... A compromising photo, involving, it seems, a young woman, was left in the hands of a major Brazilian marchant Vera Klosto who has revealed Asian talents in the Western market. Since she did not demand ransom, we assume that she only wants to have a kind of "protection."
"Could you describe how she got the picture?" asked Momai.
- That's the most interesting part. The president had just received the photo of his spy service, they had stolen the photographer's camera. For safety, they had destroyed the machine and maintained a single impression. His father, however, stunned by the fact, was only able to turn the picture on the table when surprised by the entrance of the exuberant figure, with whom he had created some intimacy. It was accompanied by a European diplomat. He did not miss this cunning to understand the object on the table, which showed the child's name and the secret service symbol on the back. He happened to have a series of samples from the catalog of an exhibition that would be held in Venice and left them on the table. After a conversation of about fifteen minutes, he removed everything that was his and a little more and left without the president could say a word.
"The method bears a strange resemblance to Allan Poe's" The Stolen Letter, "said Momai.
"Yes," replied the director. "We suspect he is among the lady's belongings in his mansion, but the walls are covered with engravings and paintings - at the bottom of which one could, for instance, hide the object - and his collection of photographs contains more of 11 thousand items. We can not ask for a mandate. Two men have secretly entered the house in vain. We can put you in there for a few hours- she's giving a conference in Boston these days- and we hope you can help us.
- Of course! But first I need to go to a museum. I have to think like a dealer - Momai said - that's how intuitions come about. One more question: I imagine that the boy has been watched and accompanied all the time in Switzerland.
"Yes, he used a fake name, and he was the only kid from the college coming by car with a driver. An important diplomat was to accompany him. He is a tennis fanatic and always had many security guards.
- Strange: how can anyone take this picture? Momai asked standing up.
Helio was waiting for him at the Pinacoteca's door.
"I hope your boyfriend forgives me for that one," Momai said.
They entered. A very colorful contemporary tapestry exhibition mixed wires, metal, and wood.
"I've been going back to Poe's tales, just to feel prepared," Helio said as they sat down in the sculpture room. I found in this other tale, "The Mystery of Marie Roget," something that struck me as interesting. Mind if I read?
Momai nodded.
"For in the last part of the supposition one should consider that the slightest variation in the facts of the two cases could give rise to the most serious errors of calculation, courses of events, as so often happens in arithmetic, in which an invaluable error, if taken individually, ultimately produces, by virtue of multiplication at every point of the operation, a result far removed from the true. "
- Interesting. Dupin's method is to start from the surfaces, as in a card game, the variations of expression, the physiognomy of the players, the way they classify the cards in the hand - to reach the true state of the game. I prefer intuitive insight to induction. Our friend offers us a feast of sensations and data to analyze ... But things never repeat themselves. If we start by assuming that the exhibition hides and does not show and not that the exhibition distracts ...
"I'm not following, Momai.
"Oh, it sometimes seems to me that when I'm thinking about a case, nature all thinks to me.
"Jung says he does not know where the unconscious begins and ends," Helio said.
"On that note, I remember seeing the same excerpt from the tale used in a book on chaotic and complex systems. Poe prophetically expressed an idea today very important in the study of these systems. I'm not good at math, but I think this article said that a strange attractor is a region for which future events in a system tend, even though these events have a lot of distance from each other. In addition, small initial variations lead to very distinct results in the future ... In this case ... From the surface to the truth of the structure, or the structure to the truth of the surface? The appearance is also structure ...
In the mansion, frame walls offered themselves for analysis.
- Where to start? Cubism or Tachism? The letter was very visible, so it was not seen, Helio said.
"Let's get a secret wall." The hardest. The attractor, not the event.
"The hardest would not it be safe in a bank?"
- Not for anyone who wants to be in the show/hide area, inside/outside, visible/invisible - Momai ran his hands over the walls. He saw an oval, gold-framed "vignette" canvas with a delicate bust of young woman merging with the black background.
- The equations are explicit and deterministic, but the result has a high degree of uncertainty ... Poe: the strange attractor.
He moved the painting and pushed the wall behind him. She turned. Helio looked stunned. An envelope was on a small table.
"She pretended to expose the object to confuse us," Helio said. By using such a clear reference as a method, it was actually directing our gaze to the "stained and crumpled" card in the "cardholder."
- Worse than that. Why would anyone print a photo for the official files? Are they accomplices? I suspect that what we have recovered is no more than a false compromising photo. Imagine the following situation: the father is informed by his espionage that certain behaviors of the son are noticed; asks the secret service to pretend to get a picture of the slightly embarrassing boy: for example, next to a girl with breasts on display along with a friend. The photo is left on the table when the dealer is noticed, properly identifiable. Who led to the "stolen letter" was the father.
- Clear! Somehow one speculates on the scandal, but not on the son's homosexuality! Show to hide ...
Helio picks up the envelope and opens it, but is prevented.
- A small change in the initial conditions leads to results that are far apart ...
Afonso Junior Ferreira de Lima
2013
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