“What They Were Doing” by Lem

How was attacking Lacey and Lem supposed to end the British Empire? Because if there’s reincarnation I’m Constantine and she’s Scotia. And we seemed important to him. He was a ghost haunting us.

We’re very in love and if there’s reincarnation we have been since we first met. So when he saw us we were having sex. As a very happily married couple.

Yes. He literally snuck up on us as a ghost while we were having sex. If there’s reincarnation. We had some Japanese antiques in the house. And we shouldn’t have had them. And that was his “spiritual inroad” as a Christian Charismatic would say. He was given access to us because we had badly acquired the art. It was wrong. It was common at that time…but it was wrong. It was very beautiful art but it was wrong.

It was a pair of urns. We stole them. The British Empire stole them from someone’s house. They were porcelain.

They looked like this:

Now they’d be priceless.

Anyway…he got stuck on us. He had never seen heterosexual sex like that before. And he assumed it was very evil. Mostly that Lacey was evil and that I was…being taken advantage of. Because he was so ignorant and poor that he didn’t understand. He also was extremely intimidated by me. And extremely jealous of me.

So we got drug along into his attempt to deal the the British Empire.

Perhaps Ninkō wanted to use a poor man who was the son of a prostitute as a way to make an overall point. An argument about Great Britain’s inferiority. That even the son of prostitute from Japan could destroy Great Britain if done correctly, so to speak. Based on the sin of Great Britain in comparison to Japan.

I think the idea was that Lacey had to be stopped. That somehow the spiritual core of Great Britain rested in how much sexual pleasure she was stealing from me…and that if I could be liberated from her and made his lover…in America…it would break Great Britain apart.

He didn’t understand that men in heterosexual loving relationships like to give women orgasms. And she was very vocal. So he assumed I wasn’t having much fun. And then he also assumed when I did orgasm myself…that it wasn’t an orgasm but repulsion. I made an extreme facial expression. And it’s quite common for men during good sex while having an orgasm. But…he didn’t know that. And he assumed I was “creeped out” by ejaculation or by her or something. …If there’s reincarnation he truly didn’t understand what he was looking at. And so he decided to us as he weapons against the British Empire.

Obviously…that’s ludicrous.

And if there’s not reincarnation…none of this happened in Great Britain.

But…if there is reincarnation…this is what happened.

We planned to return to help Africa. He cursed us. Our attempt was thwarted. And yes…he may have accidentally destroyed the US instead of Great Britain.