What if you can extract memories from DNA? Join this thrilling yet exquisite journey into the medieval Jerusalem and discover the intimate thoughts of the Crusaders.
What if DNA can record your memories?
A thrilling yet exquisite journey into the medieval Jerusalem through this hybrid of Poem and Novel...
David Lau is a postgraduate student from Hong Kong, working under the renown Bioinformatician Simon Wong. He finished his PhD study years ago, but his boss holds up his paper and has not published it. His work was about a groundbreaking technique in decoding DNA: the extraction of memories from DNA. In order to wait for his work to be published, he has to work as a research assistant in Wong's research team for years, dreaming for that day when his boss is finally going to publish his work in a scientific journal. Yet out of David's expectation, he meets a Historian, Yossi Montefiore, in a conference about DNA decoding. Yossi invites David to help him in the research of the Crusades in Jerusalem, given David's expertise in DNA memory extraction. Eventually, David is convinced to go to Jerusalem with Yossi. Yet what he has found among the ancient corpses are not simply memories, but a lost lamentation of the past, filled with anguish and despair that echo with the present... P.S. The main body of this book is written in verse. It is consisting of different soliloquies of several characters, arranged as a set of narrative poem. It includes the soliloquies of the famous Queen Sibylla, Guy of Lusignan and Baldwin IV, the Leper King. The poem also includes a soliloquy from a Jew about the holocaust in Jerusalem during the first Crusade.
Excerpt
"I looked at the sun outside,
It was stained in dark light,
The beginning of an eclipse.
“Evil has burrowed the sun!”
People shouted.
The golden ring boiled,
People's hearts simmered.
They whispered tears of Plutus .
They cried out drops of blindness.
Panic smote the people.
Like tiny ants they hurried, to and fro.
Afraid of what?
Chased by what?
Within their own fear they fretted!
Within their own folly they fooled!
I laughed so hard.
My arm pressed hard on my belly.
And tears scratched my cheek.
My stomach twisted
And all my hatred was laid before me
Smelling on the floor.
Fine!
I am the Queen of Jerusalem!
You will have your crown! Guy!
But I will have my army!
And you will all bow at my presence!
As long as I am the Queen,
I will make all of you suffer!
My husband!
And this filthy court of Jerusalem!” -Queen Sibylla
“Why is there despair?” His smile vanished. His brows slopped down. “It is because we hope.”
I was confused, but I kept my silence.
“Because we hope, and our hope fails. And we hope again. And it fails again. Without this hope, where is the hopelessness? Without this promise, where is the hope?”
- Yossi Montefiore
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