The Snake

This book gives an elaborate itinerary of the snake all over the planet. As far as the snake can remember, it all started in Athens,429BC: The snake convinced Pericles to prepare for a war against Sparta, in return for a fake attack on Athens. This resulted in an irrational and irreparable enmity between ancient Athens andSparta. The wars later became known as the Peloponnesian wars. In the year 69BC the snake arrived in Rome. It helped a conspiracy against the Republic and in favor of anEmpire. The first God-like Emperor was crowned. The snake reappeared 15 centuries later, in Madrid: there it assisted in the preparations ofthe Peace Treaty of Augsburg, which would tear up Europe in heavily frustrated Christiandenominations. Forth went the snake to Paris. In 1789 it convinced Robespierre to start a Revolution that would put him in power, at the cost of creating an irrational hatred between Catholics andLutherans. From Paris it moved to London, where in1814 it wrote the guidelines for the Congress of Vienna.The Habsburg Empire was torn into multiple pieces, each waging war one on another. Not yet satisfied, the snake showed up in Berlin, in1871: it provoked the Franco-Prussian war, whose unacceptable peace terms would eventually lead to WorldWar I. Its last moveoccurred in St.Petersburg,in 1881:the snake’s assassination of Alexander II would prepare the ground for a Bolshevikuprising.More recently, the snake has intensified its rythm...