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Nessie Camouflaged By Subterfuge Con

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Nessie slept soundly cuddling the tin-plate toy submarine fitted with plastic wood head on long sinuous neck attached to the conning tower, that drifted down to Nessie's hideout deep in the cave at the bottom of Loch Ness. Nessie knew the pressure was off. The fake photographs had quelled the endless searches and prying. "We'll give them their monster" the model maker declared. He gave them an image - a fake. People believed the photograph was real for such a long time, that no one would ever see or know what Nessie really looked like. People would always look for a snake like head on a long neck with one hump or two from the tail. People wanted a monster, wanted a photograph to confirm it. Now Nessie had the model, he could poke it up through the surface on dark stormy nights when lightning added to the mystery and intrigue. The stranger-than-fiction inner truth, hidden by what people wanted to believe. A Trojan horse enshrouding truth, within a fake cloak of myth revealed.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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