Last chapter of the man in the high castle

It seems today is going to rain. I consulted the I Ching yesterday and it gave me hexagram 55 about prosperity and hexagram 62 about little success. That’s why I am a little bit disappointed, Joe was so excited about his birthday party last year when an the rain that unpleasant guest came and we were force to move the party inside the house he was so mad because he couldn’t play baseball with his friends that if I didn’t stopped him me would have cancelled the party. But let’s hope this year is different and the oracle is right.

Juliana was so determined to give his son a great birthday party that she that she would have deliver herself to the Nazi P. D. she couldn’t make up her mind on what to wear for the party so she decided to consult the I Ching and the answer was hexagram 42 about soul so she decided to use the old blue dress she bought with Joe 9 years ago when she finished trying the dress on she turned her attention to her jewelry box the difference was she already knew what to combine with dress it was that old neckless Frank send her, even though she didn’t accept to work with him she could not deny she loved that neckless very much. It was on that particular moment when she realized she had not been so excited since the day she met Abdensen.

 She left the room and went to the kitchen when she noticed she was not alone little Joe was awake and staring at her so the only thing Juliana could figure out to say was ”Happy Birthday my darling” she hug him and asked “ What are you doing woken up so early?” Joe answered “ I set up an alarm clock by 4 I don’t want to waste any single second of my birthday doing unnecessary things like sleep I have already taken breakfast”  Juliana replied “But my love you know that if you don’t sleep you won’t have enough energy to play in your party didn’t you told me you wanted to play like Ty Cobb in his early years? Besides its 6 am in the morning go get some sleep and I will get the last things for the party. “OK mom but tell me did you bought me that Ty Cobb autographed ball that is in Mr. Coleman antique store? Joe said and his mother replied “ Mmmm.. I don’t know I guess you will find out these afternoon now go to sleep” Joe was so happy he could not hide that big smile off his face when he was going to his room.

She was driving in her old Suzuki 500 watching the street when she noticed something was not right in Mr. Keisuke’s newspaper stand so she decided to stop and saw it with her own eyes the Reich Time’s front page said the bluffer is dead and a picture of Hawthorne Abdensen mutilated. Her first thought was poor old man I told him to be more careful and move to a place with more security but he didn’t listen to my that’s when I stopped feeling pitty and I felt dizzy because now I was the only one who knows the truth so I don’t understand why but I just started to run and that was the only think I wanted to run I left my car, my purse, everything I mean I didn’t even say hello to  Mr Keisuke because I thought for a second that running was the best way to avoid trouble the trouble of  being the only one who knows the truth and the enormous weight it involves because I know that I have to spread the truth, so I decided to return to more serious matters like the party but since I am just a few blocks away closer to Coleman’s store than to my car so I decided to go to Coleman’s first.

By the time Juliana was arriving to the store Jack Coleman was just sealing a new deal with Her Himmler it is well known that they do a lot of business since Himmler is an sports lover but specially a racing fan and Coleman seems to know a lot of that that morning they were having this particular conversation about who was better Schumacher driving a powerful Italian Ferrari or David Pearson in his Corvette. So I waited on the chairs left in the right corner of the store.

15 minutes later I was in front of the desk of Coleman and ask him: “Do you still have the ball?” “Yes I do but answer me these all my customers think Ty Cobb was a good player but they never buy it because he was an awful human being why would your son like something off such a person.” Coleman asked “He might have been the worst human in this planet but why is he famous, he is famous because he was an authentic really good baseball legend. If he had not played ball no one would know he even existed. These are why my kid loves him because he was an awesome ball player.”  

Mr Coleman didn’t asked anything else he asked for his money then gave a receipt for Juliana and return to mis clients who started to gather around the store.