LEVIATHAN 008

Leviathan Tape 004

Date Unknown

Location Unknown

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease (encephalopathy) in cattle that causes a spongy degeneration of the brain and spinal cord. BSE has a long incubation period, about 2.5 to 8 years, usually affecting adult cattle at a peak age onset of four to five years, all breeds being equally susceptible. BSE is caused by a misfolded protein—a prion.[1] In the United Kingdom, the country worst affected by an epidemic in 1986-98, more than 180,000 cattle were infected and 4.4 million slaughtered during the eradication program.[2]
The disease may be most easily transmitted to human beings by eating food contaminated with the brain, spinal cord or digestive tract of infected carcasses.[3] However, the infectious agent, although most highly concentrated in nervous tissue, can be found in virtually all tissues throughout the body, including blood.[4] In humans, it is known as new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD or nvCJD), and by June 2014 it had killed 177 people in the United Kingdom, and 52 elsewhere.[5] Between 460,000 and 482,000 BSE-infected animals had entered the human food chain before controls on high-risk offal were introduced in 1989.[6][7]
A British and Irish inquiry into BSE concluded the epizootic was caused by cattle, which are normally herbivores, being fed the remains of other cattle in the form of meat and bone meal (MBM), which caused the infectious agent to spread.[8][9] The cause of BSE may be from the contamination of MBM from sheep with scrapie that were processed in the same slaughterhouse. The epidemic was probably accelerated by the recycling of infected bovine tissues prior to the recognition of BSE.[10] The origin of the disease itself remains unknown. The infectious agent is distinctive for the high temperatures at which it remains viable, over 600 °C (about 1100 °F).[11] This contributed to the spread of the disease in the United Kingdom, which had reduced the temperatures used during its rendering process.[8] Another contributory factor was the feeding of infected protein supplements to very young calves.[8][12]

Source: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. “Bovine spongiform encephalopathy”. URL: http://darkblackdesires.proboards.com/

LEVIATHAN 007

Leviathan Tape 003

Date: Unknown, 1995

Location: Concord, Connecticut

TRANSCRIPT START

I remember … we were in the library, Donna and I... we were doing some project for our history class or something. Anyway, there's a loud pop... and, well, the chem lab is right next to the lab so we just figured that... maYYBe it was chem, right? But t hen this kid... bobbie... he comes in a ND STARTS SCREAMING BL OOODY MURder. So we realize something is really wrong. Me and DONa...

…

…

…

“Are you okay?” and I said yeah. It was... a close call. I've never experienced FEAR or anything like that in my life. It was scary. But I'm glad both me and _____ made it out alive.

LEVIATHAN 006

Brendan twittled his thumbs on a boardwalk in Matley. He had grown to love the city, though he had only been there for a short time. Slowly something crept into Brendans mind. Like a virus. What was it? Memories of the old place. Why did Brendan remember? He really shouldn't have. His pace sped up. What about the cows? He stopped. Turned away. On the beach was two kids. It was 1 am. They were brothers. He went up to the kids and asked for their parents. The kids didn't respond. The ocean looked like it was turning orange. The kids still didn't look, so Brendan left. Outside it was raining cats and dogs. And I was feeling mighty blue. But I carried on.

LEVIATHAN 005

Leviathan Tape 002

Date: Unknown

Location: Unknown

Did you hear?>

What?

Casey lost her dog yesterday.

Oh really?

Tragic.

Huh?

The dog.

Oh yeah?

It got lost.

Where?

The park?

How'd she lose her dog in the park?

It got lost.

Where?

The Park.

Ah.

She's having nosebleeds again.

Did you tell her?

Where?

The park.

Did you tell her?

Yeah I did.

What did she say.

She's having nosebleeds again.

What did she say?

She couldn't reply. Nothing she said made any sense.

Huh.

Where is the dog?

The park.

Well you better go catch it.

I will.

Bye.

Bye.

LEVIATHAN 000

Authors Prefface

November 3rd, 1954

ARTHUR HALEY, UNIVERSITY OF NW MECIXOC

What defines an author best work? Is it the labor put into it? Is it something else?

What defines best work? What defines cleaniless in writing, in the like? These aure the questions we will anser in this workshop.

Leviathan is primarily a horror piece. It does not resemble any act of truthfulness or reality. In fact, Leviathan is very well the opposite. Leviathan is a vessel – a vessel in which a strict non fact is carried out and pushed into a sea of very real items. Leviathan don't make sense – you make sense of Leviathan. Leviathan smells fear. Don't feel fear. Leviathan is not a horror piece. All is well. 9 22

LEVIATHAN 004

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true leviathan end of times

dot kknow why I keep

stop

frantic

not good

okay

yeah,

I remember

was it donna?

Yea.

Okay.

Talk to you later.

Bye.

LEVIATHAN 003

Leviathan Tape 045
Date: Unknown
Location: Unknown

TRANSCRIPT START

Hello, is anyone there?

No, wait! Please don't go.

It's really lonely here.

I don't have anyone to talk to anymore.

Just stay with me for at least a little bit. Please?

What's your name?

My names Ryan.

I'm 8.

How old are you?

…

…

…

Hello?

Are you still there?

Please don't go.

Please.

[inaudible]

LEVIATHAN 002

I was in Michigan for a Bio study trip in 1999. I can't really recall what the study was, something with the gestation of certain breeds of sheep on a farm? Anyway, the owner of the farm that we were studying at came to meet with us – he was a very kind man. He decided to bring us on a tour around the farm, to get our bearings... and I remember there was one thing he said that I kept with me beyond even the study we were conducting.

We were out in the fields where the cows roamed, and he told us that, long ago, farmers found a certain pattern among these animals. They found that each one of them had a partner... but it wasn't a sexual partner, it was separate from them. An entirely different cow. The two partners would eat together, sleep together, mimic each others quirks, et cetera... the farmers found that the cows made friends. Not multiple friends though, just one. A partner that they would spend the rest of their time on this Earth with.

And that was interesting to me, because it's not really a normal thing among animals to make friends. And when they do, you'd expect some, I don't know – some smart animal to do it, like a monkey or a dolphin. Not a cow. You see, friendship is a fairly abstract thought – a desire to copulate is natural among all living things, because it continues the species. It strengthens the big picture. But friendship – there's no big picture to that. It's really a singular event, tied to the lifetimes of only two members of a species. There's no biological, evolutionary reason to keep friends – we just do.

However, those same farmers also discovered another thing. They found that when they slaughtered one of the cows, its partner would completely break down. It would stop eating, spin in circles for hours, try to sleep for exorbitant amounts of time – some cows even attempted to eat their own fecal matter, or drive their heads into a wall over and over and over again...

At first, the farmers thought that the cows had been suffering from some sort of parasitic infection, but found no traces of any such thing. Soon, however, they found it was something else – the cows were trying to kill themselves. And now, this was really interesting. Because unlike friendship, which is completely benign to evolutionary process, suicide actually impedes it. Suicide is a completely emotional construct – and it was crazy, because at the time everyone thought that only humans could consider such an abstract idea. And yet cows – cows, of all things – could feel this way. And that's when psychologists started thinking, well, maybe its not that suicide is an abstract concept, per say, but rather the connection between the feeling of either having someone to relate to, or being completely alone.

Every since that discovery, nearly all farms have universally adopted killing both partners at the same time, so neither cow has these symptoms. Whether this was out of sympathy or that a mad cow makes bad beef, no one really knows.

LEVIATHAN 001

Leviathan Tape 001
Date: Unknown
Location: New York, United States

Transcript:

I think the first episode was about... mid to late October of that year. It was early in the morning, and I was bringing Chloe out on a walk – we always go out on walks around that time, we go to the park. We'll stay for about an hour – Chloe would play with the other dogs and I would sit reading a book. But by the time I got there things... just felt weird. I was really lightheaded, so I let Chloe run off while I made my way to the bench. My eyelids got heavier and heavier, and... really the last thing I heard was Chloe barking.

...About two hours had passed, I think, until I was woken up by a concerned policeman. He woke me up saying, something like, “Ma'am, I noticed you've been sleeping on this bench for awhile and I thought something might be wrong. Is anything wrong?” And I told him the truth, told him I couldn't remember. So he drove me down to the hospital... the doctors did some tests, and they couldn't really figure out what was wrong with me. They decided to set an appointment with a specialist. And yet, as I walked out of the hospital, a question began to creep its way into my head... where was Chloe?