Prequel prefatory
PREFATORY TO THE ROAD TO SAN JUAN DE PASTO.
Dear reader,
Please find the following pages as a record of the writings that were delivered to me by the person known to me as Conchita DeTumaco. After her arrest and trial, I was given her journals that included her stories and accounting of her life.
In a letter written from her place of incarceration, she asked for my forgiveness and hoped that in some way the recounting of events that led to her life of criminal enterprise would inspire this author tell her story; a recording of the tribulations, tragedies and people who influenced her life. In these pages I hope to enlighten the reader, not through her personal narrative or historical account, but as an enhanced fictional reckoning of events and people that led her from worldly success and personal achievements to, ultimately her fall from favor and grace.
Also, we will be reintroduced to her partner in crime, Roger Montcalm. Although Roger and I were never close, I became sympathetic to his demise after learning of his history as a Mormon missionary; an obsequious devotee of his faith until fate would have its way with him. Imagine what it must like to discover everything you held to be true would be twisted and doubted. His mission was no longer abstract, saving souls but saving himself from existential quietus. Through his deference to a more noble cause; Conchita’s quest for her long-lost brother, Alberto, he will discover that love and redemption are forces that wield their power in the most unorthodox methods. An anonymous philosopher once said that Doubt and Absolute Certainty are twin brothers of Truth. Doubt questions and asks why not? Absolute Certainty subscribes to conviction and self-preservation. Each brother by itself will never survive if one dominates the other. It is only with the continued search for Truth and Love that Roger will shed his convictions and follow the woman that personifies Doubt and absolute conviction wrapped in the soul of woman, Conchita.
Lukas Helitski
Isla Vista, California
1976.
Dear reader,
Please find the following pages as a record of the writings that were delivered to me by the person known to me as Conchita DeTumaco. After her arrest and trial, I was given her journals that included her stories and accounting of her life.
In a letter written from her place of incarceration, she asked for my forgiveness and hoped that in some way the recounting of events that led to her life of criminal enterprise would inspire this author tell her story; a recording of the tribulations, tragedies and people who influenced her life. In these pages I hope to enlighten the reader, not through her personal narrative or historical account, but as an enhanced fictional reckoning of events and people that led her from worldly success and personal achievements to, ultimately her fall from favor and grace.
Also, we will be reintroduced to her partner in crime, Roger Montcalm. Although Roger and I were never close, I became sympathetic to his demise after learning of his history as a Mormon missionary; an obsequious devotee of his faith until fate would have its way with him. Imagine what it must like to discover everything you held to be true would be twisted and doubted. His mission was no longer abstract, saving souls but saving himself from existential quietus. Through his deference to a more noble cause; Conchita’s quest for her long-lost brother, Alberto, he will discover that love and redemption are forces that wield their power in the most unorthodox methods. An anonymous philosopher once said that Doubt and Absolute Certainty are twin brothers of Truth. Doubt questions and asks why not? Absolute Certainty subscribes to conviction and self-preservation. Each brother by itself will never survive if one dominates the other. It is only with the continued search for Truth and Love that Roger will shed his convictions and follow the woman that personifies Doubt and absolute conviction wrapped in the soul of woman, Conchita.
Lukas Helitski
Isla Vista, California
1976.
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