The Miracle of Walking on Water:
This easy-to-master classic miracle, which novices tend to be given to build up their self-confidence, does not require special footwear. It is based on the ability to increase the elastic surface tension of the fluid at the point being walked on. The body must be made as light as a ball of cotton and as delicate as the leaf of a water-lily. Many apprentices ask for a life-jacket at first, but such cowardly frivolity only leads to failure: the jackets tend to be in distressingly loud colours and disturb the gravity and solemnity of the situation, that retrotrae epic mîses-en-scène such as that of the Master on Lake Tiberias, or that of Väinämoinen following the ill-fated Aino, before she sunk beneath the waters of Kaleva and was turned into a porpoise. The maiden had been bestowed as a prize on the old bard by her brother Joukahäinen, vanquished in a duel of canticles and charms.
© Joan Fontcuberta
The Miracle of Instantaneous Polderization:
Although the divinations of Turpa had on several occasions pointed out the redundancy and waste of energies implicit in devoting two miraculous techniques to the same purpose of crossing large expanses of water without swimming -if you can walk on water, surely it is not necesessary to part the waves to get across without getting yourself wet?- the response from the military strategists of Essur was that if you had to move an army with wagons and horses, simply parting the waters was far more practical that to getting sappers to build pontoons, above all in view of recent wage demands and strike threats from their union. The practice sessions for this miracle are performed at the rapids of Imatra, one of the scenic spots immortalized by the Romantic artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela. The River Vouksi is a tough test: aspirants who manage to tame its fierce currents and stem its raging tide will find that other river, ocean or jacuzzi will compare in difficulty.
© Joan Fontcuberta
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