I first become interested in the Public Eye in April. I was shown his blog by a friend. He thought it was a blast. There was something in his ramblings, the close up of the unblinking eye, the hint of menance, and the touch of knowing that just, I don't know, drew me in. I waited, impatiently for his next post. The lists of seemingly unrelated events; the gas main bursts, the lottery numbers, the plane crashes. He draws dotted lines to all these events. And they all seem to point to what he calls "the Shadow Conspiracy". I have to admit, I laughed at first. But his voice, so compelling. the way his eye never moves, never blinks. I have to say, I get the shivers. I did some research and I believe I have dug up some dirt on the Public Eye. I know this is not regular "hard boiled news" but I think the people would like to know more about this mysterious vigilante.
Eye was not always Eye. Eye used to be I. That was when I was a child. With child's hands. Innocent. Back when father loved I. Then I became Eye. I crawled out of the cave and became Eye. I saw, and I became Eye. Mother, she loved I. She never met Eye. Eye never met mother. Mother was away. Father told I that Mother was sad. So sad that I never saw her anymore. I tried not to cry, but I was weak.
I heard noises and I rose from my bed. I saw Father and not Mother. She had no clothes and was flabby and gross. I tried to cover my eye with my child's hands, but they were too small. Still innocent. She screamed when she saw I. Father yelled and hit I. Father had big hands, hard, rough, far from innocent. I fell and went to sleep.
I was not Eye yet. I was still in the cave. Yet, I could see the light from outside. I climbed up, up, up. I was near the exit when I saw Father. He was Osiris on his throne. I bowed to Father Osiris. Father pulled me from the cave and opened my Eye. Eye was now Eye.
Eye looked for mother. Eye could not see her. Eye was out of the cave. Eye saw it all. Eye saw what people do when they think no one can see. But Eye sees all. Eye sees the pattern. Eye walked back to the cave, but Eye didn’t fear the dark. Eye opened my Eye and Eye saw the people, chewing, burping, farting, fucking all while in the cave. Only Eye knows that there is a way out of the cave. Only Eye can lead them to it. Only Eye is loved by Father Osiris. Eye looks at Eye's hands and they are now big, rough, and no longer innocent.
Eye have a job to do. And Eye will do it.
I must have watched that segment over a thousand times. Some would call it the ramblings of a crazy man. But I believe this Public Eye is trying to tells us who he is, and why he does this. I am not saying he is not insane. I am saying that he has his own logic. He created his own mythology.
I think he is Ephraim Salt. You know the Coma Boy. Remember him? Think back to the early 80's. Remember the boy who fell down the stairs and lapsed into a coma? He was giving an experimental drug. The drug was supposed to rouse him from his coma by increasing the REM cycles and jump start his brain. Instead he woke screaming and had to be institutionalized. His parents sued and took Pharmacon for millions.
Salt was later let go and his parents set him up in a small one bedroom apartment while they split up. Patty Salt died from a drug overdoes, while Obed Salt was murdered in what was thought to be a fight over dice.
I believe this due to clues in the narrative. Ephraim's mother was hospitalized many times due to failed suicide attempts. Ephraim's dad played around. Could he have hit young Ephraim when he walked in on him with one of his many floozies? Is that what caused him to fall down the stairs?
The narrative seems to support this. Could this cave he was in be a reference to Plato's cave? Could the drug have caused him to some how see beyond reality? Some how in his dream state could this drug gave him some sort of alertness?
And Osiris, the glyph for him in the ancient Egyptian is an eye over a throne. The name Osiris literally means "eye throne." Of course the young Ephraim would see his father as Osiris, sitting on a throne. What young boy wouldn't?
The dates match up. When Ephraim Salt finally was released from his institution his mother was already dead. His father already murdered. The money gone. Could Pharmacon have wacked them and taken back the money? Obed did withdraw a fortune the day before he died?
Edie, you can not possibly expect us to pursue this? You practically accuse one of the largest corporations in the world of not only using a child as a guinea pig, but of double homicide.
And besides, we scoured the internet looking for anything on the Public Eye. All we could find are some news items talking about some particularly violent vigilante. That is all. This blog clip you provided is all that exists to support your claim. I don't know if you are tying to pull our leg, or if you are working to hard, but we do see that you have talent, and some genuine pep. All is not lost, we have contacted your agent and as we speak, we are setting up a guest shot for you on the View. Now if you would just put this ridiculous Public Eye story in the trash where it belongs we can perhaps make this more than just a temporary thing...
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