Figurski at Findhorn on Acid

Until the little-known 1994 publication of Masquerading at Shower-Lourdes by Fatima Michelle Vieuchanger, followed by the even less-known multimedia monograph On the Holodeck with Rosellini's 1737 Mechanical Pig, there had been no confirmed sightings in the 20th century of either the original Rosellini or the van Gelderschott forgery. By late 1997, a handful of eccentric characters were pursuing both pigs from Florida to Scotland in a kind of global shell game involving virtual reality and time travel. If their progress was being monitored by a small but persistant audience, they could not know it. [...]  By the 21st century there would seem to be very little left to say about Rosellini's 1737 mechanical pig or van Gelderschott's alleged 1884 forgery, and very few ways left of saying it. Yet when Frank Figurski, Nguyen Van Tho, and Fatima Michelle Vieuchanger began to reassemble their one-third portions of the total, they found that the two pigs were much greater than the sum of their parts. One hundred forty-seven (147) parts had mushroomed to 294 then 345 and finally 354, and those 354 parts were connected in a web of 2001 links that emulated the intricacy of the brain itself at the predawn of human evolution. Indeed, vole researchers would report at a new millennium session of the Conference of Multidisciplinary Automaton Scholars (COMAS) that the first small, clever, nervous mammals scurrying furtively in the tracks of dinosaurs during the Jurassic Period had a neural structure precisely analogous to the Rosellini clockwork-servomechanism design.