Elon Musk and substack
"Elon Musk is going to buy Heaven from God."
I told this to my little angel, who has been living in an unpublished novel of mine for more than 30 years. After my father died, I started writing about an angel who came to earth to ask questions of a man who had recently died (religious questions that get a dead person a visa to Heaven or Hell). She stayed on earth because she found our planet more interesting than Heaven. Heaven was boring.
It was impossible to publish such a story in Iran, but I dared to read part of it to a group run by my friend, Media. He was a great translator and worked for the ambassador in the French embassy.
They attacked me, and I was scared. My angel was frightened, too. I put the story on a shelf. I sometimes read, re-read, and revised during those dark years. When I arrived in America, I published ten chapters on a website in 2010. That website was hacked, and my angel was more terrified than ever. Now, we both understand they were everywhere.
After that, whenever I worked on my manuscript, the little angel was shaking and afraid. I promised her that I would never publish the story without her permission. However, I recently decided to post ‘An Angel On Earth’ for two reasons:
1. I discovered Substack and Elon Musk at the same time.
2. I heard Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion.
So, I began reading and editing again, but the little angel was still anxious; she wanted to remain hidden as always. Don't worry, I reassured her. Nobody can send you to Heaven. The world is not scary anymore, and God neither has the power He had before nor is He as rich.
We are now living in the Elon Musk era. Nobody can hurt you; he will buy Heaven from God and probably all the stars and the entire universe. Finally, she stopped shaking. On Friday, April 30, I posted the first chapter of my newsletter written in Farsi.
I didn't tell her what was going on in Ukraine, how many refugees have drowned recently, or how many children lost their parents in Syria. I didn't tell her anything about that stuff. Honesty doesn't work, I thought. So, I have to cheat if I want to publish my story online. I cheated on her.
Source: Substack