The work has “roots” in real history, telling the story of a pirate - the captain of Mission, who founded a settlement - Libertence - on the island of Madagascar. One of the settlers killed a lemur, and thereby brought the wrath of the aborigines upon the Libertazia settlement. The Aborigines destroyed the settlement. Burroughs, on a phantasmagoric level, brings the explanation of the murder to the teachings of Christ, whom someone (God?) threw to Earth for something... “The teachings of Christ take on meaning at the level of the virus. What does the virus do to its enemies? He turns them against himself.” The victims of the disease that Sifka Babirbutu (one of the guardians of the grave of Mission and the lemur) contracted, shared, as an autopsy showed, the same pathology: their veins were filled not with blood, but with yellow-green ichor, which emitted a terrible stench. The disease spread with incredible speed to Africa, and then to Europe and America... Only lemurs have lasting immunity against the virus, because they do not speak, are not aggressive, truly “God’s creatures”, the so-called last illusory chance for the survival of life and humanity.. “There were, of course, species that disappeared before the appearance of humans, but Homo Sap made its contribution. He kills for food, but he also kills for pleasure, for security. Moreover, he kills to amuse this ugly thing. The thing he has inside. The Ugly Spirit, who found a worthy refuge in Homo Sap, the Ugly Beast"