GABICITA MULLER RODRIGUEZ

FREE NOVEL
FOR A GLASS OF WINE
As I read in the newspapers about the devastation in the town of Hackleburg Alabama, with all of its commercial stores and factory and new church destroyed, I thought to myself, what can I do to help this little town. I don't have a lot of money to help them rebuild and replace buildings, so I decided to give you a copy of my Novel ( For a glass of wine. Copyrighted 1998 ) with the pretense that you will send your five dollars along with my five dollars to help and assist this little town to get back on its feet.
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Chapter one.

SPAIN

Near Barcelona Spain,is the small village of Catalonia. It was founded by the Greeks in the year ANNO 1160. Later in the year of ANNO 1165, King Sancho awarded Catalonia the privilegio (privilege) of using the royal name on its wine bottle labels. The name chosen was Privilegio Del Rey Sancho. So named, the label signified this wine was the finest in all Spain. In the year ANNO 1264, King Alfonso X (the wise king) knighted twenty four families in Catalonia because of their premium wines, but only the brothers Rafael and Miquel Valdispino of the oldest Spanish origin were allowed to use the royal seal on their wine labels.
During the year ANNO 1510 and the reign of King Carlos the first, the Privilegio Del Rey Sancho wine was of such excellence that King Carlos professed it to be the (leache de madre), the mother's milk of fine wines. Furthermore, the King decided to make it the most famous and noted wine the world will have ever known and would send only small amounts to the world's nobility such as emperors, kings, queens, shahs, emirs, tsars, sultans and heads of state. To further impress the world of Spain's wealth of gold and its fine wine, King Carlos decided to have the wine labels stamped of gold from the new world. As Hernan Cortes was returning with tons of gold from what is no known as Mexico, King Carlos also decided to put a small gold cross inside the bottle to insure its purity. By using Spain's seal and gold, King Carlos created a society where only a few would receive wine and the rest of the world's connoisseurs would be envious, certain to go to great lengths and skullduggery to obtain a bottle of the fine wine.
To obtain a bottle of wine of this stature would call forth the motions of a pilgrimage, a Moslem going to Mecca, a Catholic to the Vatican in Rome, a Morman going to Salt Lake City, a Jew going to Israel. Because the wine would be so exclusive, some rules and ethics had to be formulated to regulate the behavior of all recipients.
Not only would a person have to be on his or her best behavior and to respect all members of the society, they would have to exert extreme self-discipline upon meeting members of the society they disliked. The only allowable retaliation after accepting an unbearable insult or accusation, would be the privilege of slapping your adversary with an open hand in the middle of his forehead.
It was also mandatory that you smile and beg for his forgiveness, whereas your adversary had to acknowledge your forgiveness without any retaliation. Any member not adhering to these rules or attempts to dispose of the gifted wine in any manner such as selling or bartering of the wine would automatically relinquish their membership and the wine would go to the next heir of royalty or member of a political power.
As Barcelona was the capital city of Spain during the reign of King Carlos, the international headquarters for the society was established there. King Carlos assumed that Spain would always be designated as the seat of all royalty and wealth and all countries would have to bow down to Spain's wishes on all matters because of the Privilegio Del Rey Sancho wine, thus the society was born and called Society Del Rey Sancho.

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Chapter two

Berkeley, California

On a hill overlooking the University of California-Berkeley sat a small one story house belonging to an old sea captain who had retired after many years of salvaging sunken ships. His house was unusual as it was constructed of wine bottles. All one could see was the butt-end of the bottles, and they extended up to the roof edge. Inside the high chainlink fence and behind the house was a cave from which you could see the old sea captain carry a case of wine occasionally. The old captain's routine was about the same each day as he would sit in his favorite lawn chair and drink wine all day. He would take a drink from the bottle,
recork it, and then settle back in his chair and take a little snooze. Once upon having a little sip, he recorked the bottle and sat it back on the table, but he accidently missed the table and the bottle rolled down the hill and under his chain link fence and came to rest next to a park bench. As the old captain was half-asleep, he never noticed what had happened.
Walking through the campus park one day was a bum named Alawishes P. Excalibur. As Alawishes walked by the campus bench, he noticed the wine bottle and because he had a bad case of the shakes, proceeded to consume the entire bottle. Upon quenching his thirst and stopping the shakes, Alawishes laid down on the bench and fell asleep.
Professor Antonio Herrera (noted wine connoisseur and historian ) was walking across the campus on his way to lecture his history class, when he came upon the bum who was asleep on the campus bench. The professor thought, how disgusting to have a bum sleeping on the campus property. It degrades the beauty and charm of the campus. Spotting the empty wine bottle he mused, another drunken bum using our campus for a bed.
Noticing the wine bottle label, the professor's mind exploded with disbelief when he recognized that the wine bottle label was very unusual and different. He suspected a expensive bottle of wine and started shaking the bum to find out where he had obtained the wine. As the label looked very rare, professor Herrera kept shaking the bum and finally aroused him enough to start asking where he had got the wine. Fearing he would have to go to jail for being drunk and on the campus property, the bum took off running for his life. As the professor couldn't catch the bum and didn't want anyone else to see the bottle with the rare label, the professor hid the bottle in his briefcase and proceeded to go to the university library to research the origin of the wine. Searching through many books on wine, the professor found out that the wine had been bottled in Spain.
Upon professor Herrera's discovery of the wine, his research showed that the famed Privilegio Del Rey Sancho wine was bottled in Catalonia, Spain. Some further research
has shown that there hadn't been any Privilegio wine bottled for over 200 years because of a grape vine scourge when all the vines had died. This conclusion meant that any bottle of Privilegio was worth its weight in gold.
Professor Herrera delegated one of his kiss-ass students named Floyd Fage and it is pronounced the way the student is, to help him find the bum who was in the park. Upon locating Alawishes, Floyd told him he wasn't in any trouble and they wanted to reward him with $100 bill for finding the wine. When the professor finally met Alawishes, he gave him the reward and Alawishe,s eyes lit up and he licked his chops

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a startling imitation of Mickey Rooney ) in anticipation of his next bottle of wine. Then the professor asked Alawishes where he had found the bottle of wine, but Alawishes mind was so wine-soaked he couldn't remember where he had found the bottle. Alawishes hung his head low and said when he was sober, he took pride in his ability to remember things in great detail. Pondering the situation and the gravity of his discovery, Professor Hererra decided to take Alawishes under his wing until he could remember where he had found the wine.
The professor told the university regent, the Honorable Earl Fortier, a local millionaire, about his find and they both agreed to put Alawishes in the campus executive housing suite until he was sober enough to remember. Both the professor and the regent pondered the notoriety they would create for the university and themselves for finding such an international treasure. They even contemplated the Federal Government desire to take the wine away from them and then pretend they would put it in the Smithsonian Museum for the world to view.
Of course there would have to be contributions and recognition for their discovery, possibly a nomination for a Noble Peace Prize before they would give up the wine.
As Alawishes was put in the executive suite, he told them his clothes were worn out and if he was to sober up, he would require an appropriate wardrobe such as a new suit and a pair of new shoes, depicting his new status. Needless to say he would also require some spending money to support with his station. After a few days of good campus meals, Professor Herrera started questioning Alawishes about where he had found the bottle of wine.
Neither Alawishes or the professor could remember on which park bench the professor had found Alawishes asleep. As the days went by, rumors about the wine started slipping out of the campus and into the news world
Young coeds realizing the fame attached to the find, started appearing at Alawishes' suite to latch on to him as a boyfriend. Once the professor caught Alawishes with three coeds in his bed at the same time. When confronted about the coeds, Alawishes just smiled and said, " Oh, my memory is slowly coming back to me."
One of San Francisco television stations (KRO-TV) reporters was dating a coed from Berkeley and she told about the bottle of Privilegio wine being found on the campus by Alawishes the bum. The television reporter, Stan Marc, went to the university and located Alawishes and asked him for a television interview about the famous wine. As Alawishes started realizing the importance and the notoriety of the wine, he demanded $50,000 and the reporters coed girlfriend, Elaine Leslie, to sleep with him at least once before the interview could be televised. After the reporter got the television station to put up the money, all Stan had to do now was to persuade his girlfriend to sleep with Alawishes. Stan told his girlfriend how famous he would be scooping the world with this interview with Alawishes and the wine discovery. Elaine said she would agree to sleep with Alawishes if he would take her to Reno, Nevada, and marry her first. Elaine had been trying to get Stan to marry her for a least three years unsuccessfully.
After the marriage took place and the sexual consummation between Elaine and Alawishes had been completed, a date was set for the television interview. Upon Professor Herrera hearing about the interview, he blew his stack and went into a rage vowing to kill Alawishes for agreeing to have a television interview about the wine and that he was the one who recognized and discovered the wine. Kiss-

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ass student Fage reminded the professor if he killed Alawishes, he would never find out where the wine had come from. After the professor had calmed down a little, he went to Alawishes suite to talk to him and as he entered the suite, coeds went flying out the windows. The professor begged Alawishes not to reveal any information about where he had found the wine and reminded him of all the good things he had given him to bring him back to the good life.
Alawishes knowing he had the professor by the short hairs, proceeded to tell the professor of his demands if he was to remember where he had found the wine. First, Alawishes wanted the University to make him an honorary professor of history with a permanent residence in the University executive suite. Then demanded a salary of $100,000 per year and an American Express credit card that the University would pay for. Next he insisted the University nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize, and he wanted a star on the Hollywood sidewalk of fame.