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The
Intercontinental Downtown Hotel lounge, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
An interview of WE Blake by Professor
Doris Longrood, Associate Professor
of Theology, Marquette University, March 4, 2008.
Doris
Longrood:
I appreciate your willingness to meet with me, Mr. Blake.
Thanks for the information that you sent me.
It’s
been very helpful.
Whitman
Eliot Blake:
Good,
I’m glad it helped.
Doris L:
I was pretty excited by your message to me, because you now seem willing
to discuss the Blaketashi Darwishes in,
how did you describe it? complete candor at this meeting.
Are you still willing to do that?
WE Blake:
Of course. We have nothing
to hide.
DL:
Perhaps, then, we can start out with your real name?
Certainly, you were not christened ‘Whitman Eliot Blake’ I
assume?
WEB:
Right to it, I see. No, of
course, WE Blake is my Blaketashi name. My
real surname is 'Widmer.'
DL:
No offense intended, but I rather like ‘Blake’ better.
WEB:
None taken. Me too.
(The professor puts on a pair of
reading glasses, and takes some notes from a manila envelope.)
DL:
Mr. Blake, for many years, on Wikipedia.com, the origin of the Blaketashi
Darwishes was given as having been
established over a hundred years ago, by Oxford professors.
About a year ago, the origins of the Blaketashis were removed
from
Wikipedia. Why was it removed?
WEB:
Well, it seems that Wikipedia finally realized that their published
origin of the Blaketashis was complete rubbish.
About time.
DL: (surprised)
The Blaketashis are complete rubbish? Are
you telling me that they are made up?”
WEB:
I said that the legendary origins of the Blaketashi Darwishes are rubbish.
Not that Blaketashis are. Mostly.
DL: So you were not founded by Oxford professors, then?
WEB:
We were not.
DL:
(professor Longrood sat up straight) The published materials about
your organization have always maintained at least the
implication
that you were an organization of significant age and founded by credentialed
persons. Don’t you feel as though
you have been deceiving people all these years about your origins?