Oscar Kiss Maerth

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Oscar Kiss Maerth (born 1914 "in what was then Hungary but is now [1974] Yugoslavia") is the author of The Beginning Was the End (1971), a pseudo-scientific book written in a Chinese monastery that claimed modern man devolved from a species of brain-eating apes. According to Maerth, this diet increased the apes' brain size, sex drive, aggression, psychic ability, and eventually caused insanity. Maerth offered scant evidence for his theories, basing them largely on his alleged meetings with cannibals in Java and New Guinea and his experiences eating raw ape brains in a restaurant in Southeast Asia. He hints at having activated his latent psychic abilities through altering the shape of his skull in the manner of Incan tribes and/or trepanation, and his theories are mostly derived from the resultant divine inspiration. The frontispiece of Maerth's book says that after his travels in Asia, South America and Australia he settled in Italy where he lived with his wife and three children on Lake Como, where he was involved in the restoration of Villa Passalacqua. While future volumes were promised in the course of the text, none ever appeared, with the exception of The Speech of Moltrasio, a very rare 8 page pamphlet. His current whereabouts are unknown. He was an influence on the new wave band Devo, who referred to him in early interviews as "Author Kiss-My-Ass".

Message: MAN HAS DISCOVERED MANY THINGS, BUT NOT HIMSELF. HE GAVE TO HIMSELF THE NAME HOMO SAPIENS. THE JUSTNESS OF THE SELF-BAPTISM WAS NOT ENDORSED BY ANY COMPETENT AUTHORITY. SO KNOW YOURSELVES AND THE TRUTH CONCERNING YOUR ORIGIN. ALTER YOUR GOALS ACCORDINGLY BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. [signed] KM, Tsin san Monastery/China, 3200 years after Moses, 2753 years after Lao-tzu, 2510 years after Buddha, 1967 years after Christ and 1400 years after Mohammed.

– Oscar Kiss Maerth, The Beginning was the End, Sphere Books, London, 1974, p. 7