D393 Samples of terrestrial handwriting for a museum on UMMO

[Handwritten notes: «Received 11-3-87» and «(they do not forbid making copies)»]

UMOAELEUEE
Language: SPANISH
addressed to Country SPAIN

For Mr Luis Jiménez Marhuenda and his wife María

We wish to be respectful of your customs. They say that a letter should be sent to the head of the family. And although we interpret it as clear discrimination against the YIIE (WOMAN), we bow to your roles.

We wish to express our desire to you:

First, that you pass on our expression of the most respectful greeting to the persons we list below.

(We have thought it effective to change the typeface of the machine to that of the same model, HISPANO OLIVETTI Studio 46, with which we wrote, in the Castilian version, our first letters to that wonderful country. The purpose is obvious: to help them not to be confused with apocryphal letters. A typewriting expert's examination, bearing in mind that this model is very worn and that the already deformed impression of the typefaces would help to fix its authenticity like a fingerprint, would make forgery by technically unprepared persons very difficult.)

So pass on the said expression to THESE PERSONS, BUT VERY ESPECIALLY TO THEIR WIVES AND PARTNERS. The reason is this: we have always been respectful of your customs and shall continue to be so. We know that in the cultural environment of OIYIA EARTH (GAAA) the predominance of the male sex relegates the YIEE (WIFE). But we have observed that our respect for your roles and habits has sometimes been interpreted as moral support from our foreign mind for that misogynistic attitude. We wish to make up, with this express dedication, for the apparent neglect that may have been fallaciously read into our texts. One of the saddest aspects of the wonderful culture of Earth, which has made the most painful impression on us, is precisely that attitude of marginalisation.

We know that some of these persons, such as FRANCO MUELA or MANUEL ÁLVAREZ, have died, but their memories not only remain engraved in our memory; their mental contributions were also recorded within the BUAUE BIAEEII (COLLECTIVE PSYCHIC PLANE).

We have also excluded from the list respected persons who, like Fernando Barón Rojas Marcos, Pilar Gómez Aguirre, Vidal Lamíq., José María Navarro López, Mario Rodríguez Aragón, Mario Serra Parera, Manuel Selva Domínguez, Ramón de Navia Ossorio, Eladio Ortega Laria, José María Bañón Artigao, Ángel del Campo Francés and José Antonio Francés, were interested in some way in our existence.

All those brothers of yours whose first names and surnames we cite in these typed sheets deserve our deepest respect. Some maintain an attitude of prudent doubt towards us. They are the most sensible; others love our culture; they are the brothers of yours dearest to mine, although we would like to exhort them to adopt a more critical stance. Our hand on your breast.

[Handwritten note: «(living and dead (?))»]

My name is AOSII 3, SON OF IRAA Number 6, and I would like to ask you a favour, a signal one for us.

We would like to take to Ummo a memento of your lives. For this purpose we would ask you to write on a white card (measuring 14.7 centimetres by 9.4 centimetres) a handwritten text, but headed with your name and your two Spanish surnames and then (also handwritten) SPAIN - COLD PLANET EARTH. (If you do not wish to cut the cards to those measurements, trace the handwriting within a rectangular area smaller than those dimensions and we shall cut it out with a die. The reason for those measurements is none other than a coding norm for our museum halls (OBFUOVAA).)

We possess your images (except those of Alicia Araujo and Manuel Trigo, the former deceased) in high-resolution stereographic (three-dimensional) reproduction, which we have obtained with our UULUEWAA. Of each OEMII cited we have been able to obtain graphic sensitisations clothed and naked. We beg you to forgive us if we have done so without your authorisation, but we have not thereby violated any law of ours of an ethical nature.

If any brother of yours possesses writings of the deceased brothers, we would like to have a REAL sample (we only have those of Fernando Sesma and Manuel Álvarez). Send them to your brother JUAN AGUIRRE CEBERIO.

[UMMO seal and signature in Ummite characters]