. . just as, in accordance with Newton's Third Law of Motion, the ejection of the Sephardim propelled the ships towards the New World. This dynamic mode, along with the multi-directional release of forces by the action of the guillotine, represent the two sure domains of political mechanics. They are supplemented by a third affair: the necessary fiction.

I am Iñigo, the banker, my father’s son
But our vaults are filled with my brother’s gold,
Xocolatl and Monardes’ leaves.
Though we are not peons, my brother is the one
Who will be mistaken for the humble Genoese.
Sephardi, his lips are sealed. Of necessity
He flies the flag of Ferdinand and of fiction.
On dry land his truth is well concealed.
His name traverses the New World and the Old.
                    Who is he?