Shadows

Pollux was a prisoner into the cave and when was possible to him exit, he exited with greatest happiness, he reached a city very big and he looked persons and citizen, much races, and he was very astonished, skyscrapers were very high and he wanted gone up, in fact he looked and admired very large panorama, he entered into museums, and pub, after he looked cinemas and movies, but above all he wanted know persons; then he stopped guys on the streets and he asked who they were, name and address, but persons thought that he was crazy, and he didn’t managed understand why this behaviour, he wanted alone know them. He entered to a pub, and he seen that costumers drunk some beer other wine and other thing, he asked to a woman: “Why do you drink so much?”, and man answered: “Because I want forgotten all my questions”, and Pollux asked: “Which?”, and woman: “One is principal, and it is very important to me”, and Pollux asked: “What is?”, and woman: “A man that wants fuck me and he hasn’t courage ask it”, and Pollux turned around and searched this man, and he answered: “I don’t see nobody that wants you”, and woman: “It is you, foolish”, and Pollux: “No absolutely, I want speak and ask something to you, but what is to fuck, a drink?”, and woman: “Are you from?” and Pollux: “I from a cave and I have seen alone shadows on the wall, but I don’t know where I am and what is this together of homes and skyscrapers, what is this?”, woman thought that Pollux was foreign and she answered: “If you have some money I can answer to you”, and Pollux asked: “What is money?”, woman smiled and she got up and exited by pub. Pollux asked same question other person, but everybody tried cheat him or let him without answer; he started to consider that this word was very strange and dislike; but something liked very much to him, he looked movies and television, and he considered that other contests and other people were present; therefore he wanted know these realities; in fact he visited and known these peoples and these peoples. After much travels a man in a city approached to him and asked: “Are you satisfied?”, and Pollux raised eyes and seen man, and answered: “Yes, but now I want know other people!”, and man drawn on the wall a door and after he opened it. Pollux entered and he seen his cave, with shadows on the large walls, but he found also television and movies showed; and man asked: “What do you want now?”, Pollux turned to him and: “Thank you very much, you can exit now, I will stand here, thank you”, and he closed door.

Alessandro Lusana