Letters from…

Hunter an old professor is going back home and, like usually, opened the his mail box, and like usually among the letters of his university and other correspondence he found often a letter of his pupil of name Catherine, as his mother, by now died when he was born; he was growth with his father, a teacher of philosophy in a high school, and a stepmother, that was very proud of hers husband and hers stepson, and he has loved this stepmother for hers life, because he hasn’t known other maternal figures during his life, whereby he loved Ursula as his mother; in fact every time that a letter of Catherine he find in mailbox, others letters could wait because the first attention was to Catherine, very maternal letters, and full of references to episode that he has lived, also latter. Catherine often asked explication about the philosophical concepts; thereupon now she asked about the Hegel’s absolute spirit, she wanted know an easy definition of this concept, and he answered always, and the address of sender wasn’t never, he hence left hiss answers in his mailbox and after some hours the letter there isn’t, he answered above all during night, and he didn’t explained to herself when the postman took these letters that he sent; anyway he was accustomed to this practice. He read with usually passion and interest the letter of Catherine, and answered to questions, because asks were two, one about Hegel and second what is the owner code, that he has explained during the lesson of past week. He smiled for these asks and answered: “The first question loved Catherine regard to a Hegel’s concept and it is alone the human brain; I explains better; the absolute spirit isn’t to Hegel a metaphysical question, but alone a very earthly, this is the humankind; for example if somebody did a robbery to a bank, during the night, and he robbed a million of dollars and he after during his flight he meets a homeless, and he takes the million that he has robbed and gives it to homeless; it is the brain, because in brain is the negative and the positive absolute spirit, that were alone earthly, this is human! When I have explained the absolute spirit, I have said that in it is the negative and positive behavior, and the example of robber is very fit, because the robber does a robber, therefore a negative action but after he gives it to homeless, thereupon a positive action, but it is the human brain that can make positive and negative actions. The second question that you have given to me is equal personal and general, because the personal code were references that we find in our brain, in our culture, in our costumes, and we hence identify ourselves to that codes, because we acknowledge our familiar references, this is our code; when you gaze a painting you search in your memory some familiar references that can say to you something that is familiar to your confidence with painting, or style when you are reading a book; the boring books are these haven’t familiar reference, therefore we don’t find our code”. After this explication Hunter added: “I hope that you are going to be attentive the next lesson”, and a voice from dark in the room answered: “Yes I will be attentive when Hunter is going to be clear”, he glazed the dark and asked soon: “Who are you?”, and a figure from dark step after step was configuring, a young lady very beautiful and circa 30 years old: hunter glazed this figure and he got up and asked again: “Who are you?”; and the woman: “Certainly you haven’t in your code, because you never known me”; Hunter scared. “No absolutely but I know the police”, in fact he gone to telephone and called the police; the police arrived very soon, and asked a description of this woman, they searched everywhere, and finally, they got down from bedroom and one of two policemen has found a photo, and he said: “This is unique woman that we have found”, Hunter took the photo and gazed it and he thanked the policemen and he kept the photo in the right hand, he read back the photo: “This explication is very fit now explain it to your Catherine, this is my niece, and clearly, because remember that she is your stepdaughter”; he smiled and he raised his eyes and answered: “Javoll mein fuhrer”, and leaned the photo to night table. The after day a keys opened the door and gone in tenement with two persons, that asked: “Who lived in this apartment?”, and the realtor answered: “A professor of philosophy, died during the 19^th century, but I don’t know the name or other…”.

Alessandro Lusana