Criterion

Saturn was a man who has red much, very much, and he was professor of philosophy at famous University, he was always busied for think and write or read, he doesn’t speaks but he preferred to write and to think, a big brain who laughs around question which were for him very irrelevant, as the semantical think, the study of sign, every sign, that he considered very marginal, but his a friend has insisted very much so that he read a book around semiotic, a book that he has written and he has had gift, but until now he hasn’t red; in front of a library, a new library, which he hasn’t never seen he entered in, and a man with thick beard received him and: “The book which you are searching is at bookshelf to bottom to right”, Saturn looked and very astonish asked: “How do you know what I am searching?”, and man didn’t answered but accompanied him to bookshelf; he took a book and: “It is book of Albert Alcott, Sign as semiotic and contrary, Saturn was very astonish and he looked man and smiled and tough that his face has familiar something, but for his costume he opened book and started read; he raised eyes and he looked he was in street and next was same man of library who: “Now you must think to semiotic”, and Saturn, who recognized street our from library, was astonish because he didn’t gone out, but he tough that he didn’t remember what he has made, therefore he looked around and he tough that his bag and his jacket were in library, therefore he turned for to enter in library but it was disappeared, and now was a store toys for babies, he was very astonish and he was searching soon a rational explication but a voice: “Look forward and what do you see?” and Saturn, recognized the voice of librarian: “I see store of toys, and babies”, and man: “And?”, and Saturn: “And men and woman”, and librarian: “These men and women what do you think around them?”, and Saturn: “Certainly they are old for to play with toys”, and librarian: “Therefore?”, and Saturn: “Therefore they are parents of babies”, and librarian: “Why?”, and Saturn: “Because are old and…”, and librarian: “And because they have attention to babies, also if babies aren’t their; look women, you can recognize mothers why?”, and Saturn: “I don’t know”, and librarian: “Because every mom has always protective instinct for every babies, and every mom is attentive to her babies and other, if a baby has danger a mom works so that baby is save, and you can identify the mothers for this attention, which is evident”, and Saturn: “Yes it is true; it could be…”, and librarian: “Semiotic, alone semiotic. Do you have red Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes?”, Saturn smiled because this gender literature isn’t very distant from his taste, and in fact: “No, certainly”, and librarian: “Pity!”, because in every romance of Sherlock Holmes every case is solved by a particular, an exemple; The Valley of Fear, it is a romance of 1915; a dead who must be a Douglas is truly a man who has tempted to kill Douglas, and Sherlock Holmes will knows because wedding ring of Douglas isn’t to finger of Douglas, the dead man, but other finger; it is sufficient for Holmes for to understand that the dead isn’t Douglas but other”, Saturn smiled and: “Clever Sherlock but you don’t think that I am your Watson”, and Librarian: “On contrary, you are my Watson because you are learning, it semiotic, ring is sign of wedding and Douglas is married, but assassin hasn’t ring wedding, therefore it isn’t Douglas, but who is he?, it is semiotic”. Saturn looked well face of librarian and: “Albert, Albert Alcott, what are you doing?”, and librarian: “Very well thank you, Saturn red on book a dedication written with pen: “For Saturn, my dearest friend now dead”, and Saturn: “Albert but I am now life”, and Albert: “Read last page”, and Saturn red it: “Dear Saturn you must understand what is semiotic; therefore and other generation will work other, when you will understand what is semiotic is will be last your case, as Sherlock Holmes, but you have learned a criterion for acknowledge”, Saturn smiled close book and at library set again book on bookshelf  looked librarian and gone out without jacket.

Alessandro Lusana