One time: from contemporary to ancient

George was a old professor of philosophy, and he was accustomed that after the lesson, usually during the morning he in afternoon slept at last one hour in his bed, and after he has awoke he read and written until night; his life was very monotonous, but he has chosen this style and from when he was 17 years old lived this way. During the sleep he dreamed, in fact he got in a build where were much persons,  that told one other, and somebody has around much persons, hence he exited curiosity approached to this crowd and he seen a man with thick beard and he spook to these persons that in silence are hearing him; he recognized soon Socrates, because he has a sculpture of half length portrait; he was very excited and he didn’t asked to him how it is was possible, he was hiring and stop; and Socrates explained his way of acknowledge, he was saying: “I search the acknowledge from other with questions, logic questions, but no certainly because I want know, alone because I want that they know that their think is failure, because hasn’t connection to logic, and this word, logic, is from ancient Greek, λόγος, that means discourse, therefore the discourse must be logic!”, George brook this tale and: “This is dear Socrates is maieutic system”, Socrates gazed him and: “Yes, you are right, maieutic way, but how do you know it?”, and George: “Because I sit an exam on your way, and my professor woman was much exigent”, and Socrates: “Who is your master?”, and George: “You!”, and Socrates: “I don’t remember you in Athens place”, and George: “In fact am not from Athens”, and Socrates: “Are you from?”, and George: “Ab alter mundus(from other word)”, and Socrates: “What?”, and George: “From future”, and Socrates: “What do you are going in this time?”, and George: “I am here because must talk to you that it is maieutic way, you didn’t call so, in fact alone to future it is going to call so, but you never has used this name”; around Socrates the listeners seen all George and he turned and gone away, an improvise think had George and he turned toward Socrates, but he and his crowd where disappeared; a man sit the hand on shoulder George’s and he invited him to listen other philosopher, now Heraclitus, that explained the his concept about the ephemeral existence of thing, everything passes; George listened and brook: “This is panta rei, everything passes, and to explain better this concept: the man doesn’t wash never in same water of a river”; Heraclitus seen him and: “Clever! You know it because you have arrived from future”, and George asked: “Yes, how do you know it?”, and Heraclius: “Because it has said that lady”, and he indicated a female figure that spook in a group of men, George looked hers and he approached, and the lady gazed him and: “Dear George you are delayed, may is time past? Because I have seen that you was speaking to Heraclitus, and everything passes enclose the flies and the trains, whereby you are delayed”, George gazed the lady and: “Lucy you are always precise and punctual, I remember when I set four exams to you, and the Latin and ancient Greek aorist you was always precise and pitiless”, and Lucy: “For this you asked me Demosthenes, it is useless that I arise them because you know perfectly, Aristotle, Platoon, Democritus, Leucippus, Thalete, and Henry, Mark, July, Paola…”; and George recognized his class math of High school and University, and: “What do you are making here?”, and Paola: “We are called from Lucy and we have come here”, and George: “Here are the died alone”, and Henry indicated a funeral  back to George, and he looked it, and on the coffin was written: “The dear professor George”, he turned to Henry and asked: “Am I died?”, and Mark: “Panta rei, dear George, panta rei”.

Alessandro Lusana