Piazza Beato Tommaso Reggio Piazza beato Tommaso Reggio Schizzai giù dal letto fissando l’orologio. Le venti e quarantacinque. Lo spettacolo cominciava alle ventuno. Fuori imbruniva; nella casa regnava la penombra. Picchiai il muso contro la porta del bagno. Non bestemmiai per pudore, ma presi a calci l’infisso fino ad abbatterlo.
Dopo aver sconfitto l’indomito nemico, e aver perso del tempo prezioso, mi vestii e puntai sul borgo. Le prime luci lo illuminavano a festa.
Una processione di anime dementi ammorbava le strade per confluire verso la piazza della Collegiata. L’incubo era iniziato. Mi tuffai in quel carnaio avariato con il solo obbiettivo di raggiungere Eleonora.
La massa mi inglobava, stringendomi, abbracciandomi, soffocandomi.
Io resistevo, mi contorcevo, respingevo. Guadagnavo terreno facendomi largo con la forza.
Arrivai nella piazza. Vidi il palco coperto da un drappo nero. Luci stroboscopiche venivano proiettate sui volti stralunati degli spettatori che invocavano l’inizio. L’inferno era in terra. Mi scontrai con una paio di bellissime tette. Il ghigno terrificante della proprietaria mi costrinse a lasciar perdere.
Scivolai verso il centro dell’improvvisata arena. I could not see shit. I resigned myself, I damn near had to ethyl astray.
It was twenty-one and I found myself surrounded by a group of fanatics and various dark of the Underworld: a passion that was hard to understand, at least alive.
The girls were not bad, but so attired put me shudder: Camporella stuff from the cemetery.
A solemn chanting, music listening. It was the 'unique' Siegfried's Funeral March, "the Teutonic Richard Wagner: a pearl thrown into the pigpen. From the big windows of the Centre attended the evening in the front row Ariberti Mayor Silvio Borelli, President of the Province of Imperia, local councilors and mayors neighboring countries.
lights that turned crazy, they stopped on the marquee. The music was lowered. Hits rhythm of drums. The scene slowly opened. I felt all the idiot suspense created and lived by the audience. I prepared for cialtronesca representation with a smile. Maybe I would have changed his mind.
Three instruments of torture made by the protagonists. A table equipped with chains, an iron maiden and a hook hanging from the theoretical ceiling of the torture room.
horrified. Three actresses play the part of incarcerated. Realistic as I had ever seen. We were so let down in part by stay there. That had tangled beyond belief? They had the appearance of three arrived last bust act. In addition to stiff were petrified: imprinted forever in this never ending the first act. The reality was stranger than fiction. The days of what looked like rigor mortis. Wooden posture as in skin color. I looked around to see if I was alone with the flock clouded. Reality is like a meteorite struck the square smashed. The hysterical screams of onlookers broke the silence and breaking balls. Damn hysteria, collective or not. Only caused trouble. A strange film popped onstage like the wandering dazed survivor of some distant war. Aurelio Ravens stammered into the microphone.
-Gentlemen, keep calm, "said after three attempts to start up the vocal cords. The appeal fell on deaf ears. As an orator he was not worth a quid. He looked horrified consumatosi his show even before it began.
manforte came to give him a second man. He had lost its boldness, while running up the stairs of the Centre. It took three bodies, or rather a grain that would have ruined. Panzer
Ariberti advancing with the tracks stuck in the shit that was overwhelming. Notes the deaths, with the hope that the theater company were insured. Already thinking about how to fix the glitch. He had no time. The square reacted. Each in his own way. Throwing eggs, tomatoes and nuts (the hardware store in those days had done a roaring trade) invested him with forcing to retreat. After advancing on Poland, the Panzer lived the defeat of the Russian front.
Aurelio took shelter from flying objects such as bullets. He fell behind the scenes. The other actors do not even try to go on stage. It was scorched earth.
Excerpt from "The petrification of Triora" by Edmondo Ippolito Ferrario, Frilli Publisher