-“The same day I knew by my teacher that I was the only heir of my
mother’s estates, and that since the day of her death, whose he had been the
honest and prudent administrator , as he would show to me in his detailed
account. That man, I had so much hated and blamed, now that his ungrateful
charge had come to end, seemed to me good and comprehensive, and his words
calmed for a few time my incurable pain. By now, however, I had also to think
about my life, and in those places I would never succeeded in shaking off me my
sad past. I begged the reverend to continue to administer my goods and I
departed, to the discovery of the world. I travelled at first through
the United States, then I went to Canada, Australia, New Zealand. After I
visited Europe, without never finding the courage to return to my country.
Tired of the European Countries, among which I mostly liked your Italy , I
departed to India and finally, always curious of new lands, I went to Africa.
Neither women, neither alcohol, nor drugs not even the vices which I was
devoted in those years succeeded in cancelling my bitter memoirs, until one
day, while I was sojourning in Kenya, I fell ill, prey of strong fevers. Not a
lot, then I gave, to live or die, but the Fate, had evidently prepared, that I
survived, so that the programs could be realized, whose I will have the honor
and the pleasure to communicate to you. Revealed therefore from the illness, I
returned to America aiming however to south, that I had not visited yet. Going
up again homeward, I stayed for a long time in Mexico, that not little
fascinated me. By now being satisfied my curiosity of the world, I preferred to
take over again my studies, more strongly and surely than before. I was akin of
all: medicine, biology, physics, mathematics, chemistry, hidden sciences,
illusionism, magic arts, engineering, electronics, astrology, philosophy,
astronomy, sociology, anthropology, theology, ethnology, history, juridical,
economic and political sciences and every other thing attracted my mind curious
of reaching new knowledge. During the numerous years of my following
study, it happened on me a gradual mutation that flowed, hitherto a short time,
in a great, bright revelation. I had realized, deepening on studies that any
single subject lost, little by little, until vanish, its own contours and that
all acquired information met in a bubbly melting pot, to form just one, immense
nucleus of knowledge. Yes, dear friends: our knowledge is an original,
total unity. The single disciplines of human knowledge are but the
infinitesimally small fragments that the mankind looks hopelessly for
recomposing in to the aboriginal unity. Two were the necessary
consequent corollaries to this thrilling discovery. The first one is that the
brain of both animal and human beings constitutes, though at a different
evolutionary stadium, a microscopic part of the primordial totality. The second
is that human thought search, yet in a blind and messy manner, to recompose, at
a mental level, the great, primitive explosion, the Big-Bang, through a
long and fatiguing marching back, up to the innumerable light years that
separate it, from an equal, roaring and powerful implosion. And if you consider
that our mind speculates in the space-time as fast as speed-light, this kind of
final Big-Imbang will appear less far than any hasty forecast.
From the original ignazio s. basile's italian novel. English version by the same author
...to be continued...
