A comic-book, a parody about the milanese artworld (with e.t. aliens): we commissioned a young novelist to write a story that will be illustrated by 12 different artists.

Sometimes we have ideas that we like but for rational, emotional or practical reasons we think they won’t work out or we aren’t able to develop them at that moment. Consequently we keep them apart, “hide” them somewhere in a peripheral and little attended side of the memory.

It was 4:56 (Italian time) of the summer morning of the 21th of July in 1969 (still the 20th in the USA) when Neil Armstrong was setting foot on the Moon.

The first six dialogues are the result of a transcription of a recording which took place on September 28th, 2005. The authors have attempted to maintain the confabulatory character of the dialogues, making as few changes as possible. (Engl.)

This book is my contribution to the art section at Babel. Festival di letteratura e traduzione (Literature and translation festival) held in Bellinzona, Switzerland, September 22 to 24, 2006.