JUST IN TIME

“Andrea came to pick me up at Chiusi station; but I didn’t see him right away, because he was hiding behind a column: armed with a toy gun, he was waiting for my son to ambush him. He consoled himself for my son’s absence by thinking about the drawings he would create; he wanted to know the story of the show he was to make them for. Appena in tempo: was the title of the production, set in the impossible cities of Calvino’s memory.
The Sphinx rose near the impossible city. That’s how Andrea imagined it, ready to put to the audience the cruelest of its riddles: can we defy what is written, changing the course of our life a moment before a gesture turns from intention into history?”

Enrico De Notaris, 1987