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Questo racconto \u00e8 stato pubblicato per la prima volta su Spelk <\/a>ad aprile del 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tom came up with the idea the summer he decided he\u2019d be a filmmaker. He was fourteen then and so far his future professions had been taxi driver, reporter, tennis player, plumber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe it was by reflex, but all I ever dreamt of was becoming a manager. I\u2019d always been the more practical of the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI tell you, it will be a hit,\u201d my brother insisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t get it,\u201d I replied, bouncing my ball against the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was this time when Orson Welles went live on radio, back in the Thirties. It was in one of dad\u2019s magazines,\u201d he explained. \u201cWelles was reading this piece like he was a newscaster. And it was about aliens having just landed in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked at him, alarmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople started seeing aliens in the streets. They were calling the radio, from all over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWas it true?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He sighed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOf course not, but people believe whatever you tell them. Just tell them the right way. Now this was on the radio, but try to imagine doing it on television. That\u2019s even more powerful,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019ll do. I\u2019ll go to Iceland, wear an astronaut suit, pretend I\u2019m on the moon. Imagine this: the first man to set foot on the moon.\u201d He beamed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All throughout the summer, Tom spoke of Iceland. He walked to the library every day, borrowing books. He studied the photos, copied the maps, hung them on the wall. He showed me the itinerary. He even wrote a script. I was no expert, but it sounded good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the summer was over. We went back to school. He decided he\u2019d become a biologist. Then a lawyer. A teacher. A nurse. Then our dad died and all Tom could do was take over the family hardware store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

***<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years later. Summer of 1969. I was home for the holidays. We were at a neighbour\u2019s house. We didn\u2019t own a television yet. There were three or four families crammed into the sitting room. My grandmother was there too, shaking her head, muttering she\u2019d seen it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked at my brother. I didn\u2019t care about the television, or the moon. I was wondering if he still remembered about Iceland. He watched the programme, baffled. Then as we left he whispered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPerhaps, they just stole my idea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I smiled, relieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI still want to go,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo the moon?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo Iceland.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

***<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, every Christmas we planned to go. Every summer something came up. And now here I am, in the place he chose. Tom\u2019s yellowed notes left in a suitcase under his bed at the nursing home. His only possession, passed on to me and now tucked in the backpack I borrowed from my granddaughter. His maps are folded in my jacket. I\u2019m looking at the camera, squinting my eyes against the wind. Wondering if he can see me, from where he\u2019s now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I smile, and count to three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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