Caro diario Page #4

- Too much successful...

He came here to expiate.

Alicudi is the most

island of all islands.

I know.

I don't like the other islands.

Everyone is compromised there.

They don't know how to live alone.

Here we all live alone.

Enzensberger says

that television is nothing.

Mh...

But tell me that the match

Honduras-Belgium, 3-2

...with five straight overthrows...

is "nothing".

Exactly...

To me that "nothing"

seemed a lot.

And to you too.

Alright, to me too.

And that penalty...

Yes but I have to solve the problem

with the lack of shutters.

Because I know that

tomorrow I'll wake up at dawn.

I can only sleep in total dark.

Yes, I admit it.

What?

Maybe I have exaggerated

a little about television...

It's alright.

However, it's history now.

Of course. Now we're here,

calm, on this island...

Ah, you're here.

I never go out.

Because human beings are dreadful.

Yes...

I can't sleep in the light.

Since there are no shutters,

do you have some tape?

- Look there.

- Yes, I wanted to equip...

Certainly.

Because I got some cardboard,

and so...

I want to live here without roots.

Our roots are too heavy.

For the last few years I have been

ashamed of Italy and its people.

I have been ashamed

of the other islands:

avid, fat,

ignorant, narcissist.

where people

who don't feel guilty live.

We retired here

to think about the others.

Italians are the most easily

influenced and vulgar people of all.

This country needs

to laugh so unbridledly.

What's there to laugh for?

Do you mind if I eat the crust?

And we have been

in Alicudi for a few days.

It is really a different island

from the others

where we finally succeed

into concentrating.

Everything's quiet here.

Terribly quiet.

Are you working?

I'm writing my diary

however, in these days...

I am writing

a letter to the Pope,

because he has excommunicated

soap operas.

He says that they're a danger

to the unity of the family.

I'll read it.

"Dear Holy Father, forgive me,

but you're wrong.

"Our families are closed

in their selfishness

"but thanks to soap operas

we express curiosity..

"and interest for other families..

"of which we share the trouble,

the drama, the problems, the joy.

"Ines, a secretary", 10.30 a.m..

"Guiding Light" 12.50 p.m..

"Loving", 2.00 p.m..

"Maria", 2.25 p.m..

"Santa Barbara",

same time but on another channel.

"Celeste", 4.25 p.m..

"Bold and the Beautiful", 7.15 p.m..

I haven't watched TV for a few days,

but I don't miss it.

However on this island...

On this island?

There is no electricity.

So what?

There are no televisions in Alicudi.

Television!

Elevator!

Telephone!

Hot Water!

Wait for me!

Television!

But how can you

live without television?

Stop! Stop!

I feel pity on Enzensberger

when he says..

that TV transmits nothing!

Stop!

KarI Popper, you're wrong!

It's not true for television

to contaminate children!

On the contrary, children

don't get stunned watching television!

They dream! As once they dreamt

listening to fables and legends!

CHAPTER III:

Doctors.

Dear diary, I've kept

the prescriptions I gathered in one year,

and also the notes I took

when I met the physicians...

therefore nothing in this chapter

is invented:
prescriptions...

...meetings with the physicians,

conversations with them.

Okay, at 1.30 at home,

it's alright, thanks. Bye.

At 1.30 at home,

then we'll do it again.

This is my last

session of chemotherapy,

the cure one has to follow

when they have a tumour.

So I decided

to film it.

Well, only for a while, inevitably.

That is true, however.

No, no, it is true.

Mind the ear.

It's still too low.

No, no, you go, go.

It's tight enough.

It keeps his hair up.

Is it alright?

Doctor?

Yes?

Is there any "Deticene" in it?

Yes, but wouldn't it be better

for you not to know?

Does it sting?

No, no, just a little.

Let's leave it for now, but stay here.

One day I started

to have the itches

above all at night.

I thought it was urticaria,

but it wasn't, it had nothing to do with it.

I had heard

of a dermatological institute,

...very famous.

A lot of people go there at dawn

and wait all day to be visited.

Moretti, Giovanni, born in Brunico

on 19th August 1953, living in Rome.

Have you ever been cured

for the same disease before?

No, this is the first time.

- What's your problem?

- I have very bad itch.

How long ago did it start?

A few weeks,

almost one month ago.

- Where?

- On my feet and arms.

- When is it worse?

- At night, above all at night.

Your skin is a little dry,

let's see.

Yes.

Hold it.

At first I feared

it would be scabies...

No, that illness concerns

other social classes.

Yes, there is a reaction.

Have you ever had hepatitis?

A long time ago.

Any other

important diseases?

No.

- Do you eat?

- How, "do I eat"?

- Do you have appetite?

- Yes, I do.

You should go

to a warmer place, to the seaside.

In winter one's skin gets dry

and the cold increases these symptoms.

Alright.

So, I'll give you: pills of Histamen,

an hour before dinner.

Yes.

Flantadin, a tablet in the morning

for a week..

half a tablet still in morning,

for the second week.

I took all the medicine,

but the itching didn't stop.

I returned to the institute,

but the physician wasn't there that day

the one who had visited me.

So another one visited me.

You have a very dry skin

which need hydrating.

I know.

Listen, do you have a coin

in your pocket by chance?

A coin?

Any coin...

Mind the naevuses.

Yes, yes.

Thanks.

There is an evident dermographism,

sign of a food allergy.

You can dress again.

Maybe it's a nervous problem,

due to the life that we live,

...that you live, Mr. Moretti.

However, this is the prescription

by your colleague:

...Histamen, Fitamid.

Should I keep taking...

No, no, we need to have your blood

analysed, hemochrome, ESR,

then I'll prescribe you the meds.

I'll also give you: Fristamin,

one every morning for a month..

Prazene in drops...

Hematocrit:
46, hemoglobinic rate..

..16,3 = 102, red globules...

The results are good,

but my itch continues

and increases,

so I remember the name

of a famous dermatologist

a kind of "prince"

of the dermatologists

and so I call the study

of this "prince".

Good morning, I would like

an appointment with the professor, please.

How come it is not possible

before three months?

It is an urgent thing,

I have a very bad itch...

Which substitute?

The assistant of the professor?

Oh, the patients in excess are sent to him...

It is alright, give me the number

of the substitute.

32... Thanks, good-bye.

Are you going through

a particular period of stress?

Yes, because of the itch, however.

Do you drink much coffee or tea?

I drink a lot of tea.

You can't drink more than a cup of tea

or coffee, or a coke a day.

Alright. This medicine

was prescribed to me by the other doctors.

I know them, they're superb colleagues.

However, I'll give you something else.

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