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Radioviolenza is the story of a
hallucinated day, based on a certain
taste for the impertinent, not very
BASIC
BASIC polite and even less resigned.
DESCRIPTION: Radioviolenza is the fleeting movement
DESCRIPTION:
of two eyes squinting at each other,
united for a moment by a secret that is
theirs alone. Radioviolenza does not
say it, but it does it.
BACKSTORY: Sun on the roof of and accelerated by a certain, vi-
buildings under construction, gorous and unperturbed kinetic
sun beating down on a ballfield, force Y, when it meets Z we have
we play, before during and after the resultant Delta. To the va-
the game. Playing is good. The ga- riable X can be replaced a fist, a
me,the one in the middle, is over belt, a flagpole, street furniture.
and a group of guys are hanging The Y variable can be replaced by
out drinking beers on the roofs of energy of people used to the art
their cars. of war, to sweating backs, crashed
An act considered rude and unre- by the work on the ground, to the
spectful by us locals: they don’t weight and the noise of industrial
know, or pretend not to know, tools handled from Monday to
that our entire religion prohibi- Friday. The resulting Z is a ban-
ts infidels from drinking alcohol ner that changes hands, it is torn
near the places set aside for the epidermal organic tissue, more or
worship of a Dea who, as they less extensive bruising and blee-
should know, can be as generous ding. In no case does the resulting
as she is terrible. Z involve vital organs, internal
On the other hand, you don’t need bleeding or injuries necessary for
to have read Kerényi to realize major surgery.
that every true cult involves to- Although terrible, our Dea orders
tal devotion, take it or leave it, us to hold dear the life of anyo-
we have taken it and sometimes ne.. END BACKSTORY.
we take hits.
Ready, go!, to describe the con-
sequent situation we can use me-
taphors imported from mechani-
cal physics and organic chemistry:
placed a body X with its own mass 68
