The two policemen sat with the attorney in the spacious office.
"We are here with the usual problem, anotyher supercriminal escaped our
country!", said one of the policemen.
"No kidding!", replied the attorney, "Another supercriminal!"
"We are terribly sorry, sir", answered the second policeman, "He is
very dangerous. Look, here is a picture."
The attorney looked at the picture and shuddered. "He is *certainly*
monstrous!"
"He is. He is the worst ever!", confirmed the first policeman.
"He committed all crimes!", reaffirmed the second policeman.
"We cannot let him go unpunished, right?", said the attorney, reclining
comfortably.
"Of course not! We have orders. And he is mean"
"Awful! He eats children"
"And steals and defrauds!"
"And kills and rapes and deceives!"
"And threatens and forges and is gay!"
"And a drug addict without education, rude and strong!"
"Ruthless!"
"Brute! He cannot distinguish good from evil!"
"Horrid! And we don't know were he is, but he is in your country. His
name is Mr A."
"Ok! Ok! I'll sign the extradition before he does more damage",
answered the attorney with a yawn, handling them the papers already
signed.
"What about having a drink?". They all agree, as always.
The man who was almost arrested was very a well known scholar and
musician.
A second version, following the format of the other stories. After a
min text (which should be a normal, rather mysterious if not poetic or
comic situation), a single punch line takes the reader out of the
reality of the story and into a new, shocking reality, at the same time
explaining the preceding situations. By itself the story is left open
ended, the reader has to complete and make sense,leaving a space of
meditation between theat story and the next one (I am considering a
book with illustrations).
Fabrizio j Bonsignore now Danilo J Bonsignore