Copyright © 2010 by Tommaso Pincio Translation copyright © Acacia M. O'Connor Originally published in Italy as Lo spazio sfinito by Minimum Fax, 2010 First edition, 2015 All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Available upon request. ISBN-13: 978-1-940953-30-4 Design by Hannah Vose Open Letter is the University of Rochester's nonprofit, literary translation press: Lattimore Hall 411, Box 270082, Rochester, NY 14627 Table of Contents
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This book is the product of the fictitious manipulation of a non-existent history. While names, individuals, places, and facts may at times coincide with reality, the author intends these as purely fictional. 1. The sight of the starry sky makes me nauseous. I can barely stand it reduced to mathematic formulas, said Albert Einstein. 2. It’s me that’s done all this and come and gone and complained and hurt. One day at the beginning of summer in 1956, Jack Kerouac, having said
