Author: Enzo Fabbrucci

Thirty years ago “Tartaria” was for me just a mysterious name that referred to stories like Dino Buzzati’s “The Tartar Steppe” (Il Deserto Dei Tartari).. and to that soldier, Giovanni Drogo, sent to a fort on the edge of nowhere with his small platoon. A kind of Italian “Waiting for Godot” in the form of a novel, with a lieutenant who ends up falling in love with his solitude and the waiting. A mythical enemy only imagined and never seen and then the gradual loss of interest in returning to civilian life, up to illness and death “in the trenches”….. Splendid!

Traditional science, in its by now classic twentieth-century form (therefore obsolete and very backward compared to what branches of the new physics are revealing to us) has put certain and established things on one side, and the miraculous on the other. Well, there is one thing in nature around us that blends logic and miracle, this is the crystal!