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Waiting for the Barbarians

What are we waiting for, assembled in the square?
Today, the barbarians are coming
Why all this inertia in the Senate?
Why do the Senators do not approve of any law?
Because the barbarians are coming today.
What laws should vote for the Senators?
When the barbarians come, will make them the law.
Why did our emperor, rising at dawn,
sits just outside the city, a solemn
on his throne and the crown?
Because the barbarians are coming today,
and the emperor is waiting to receive their leader.
He even prepared a scroll to be delivered,
which conferred on him many names and many titles. Why
morning our two consuls and our magistrates
flaunt their red robes embroidered?
Why are adorned with bracelets and rings amethyst
glittering emeralds;
and why now wield their expensive scepters
finely chiseled silver and gold?
Because the barbarians are coming today, and the like shiny objects
dazzle the barbarians.
Because our eminent speakers do not take their usual speeches?
Because the barbarians are coming today.
and the barbarians do not appreciate the eloquence, nor the long speeches.
And why, suddenly, this uneasiness and confusion? How
series have become the faces!
Why the streets and squares are emptying so fast,
and fall all at home, looking so pensive?
Why is the night fell, and the barbarians have not arrived.
And someone has come right from the distant frontiers
to say that there is no Barbaro ...
And now, what will become of us without barbarians?
After all, had a solution.

Constantine Cavafy

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una storia senza tempo

The story begins in a bar and the bartender to tell it. We are in 1970, the young man who entered the bar has an unusual nickname, "single mother". If the door behind since he started writing stories in a magazine. One of those women's magazines, he keeps us a kind of book, from the perspective of a single mother, to be precise.
The bartender is interested in his story, so the young man explains why so well able to understand the female point of view. The fact is that when he was born in 1945, she was a child. Raised in an orphanage at the age of 18 years, although it was rather ugly teenager, had been seduced, made pregnant and abandoned by a man older than her. During pregnancy, doctors discovered that he was a hermaphrodite, and complications arising during delivery of a child forced her to a sex change. Shortly after his newborn daughter was kidnapped, and since then had never found again, and she had to get used to being a man and survive as such. Unprepared for any job, he used his natural ability and, eventually, he began to write.
The bartender, impressed by this story, he decides to tell her own stories, and guide the young in a back room of the bar where she shows him a ... time machine. Along with traveling to the year 1963, and here he meets the young una ragazza, se ne innamora, la seduce e la mette incinta, quindi la abbandona. Nel frattempo, il barista si sposta avanti nel 1963, di 11 mesi, per rapire una bambina che poi trasporta in un orfanotrofio, nell'anno 1945. Quindi, ritorna al 1963 e va dal giovane che sta cominciando a capire quel che è successo, e gli dice: "Ora sai chi è lei, e se ci pensi su saprai anche chi sei ... e se ti scervelli abbastanza capirai chi è la bambina ... e chi sono io."
Poi, il barista prende il giovane e lo deposita davanti ad un avamposto del "Temporal Bureau" (un polizia segreta che viaggia nel tempo e cambia gli eventi storici per proteggere la razza umana): Ha appena arruolato sé same!
Finally, the bartender goes back to 1970, closed the bar and goes to bed in his bed, a year in the future. Before going to sleep provides a long scar on him by caesarean section, performed when she gave birth to her child, her father, her mother ...

(from All You Zombies - Robert Heinlein)