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
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Available upon request.
ISBN-13: 978-1-940953-30-4
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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