One, No One & 100,000 by Luigi Pirandello

Author:Luigi Pirandello
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781644676172
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

4 ~ On the Road to Madness

So I ended up having to go to the bank for those papers that the notary needed regarding the house.

Those papers were unquestionably mine since the house was mine, and I had every right to them. But if you really thought about it, although technically belonging to me, the only way I was going to get my hands on those papers was either by stealing them or going crazy and violently snatching them from the person everyone considered to be their legitimate owner—I’m referring to Mr. Vitangelo Moscarda, the loan shark.

This was obvious to me because I could clearly see him, Vitangelo Moscarda, the loan shark, from the outside, live and in person as others saw him, but I couldn’t see him inside me. But for everyone else who could only see me as that loan shark—as far as they were concerned, I was going to the bank to either steal those papers from myself or to insanely rip them out of my own hands.

Maybe I could say that I wasn’t me? Or that I was somebody else? There was no rational explanation for an action which everyone would see as a deliberate attempt to do something inconsistent and out of character.

As you can see, I was perfectly aware that I was proceeding along the road to madness—identical to the path of my reality—which now stretched out all shiny and crystal clear in front of me. And all the flawless, living, breathing images and versions of myself were marching along beside me.

But it was precisely this sharp, reflective awareness that was driving me crazy. All of you who’re walking along this same path without even bothering to notice it—you’re the sane ones, and the saner you are, the louder you scream at those walking beside you:

“This is me? This is how I am? You’re blind! You’re crazy!”

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