Simone Amicucci
SANCANE

Simone Amicucci, since childhood, has always had a passion and attraction for everything unusual, like DWARFS, for example, which are now MAINSTREAM, George Benson only got there now. Or the fear of HORSES, which are the meanest animals in the world.

A horse isn't like a dog that can be without an owner, and if it goes along the way, no one notices. A horse is a horse: and if it doesn't know, others do when they see it, the body it has, much larger than that of a dog, cumbersome; a body that never manages to inspire complete trust and from which everyone keeps their distance because at any moment, you never know, an unpredictable mistake; and then those eyes, with the whites that sometimes appear fierce and bloodshot; eyes all reflective, with flashes and certain glimmers, that no one understands, of a life always in anxiety, that can darken for no reason. It's not unfairness. But they aren't the eyes of a dog, human, that ask for forgiveness or mercy, that know how to pretend, with certain looks to which our hypocrisy has nothing left to teach. The eyes of a horse show you everything, but you can't read anything in them (Luigi Pirandello)

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SIMONE AMICUCCI ALSO KNOWN AS SANCANE Impassive, cynical, and rude, he's a phrenologist, playwright, aesthete, and painter. An expert in abstract sciences, he possesses intuitive spirit and a rare faculty of understanding well. Backward, stubborn, and unreasonable, he has been divulging shining plots susceptible to being spread for decades.

http://www.hoepli.it/libro/sancane/9788867763153.html.

Over the years, long before the advent of the Internet, SANCANE has accurately and meticulously collected numerous historical events linked to characters that are anything but conventional, like, I don't know, the story of the TRUE inventor of roller skates, which is transcribed in this book:

John Joseph Merlin

(1735 - 1803)

The inventor of roller skates

During a dance entertainment at the Counts Carlisle in London, among guests of noble condition and grandeur, he staged a brilliant commercial promotion for his creation at its grand debut

He burst in during the concert of Johann Christian Bach (son of Johann Sebastian Bach) and snatched the violin from his hands, skating dressed as a maid

He enthusiastically threw himself into the heart of the party, to the astonishment of the onlookers, playing the renowned instrument at great speed, reiterating the acuity of his infallible market technique

He realized too late that in his eagerness to astonish, he had omitted from his plan the essential devices for BRAKING

He thus crashed into a precious 16th-century mirror, destroyed Bach's violin, shattered the glass window while screaming, and fell down the stairwell, causing himself multiple fractures and severe damage to his dignity

He was driven away with fans by the Court, chased with salt guns, and the popularity of roller skates was postponed by about a hundred years

Homage to courage

It wasn't even meant to be a book, it was just a passion, a divertissement, collecting news and photos of these quirky heroes, forgotten by official history and brought back to the spotlight by SANCANE (damn it, I write and write, and it just keeps getting all written in but what is it? oh well, I can't solve this mess)

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...but then I was saying, slowly, you know how it is today with the internet, right? There's word of mouth, people read and say CHECK IT OUT! ...big newspapers like LA REPUBBLICA write to you and say, cunningly trying to STEAL YOUR IDEA... "would you like to write these things for OUR newspaper? for free, of course..."

AHAHAHAHAHAH!

It will look great in your library, and you can brag about it for years.

Happy reading