The Dream is illustrated inletter 26
An abstract:
Ok, the point is this: I won’t be able to see my son grow up. I won’t be able to see him complete his natural course of his life on earth. So, I have decided, more than decided I felt a strong need inside to cultivate some of the seeds that Papo planted and that started to grow. Seeds that begin to blossom need to be nourished to grow and I have decided to do just that. The very clear and holy madness that has taken me over in this period has brought me to this conclusion: instead of doing things to remember Papo or in honor of Papo, I want to do something to let him continue to live. Or at least complete what he had started and couldn’t finish. So together with three friends, Macilla, Scatolo and Diec Skifezza, skilled musicians, we are arranging and writing a song that we will record and that was written by Papo, called “Il Rock’n’Roll nel sangue” (Rock’n’Roll in our Blood). Maybe it will be on iTunes, maybe on a cd together with “I Cammello con le Corna* (The Camel with Horns) and the sketch “Le Massime di Papo e le Minime di Totta”. Slowly but surely we are working on it!
I’m going to write a book that with all the hilarious aphorisms of Papo, all his best and wild inventions and his most creative drawings. Because Papo wasn’t, isn’t and never will me a simple “Mascot”, but rather an extraordinary “Extra Cool” dude!To allow everyone to know the story of Papo or the story of the incredible Papo, I’ll find a publisher who will publish the book called “Letters to Papo”, Then we’ll find a perfect title for it and it won’t be something that I have to publish on my own and then go door-to-door to sell to friends, but it will become a bestseller that you can find in all book stores! Arianna is a proofreader and has a passion for writing and she has spontaneously decided to help me correct the letters and give me some useful suggestions.
Another two holy crackpots (Robettone “Ronnie Zamo” and Uncle Fienko) are writing and drawing the topic of the Movie “The climb”. And this movie isn’t going to be recorded with a mobile phone video camera….. when we’re ready with the screenplay, we’ll go to Tim Burton, Ron Howard, Spike Lee, Sorrentino and Salvatores and they’ll make an Oscar-winning movie out of it. And this is something I guarantee is going to happen, even if I have to stay awake every night for the next 30 years.
Our Dream is that Feltrinelli, our favorite publishing house, will publish the books “Letters to Papo” and the “Prequel”, the letters of aphorisms by Papo called “Mom, my poo is harder than the hoofs of a wildebeest!” because it acknowledges their importance.
Whoever commits to our editorial Project can have access to a huge file of aphorisms by Papo and Totta from which they can put together 6/7 comic books made up of about eight-some lines per book. A beautiful and extraordinarily funny boy like Papo, was armed with only a smile to fight against the Monster. And the Monster one terrible summer day decided to take him away, so his father decided to write to him and has never stopped since then. The love of a father involved friends near and far, old and new, who become part of this whirlwind of lives of this side and the other side of Infinity. People become a part of the letters, they cry, they laugh, they dream. Pain becomes Love. Two hashtags, two books, one picture. We ask for nothing but Love, because Feltrinelli and Hollywood will think about the rest. The only thing we have now is a suitcase full of dreams and words.
Papo, I’m writing to you because I feel the need to. What I’m writing is a story of the Love of a father for his son, of a family for its most delicate fruit; the story of a wonderful little boy with a Jimmy Hendrix childish talent that always entertained everyone, it’s the story of a child Super Hero, armed only with a smile, who challenged the most ravenous of Monsters (Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy) and even if the Monster was able to take him to the other side of Infinity, that little boy has now become Immortal; it’s the story of the most present of absences; it’s the story of how an entire family dealt with mourning; it’s the story of life and death. Of the Love that made thousands of people take part in and contribute to a project based on Love; it’s the story of how death doesn’t exist. I’m not presenting just a couple of books, in addition to my broken heart and torn apart life; I’m presenting therapy, and the creative talents of the publishing house should find a way to publish one letter each day from the paper book. To enjoy the sometimes difficult, yet tender, surprise of receiving the Letter. Just like the 500 or so persons who every day write me to tell me that each morning they can’t wait to read the daily Letter to Papo. A series of epistolary books, one every 50/100 letters? An audio book. A prequel book called “Mamma ho fatto la cacca dura come gli zoccoli di gnu!”. A series of comic books. A music CD. A topic for a movie. Feltrinelli and Hollywood are the minimum objectives to honor the Great Beauty of Papo.
In just ten days, 1200 persons took a selfie to ask Feltrinelli to publish the Papo books
NB: Note : The 4 “Letter 90’ here below explain how the Dream will be used.