I have a revelation for you, human beings.
Or shall I suppose to call you terrestrials?
I have a revelation for you, human beings.
Or shall I suppose to call you terrestrials?
The incipit of the novel L'altra Euridice starts talking about the need to tell a different story, the true one, cause men of the outside usually tell the stories upside down. Or maybe we have to say inside out...
Actually, I think your real name must be extraterrestrials...
people of the outer Earth...
The graphic art of this web-tale is inspired by Gustav Klimt's symbolism. In his works, subjects were totally dipped in mosaics of various shapes and colours. In this story characters are dipped in pure material of the Earth like minerals and metals.
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Terrestrial is someone who lives inside,
in a reign whose sky is made of stone.
A silver world made of chrome, magnesium, zinc
and other precious earth metals you always try to steel us.
Il cielo di pietra (The sky made of stone) is a novel published in 1968, belonging to the famous series Le Cosmicomiche by Italo Calvino. L'altra Euridice is the recreation of this novel and is made almost exactly with the same text.
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As Jules Verne told in A journey to the center of the Earth, a science fiction novel of 1864, the way to the heart of our planet is through the Snæfellsjökull volcano in Iceland.
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In ancient times, people believed that mining was a form of violence against Mother Nature. That's why miners usually made propitiatory offers to soil and underground's gods and practiced sexual abstinence before violating the living Earth by digging a mine.
An interesting work about Earth as a female and the exploitation of it is The Death of Nature by Carolyn Merchant, an american ecofeminist philosopher and historian of science.
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Going deeper and deeper...
new stones, new skies...
inner cities made of basalt, silicon and aluminium.
Nothing to compare to your flat world.
This is the living
heart of the Earth . . . . . . . . . .
The Gaia hypothesis, formulated by James Lovelock in the 70s, considers planet Earth a living organism, able to ensure the most suitable conditions for life thanks to life itself.
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Anyway, those of you who once lived here couldn't understand their privilege.
With sadness in their heart, they cried and tried to run away.
They consider this inner life unbearable and can't stand to live here for too long.
Persephone, the harvest goddess of the old Greece, was raped by Hades and became the Queen of the Underworld. She used to live 6 months (spring and summer) in the Olympus, and 6 months (autumn and winter) with the Lord of the Underworld.
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In greek mythology Eurydice was a nymph married to the legendary musician and poet Orpheus. When she died, he desperately tried to save her from the underworld using his charming voice for persuading Hades and Persephone.
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But I...Hades...
I live just here.
Now and forever.
I'm more terrestrial
than you'll ever be.
Hades was the ancient greek god of the Underworld, brother of Zeus and Poseidon. He strictly forbade his subjects to leave his domain and would become quite enraged when anyone tried to leave. Anyway, he was often portrayed as passive rather than evil.
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You are, and you always be,
the extra-ones.
The interesting and original perspective that inhabitants of planet Earth are actually extraterrestrials came from the novel of 1980 L'altra Euridice (The other Eurydice) by Italo Calvino, to which this web-tale is inspired.
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You can find the English version of this novel in Numbers in the dark and other story, 1993, translated by Tim Parks.
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