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blog, on Facebook and also on these pages. I thank the readers who are doing great "The search for constant "and that the publisher has spent on the book. Today, thank all those who would in person at Feltrinelli International in Rome (Via Vittorio Emanuele Orlando 81) where Andrea Purgatori will officially present the text. It 's a novel about poker of course, but the novel is above all trying to deal with my stubborn belief and the story m'รจ passed under the eyes. Gift willingly exclusively to historic and loyal readers of my blog, a few lines that they recognize , finished inside "The pursuit of constant" and into the heart of a character who, like all the characters in the novel, actually exists. PAUL born April 3, 1963, when Italy was at the height of the economic boom, the Government was the first center and Amintore Fanfani was President of the Council, the peasants were transformed into workers and our country was found among the major industrial powers.
not have Facebook, YouTube does not look, do not use the Internet. His obsession is a piece of paper.
Paul no longer has a lot of hair, is massive, and those who were once powerful muscles today are fat. A prominent belly, not only due to food. Drinking, Paul. Drinks even if you gamble and drink to forget. He drinks to forget that bloody August 2. Also plays, and forget. In fact he plays well, is never predictable, is solid: the young are suffering, those trained by dozens of weekly hours spent in grind even twenty tables at once. Grind it means to play as many robots sit 'n' go at the same time focusing only on so-called monster hands,
the best possible starting hands: AA, KK, QQ. Those who give the best chance of winning. And since the good poker player is the cold that focuses on probability in his favor, who grinda online is enhanced because it can also play mini-tournaments five hundred per day, accumulating experience, however, notable in a few weeks. That someone like Paul has built in thirty years. Past thirty years old to play five-card poker before, texas hold'em hours. But the mind of Paul is stopped. Stopping at the bloody August 2 when he had reached his Antonella Bologna, Rimini and then set off for return to the baths where the year before and he had known at sixteen, for the first time he had made love. But that August 2 the train from Rome to Florence and took him from Florence to Bologna did not move because it was a bomb and Antonella was gone. And Paul does not know if you have more to the memory of Antonio or for the meeting which is on the road every day, in the alleys next to the Pantheon, where he a small house bought in the Eighties after a win is particularly significant in a lucky night. Meet the judges always be those who have said that the bomb be those who broke that station in life have put it.
Paul turns around in his hands a piece of paper, often, very often. And 'his obsession. It's in the portfolio today must play for the world. Paul has followed the process of the massacre, he knows that condemned them with reason. Yet Giusva Fioravanti and Francesca Mambro are free, they have a daughter, happy running without any weight. We meet on the street as a couple any. Paul re-reads all the crimes they have committed these two, even without the Bologna massacre for which claim to be innocent. We read them every day, through that piece of paper.
February 28, 1978. Giusva Fioravanti and others note two boys sitting on a bench looking (long hair and newspapers) identify themselves as belonging to the left. Fioravanti gets out, goes to the group and fires: Robert Scialabba, 24, falls to the ground wounded and Fioravanti it ends with a shot to the head. Then he turns to a girl who is screaming and fleeing the fire without hitting.
January 9, 1979. Fioravanti and three others assaulted the headquarters of Radio Roman city of the future where there is an ongoing transmission operated by a feminist group. The terrorists are women lay on the floor and set fire to the premises. The fire flares up and used to attempt escape. Are reached by machine gun and pistol shots. Four injured, two seriously.
Fioravanti driving the attack on the communist section of the Esquiline in Rome. Inside you are doing two joint meetings. There are more than 50 people. The terrorist team launched two grenades, then blindly download a loader revolver. There are 25 wounded. Dario Pedretti, member of the commando will be reprimanded by Fioravanti, because despite the full arsenal "there was no escaping the dead." That Fioravanti was the one who led the commando was established by the testimonies of the injured and other participants in the action, and a res judicata. However, Fioravanti has always denied that his previous heavy stragista. December 17, 1979.
Fioravanti and other wants to kill the lawyer Giorgio Arcangeli, held responsible for the capture of Pierluigi Concutelli, charismatic leader of subversion neo-fascist. Fioravanti has never seen the victim, knows only a brief description. The ambush is stretched under the lawyer's office, but the loss of life is an unconscious 24 year old surveyor, Anthony Leandri, a victim of mistaken identity and guilty of taking turned to cries of "lawyer" launched by Fioravanti.
February 6, 1980. Maurizio Fioravanti
Arnesano kills policeman who is just 19 years. The purpose of murder, possession of his machine gun M.12. To the Deputy Public Prosecutor of Rome, April 13, 1981, Cristiano Fioravanti - brother Valerio - declares: "On the morning of the murder Arnesano, Valerio told me that a cop would give him a machine gun, and I, in disbelief, and he wondered at what price I said "free" smiled and I knew. "
June 23, 1980. On the orders of
Valerio Fioravanti and Francesca Mambro, Gilberto Cavallini in Rome kills the deputy prosecutor Mario Amato. The magistrate, 36, has just left home, two years of conducting the main investigation into subversive movements right. Amato announced that his investigation was taking "a vision of truth together, involving much more serious responsibility than those of the perpetrators of criminal acts." Mambro and Fioravanti to celebrate the night of oysters and champagne.
September 9, 1980.
Mambro and Fioravanti with Soderini and Cristiano Fioravanti, Mangiameli kill Francis, manager of third place in Sicily and inconvenient witness on the Bologna massacre.
February 5, 1981.
Mambro and Fioravanti ambush two police Aeneas Codotto, and Luigi Maronese 25 years, 23 years. From the records of the trial showed that during the ambush Fioravanti has been pretending to surrender. Then he shouted to Mambro, hidden behind a car, "Shoot, shoot."
September 30, 1981.
is killed twenty-three Mark Pizzari, right-wing extremist and a close friend of Louis Ciavardini, considered as an infamous informer. " Ordered the killing is part Mambro.
October 21, 1981. Some
Nar, including Mambro, ambush, in Rome, the captain of Digos Straullu Francesco Ciriaco and the agent of Rome. The two are being massacred. The brutality of the crime is contained in the words of the coroner: "The death of Straullu was caused by the smashing of the head and the facial with pulping of the brain, to Rome for the wound against the head with skull fracture and brain damage. "Straullu The captain, 26, had worked very hard to expose the soldiers of subversion black. In 1981 he had been arrested 56. On the morning of the attack was not the usual armored car in for repair for two days.
March 5, 1982.
during a robbery in Rome, Alessandro Caravillani Mambro kills, 17 years. The boy was going to school and went from there by chance. Mambro Caravillani claims that he was killed by a bullet bounce. is condemned as executor of the murder.
Francesca Mambro Giusva and Fioravanti are in the mind of Paul when addressing the crucial hand that leads to the final table, against one of those kids who can not stand him. His name is Thomas, has twenty years the tables on line poker is recognized as a master. Take on a flop of five paintings of flowers, five of six paintings by sending "the tank", meaning that all chips to avoid the risk of stairs or projects of color opponent who has already thinned with a heavy pre-flop raise. The only Paul was left to beat, but it has followed since its revival in the hands of ace and five. Paul Trissa, that is its weak starting hand has become almost unbeatable hand ( nuts, in the jargon). Thomas can not know. Paul's instant call the pupil of Thomas, turn and river will remark, that perhaps his son would also have liked to Antonella is beaten, but the ghosts of those, do not fight ever.
(from "The Pursuit of constant", by Mario Adinolfi, AlibertiCastelvecchi 2010)
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