... the first episode (in redigitized and remastered version!)
I just found this on my desk, crumpled paper and handwriting. I do not know who has left me. Someone from the office, I guess. Or a head of that desk, perhaps, wanted to deliver a personal message along with the usual cloth daily. Normal routine. Every day, arriving at my desk, the first thing I do is check the paper on which is outlined the program of the day, with the breakdown of pages and individual tasks. I just have a quick look to see how it will be my working day: sometimes it happens that the menu does not convince me, in other cases, I feel more inspired. Ups and downs, this work is done well. You can move from a feeling of omnipotence and creative play to the risk of a gap that leads directly to depression. It depends on what type of matter is in a position to shape.
But this rag is something different. This is not the possible provision of a leader. Has nothing to do with the daily work. From what I read, is something different.
's a story objectively incredible.
would be the message of a desperate man, a colleague who belongs to an unspecified sports editor.
Here? In my own newspaper? Step mentally reviewed the components of the sport. I can hardly remember them all, because they represent for me a world away. Their office, in Indeed, it is adjacent to the open space where I work. We must go through a long corridor and turn to the coffee machine in the direction of marketing, to get there. There will be a two or three times last year, and only to pick up - in fact - a coffee along with some of my colleagues in the news.
Indeed, now that I think I have to confess that there was a period in which they passed there before with a frequency of record ... It 'been a few months ago, when the marketing department was pretty clearly a computer consultant, called for the application of a specific software update is automatically made famous by writing a little, indeed, great particular: Yes, well, a fourth abundant, perhaps a fifth, with ostentatious nonchalance under tight-fitting blouses and sbottonatissime. Fateful day when it was replaced by a stern and bearded professional.
I digress. So, back to colleagues in the sports pages. Let's see, the young head - so they say - 'Paraculo; his deputy much older and frustrated, the game of football fans who live alone, the original charge to other sports at all costs. I do not think of any other identikit. But anyone
this hypothetical journalist, author of the letter that I have at hand, says - ahilui - to be segregated in a small room right now inaccessible at all. Except for the ruling administration that every night, apparently before returning home, he sticks out a bit 'of food taken from the machine. There is also a detailed list: sticky buns, sandwiches nauseating, a can of bitter orange ...
caring, after all, the jailer. Forces him to this unusual prison - says his colleague - for purely budgetary reasons. Exactly. In the company had decided to make a clean break under "costs" by eliminating the root problem.
Or at least that's the idea that became the colleague of the whole situation. Explains that he had prestigious positions, followed countless football matches throughout the world. It 'went up and down many aircraft, drove for miles and miles under the sun, rain and snow. A ubiquitous life. From hotel to hotel, from stage to stage, to live wherever there was an event (sports) live. Always with a dynamic exciting. And now it's locked up - he says - in a corner of the drawing, without windows, without connections, without goals to be achieved. Do not know why we have come to this paradoxical situation. Believed to be estimated in the newsroom as a reliable professional, skilled at writing and news gathering. They deleted. I read his sad appeal handwritten in pencil on this paper and I do not know what to do. There are no references, it lacks a name, claim. This is probably a joke.
But if in doubt, follow his instructions. He asks me to put his story on the network, to open a blog in his name with an unusual title - The left in the closet - and update it with messages that will let me have his sake from here on out.
I am a bit 'confused. Okay, for someone who belongs to the last of the generations not yet digitized, I manage enough with the Internet and, in general, with those who never stop calling 'new' technologies. But other than that, I wonder by what criteria the unknown sender has chosen me for starting a tragicomic correspondence from his mysterious home.
really do not think I know him.
Moreover, I have few friends here. Actually I have few friends in general, because I have not understood - already at my ripe old age - what are the key factors to define friendship. Boh. Here in my life is well defined, however. Held for years, with discretion and spontaneous devotion, my peaceful activities in this newspaper that in practice I was born and then grow, journalistically speaking. I have my position now, and i deserved it. In a few years I'm going to enjoy retirement, early. Mess, mess and still ranks. Before it was another world. When I started, I carried in my typewritten pages Printing that there were placed together with letters of lead. Today everything has become immaterial, and is virtually here, in the PC that I keep myself from morning to evening on the front, with those reflected in such reclaiming me late. And every time I struggle to defuse, as if it was difficult to give up the reality that goes on stage behind the screen. My wife in the evening I do not expect more. When I get home, more or less around midnight, already deeply asleep.
And I'm always still here, including an article to be checked and choose a photo, now what's more intent on the Internet to disseminate the torments of the call, as he would have done the same if only his laptop had been in able of the network. Yet nothing for some time - according to his message - complained to the senior management of the inadequacy of the technological means data supplied to journalists. And now grotesquely pays the consequences. But - and here a little 'softens us - does not give up: he copied by hand an old article and asks us to put it online.
I think that is the chronicle of a game in a European Championship. I have never shared a passion for the national sport, football, but I understand that the link should be a major issue. Between ourselves: Who cares? But if this can help, if you will allow him one day to find the sun, well ', happy to answer your request. Silent and - apparently - unlucky, this is your article just a click away ...
"Basel. Only the other half of the stadium cheers and sings. But it is almost stronger than the silence of the vanquished. Faces faded red cross under makeup, looks lost: Switzerland 2-1 Turkey was defeated and now the elimination of the owners - already beaten the debut from the Czech Republic - is safe. Meaningful output from the stage coach Kuhn, small hands in his pocket, bent over his problems. Terim instead jumps like crazy along with the Turkish team. So the next round is absolutely within reach: the next grand final is scheduled in Geneva with the Republic Czech .. Switzerland overwhelmed by a relentless fate. Starting illusion. After half an hour here is the goal. But Yakin does not smile, did not celebrate, slips away by the embrace of his companions. There is no question of having played the other team to have some debt of gratitude. This is about Hakan Yakin, origins, names and features from turkish citizen, national passport and Swiss sports. That is why the expression of the face is pulled. Yakin has just made his goal for Switzerland against his Turkey. It has made the assist Eren Derdiyok, same story. It could only happen in the middle of a violent rainstorm. A storm water on the challenge stormy derby on the strange turkish-Swiss. You throw all inside the cloud of water and leaving them, the three players of Turkish origin who wear the jersey of Switzerland ...».
I stop here.
If anyone have news on this mysterious and forgotten colleague, I will let you know. Otherwise, I look forward to other signals. I admit, I'm slowly fond of his unusual story.