Prologue

Abstract

In the end, I met Mr. Qfwfq. The legendary character in Italo Calvino’s The Cosmicomics really exists and early yesterday morning he landed on my desk. Just to show off, to demonstrate what he is able to do, he arrived on board a miniature spaceship, the Von Braun, streamlined in 1950s style, which went through walls with no difficulty nor noise. I immediately saw, and valued, the fact that the spaceship was a way of appearing chosen as a gracious tribute to us poor Terrestrials.