Every great city has the magical caves, secluded places where you get the impression that by saying a ' ancient secret formula, or trampling on the trap door of a dark well, you can access the unknown size, catapulted into a phantasmagorical journey through time.
I think of the Venetian squares of Corto Maltese in Naples underground labyrinth of the lost or London.
In Milan, the former metropolis of steel, that really among the carcasses of abandoned factories seems to hide the secrets of its development, or the echoes of economic twisted plot, I get the same feeling of mystery when I pass near one of the many workshops the periphery.
junkyard, deposits of ferrous, tire: I just wonder if I meet a disassembling a carburetor or shaking a can of gasoline is not damaged to take off a bizarre dream world, or an age different from mine.
So three days ago in Via Toffetti, in the industrial heart of Rogoredo, when I see half a Trabant wagon on roof of a warehouse of spare parts, suddenly breathing atmosphere from the Cold War. Metanopoli Ponte Lambro and become East Berlin and Russian spies eyed truckers ice.
Then came the sensational discovery: an employee leaves the office containers and I reveals that the car was used by U2 to shoot a video clip sometime. Submerge the questions, but no answer. I ask to speak with the boss, but there is not and seems to be angry and jealous of his findings. Well, I'll have to get by on its own, perhaps taking advantage of the sixth "W" of journalism, as he said imitating Marcorè Gianni Riotta: Who, What, When, Where, Why and Wikipedia. In fact, the link http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant I read that a number of Trabant acted as art director between 1992 and 1993 at the ZOO TV tour Bono of the band during the album promotion Atchung Baby . Finally at http://www.macphisto.net/theband/pictures/u2trabant.html I check that the models have the same color patterns of copy Rogoredo, and are now in the Hardrock Cafe in Berlin and Amsterdam.
The scoop is made, but there is still a mystery: where is the other half Trabant?
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