Light the fuse

Author ’s note

By His Real Name: Whether the use of Salvatore Cimino as a pseudonym is widespread in Sicily, or not, is unknown to me. Its inclusion in evidence given against the Sicilian mafia, as reported by The Guardian, is altogether too tantalising to not gratuitously include here, in this note concerning the possibly all-too-confusing fictional /nonfictional uses of the name Cimino, in and around this story. image Te Papa Tongarewa

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author Cimino
work-in-progress published 20240717

Once, while for reasons of security I was hiding in the flat opposite mine, I saw Salvatore Cimino [not his real namebrackets as published by The Guardian] and three others coming up the stairs, Cimino was carrying a grey Magnum .357 pistol.
Davide De Marchi

Salvatore, was the given name of my mother’s father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. He, however—Salvatore Michele Saverio Cimino, born on Capri—was not the son-of-a-Salvatore, but of the third son of a naval captain, Michele Cimino, and his  wife, Anna Soldano.

In my first attempt to commence this proto near-future novel, I used Salvatore, rather than Cimino, to refer to myself in both the auto­biographical chapters and those deploying other forms, such as the future-counterfactualif indeed future-counterfactual is, or could be, a valid term!. However, I was also using pseudonyms for the other characters, which, in this iteration, I am endeavouring to avoid. It is entirely possible that I will revert to using Salvatore. Meantime, given the maniacal urgency of this unabashedly megalomaniacal endeavour, I will persevere with Cimino.

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