The two aliens - or brutes - the one above, with a somewhat human figure in a sort of spacesuit hanging from his cheeks under his chin, and the one below looking something like some sort of shaman, did not come out from a nightmare or an exercise of deep meditation; they are not archetypical symbols, less so strange beings strolling on our planet. I took a small section from the picture of a lava field in the Ertale volcano, reversed it horizontally and attached it to the first one; subsequently I did the same vertically and that is it. Whichever way you reverse it you get exactly the same visual effect. Only later I realized something else: that the picture in itself is a kind of double Rorschach image, those used by psychologists in the projection test (ink-blot test). But, more important, how it may happen that we are puppets of our brain as I did not do that work with any particular purpose in mind since I was just relaxing in some lazy moments and, secondly, how the casual may transform itself into causality. Should we call this fate, the negation of free-will? Leave this to the philosophers!

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