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Read and listen to Gianni Rodari's story: “Many questions”

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Hello friends of Eugenio, from all over the world.

Today I read you the story of Gianni Rodari "Many questions"

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Once upon a time there was a child who asked a lot of questions and this is certainly not a bad thing but rather a good thing.
But that child's questions were difficult to answer.

For example he asked:
Why do drawers have tables?
People looked at him and maybe replied:
The drawers are used to store cutlery.

I know what the drawers are for, but I don't know why the drawers have tables.
People shook their heads and walked away. Another time he asked:
Why do fish have tails?

Or.
Why do cats have whiskers?
People shook their heads and went about their business.
As the child grew up he never stopped asking questions. Even when he became a man he went around asking for this and that.

Since no one answered, he retreated to a small house on top of the mountain and thought about the questions all the time and wrote them in a notebook, then he thought about it to find the answer but he couldn't find it.
For example he wrote:
Why does the shade have a pine tree?
Why don't clouds write letters?

Why don't stamps drink beer? Writing so many questions gave him a headache but he didn't care, he also developed a beard which he didn't cut.
Indeed he asked himself: Why does the beard have a face?

In short, he was a phenomenon.
When he died, a scholar did some investigations and discovered that since he was a child, the man had become accustomed to wearing his socks inside out and had never managed to put them on the right side, and so had never been able to learn to ask the right questions. It happens to many people today like it did to him.

Giovanni Francesco Rodari, known as Gianni (pronounced /roˈdari/; Omegna, 23 October 1920 – Rome, 14 April 1980), was aItalian writer, pedagogist, journalist, poet and partisan,specialized in children's literature and translated into many languages. The only Italian writer to have won the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Prize in 1970, he was one of the greatest interpreters of the "fantastic" theme as well as, thanks to the 1973 Grammatica della fantasia, his main work, one of the main theorists of the art of inventing stories.