Three scientists \u2014 Papaia, Banani, and Ravioli \u2014 and their assistant Igor, who work at NASAL, start getting interested in creationism. Their superiors, worried, send them to see a psychologist, Professor Faggioli, a dubious character determined to get them fired by making them seem crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019re in Professor Faggioli\u2019s office, where Ravioli is talking about his childhood, when he used to hide the after-school fish in his backpack to avoid having to eat it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That time, Raviolino had hidden the backpack on top of the bookshelf, but, to keep the secret of the fish, the cat Anchovino had ended up in a misunderstanding and had been unjustly neutered, all because of Raviolino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Faggioli: Well! Maybe he didn\u2019t want to be neutered!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ravioli: No, certainly he didn\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Faggioli: And what made you perceive this resentment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ravioli: You see, professor, from that day on, Anchovino was never the same. Sometimes he would stare at me for hours and hours, as if he felt bitterness and contempt towards me. It was as if he was judging me for what I had done to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Faggioli: But that was just your impression. You know well that cats don\u2019t judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ravioli: I know. Maybe it was because of the guilt I felt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ravioli reflects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ravioli: One night, the cat came into my room and climbed onto my desk. He kept staring at me with that resentful look. I fell asleep and woke up in the middle of the night. And the cat was still there, in the exact same spot, with those accusatory eyes staring at me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Faggioli: You had to win back his friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ravioli: Yes, and one day I had an idea. I took the backpack and opened it in front of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Faggioli: You were trying to get his forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ravioli: Exactly! And it was also a good way to get rid of the fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Faggioli: Obviously cleaning it in the conventional way was out of the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Ravioli: At first, it worked. The cat went into the backpack. You could hear the sound of his little paws scraping through the rot, and the rough tongue licking the bottom of that vile container.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Faggioli: And did it work? Did the cat forgive you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ravioli: Yes. Apparently, we had reached an agreement. Only it didn\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Faggioli: Ah! And why is that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ravioli: You see, Faggioli, that fish was too rotten, even for the cat\u2019s stomach!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Faggioli: So he got sick?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ravioli: Right there in the living room, in front of everyone! So he ended up at the vet again, who gave him a gastric lavage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Faggioli: He wasn\u2019t so happy anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ravioli: Definitely not! And we were back to square one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Igor then commented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Igor: Raviolino\u2019s cat, when entering that backpack, had lived an unforgettable experience\u2026
Yes, just like Ravioli\u2019s tortures:
smelly, incomprehensible\u2026 and entirely unnecessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2026 yes, I know that\u2019s not how the story goes, but it\u2019s still funny!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2026 anyway\u2026 if one day, Ravioli\u2019s cat had told the stories of his childhood to his grand-kittens, they would\u2019ve all been similar: starting with Ravioli\u2019s backpack, and ending badly at the vet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2026 sorry, did I say \u201cgrand-kittens\u201d? Um, no\u2026 After the incident on the living room carpet\u2026 that was no longer the case for Anchovino!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2026 thanks, of course, to Ravioli\u2019s help!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2026 but, in any case, after the adventure inside Ravioli\u2019s backpack, for the cat, that incident was \u201cwater under the bridge\u201d\u2026 yes, passed through his stomach during the gastric lavage!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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