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Reading As Constellation Making (Adventure Tales as Constellations, or James Oliver Curwood and Hugo Pratt as producers of «objet imaginaires»Fifth Clipping)
I could trace many of the constellations wrenched from adventure tales that are ineffaceably impressed in the theater of my imagination, as any reader could do with relish, probably. However, a few haphazardly evoked images from the saga of Mefisto, mortal enemy of Tex Willer, will suffice as an example: the Hualpais, with their mysterious M-engraved medals and their blowpipes blowing poisoned darts from under flat rocks and stone slabs in the night desert; the blood letters cut on the bare breasts of the prisoners; the catoptromantic mirrors and lecanomantic echinuses of the evil wizard; a magic circle traced in the desert under the stars; pairs of gigantic eyes staring far off landscapes; and so on.
