Brother Giovanni’s Journal
One of the first questions I am asked by my friends in the United States is why do I choose to live in Pizzaonia, an alternate universe country? The answer is not very complicated. Pizzaonia is a nice place to live. There is a lot to be said for a country whose national symbol is a Pizza.
I could also point out that the quality of life in the United States in no longer what it used to be, but that would be just another rant which all of you are subjected to daily. I would rather focus on why living here is a very satisfying experience.
It is only now that the possibility of alternate universes existing is taken seriously. Until then, even Pizzaonians were not sure what this place was about. For some time, the notion that we lived in a fictitious place, and we were fictitious people was the prevalent theory. Needless to say, this affected most everyone’s self-esteem and some individuals took it very hard.
As I said previously, this never bothered Franco or me very much since we always had a hard time figuring out what was real and unreal from the beginning. That could be one of the reasons coming here seemed so appealing.
We need to distinguish between portalized Pizzaonians like myself and Franco, and native Pizzaonians. When we started appearing from what seemed like thin air, much confusion as to who we were and why we were here raised some serious concerns. Now we all understand this is a natural process developed by Pizzaonian technology called portalization. Portalization from one universe to another is possible with the Portotran, a machine invented by our founder, Pizzaonius
Pizzaonius invented the Portotran some time ago but chose to keep it a secret until he felt that Pizzaonian culture was growing stale and needed serious infusion of new blood. This is very similar to the immigration process that takes place regularly in the United States. We just are better at it than you are.
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