Munari already did something similar in his book 'Artista e designer' (Laterza 1971, pag. 18-22), imagining a round table outside time and space with major thinkers, philosophers and artists discussing on art. The loose dialogue he proposes has a theatrical effect, adding physical actions to the conversation, like moving on stage. Here, it happens on the cover, writers eventually meet to converse about time, and in particular, about a possible definition of what time is. The typography again wants to resemble a theatre booklet, use of colon and dash, which implies a temporal reading structure of what comes first and after. A possible arrangement is given by the authors position under 'dialogo tra' dialogue between. The effort to create a most objectiv reading sequence might results in a personal, mine in this case, way of intending the quotes. Therefore, differently from Munari who follows a stricht up-down left-right structure, our common way of reading, I opted for a non-hierarchical visual composite, a jigsaw structure that allows you multiple solutions. It might sound confusing having two semantic structures, first creating a non-sequential lay-out then using a device to transform simple quotes into an actual conversation, even instructions of how to read it. Of all the experimented possibilities I found these two layers as the most successful to convey the various meanings I believe useful to introduce a book about the unreality of time. As the writer attempts to destroy the present-past-future structure so the cover does.
