PART 3. The astronaut Gregory Linteris and the Friulian flag (l’astronaute Gregory Linteris e la bandiere furlane).
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Nol podeve lassâ a cjase il simbul de sô tiere, cundut che chei de NASA, sul imprin, no volevin permeti cheste ecezion a lis regulis. Ma i furlans se si metin tal cjâf alc, no molin, e a puedin puartâ il Friûl tal lôr cûr, ma ancje tal spazi. Dì po! What âstu lì? {Ce âstu lì?} This is not acuile çocone americane. {Cheste no je l’acuile çocone americane.} Ce eagle ise cheste? {Ce acuile ise cheste?} Furlan eagle? (La acuile furlane?} Bon, dai, o close the eyes par cheste volte. {Bon, dai, o sieri i voi par cheste volte.} Va là, va là. Monte up. {Monte sù.} Al è cussì che Gregory al à fat svolâ la acuile dal Friûl ator dal mont e parsore dai cjâfs di miliarts di personis. Tra la prime mission e la seconde, Greg al à viazât par siet milions e votcent mil chilometris in tresinte e cutuardis orbitis ator de tiere. Cui sa se di là sù si viôt il Friûl...
He couldn’t leave at home the symbol of his homeland, though the NASA people, at first, didn’t want to allow this exception to the rules. But if Friulians get something in their head, they don’t give up, and they can carry Friûl in their heart, and even into space. Say now! What have you there? This is not the American bald eagle. What eagle is this? The Friulian eagle? Fine, go ahead, I’ll close my eyes this time. Go on, go on, board. That is how Gregory made the eagle of Friûl fly around the world and over the heads of billions of people. Between the first and second missions, Greg travelled seven million and eight hundred thousand kilometres in three hundred and fourteen orbits around the earth. Who knows if you can see Friûl from up there...
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