Magnetics
It would be nice to make it as a sculpture, using magnetic levitation, but it seems to be physically impossible (“Earnshaw’s theorem proves conclusively that it is not possible to
Waiting for a train that never came
Someone suggested that the title for this (in Italian) could be binario morto, which is in fact absolutely perfect. It translates as Dead-end track in English, not quite as apt.
The patriarch
Who is the patriarch? I think that he is someone who has managed to fathom the mysteries of spacetime and so is able to travel even the most distant corners