Following the disappearance of Majorana, a certain Tommaso Lipari, a homeless man with a brilliant knowledge of mathematics, wandered through the streets of Mazara del Vallo, a town near Palermo. On the right hand a scar identical to that of the well-known physicist, on the left a walking stick engraved with the date of birth of Ettore: too many coincidences.
Even now I don't understand the origin of that funny nickname.