“An accent or a letter can change the meaning of things, just like the position of the fingers of a right hand can determine the positivity of a system: we had found a poem written by our mother, in a book of recipes used merely to adorn a shelf in the kitchen, and Ortensio started saying that the petunia in the poem was a flower, not a person, and that as usual I was trying to give a symbolic meaning to the toilet bowl brush…”
Teoria idraulica delle famiglie/The hydraulic theory of families by Elisa Casseri
https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/Elisa%20Casseri
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