Ray Bradbury: There will come soft rains (an excerpt)

"But no doors slammed, no carpets took the soft tread of rubber heels..." There Will Come Soft Rains Ray Bradbury In the living room the voice-clock sang, "Ticktock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o 'clock!" as if it were afraid that nobody would. The morning house lay empty. The…Read more Ray Bradbury: There will come soft rains (an excerpt)

On books: Bompiani, De Luca, Ojetti, Petrarca, Flaiano, Eco, Citati, Pasolini, Terzani, Pavese, Vassalli

"A book is the only inanimate object that can dream." Un uomo che legge ne vale due.Valentino Bompiani A person who reads is worth two.Valentino Bompiani Il vuoto in faccia a un muro, lasciato da una libreria venduta, è il più profondo che conosco.Erri De Luca The emptiness on the wall, left by a bookshop…Read more On books: Bompiani, De Luca, Ojetti, Petrarca, Flaiano, Eco, Citati, Pasolini, Terzani, Pavese, Vassalli

On fascism: Pertini, Bobbio, Bassani, Calvino, Pasolini, Gramsci, Calamandrei…

"The twenty years of fascism was not, as some unmindful wretch would like to think, twenty years of order and national greatness: it was twenty years of disgraceful illegality, humiliation, moral corrosion, daily suffocation, silent and subterranean moral disgregation." - Piero Calamandrei Sandro Pertini Il fascismo per me non può essere considerato una fede politica.…Read more On fascism: Pertini, Bobbio, Bassani, Calvino, Pasolini, Gramsci, Calamandrei…

Liliana Segre: In Auschwitz at thirteen #LestWeForget

"The trip to Auschwitz – very few speak about it because very few came back – is one of the most terrible chapters of the Shoah. Mine lasted six days, and for six days this humanity lived hoarded in the freight car with its misery, with its bodily functions, with its smell of sweat, of…Read more Liliana Segre: In Auschwitz at thirteen #LestWeForget