Sunday was Mother’s Day and my thoughts (and heart) went to my own mother, of course, but also to all the mothers in the world today who no longer have anyone to celebrate them: there are, at this very moment, numerous wars where civilians almost always pay the highest price; there are children lying under…Read more Giuseppe Ungaretti: Giorno per Giorno / Day by day (1940-1946)
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Trilussa: Mania de persecuzzione / Perrsecution complex
What is about dictators that make them so touchy, so paranoid? It’s as if, for them, their own shadows are out to get them; so they ban, censor, limit, arrest, deport, destroy…because it's very hard to be on the wrong side of history: people may notice. This is the first thing I thought of when…Read more Trilussa: Mania de persecuzzione / Perrsecution complex
Joyce Lussu: C’è un paio di scarpette Rosse/ There is a pair of red shoes
"There is a pair of red shoes by Joyce Lussu There is a pair of red shoes toddler size eight almost new: on the inner sole still visible is the brand name “Schulze Monaco.” There is a pair of red shoes..." #JoyceLussu (May 8, 1912-November 4, 1998) #LestWeForget
Present mood: History of the world from the beginnings to the present day by Luigi Malerba
"He wrote many history books, some real and some invented, but every one of them wished to be the history of the world from the beginnings to the present day, that is, from the beginning to the end. After the bicycle and the books came the car, and the plane, and the bomb..." https://paralleltexts.blog/2017/04/15/history-of-the-world-from-the-beginnings-to-the-present-day-by-luigi-malerba/
parallel texts: words reflected 