Carlo Betocchi: Vetri / Glass panes

VETRI   Carlo Betocchi   Sei vetri della finestranell’angolo della stanzasono la strada maestrad’ogni nuvola che avanza. Io, dal mio angolo pigrotendo insidiosi agguatidai poveri tetti emigroverso quei correnti prati. Non sono prati, sono lentisogni: sogno non è vero,sono fuggiti armenti:e nemmeno questo è vero. Vedi quell’azzurro. Cieloè il cielo, bambino mio,con la nuvola, nel cielo,va la volontà…Read more Carlo Betocchi: Vetri / Glass panes

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/