"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
Giorgio Bassani: L’odore del fieno/ The scent of hay – “The years of the stories”
Gli anni delle storie Giorgio Bassani On ne peut offrir que le moi. Sinon, tout ce qu’on nomme offrand n’est pas autre chose qu’une etiquette posée sur une revanche du moi. Simone Weil 1. Lida Mantovani, la prima delle Storie ferraresi, ebbe una gestazione estremamente laboriosa. La abbozzai nel ’37, ventunenne, ma, negli anni…Read more Giorgio Bassani: L’odore del fieno/ The scent of hay – “The years of the stories”
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…
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