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"Ecco, questo è il rumore dell'orologio dentro. Questo misura un tempo che non va dritto, ma avanti e indietro, fa curve e tornanti, si arrotola, inventa, rimette in scena. È un tempo che non puoi misurare né coi cronometri né col più sofisticato astro-macchinario. È il tempo tuo, misura la tua vita che è unica"
Stefano Benni
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Le cose muoiono: questa è la prima cosa che non puoi cancellare, una volta che l'hai davvero scoperta. Le cose guariscono, le cose ricominciano, le cose tornano. Questa è una cosa bella da tenere in testa ma non la puoi avere sempre, la speranza fa il gioco del sole nel bosco, sparisce, riappare un attimo, poi di nuovo è ombra e scuro.
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Le cose muoiono: questa è la prima cosa che non puoi cancellare, una volta che l'hai davvero scoperta. Le cose guariscono, le cose ricominciano, le cose tornano. Questa è una cosa bella da tenere in testa ma non la puoi avere sempre, la speranza fa il gioco del sole nel bosco, sparisce, riappare un attimo, poi di nuovo è ombra e scuro.
Stefano Benni - Saltatempo
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For the really get to know me: 10, 21, 27?
thank you!!!!!! 💓💓
10. What's your favorite book?
hard to pick just one so i'm picking 3 (sorry): on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong, saltatempo (timeskipper) by stefano benni, brother by david chariandy
21. A song that evokes a good memory
citizen erased by muse!!! it was one of my dreams to hear that one (and bliss, which i also got to, but some time later) live and i went to a muse concert in rome years ago, i was with some friends and friends of friends and we spent much of the journey to rome/the venue and the time queuing before the concert talking about how we all, but especially me, wanted to hear citizen erased live and we were manifesting so hard AND THEY PLAYED IT! it was amazing i was sooo happy
27. 3 things you love about yourself.
i already answered this but i guess i'll find 3 more bc it's good to say nice things about myself or something. i love the love and passion i have for music, how quickly i can do the easy sudokus on my sudoku app lmao (one day i'll be able to do the harder ones quickly too) and that i'm good at my job
#asks#enthusiasticsincarazshipper#please everyone stop asking me to say nice things about myself i'm struggling :')#i'm joking
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La vita è una merda, ma se ci tieni a qualcosa, non devi mollare. Stefano Benni - Saltatempo
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E mi chiede, come va? Potrei dire: adesso che ti vedo capisco quanto mi sei mancata, e la sola idea che tu sparisca di nuovo mi fa morire, ti amo, ti amo, ti amo e se mi rispondi `sarai mica scemo´, giuro che mangio tutti questi pesci crudi e due chili di pane con la mollica poi mi butto nella pozza gelida, mi verrà una congestione, annegherò e avrai rimorso tutta la vita. Alla fine dico soltanto: va bene, insomma, e tu?
Stefano Benni - Saltatempo
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27 gennaio giorno della memoria
Ma la memoria non è fatta solo di giuramenti, parole e lapidi,è fatta di gesti che si ripetono ogni mattino del mondo.
E il mondo che vogliamo noi va salvato ogni giorno, nutrito,tenuto vivo.
Basta mollare un attimo e tutto va in rovina”.
Baruch scrutò verso i monti, come se cercasse le orme dei suoi passi, e di quelle dei suoi compagni.
“Torneranno” disse tristemente ” tra vent’anni o trenta ma torneranno.
Non vedremo cingolati entrare in paese, non parleranno tedesco.
Sorrideranno e avranno delle belle auto ammirate da tutti.
Vestiranno giacche di sartoria invece della divisa di ordinanza.
Non gireranno le squadracce, ma si sparirà in silenzio, cancellati in qualche nuovo modo elegante.
Così sarà.
Stefano Benni "saltatempo"
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La gente crede che per andare da un punto all’altro ci sia sempre una sola strada, quella sulla carta, o quella che ti indicano gli altri.
Se sapessero quanti passaggi nascosti ci sono nel mondo e nella loro testa.
(Stefano Benni - da "Saltatempo")
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June Reading
Each month this year I'm trying to read at least one political/historical work, and one novel in Italian. Unfortunately, the political works, I'm spending a lot of time on by taking notes and recapping them so I make sure I understand the arguments. And the Italian novels are just much slower for me to read than in English. For example, Saltatempo was around 250 pages and took 11 days, whereas Moll Flanders was 425 pages and took me 5 days, roughly one quarter of the time per page. But I'm determined to maintain this. It means I'm reading less books this year, and not chugging through my list of novels as quickly. But of my massive list of books I started with, I'll probably have less than ten left by the end of the year.
Moll Flanders- Daniel Defoe (1722)
Tale of a woman, born in Newgate prison, and how her life moves from servitude to legitimacy, to various troubles and eventually to crime, until she finally is caught, undergoes repentance, and sets things right as much as possible. There are no chapter divisions in the book. The tale just moves from incident to incident, as if she were telling her story to someone she met in a bar.
Karl Marx- Early Writings (1834-35)
The early writings consist of: Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State, Letters from the Franco-German Yearbooks, On the Jewish Question, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right Introduction, Excerpts from James Mill's Elements of Political Economy, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Critical Notes on the Article: The King of Prussia and Social Reform, by a Prussian.
The importance of these writings is to see the intellectual development of the foundations of Marxism.
The most difficult and dense to get through was the Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State. The articles I got the most from were On the Jewish Question and Excerpts from Mill's Elements of Political Economy. I had already read the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, so I skipped that section.
There were a few places where I had to rely on outside sources to help me understand what Marx was talking about because it wasn't clear to me at all. The first was just understanding his approach to Hegel. But I found another article that helped explain where he was coming from. The introduction by Lucio Colletti was really helpful too. Apart from those sources, I'm not sure I would have gotten what Marx was talking about.
The second article that helped immensely was an explanation of how and why Marx used abstraction in his arguments. This is an important concept in his arguments, and I was struggling to follow his thinking. Understanding how he thought about this helped unlock his thought process.
This is all part of my effort to educate myself about Marxism.
Non ti muovere- Margaret Mazzantini (2001)
Timoteo, a 50ish surgeon, has a 15 year-old daughter who is hit while riding her scooter in the rain to school. She is seriously injured. The story is a confessional Timoteo is thinking to his daughter while she is undergoing surgery. He confesses a long affair with another woman, intermixed with tidbits about how he met his wife, and their years together up to this point.
The Mill on the Floss- George Eliot (1860)
Tale of Maggie Tulliver, a young passionate girl of 8 when we first meet her, until 19. She is seen as troublesome, but intensely passionate and loving. She breaks out on occasion against her more judgmental family, who want to box her in to a more social role. Eliot acknowledges the value of these roles at times, even while portraying their judgment as unfair. Maggie is caught up in her passions, which occasionally lead her astray, but she ends up coming back to her place. It's a good story that tells us about life and the way people looked at certain situations.
The Twelve Caesars- Suetonius (121AD)
I won't bother to give a recap of each of the twelve Caesars. But I will note the pattern the book reveals. Rome went from being a Republic to a monarchy. How did it happen? Why did it happen? What are the things that we should look for that cause a people as prosperous as the Romans to give up self-governance and submit to a single ruler? Most of those lessons aren't found in this book. But the fact is: Rome got Julius Caesar as the first emperor. He was a relatively competent ruler and maybe the people felt that this single hand could accomplish more than the by then relatively useless Senate. But once a "king", or princeps, as they called him, was established, it was only 3 generations before that concentration of power went off the rails. What followed Caesar Augustus was the maleficence of Tiberius, Caligula, Gaius, and Nero, each murdered by people who hated them and their deaths rejoiced over by the populace. The point being that once power is concentrated in the hands of one man, you're not going back, and it's going to attract the worst, most power-hungry men.
What this book shows is the malfeasance of men entrusted with too much power. There were, on occasions, emperors who showed themselves to be genuinely interested in governing well. They understood the trust that had been put in their hands and sought to rule wisely. But of the twelve Caesars, there were only 4 that fit that. And maybe we should throw out the first two since they were coming into the role from the viewpoint of a republic, not a monarchy.
That was another thing to note. The republic didn't die at once. The Senate continued to exist, in a somewhat toothless form, well into the imperial age. The settings of the republic didn't disappear, they just lost their power over time until they were institutions in name only.
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Sento che qualcosa sta succedendo, il fiume ha ripreso a scorrere, forse non sarà come prima, ma ci riproverà, i pesci torneranno, forse le ruspe smetteranno di scavare e rubar ghiaia. Le cose muoiono: questa è la prima cosa che non puoi cancellare, una volta che l'hai davvero scoperta. Le cose guariscono, le cose ricominciano, le cose tornano. Questaè una cosa bella da tenere in testa, ma non la puoi avere sempre, la speranza fa il gioco del sole nel bosco, sparisce, riappare un attimo, poi di nuovo è ombra e scuro.
Stefano Benni - Saltatempo
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Quando uno non distingue più i banditi dagli sceriffi - disse Gancio - vuol dire che è nella merda.
Stefano Benni, Saltatempo
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Che mi dica pure di no e mi spezzi il cuore, nella vita bisogna osare.
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"Nessun mostro è peggiore di quello che si nasconde. E nessun delitto è peggiore di quello del forte contro il debole. Maledetto chi ti porta via l'acqua, chi ti deruba del pane, chi ti toglie la libertà. Il tuo paese ha conosciuto ingiustizie e crimini, e ha servito mostri i cui artigli si chiamavano autorità, partito, investitura divina o gradimento del popolo. Altri ne verranno, mostri ipocriti e ridenti, ma tutti prima o poi faranno la stessa fine. Marciranno nel pozzo profondo della storia. Non devi obbedirgli, non devi diventare come loro. Ma verranno giorni in cui il pozzo sarà quasi vuoto. Dovrai calare il secchio tante volte, aspettare e lottare, finché troverai l'acqua preziosa per chi ne ha bisogno. Ti diranno che l'acqua è altrove, che ci sono modi più facili per averla, ti venderanno acqua d'oblio oppure avvelenata, ti uccideranno dicendo che l'acqua è soltanto loro. Ma conserva la speranza, torna ogni notte, cala il secchio e resisti, non aver paura."
- S. Benni, Pane e Tempesta
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Ma non è che è un periodo “ma però” (cit. Stefano Benni), è proprio un periodo “ma vaffanculo”.
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