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Sunday, May 15, 2016

Che Pazienza

























e come disse il grande Andrea Pazienza.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hAiE1qVb7g

Friday, May 06, 2016

Memory transfusion

Francis questioned, in halting language, the direction Europe has taken: “What has happened to you, Europe … the home of poets, philosophers, artists, musicians, and men and women of letters? What has happened to you … the mother of great men and women who upheld, and even sacrificed their lives for, the dignity of their brothers and sisters?”

Quoting the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, Pope Francis said a “memory transfusion” was needed to recall how Europe’s founders “dared to change radically the models that had led only to violence and destruction … [and] dared to seek multilateral solutions to increasingly shared problems”.

Don DeLillo

Apropos of almost nothing, he recalls Ernest Hemingway.
He’s been thinking a lot about Hemingway; he doesn’t entirely know why. He says, “Here’s a story I don’t think I’ve told before. Back in the early 1960s I was standing on 48th Street between Fifth and Madison. And there was Hemingway walking across the street. This was roughly a year before he killed himself. He was going towards Fifth Avenue and I knew that Scribner, his publisher, was right around the corner and that this was where he was going. And it was a wonderful thing to see him walk by. But what’s astonishing now is to think of Hemingway and Fitzgerald and to find myself with those guys in one of those special editions that Scribner did recently – one for each of us. And how did that happen? It’s astonishing to me.” He smiles. “Because I’m not Hemingway. I’m just a guy whose name can’t be spelled properly.”

Don DeLillo

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/06/don-delillo-kid-from-the-bronx-interview-xan-brooks