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Antonio Gallo

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Every Man is a Book, every Book is a Man. I learned to read and write using mobile letters in the little traditional family printing shop last century and millennium. I thought myself a writer, I became a bibliophile, I am only a dinosaur bibliomaniac.

The reading of this identity card should be read online. By clicking on the links you will have access. When I left teaching about twenty years ago, I attended an online course at the University of London, "Institute of Education". In the final dissertation, he coined the acronym C.A.C. which stands for Connection → Access → Control. If you have a connection you can have access to the network and check what Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Every Man is a Book, every Book is a Man. I learned to read and write using mobile letters in the little traditional family printing shop last century and millennium. I thought myself a writer, I became a bibliophile, I am only a dinosaur bibliomaniac.

The reading of this identity card should be read online. By clicking on the links you will have access. When I left teaching about twenty years ago, I attended an online course at the University of London, "Institute of Education". In the final dissertation, he coined the acronym C.A.C. which stands for Connection → Access → Control. If you have a connection you can have access to the network and check what you want. Click on the active underlined links and you will have my digital identity.

I feel a digital dinosaur, I learned to read and write in the family typography, in the ancient Valley of the Sarrasti while walking with Kant. Originals or plagiarists we are novelists of ourselves so I wrote in a book recently published in print, also present on the Internet Archive. I have been surfing the Net since Commodore 64 and I know the difficulty of reading. If I had to sum up many years of reading and writing, I would also like to affirm the right not to read in order to oppose the right to read. Perhaps I would betray the century of my Father, he did not write the books "he made them".

He was a composer, a printer, a binder, he had a heart that was a book. I, after a long time, I try not to be a robot. I can't help but express the need to think. I do it in all the digital spaces that I have been able to attend in recent decades after I left school and active teaching. I realized that I had become part of a global brain. I am increasingly convinced that we are what we read. Between libraries and library therapies, I express my digital idea in my blog between Machiavelli and McLuhan. You can meet strange travel companions among the books. My digital library is on LibraryThing & GoodReads, my daily life on Facebook and MEDIUM. My images are on Pinterest.

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Ogni Uomo è un Libro, ogni Libro è un Uomo. Ho imparato a leggere e scrivere usando le lettere mobili nella piccola tipografia tradizionale di famiglia nell'ultimo secolo e millennio. Mi sono creduto uno scrittore, sono diventato un bibliofilo, sono solo un bibliomane dinosauro.

La lettura di questa carta d'identità va letta online. Cliccando sui link avrai accesso. Quando ho lasciato l'insegnamento circa vent'anni fa, ho frequentato un corso online presso l'Università di Londra, "Institute of Education". Nella tesi finale ha coniato l'acronimo C.A.C. che sta per Connessione → Accesso → Controllo. Se hai una connessione puoi avere accesso alla rete e controllare quello che vuoi. Clicca sui link attivi sottolineati e avrai la mia identità digitale.

Mi sento un dinosauro digitale, ho imparato a leggere e scrivere nella tipografia di famiglia, nell'antica Valle dei Sarrasti passeggiando con Kant. Originali o plagiatori siamo romanzieri di noi stessi così ho scritto in un libro recentemente pubblicato in stampa, presente anche su Internet Archive. Navigo in rete dal Commodore 64 e conosco la difficoltà di lettura. Se dovessi riassumere tanti anni di lettura e scrittura, vorrei anche affermare il diritto a non leggere per opporsi al diritto di leggere. Forse tradirei il secolo di mio Padre, non ha scritto i libri "li ha fatti".

Era un compositore, uno stampatore, un raccoglitore, aveva un cuore che era un libro. Io, dopo tanto tempo, cerco di non essere un robot. Non posso fare a meno di esprimere il bisogno di pensare. Lo faccio in tutti gli spazi digitali che ho potuto frequentare negli ultimi decenni dopo aver lasciato la scuola e l'insegnamento attivo. Mi sono reso conto di essere diventato parte di un cervello globale. Sono sempre più convinto che siamo ciò che leggiamo .... ...more

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	Il testimone. Le Memorie di Alvano 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Un libro straordinario e non sorprendente, anche se il contesto in cui si svolge la storia è dei più estremi che si possano immaginare. Laura Bates è una professoressa universitaria di letteratura inglese che decide di tenere corsi su Shakespeare ai ...more
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Di questo libro che ho letto in versione Kindle ho scritto due diverse recensioni. Una in versione conformista, l'altra in versione anticonformista. Un'operazione che mi permetto di fare in quanto "cristiano", alla luce di cosa intese dire Benedetto ...more
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“Ma la vera regina madre di tutte le biblioteche digitali esistenti su questo pianeta rimane "Internet Archive", moderna reincarnazione della mitica "Biblioteca di Alessandria" di cui si parla in questo libro. Due "visite" che ogni bibliomane che si rispetti, degno di questo nome e che voglia non curarsi da questa malattia, (un male incurabile!) ma voglia aumentarla, non può esimersi dal fare. Leggere il libro e navigare il sito archive.org per capire quello che sta succedendo non solo ai libri ed alle biblioteche, ma anche e sopratutto al nostro modo di pensare, leggere e scrivere.”
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“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”
― Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

tags: self, self-esteem, self-esteem-or-lack-thereof, self-hatred, self-loathing

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“[E]very man hath liberty to write, but few ability. Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base and illiterate scribblers, that either write for vain-glory, need, to get money, or as Parasites to flatter and collogue with some great men, they put out trifles, rubbish and trash. Among so many thousand Authors you shall scarce find one by reading of whom you shall be any whit better, but rather much worse; by which he is rather infected than any way perfected…

What a catalogue of new books this year, all his age (I say) have our Frankfurt Marts, our domestic Marts, brought out. Twice a year we stretch out wits out and set them to sale; after great toil we attain nothing…What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast Chaos and confusion of Books, we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning. For my part I am one of the number—one of the many—I do not deny it...”
― Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

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“I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.”
― Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

tags: alone, hermit, people, public, quiet, solitary, solitude

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“Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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