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Joseph Brodsky
“Local fog in Venice has a name: nebbia. It obliterates all reflections ... and everything that has a shape: buildings, people, colonnades, bridges, statues. Boat services are canceled, airplanes neither arrive, nor take off for weeks, stores are closed and mail ceases to litter one’s threshold. The effect is as though some raw hand had turned all those enfilades inside out and wrapped the lining around the city... the fog is thick, blinding, and immobile... this is a time for reading, for burning electricity all day long, for going easy on self-deprecating thoughts of coffee, for listening to the BBC World Service, for going to bed early. In short, a time for self-oblivion, induced by a city that has ceased to be seen. Unwittingly, you take your cue from it, especially if, like it, you’ve got company. Having failed to be born here, you at least can take some pride in sharing its invisibility...”
Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

Charles Bukowski
“Nobody but you

Nessuno può salvarti se non
tu stesso.
Sarai continuamente messo
in situazioni praticamente
impossibili.

Ti metteranno continuamente alla prova
con sotterfugi, inganni e
sforzi
per farti capitolare, arrendere e/o morire silenziosamente
dentro.

Nessuno può salvarti se non
tu stesso
e sarà abbastanza facile fallire
davvero facilissimo
ma non farlo, non farlo, non farlo.
Guardali e basta.
Ascoltali.
Vuoi diventare così?
Un essere senza volto, senza cervello, senza cuore?
Vuoi provare
la morte prima della morte?

Nessuno può salvarti se non
tu stesso
e vale la pena di salvarti.
È una guerra non facile da vincere
ma se c’è qualcosa che vale la pena vincere
è questa.

Pensaci su
pensa al fatto di salvare il tuo io.

Il tuo io spirituale.
il tuo io viscerale.
il tuo io magico che canta e
il tuo io bellissimo.
Salvalo.
Non unirti ai morti-di-spirito.

Mantieni il tuo io
con umorismo e benevolenza
e alla fine
se necessario
scommetti sulla tua vita mentre combatti,
fottitene dei pronostici, fottitene
del prezzo.

Solo tu puoi salvare il tuo
io.

Fallo! Fallo!

Allora saprai esattamente di cosa
sto parlando.”
Charles Bukowski

Pietro Citati
“If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, there’s a sentence written especially for us.”
Pietro Citati

William Faulkner
“Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs”
William Faulkner, Light in August

Thomas Mann
“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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