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Jay Haley, a talented researcher in family therapy, has shown that there is more rigidity in distressed families than in happy families. In happiness there is the possibility for much greater diversity and randomness. Unhappiness creates
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“Emergence is when micro-level complex systems that are far from equilibrium (thus allowing for the amplification of random events) self-organize (creative, self-generated, adaptability-seeking behavior) into new structures, with new properties that previously did not exist, to form a new level of organization on the macro level.”
― Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
― Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
“Evocai versi e romanzi come tranquillanti. Forse, pensai, aver studiato mi serve solo a questo: a calmarmi.”
― Storia del nuovo cognome
― Storia del nuovo cognome
“The frantumaglia is an unstable landscape, an infinite aerial or aquatic mass of debris that appears to the I, brutally, as its true and unique inner self. The frantumaglia is the storehouse of time without the orderliness of a history, a story. The frantumaglia is an effect of the sense of loss, when we’re sure that everything that seems to us stable, lasting, an anchor for our life, will soon join that landscape of debris that we seem to see. The frantumaglia is to perceive with excruciating anguish the heterogeneous crowd from which we, living, raise our voice, and the heterogeneous crowd into which it is fated to vanish.”
― La frantumaglia
― La frantumaglia
“In general, we store away our experiences and make use of timeworn phrases—nice, ready-made, reassuring stylizations that give us a sense of colloquial normality. But in this way, either knowingly or unknowingly, we reject everything that, to be said fully, would require effort and a torturous search for words. Honest writing forces itself to find words for those parts of our experience that are hidden and silent. On one hand, a good story, or, rather, the kind of story I like best, narrates an experience—for example, friendship—following specific conventions that render it recognizable and riveting; on the other hand, it sporadically reveals the magma running beneath the pillars of convention. The fate of a story that tends toward truth by pushing stylizations to their limit depends on the extent to which the reader really wants to face up to herself.”
― La frantumaglia
― La frantumaglia
“Attraverso i suoi molti peccati, Teodoro non ismentí mai, però, il suo carattere precipuo: una generosità avventata e cavalleresca, la quale, malgrado la sua frivolezza in amore, gli meritava il perdono e, in certi casi, fin la gratitudine, delle sue stesse vittime. Con grandiosità senza pari, egli si spendeva tutto intero in ogni avventura, anche nelle piú effimere: se amava una donna, foss’anche per un sol giorno, per la durata di questo giorno era il suo schiavo, ed era capace di commettere ogni sorta di vistose e costose follie per una fiamma passeggera ed esigua. Inoltre, egli possedeva il dono delle parole, e, di piú, il dono di credere in esse: grazie al magico uso d’un vocabolario poetico, romanzesco, e, badate bene, sincero, egli trasmutava, nel concetto suo proprio e in quello delle credule amanti, una comune tresca in una tragedia. E nessuna delle sue amanti (qualsiasi fossero stati le amarezze e gli strazi inflittile, per crudeltà della sorte, da Teodoro), alla fine, almeno, non rimaneva senza l’estrema soddisfazione d’aver vissuto, non già una mediocre avventura, ma un’esperienza magnifica, e d’aver rappresentato una parte sublime.
A Teodoro non piaceva di lasciare alcuno con la bocca amara: e ciò non solo a motivo della sua naturale mitezza, ma anche perché l’ideale amoroso, sul quale egli avrebbe voluto modellarsi, non era di perfidia, ma di cortesia e magnanimità. Egli preferiva di rappresentare dopotutto, e a dispetto, magari, d’ogni verisimiglianza, la parte della vittima; e vi riusciva con tanto successo che si dette il caso d’amanti da lui tradite, disonorate e abbandonate che s’impietosirono meno sulla propria sorte che sulla sua.”
― Menzogna e sortilegio
A Teodoro non piaceva di lasciare alcuno con la bocca amara: e ciò non solo a motivo della sua naturale mitezza, ma anche perché l’ideale amoroso, sul quale egli avrebbe voluto modellarsi, non era di perfidia, ma di cortesia e magnanimità. Egli preferiva di rappresentare dopotutto, e a dispetto, magari, d’ogni verisimiglianza, la parte della vittima; e vi riusciva con tanto successo che si dette il caso d’amanti da lui tradite, disonorate e abbandonate che s’impietosirono meno sulla propria sorte che sulla sua.”
― Menzogna e sortilegio
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