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When you dance to a rembetiko song, you step into the circle of the music and the rhythm is like a round cage with bars, and there you dance before the man or woman who once lived the song. You dance a tribute to their sorrow which the
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“This,” said she, “is nearly the sense, or rather the meaning of the words, for certainly the sense of an Italian love-song must not be talked of,—but it is as nearly the meaning as I can give; for I do not pretend to understand the language. I am a very poor Italian scholar.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“Una famiglia di delfini ci superò a sinistra, con le costellazioni riflesse sulla schiena. Poseidone si mise a rimescolare il mare, creando mulinelli in un frastuono simile a quello di un torrente su un letto di ciottoli.”
― Una voce dal Profondo
― Una voce dal Profondo
“than individual inventions or amendments. That is not to say that all demotic innovations are benevolent. But if you listen to many voices and stories and discern a deep and complex pattern emerging, you can usually determine what is real and what has been airbrushed for questionable agendas or corrupted by flash mobs of narcissists.”
― Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
― Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
“Isn’t it obvious?” “Apparently not.” “I’m not just writing about you,” said Shane. “I’m writing to you.”
― Seven Days in June
― Seven Days in June
“Per favore, non usare la parola ‘rumore’,” ammonì. “Quando si tratta di mare, parla di ‘suono’. Un suono che cambia in continuazione a seconda delle ore, della direzione e dell’intensità della corrente.” “Come lo descriveresti a chi non l’ha mai sentito?” “Hai presente l’inizio del Bolero di Ravel? Il rullio in crescendo del tamburo solo? È questo che senti quando il Sole e la Luna si allineano e il risucchio del mare diventa più forte. Un monotono pianissimo che poi, lentamente, ti trascina e diventa fragore.”
― Una voce dal Profondo
― Una voce dal Profondo
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