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Those phrases are our Latin, the dictionary of our past, they're like Egyptian or Assyro-Babylonian hieroglyphics, evidence of a vital core that has ceased to exist but that lives on in its texts, saved from the fury of the waters, the corrosion of time.
— Jun 21, 2026 12:34PM
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The truth was, even if my mother grumbled and complained in Sassari and Palermo, she'd been very happy there because she had a joyful nature, and no matter where she was she found people to love and to love her.
— Jun 21, 2026 02:09PM
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Some bits I loved from Tim Parks’ introduction: The family sayings are the glue of belonging and the focus of the book. Born of intense attrition they are perhaps more attractive precisely because the family is long since split up. …
Her writing about her family thus gave both her and them a place in the larger, though always dysfunctional, family that is Italy.
— Jun 01, 2026 10:52PM
Her writing about her family thus gave both her and them a place in the larger, though always dysfunctional, family that is Italy.
