Thursday, February 10, 2011

How Do You Fight On Poptropia?

One more reason to vote for the Right! The modesty of the constitutional court

Nothing gay in the party. The commissioner of the Lazio Region Teodoro Buontempo sure did not want to discriminate against anyone, but he wants to "preserve" the image of the hard right and pure. "Why join the gay party - told KlausCondicio - we would give a bad example to the collective imagination, a sharing of values \u200b\u200bthat we have in our DNA." During an interview with the program of study by Klaus Davi, Buontempo put stakes through the entries in the party. "Let's be clear - explains the regional minister - met this person e gli spiegherei perché sarebbe sbagliata una simile scelta e che un partito deve avere le sue colonne d’Ercole. Altrimenti non sarebbe un partito, ma un contenitore vuoto come tanti ce ne sono oggi". "Gli spiegherei che siamo contrarissimi ai matrimoni omosex e ancor di più alle adozioni, quindi gli direi che non sarebbe opportuno - continua Buontempo - inutile essere ipocrita per avere qualche voto in più. Detto questo, difenderei un gay e mi batterei perchè venga rispettato". Alla domanda di Klaus Davi: "E se scoprite che una persona già iscritta è gay?", l’esponente della Destra risponde: "In tutte le buone famiglie ci sono le pecore nere, ma non lo espelleremmo assolutamente, a patto che non cerchi di mettere programs of the party unions or gay adoptions. In that case would be incompatible. "


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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Trench Foot Discovery

The letter of yesterday (and that perhaps one day will come) ... and be happily


If you work in a library can happen to have in his hands a letter like this.
If you work in a library, you may have read, although a part of you feels guilty, as if he were browsing in the privacy of others.
But if you work in a library, you say that you do for work, and laws.

"For a week I was given the title of doctor , but I must say that I do not feel different from before [...] In fact, maybe now I'm a bit 'worried because they seem to be blocked the assumptions: I want to stay in the institution where I made the claim and will work willingly, but the idea of \u200b\u200bit scares me a little free '[...] I'm in these days as the habit of writing has been lost, must be the fault of the hectic life that we have to do and the postal service: in fact seem to those legendary times when a letter arrived after three days [...] Vicenza is a city that can not well appear in everyday life: the few times I was there I always had the ' impression that it was empty ... "

And when you finish it and throw our eyes to the date, you get a little shiver down my spine.

November 3, 1974

think that these same words could be written today. That the concerns of that time seem the same. What is it for you (including the postman).
But nearly four decades have passed, most of your life, and we're back to square one.
And you wonder when things will never change.

This letter was found between the pages of a book by Piero Nardi. To write is a niece, which I do not feel that much different.
Nardi was a teacher and literary critic Vicenza. A rethink his life, see his personal library full of books with autographs of friends and pen of letters, some 'hope you are. Read the dedications of Giorgio Bassani of Eugenio Montale of Sibilla , full of affection and gratitude, and smile.
But those were other times , as Nardi decided to entitle his autobiography. Times when the culture still mattered - and had universally, not just for you. Working in a library you do not know for how much, and do not want to remember how.

Hoping one day to write a letter other than this.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Spanish Wedding Program Wording

(book) schizophrenic


The 'Bags Minerva "by Umberto Eco are always illuminating .
The last I read, on 27 January, it has been in a particular way.
because I realized that even the specialist would have done good, saving me long dissertations on years of my life lying in uncomfortable chairs (which are not used more) and the giving disproportionate share of € (who is still used, and how).
quote:

"The world of receipt (of those who rejoice various creative ideas) is extremely varied. I do not believe that those who worship the Tamaro go crazy for "Finnegans Wake". Nè credo che chi ama Joyce ami Dan Brown, a meno che sappia amministrare con saggezza la propria schizofrenia , come faceva Proust (autore di un indimenticabile elogio della cattiva musica)".
E ancora: "Sia le persone insopportabilmente colte che quelle insopportabilmente ottuse o fanno l'una o l'altra cosa, e si vergognerebbero di tenere i piedi in due staffe (come invece deve fare ogni buon cavallerizzo )" [corsivo della p.l.]

Continuando poi sullo stesso tono, tra diatribe apparentemente insanabili: cena con caviale e lume di candela versus pizza take-away (schizofrenia culinaria ), Leoncavallo e Schoenberg (schizofrenia musicale ), arti figurative e Pollock (schizofrenia artistica ). Per non parlare di quelle che aggiungerei io: dalla schizofrenia cinematografica alla televisiva , arrivando fino alla schizofrenia umana (alzi la mano chi non annovera, nel proprio pacchetto amici , qualcuno di talmente diverso che sembra venga da un altro pianeta!).
Ecco, caro Umberto, finalmente grazie a te l'ho capito: sono anch'io un'inguaribile schizofrenica. Ma, in fondo, non lo siamo un po' tutti?
Ricordo ancora un'amica bibliotecaria che, a pranzo con altre colleghe in front of a plate of meatballs and broccoli in the middle of a dissertation by librarian book, he exclaimed: "I have read all the books in the Twilight saga, and I say this publicly with great pleasure! months were not a reading I enjoyed that. " I know for a fact that the same person he counts among his readings of diametrically opposed, which Eco would call immediately radical chic. But why should we stop being good horsemen and literary schizophrenia if this gives us pleasure, we have fun, makes us feel good?
Everyone - some more than others - their hidden passions. I own banned books: those readings that do not admit it, but we have fun molto più di tanti pamphlet radical chic. Perché ogni tanto fa bene, è come una boccata d'aria. Inutile dire di no. E anche tu, che con la testa stai ostinatamente negando: sicuramente qualche lettura proibita ce l'avrai. Magari non oggi, magari è stato ieri. Magari tu non la definisci così, ma attenzione: è solo la tua opinione, qualcun altro potrebbe farlo. E chissenefrega ? L'importante è starci bene, nella nostra schizofrenia. Non vergognarsene. Eco ha adoperato una parola bellissima, oggi purtroppo molto poco usata: gioire.
Per quanto mi riguarda, da quindicenne ho divorato Va' dove ti porta il cuore della Tamaro. E recentemente qualche Dan Brown's meatloaf I've read it, with some amusement. But James Joyce Dubliners remain one of the works I was most marked. This is just to mention cited by Professor Echo: I would still, thankfully.
only remains for me a single problem. Who knows me, I always set my character to be polar opposites eclecticism. How, now, to explain to them that are actually schizophrenic?