Day two and three: sun, snow and samurai
Crazy weather. On Monday I put on my fivefingers and went running around the outskirts of Chapel Hill: the sun was pleasantly warming, a few puffs of clouds here and there – and the air so dry it took me almost half an hour to break a sweat. Wonderful!
On Tuesday evening, instead, we were caught [...]
Absence
Watching (again) Godard’s Le Mepris, I’ve stumbled upon Hölderlin’s verses:
Furchtlos bleibt aber, so er es muß, der Mann
Einsam vor Gott, es schützet die Einfalt ihn,
Und keiner Waffen brauchts und keiner
Listen, so lange, bis Gottes [...]
Inspired by…
“…the things and the ones we admire…”
Reading now
Dante, Purgatorio
Jacques Ellul, Propagandes [on hold]
Recently read books
Jacques Ellul, L’illusion politique
Dante, Inferno
Albert Camus, L’étranger
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Harold Pinter, Plays, vol. I
Chiara Frugoni, Vita di un uomo: Francesco d’Assisi
Ernesto De Martino, La terra del rimorso
Alberto Alesina, Francesco Giavazzi, Il liberismo è di sinistra
Jacques Ellul, La Technique
Sarah Gridley, Weather Eye Open [...]
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