“Phyllis is a space in which routes are drawn between points suspended in the void [...]. Your footsteps follow not what is outside the eyes, but what is within, buried, erased”.
Italo Calvino, “Invisible Cities”, 1972
“菲利德是一个空间，虚无中个点之间都连接着通道……你的脚步追随的不是双眼所见的事物，而是内心的、已被掩埋、被抹掉了的事物。"
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Stupidity has made enormous progress. It is a sun that one can no longer gaze at without blinking. Thanks to mass communications, it isn’t even the same thing any longer, it feeds on other myths, it sells at an extremely high price, it has turned good sense into something ridiculous, it spreads terror all around itself.
Ennio Flaiano, “The Via Veneto Papers”, 1973
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Had Andrea Camilleri died in his 50s, his obituary would certainly not have been published in The Guardian. His death might have been noted in the cultural sections of the odd Italian newspaper and it would doubtless have merited a substantial article in the journal of Italy’s pre-eminent drama school, the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica, where Camilleri was for many years in charge of teaching directing. [Read more].
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Fascism is demagogic but master-like, rhetorical, xenophobic, culture-hating, despiser of freedom and justice, oppressor of the weaker, servant of the stronger, always ready to point at the “others” as the reason of its own impotence or defeat.
Ennio Flaiano, “Diario degli errori”, Milano, Rizzoli, 1976
English translation by Andrea Gaddini |
There are many ways to arrive; the best is not to leave.
Ennio Flaiano, “Il gioco e il massacro”, 1970
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A sea turtle swims in the water off the shore of Naqoura, a small town south of Lebanon’s capital Beirut. Photo: AFP/Joseph Eid.
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Stupidity has made enormous progress. It is a sun that one can no longer gaze at without blinking. Thanks to mass communications, it isn’t even the same thing any longer, it feeds on other myths, it sells at an extremely high price, it has turned good sense into something ridiculous, it spreads terror all around itself.
Ennio Flaiano, “The Via Veneto Papers”, 1973
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Fascism is demagogic but master-like, rhetorical, xenophobic, culture-hating, despiser of freedom and justice, oppressor of the weaker, servant of the stronger, always ready to point at the “others” as the reason of its own impotence or defeat.
Ennio Flaiano, “Diario degli errori”, Milano, Rizzoli, 1976
English translation by Andrea Gaddini |
