domenica 10 gennaio 2010
Jorge Luis Borges - Istanti
giovedì 26 novembre 2009
Song of Childhood - Peter Handke (Der Himmel über Berlin)
When the child was a child
It walked with its arms swinging,
wanted the brook to be a river,
the river to be a torrent,
and this puddle to be the sea.
When the child was a child,
it didn’t know that it was a child,
everything was soulful,
and all souls were one.
When the child was a child,
it had no opinion about anything,
had no habits,
it often sat cross-legged,
took off running,
had a cowlick in its hair,
and made no faces when photographed.
When the child was a child,
It was the time for these questions:
Why am I me, and why not you?
Why am I here, and why not there?
When did time begin, and where does space end?
Is life under the sun not just a dream?
Is what I see and hear and smell
not just an illusion of a world before the world?
Given the facts of evil and people.
does evil really exist?
How can it be that I, who I am,
didn’t exist before I came to be,
and that, someday, I, who I am,
will no longer be who I am?
When the child was a child,
It choked on spinach, on peas, on rice pudding,
and on steamed cauliflower,
and eats all of those now, and not just because it has to.
When the child was a child,
it awoke once in a strange bed,
and now does so again and again.
Many people, then, seemed beautiful,
and now only a few do, by sheer luck.
It had visualized a clear image of Paradise,
and now can at most guess,
could not conceive of nothingness,
and shudders today at the thought.
When the child was a child,
It played with enthusiasm,
and, now, has just as much excitement as then,
but only when it concerns its work.
When the child was a child,
It was enough for it to eat an apple, … bread,
And so it is even now.
When the child was a child,
Berries filled its hand as only berries do,
and do even now,
Fresh walnuts made its tongue raw,
and do even now,
it had, on every mountaintop,
the longing for a higher mountain yet,
and in every city,
the longing for an even greater city,
and that is still so,
It reached for cherries in topmost branches of trees
with an elation it still has today,
has a shyness in front of strangers,
and has that even now.
It awaited the first snow,
And waits that way even now.
When the child was a child,
It threw a stick like a lance against a tree,
And it quivers there still today.
martedì 5 maggio 2009
"L'ARTE DI VIVERE" DI ERICH FROMM
L'uomo che soffre di noia non e' in grado di sopportarla. Egli cerca di compensarla attraverso il consumo. Va in giro in auto, beve, intraprende una serie di attivita' per "trascorrere" in qualche modo le due, tre ore spensierate in cui non deve lavorare in azienda. Certo, le sue macchine gli fanno guadagnare del tempo, di cui pero' non sa che fare. Si sente confuso, e cerca di ammazzare in modo decoroso il tempo guadagnato. Gran parte della nostra industria del divertimento, delle nostre feste e dell'organizzazione del tempo libero altro non sono che un tentativo di elidere decorosamente la noia dell'attesa
martedì 3 marzo 2009
Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan,1994

venerdì 20 febbraio 2009
Un tramonto inaspettato
Non ho mai ricordi netti di ciò che penso quando affronto una discesa. Considero valore il regno minerale, l'assemblea delle stelle.
Considero valore il vino finche' dura il pasto, un sorriso involontario, la stanchezza di chi non si e' risparmiato, due vecchi che si amano.
Considero valore quello che domani non varra' piu' niente e quello che oggi vale ancora poco.
Considero valore tutte le ferite.
Considero valore risparmiare acqua, riparare un paio di scarpe, tacere in tempo, accorrere a un grido, chiedere permesso prima di sedersi, provare gratitudine senza ricordare di che .
Considero valore sapere in una stanza dov'e' il nord, qual e' il nome del vento che sta asciugando il bucato.
Considero valore il viaggio del vagabondo, la clausura della monaca, la pazienza del condannato, qualunque colpa sia.
Considero valore l'uso del verbo amare e l'ipotesi che esista un creatore.



