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b/ tin foil Late new year's eves paper hat on your head, it was hard to believe you'd ever be dead.
b / Ivan Ilych
But in Old Rimrock, NJ, in 1995, when the Ivan Ilyches come trooping back to lunch at the clubhouse after their morning round of golf and started to crow, "It doesn't get any better than this," they may be a lot closer to the truth than Leo Tolstoy ever was.
da American Pastoral di P. Roth, 1997
My name is Oscar and I’m 22, I graduated from University last year under the Conservative’s £9000 fees and have just received my letter from the Student Loans company detailing my ever-increasing £43,627 debt. I currently work in Marketing.
I am aghast over the referendum results that have been caused by a man and a party that has presided over the derision of faith in our ‘Great Britain’ from a generation of young voters. More than a few tears have been shed this morning over the knowledge that I am forever bound to be a ‘British citizen’ and not a citizen of Europe. My children will grow up reading in history books about the great European super-state that once facilitated freedom of movement and enabled our cousins in Europe to access the world renowned healthcare and education systems that this country once offered to them, which they are now permanently barred from lest they pay the new price tag.
I never wanted to be part of the ‘Great’ Britain that the Leave campaign and, moreover, right-wing political parties have talked about my whole life, and I thought when I came of voting age I could contribute towards an imaginary upheaval of our values that would see the United Kingdom (not so United any more) transform from a stadium of drunk football fans and ‘I’m not racist – but’ voters to something much more metropolitan and European. Unfortunately, Miliband was never destined to do that, so it was this year and this referendum promised by a desperate Prime Minister that I hoped would really see us as a country leave the notion of Great Britain behind and resolve firmly behind the title ‘United Kingdom’.
I was clearly wrong. I grieve for my generation. I grieve for those educated, switched on young individuals who were days, months or years away from being eligible to vote. I grieve for my children who will never know what it was like to be a citizen of Europe. I grieve for the European citizens living in this country who must be even more scared for their future than I am. I grieve for the death of the United Kingdom and for every single individual who never signed up to the Great Britain promised by the Leave campaign, by Farage, Johnson and Gove. Above all I am angered by the cowardice of a Prime Minister that has put his party’s in-fighting ahead of national interest and stability in this difficult transition period, yet the fact that I am surprised by this cowardice just goes to show how easy it is to trust people who suddenly start speak your language, and it is for this same reason I can’t hold any anger against the individuals that have chosen to lead our country towards xenophobia and isolation instead of understanding and multiculturalism.
Why this referendum and the future of our country was put in the hands of the public I will never personally understand. The trial of Socrates comes to mind. At least Twitter feels my pain.
- Oscar, 22
Friday night working late mood The Trooper - Rock in Rio - Iron Maiden #NowPlaying
Why write? To write. To make something.
Claude Simon, The Art of Fiction No. 128 (via theparisreview)
or just to do something would be more accurate
b / guilty
Quando ci siamo rivestiti si è molto stupita di vedermi con la cravatta nera e mi ha chiesto se fossi a lutto. Le ho detto che mamma era morta. Poiché voleva sapere quando, le ho risposto : "Ieri." Lei si è scostata un po', ma non ha fatto nessun commento. M'è venuta voglia di dirle che non era colpa mia, ma mi sono trattenuto perché ho pensato che l'avevo già detto al mio principale. Non significava niente. Tanto siamo sempre un po' colpevoli. da A. Camus, Lo straniero, 1942 trad. it. di S. Perroni
mi si nota di più
Non sono mai riuscito a stabilire se è più patetico restare fedeli a quello che si era a vent'anni, o sacrificarlo in nome di quello che si vuole diventare.
May love be a day and life be nothing
Jan,11
I know no one who has lived as (many lives, I knew few of) those men he’d been. I mourn all of them
Most men, they cherish the words women used to speak their love to them. Me? I cherish the ones they didn't say to tell me I failed 'em.
Michael Caine photographed by Billy Ray, 1966.
It’s about being at ease in one’s own skin
Woody Allen & Bartlett Robinson, “Sleeper” (1973).
Domhnall Gleeson & Bill Nighy, “About Time” (Richard Curtis, 2013).
Time, He flexes like a whore
Erano ormai le tre o le quattro del pomeriggio, e non avevamo ancora mangiato niente di decente per pranzo. Le sferzate del vento ci appiccicavano addosso i granelli di sabbia, e scompaginavano il giornale comprato il giorno prima, quando eravamo andati a prendere Laura in aeroporto. A parte quell’unico avvenimento degno di nota, la successione cronologica degli eventi aveva perso ogni consistenza: calcolavamo il tempo in calore accumulato, secchezza delle fauci, lembi di pelle che si sgretolano sotto le dita, crepe sulle labbra.
Accadeva sempre più spesso di ritrovarsi in quelle che Fredo chiamava condizioni di non attesa, lasciar scorrere le ore rivoltandosi finché il sole si abbassa e sopraggiunge la sera.
"È come soffrire d'insonnia su un letto caldo e pieno di briciole. Poi ti addormenti per un secondo, e ti alzi bagnato di sudore da capo a piedi ."
Lo aveva detto la settimana prima, in uno scenario simile ma decisamente meno malinconico, perché c'è qualcosa di nostalgico nel prendere il sole il ventisei di Settembre. E ora che anche Paul Newman era morto quell’autunno era già il più crudele che si ricordasse, ad appena tre giorni dal suo inizio.
E sembra che non finisca mai Settembre
Settembre rimestava la terra arida sotto i nostri piedi, infierendo sui corpi abbandonati e deformi presi in prestito dall'adolescenza. Dieci anni erano passati senza che nulla accadesse.
Poco alla volta le cose avevano perso linearità: ogni giorno seguiva il precedente senza contorni definiti, come se il presente fosse un ricordo raccontato a un estraneo. Non che mi aspettassi niente di eccezionale, anzi era proprio qui l’imbroglio: tutto ciò che avrei voluto era un nesso di causalità che mi portasse indietro al primo impeto di farqualcosa, per poi seguire la catena fino a quella spiaggia infinita e senza mare dove stavamo distesi, Fredo ed io.
A far bene i conti, quel che restava dei nostri anni migliori era una quantità di incidenti. Non escludo ci fosse un sottile filo a unirli; ma doveva essere una lenza di nylon, e noi ci stavamo appesi, pesci teste di cazzo abboccati al primo amo.
My whole life I’ve been a fraud.
I’m not exaggerating. Pretty much all I’ve ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It’s a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it’s to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea.
da Good old neon, nella raccolta Oblivion, di D. Wallace, 2004