#alfio giuffrida

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Odore di sujo di Alfio Giuffrida – Recensione

Buon pomeriggio tuf lettori, oggi vi presenterò un libro diverso dal solito, una collaborazione che abbiamo stretto con una nuova casa editrice  che continua ancora, questo è uno dei due libri che c’era stato proposto di leggere. Non nascondo che quando abbiamo avuto le altre richieste siamo rimaste sorprese perché non c’è l’aspettavamo, incredibile soprattutto perché questo ci permette di…

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #867

first posted in facebook july 20, 2020

alfio giuffrida -- "kathedralen" (2009)

"in those olden days, when they built cathedrals, men wanted to be close to god" ... raymond carver

"the cathedral in cologne looks like a spaceship like the hand of god falling from the sky a thousand stone-carved saints hang like icicles but icicles don't take 1000 years to die and everyone who ever worked on this cathedral or even spent a moment walking by everyone of us is swept away like breadcrumbs what comfort does it bring, soaring towers left behind" ... rennie sparks

"indeed christianity passes. passes—it has gone! it has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. a tidal wave out of egypt. and it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. but in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? doubtful scraps of arianism. phrases. sentiments. habits" ... h.g. wells

"there is no answer. it's okay. but even if it wasn't okay, what am i supposed to do?" ... raymond carver

"in the cathedrals of new york and rome there is a feeling that you should just go home and spend a lifetime finding out just where that is" ... jay clifford

"in those old days, when they erected cathedrals, the clerics just wanted to be further away from the rabble" ... al janik