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Shreds of a bizarre world is not a diary you have to swallow newest-first. It’s an archive of scenes, satire, and arguments. Start where you’re interested:

Scenes from the world — things seen in the street
The country we deserve — Italy watched from outside and from inside
Keeping a clear head — how not to get eaten by polarization
Counter-catechism — against inherited doctrines, without swapping in new ones
Living on my own terms — work, age, pleasure, personal freedom

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A mission - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

March 21, 2020

They just checked my temperature at a hotel entrance: 34.6 C. Puzzled I went and got checked at the McDonald's next door: 32.3 C. And I'm not really sure that it was Celsius degrees, rather than Fahrenheit.
Apparently I'm undergoing rapid hibernation. I'll wake up in a space ship pod - 200 years or so from now - with a mission to complete: founding a Homo Sapiens colony on a small planet of a faraway galaxy.
I'm the chosen one. I knew it all along.

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