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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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To have and have not - Ernest Hemingway

August 23, 2022

The first time I read a Hemingway’s novel I was still a student. It was an Italian translation of “The old man and the sea” (“Il vecchio e il mare”). I liked it, but it didn’t lure me into reading more from the same author. Maybe it was the translation, or I was not yet ready for it. A few years later - I was already working and travelling around the world and my English had gotten a bit better - I bought another one of his books - not sure whether it was “The Sun also rises” or “The first 49 stories” - and I fell in love with him.

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