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Il nome del blog ... indica un posto dove si cerca un orientamento, ma il luogo dove lo si può trovare—l'orientamento—non è questo. Ciascuno è (dovrebbe essere) la rosa dei venti di se stesso.
The Liberty Bell«Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof Lev. XXV, X By Order of the Assembly of the Province of Pensylvania for the State House in Philada» 1752
"If I had a bell I'd ring it in the morning I'd ring it in the evening ... all over this land, I'd ring out danger I'd ring out a warning I'd ring out love between all of my brothers and my sisters All over this land. ...
It's a bell of freedom"
Lee Hays and Pete Seeger ["If I Had a Hammer"]

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest-- For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men-- Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me. (...)"
W. Shakespeare
Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 2

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12 aprile 2004
The Passion, le due facce del dramma
Volevo scrivere qualcosa su “The Passion”, che ho visto giovedì, ma dopo aver letto questo articolo di Ralph Peters (sul New York Post) non credo che potrei avere ancora qualcosa da dire in proposito. (L'articolo si trova anche qui).
La lettura di Ralph Peters, comunque, assieme a qualche altra, mi ha suggerito qualche considerazione anche sulla conduzione della guerra in Irak da parte degli Stati Uniti. Ne ho parlato su Wind Rose Hotel splinderiano. Quello che volevo dire (e che ho scritto, appunto) è che tra coloro che sostengono l’America vi è una nuova preoccupazione : non passare dalla parte del torto per colpa di errori che potrebbero essere evitati. Sì, lo ribadisco, che potrebbero essere evitati, anzi, che bisogna assolutamente evitare.
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