Sane Inside Insanity: MA CHE POSTO SFIGATO CHE E' RAVENNA

mercoledì, maggio 18, 2005

MA CHE POSTO SFIGATO CHE E' RAVENNA

Prima che i ravennati mi uccidano, adoro Ravenna con tutte le mie forze anche se non ci sono mai stata, e anzi sto facendo di tutto per farci un salto questo sabato! Beh, per tornare da lì a Milano ci metto più che per tornare da Venezia, se non voglio svenarmi con un Eurostar che comunque non mi va di prenotare, perché voglio essere libera. C'è un treno all'ora per Bologna, ma NESSUNO con una coincidenza decente per Milano. Finisce che dovrò salutare Teodorico alle 1546 per arrivare a casa alle otto, cambiando a Faenza. Non avrò tempo per altro che visitare il Mausoleo, spedire qualche cartolina e fare la siesta al Parco Teodorico (probabilmente sotto un diluvio).

Sono sicura che se si ristabilisse il regno ostrogoto i collegamenti con Mediolanum migliorerebbero grandemente... che dite, voterete il mio programma di governo alle prossime elezioni?

Before the citizens of Ravenna kill me (English-speaking readers, I commented disparagely on the place's luck in the title), I adore the town with all my might, even though I have never seen it, and actually I'm doing my best to drop by this Saturday! Well, to go back from there to Milan it takes more than coming back from Venice, if I don't want to go broke with an Eurostar, which anyway I don't want to book, since I want to be free. There's a train to Bologna each hour, but NONE with a decent change for Milan. I'll have to say bye to Theodoric at 1546 to come home at eight, changing at Faenza. I'll really have no time for anything more than seeing the Mausoleum, sending out some postcards and napping at Parco Teodorico (possibly under a deluge).

I'm sure that if the Ostrogothic kingdom were re-established, the connections with Mediolanum would improve greatly... how about it, will you vote for my program at the next elections?

QUOTES

Heart shall be bolder,
harder be purpose,
more proud the spirit
as our power lessens!
Mind shall not falter
nor mood waver,
though doom shall come
and dark conquer.
(The Battle of Maeldon, translated by Tolkien)

He who has a treasure, or a demon in his heart, cannot hide it. (King Theodoric the Great)

I' mi son un che, quando
Amor mi spira, noto, e a quel modo
ch'e' ditta dentro vo significando.
(Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio)

The lambs will stop for now. But, Clarice, you judge yourself with all the mercy of the dungeon scales at Threave; you'll have to earn it again and again, the blessed silence. Because it's the plight that drives you, seeing the plight, and the plight will not end, ever. (Hannibal Lecter)

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. (Ernest Hemingway)

Would I embarrass you? Yes, it is possible. You see, I... I am crazy. I take the newer medications, but I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Like a diet of the mind, I choose not to indulge certain appetites. Like my appetite for patterns. Perhaps my appetite to imagine and to dream. (A Beautiful Mind)

Night gathers, and now my watch begins.
It shall not end until my death.
I shall take no wife, hold no lands,
father no children.
I shall wear no crowns and win no glory.
I shall live and die at my post.
I am the sword in the darkness.
I am the watcher on the walls.
I am the fire that burns against the cold,
the light that brings the dawn,
the horn that wakes the sleepers,
the shield that guards the realms of men.
I pledge my life and honor to the Night Watch
for this night and all the nights to come.
(GRRM)

Never criticize a person until you walk a mile in their shoes (Atticus Finch)

A warrior for peace is no less a warrior (General Korrd, unwittingly reminding of Yitzhak Rabin)

What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed? Only innocent lives, Peter. (Sirius Black)

Whatever makes a soldier sad will make a killer smile (Leonard Cohen)

I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't. (John Coffey)

Oh, life! 'tis in an hour like this, with soul beat down and held to knowledge, - as wild, untutored things are forced to feel - Oh, life! 'tis now that I do feel the latent horror in thee! but 'tis not me! that horror's out of me! and with the soft feeling of the human in me, yet will I try to fight ye, ye grim, phantom futures! (Starbuck)

I have dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. (Charlotte Bronte)

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me? (Karen Blixen)

Do not you recognize me, Dumas? I am the rearguard of the Grande Armee. I have stood at Kovno, and thrown the last muskets in the Niemen. I am Marshal Ney. Give me a bowl of soup. (Attributed to Michel Ney).