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Reading Minds

5/7/2017

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Not everything can (or should) be done over the phone. And this is why:

'The face is the index of the mind.' William Hogarth

'Il viso è l'indice della mente.' William Hogarth


Alberico Collina
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The Worst Enemy

5/7/2017

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I try to remember this saying every time I receive advice or I am about to give it:

'No enemy is worse than bad advice.' Horace

'Nessun nemico è peggiore di un cattivo consiglio.' Orazio


Alberico Collina

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Love and Bread

5/7/2017

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Anyone who has experienced how financial problems can undermine sentimental relationships will recognise the truth behind this saying.

'Love is sweet, but tastes best with bread.' Yiddish proverb

'L'amore è dolce, ma si assapora meglio col pane.' proverbio yiddish


Alberico Collina
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Weighing Words

5/7/2017

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"Words should be weighed, not counted.' Spanish proverb

'Le parole dovrebbero essere pesate, non contate.' proverbio spagnolo


Alberico Collina
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God's Anonymity

5/7/2017

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'Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.' Albert Einstein

'Le coincidenze sono il modo con il quale Dio rimane anonimo.' Albert Einstein


​Alberico Collina
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Half the Sky

5/7/2017

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'Women hold up half the sky.' Mao Zedong

'Le donne sorreggono metà del cielo.' Mao Zedong


Alberico Collina
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Half a Prophet

5/7/2017

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'The heart is half a prophet.' Yiddish proverb

'Il cuore è un mezzo profeta.' proverbio yiddish


Alberico Collina

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Road to Mainstream

3/6/2017

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‘How is a road beaten down from the virgin snow?’
 
This is the question the writer Varlam Shalamov asks and answers in his tale, Through the Snow*, based on his experience as a political prisoner in the infamous Kolyma gulag.
 
‘One person walks ahead, sweating, swearing, and barely moving his feet. He keeps getting stuck in the loose, deep snow. He goes far ahead…(selecting) points in the snow’s infinity to orient himself – a cliff, a tall tree. He steers his body through the snow in the same fashion that a helmsman steers a riverboat from one cape to another.
 
Five or six persons follow shoulder-to-shoulder along the narrow, wavering track of the first man. They walk beside his path but not along it. When they reach a predetermined spot, they turn back and tramp down the clean virgin snow which has not yet felt the foot of man. The road is tramped down. It can be used by people, sleighs, tractors. If they were to walk directly behind the first man, the second group would make a clearly defined but barely passable narrow path, and not a road. The first man has the hardest task, and when he is exhausted, another man from the group of five takes his place. Each of them – even the smallest and weakest – must beat down a section of virgin snow, and not simply follow in another’s footsteps. Later will come tractors and horses driven by readers, instead of authors and poets.’
 
Shalamov knows how to tell a story, but here he gives us something even more precious - a most eloquent way to describe how a writer and his writing become mainstream.
 
 
Alberico Collina
 
 
*from Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov (translated by John Glad)
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Truth Blinds

3/4/2017

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'Truth stabs the eyes.' Russian proverb

'La verità pugnala gli occhi.' proverbio Russo
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Think and Dare

3/4/2017

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'First think, then dare.' German proverb

​'Prima pensa, poi osa.' proverbio tedesco
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