Toasting!!

Today I toast for the second …fourth…maybe seventh time to the reconquered life!!! How many times I have risked to loose it, to be not able to carry out the path I fixed in advance when I was borne….When we are born we do it without memory or better at the moment of our birth […]

Nothing is deeper than what appears on the surface

An image makes people turn on the street…it could be a whistle…a remark to make clear the fact of being struck by somebody who has awaken our senses. Sometimes even exchanging a glance in the street make us feel suddenly bare…at the mercy of that unknown individual, whose look’s allure  we have fleetingly met…as if […]

1969 Moon

Another cult movie is certainly  “The Truman Show”: a very skilled Jim Carey is the unintentional protagonist of a show in fashion among the mass media…everything surrounding him is not real but constructed, a set of life where only the protagonist doesn’t know to be shot…to be  part of a tv show. When he realizes […]

The Tables

Who’d have ever told? What a lot of dinners what a lot of lunches with friends of any time I’d have never thought…As a child, I lived, after my parent’s separation, with my mother… she and I alone in a sunny top floor in Rome in viale Carnaro and for years I haven’t been having […]

1972 Chinatown

2001 A Space Odyssey…the cult film  shot at the end of the sixties: ever since 1968 Stanley Kubrick made knowledge  came down the earth  in a menhir of black stone that appeared in the desert, before man laid down his feet on the moon getting down off the shuttle “Apollo 11” on  20th july 1969;  […]

1975 Dublin

The origins of my father Ingo’s family are english ( his grannie Agnes Routh was daughter of an Anglican parson) and irish progeny ( his great-grandfather George I’s mother, Maria Fitzgerald) …modesty ….  maybe that’s why we are big-boned persons, blue eyed, fair haired and above all our education  is of clear anglican mould: there […]