Il bel tempo che fu
In January 2008 Luigi Ceccarelli this beautiful little book he published by the subtitle "The Sleeping Dictionary personnel into disuse." It was a gift for friends on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.
In the preface he wrote:
There are words, phrases, expressions, exclamations, who no longer feel. No one more than the pronunciation. They are no longer in use, are dead things. Yet if you just happen to be affected, many of them have the magic power to conjure up something that broods suffered memory: impression all away, but all perfectly lives.
is set in motion the personal time machine that brings us to where we want to walk, or sometimes, where she wants. Reappear again situations, behaviors, school memories, anecdote of carefree adolescence, absurd jokes, indelible and dramatic wartime and post war, work, the routine of daily life, and so on. And in the midst
quest'eccetera is our whole life.
We report here on page 93
BRING THE BRAIN AND STORAGE
'expression born in the last war. It meant the passive adherence to an idea, to a party and unconditionally follow the directives of others. You can read the whole booklet
clicking here. It's worth it.
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