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“Sacrifice”

10 Friday Feb 2017

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The deeper the better, right through my chest

I know, love, destroying is the thing you do best       

The longer the better, when it’s your hand

No torture  is too much, you will understand

Love is that which snaps              

Your veins and fills the cracks

Black blood on ivory

On the statue of goddess

Same old irony

The beauty’s the beast

Who slaughters the hopeless

Drowning like the wave

Melting like the flame

Boiling like the soul

In the dark

The temple is ready, the path is clear

This pain is barely unbearable my dear

Everyone’s ready, smashed grapes on the stairs

You’re about to witness what’s the opposite of stars

Drowning like the wave

Melting like the flame

Boiling like the soul

In the dark, the darkness whence it came

Alice in Wasteland

30 Tuesday Aug 2016

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Wasteland, Wasteland

I’m going to Wasteland

I’ve a stronger pull I cannot share

I’ve a stronger pull that we all share

I’ll fall asleep around teatime

And wake up in Wasteland, Wasteland

Wasteland during teatime

I’ll feed my curious hunger

And I’ll feed my curious thirst

I’ll feed my eyes, I’ll feed my head

I’m going to Wasteland

Wasteland, Wasteland

 

Oh sing me a song, and lull me to sleep

My hometown is waiting for me to fall back

So read me a poem, and sing me a song

So soon I’ll be back

In the wonders of Wasteland

Oh sing me a song, and lull me to sleep

My body of water is waiting for Wasteland

I’m spilling all over, I’m dripping all over

This body of water

Desires the sea

This body of green

Desires new seeds

My imagination is wasted down here

So fruitful and fertile

Demanding new

Wasteland

“I’m so happy for you two”

02 Saturday Jul 2016

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I’m so happy

She’s uglier

Than me

Heart of Darkness: A Postmodern Reading

14 Tuesday Jun 2016

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essay, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

“When you have to attend to […] the mere incidents of the surface, the reality – the reality, I tell you – fades” (Conrad 1978). Published for the first time in 1899, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness explores themes and attitudes towards reality which will be further developed and investigated by modernist writers, twenty years later, and by postmodernist critics, approximately one century later. De facto, modernism and postmodernism share an important feature, a strong sense of fragmentation. However, while modernists mourn fragmentation and lament the loss of fullness and meaning, the postmodernists find it “an exhilarating, liberating phenomenon, symptomatic of [an] escape from the claustrophobic embrace of fixed systems of belief” (Barry 81). Marlow, the protagonist of the novel, seems to make his way through perceptions and representations of reality, which he builds in what could be said to be, from a postmodernist point of view, a modernist approach and which he transcends in what could be said to be a postmodernist approach. Continue reading →

“I wanted to know what ‘IT’ meant”: Jack Kerouac’s search for life On the Road

13 Friday May 2016

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Jack Kerouac, On The Road

 

“The writers of the first post-war period were writers of condemnation and of violence; the writers of this post-war period are born in a world that has already been denounced and sentenced to death, they try to put together the pieces of a splintered society: […] this is their purpose in life”. So Fernanda Pivano (384-85)[1] defines the beat authors, writers and poets who emerged between the mid-40s and the mid-60s with a frantic writing often accompanied by an extreme lifestyle. Continue reading →

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