Your memory is a monster

"Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own.
You think you have a memory; but it has you!"

"It doesn't matter where you learned it - it's a gift. If you care about something, you have to protect it - if you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it"

John Irving, A prayer for Owen meany



"Ognuno e' da solo sul cuor della terra, trafitto da un raggio di sole, ed e' subito sera"

S. Quasimodo



Ora sono sola
senza il mondo e non
lo cerco nemmeno
Chiusa fra i muri
di questa stanza
sempre sparsi i sensi
ed i significati
Non basta piu' quel mio eterno
sorriso

(LB, 29/8/96)



Ik wankel altijd maar val - bijna - nooit

(LB)




Gli oggetti mi dicono che e' giunta l'ora di decidere quale sara' il mio futuro. Le sedie mi guardano con occhi rotondi ed indagatori. Le finestre richiamano i lunghi pomeriggi di ieri. Dietro le tende immaginavo un mondo nuovo e dimenticavo sia le ferite del passato che il bene che mi circondava proprio in quel momento

(LB)



"Ik heb alles verbrand wat ik eens heb aanbeden, en aanbid nu alleen wat ik eens heb verbrand"

Toergenjev, Liza



"Perhaps it was just because of the strength of his desires that he had considered himself a man to whom more was permitted than to others"

Dostoevski, Crime and Punishment