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All you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

"As long as one is not compromised, there is hesitancy, the chance to go back and always ineffectiveness.

Compared to all acts of initiative (and creation) there is only one elementary truth, the ignorance kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

When which is a compromise finally, the providence moves too. All sorts of things happen to help, things that otherwise would never have happened.

A stream of events starts from the decision, raising in our favor all sorts of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no one would have dreamed could come this way.

All you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Courage has genius, power and magic. Start now.''

Wolfgang J. Goethe

And so I crossed another threshold. From today I entered the land of ethnography and etnomuseologia Italian. It will be a region? A state? A continent? We hope it is not an island ...

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Claude Levy-Strauss. 1908-2009

" ... the job of ethnologist gradually taught me to think not in terms of decades and even centuries, but thousands of years, nay, tens of thousands of years, so when I say I think that in this century two or three thousand years if they know nothing ... We think of many things as important, but if you place them in time disappears. The fact remains that interest me. "

Claude Levi-Strauss, 28 November 1908 - October 30, 2009, Sagittarius.

Adapted from Republic of November 21, 2008, "An evening with the professor," by Bernardo Valli

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The zero point of the doors

"The gates belong to past, although in architectural competitions we still have to be the doors. "

(Robert Musil, doors and gates, from page published posthumously in life, Einaudi 2004)
To say it was Robert Musil, nel1936.
Surely there were not the phones, the less the monitors, and probably there were no peepholes in the lenses to allow you to see, unseen, the other dimension.
The opening of the doors with fingerprint recognition had failed to materialize in the dreams of even the most imaginative people of the time ... Musil did not speak of the fire door, or door alarm (horrible neologism), not even the armor ... but a door " consists of a rectangular frame of wood stuck in the wall to which it is applied to a revolving door."
Nowadays almost an antique. Flying
facts "of walnut or oak, as was until recently in the home for good" that, perhaps because of bad karma, dropping down from their originally intended to defend and represent the sanctity of domestic space to that of counters in kitchen pantry from trendy furniture photographed in the newspapers.
of objects that lose their function to assume another, leaving the everyday, from the attic and then, very quickly, even from memory there are an infinite number ...
very interesting in this regard, the project of ' IMC, Institute of Municipal Museums of Saint Archangel, " obsolete objects of the contemporary" that collects the memory of objects that are on their way to their "zero point", still present in our daily lives but no longer used in their original function, " take different routes: from museums to collectors, buried in the basement or finally dissolved in time and just remember ...