Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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Welcome to the showroom, in other words "A big fuss"

How define it? Misanthropy asocievolezza, stiff and rusty-minded. This is because I feel a great distaste for the concept of celebrity, the great man, the VIP.

Yet here I am, in a common room of the LSE in London. I'm sitting in a chair, I look with curiosity about fifty Italian students who surround the great character of the day. It is not the first time I'm in this situation. Fassino was two years ago, today is Beppe Grillo.

Someone is in line for the photo opportunity of the moment. I begin to analyze the skepticism that I feel for the importance of the iconographic photos. A fanatic does not miss an inappropriate: "You're our Al Gore."

am with a colleague, a publisher is worried. "We do not do an interview, the lawsuit is always around the corner." My colleague does not understand what to be afraid, it hard not to laugh. "Sometimes censorship is even more dangerous, "he explains.

We move to another wing of the building and we put ourselves in a row (row VIP of course) out of the lecture theater. Outside there are hundreds of people lined not all going to make to enter. The staff at the LSE is in fibrillation. not for us, not to Beppe, but for another famous writer. A woman - an organization, affectionately known by the crowd Frau Hitler - warns with a stern look Italians who speak to their usual volume disturb the famous writer, intent on speaking at the auditorium in front of a more sophisticated crowd.

I suspect that the frau felt a sadistic pleasure to warn the crowd disrespectful, uncivilized and underdeveloped. Some have been chased away, guilty for not having obeyed. You try to silence a certain bravado of the Italians.

"Sorry did you miss that? I asked you to be quiet! Out! OUT!"

If I could major in something practical would be condescending. It is the fact that we are a crowd of Italians who authorizes it to speak to us as if we were children? People laugh, some people get angry.

arrived in, and despite the large crowd in it. I'm in the front row, but I sit on the steps of the stage to do some photos. Another VIP, a great character, a great journalist makes his entrance. I do not know who is important but it must be because his shoes are so shiny that in their area glimpsed the spotlight. I ask him the business card. He did not, I make a gesture, "Ask those of the LSE, they know me."

I effort, grit my teeth, I try not to think that ... that's wrong with Italy. You exaggerate and think in myths. It is someone who disrespects you and you do not answer but sneers, ignore the insult and do not answer with dignity. It is a person who treats you with contempt because it is more important than you.

The lights go down, the flash fires. The curtain rises, a step metallic echoes from the stage and the show begins.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

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Desolation Road - Ian McDonald

More about Desolation Road I decided to dedicate the last of this holiday Gorno reading of McDonald. I needed something to combat the melancholy of the end of the festivities.
bad idea. Not because Desolation Road is not a good novel (far), but because I ended up reading it all, then the melancholy end holiday was added to avert finished a good book. And the good books do not grow on trees mica. And I'm picky when it comes to bad books. Just

delirium and let's get to the point.
Desolation Road is a novel decidedly eclectic. Tell the 25 year life of a city, born by chance in the desert of Mars, near a railway line. It starts as a novel in episodes, starting with the founding of the city by Dr. Alimantado, inspired by a mysterious green little man (we are also always on Mars is not it?).
It goes to tell how the first settlers established themselves in the tiny town. And then he tells of the birth of their children. And what these kids decide to do with their lives. Everything has that flavor pioneered by the old west, where everything was on a human scale and people could still make a difference.
A science fiction story told with the tones of a fairy tale and a damn evocative style.

In the second half things changed a bit '. Come into play mega corporations that manage the colonization of Mars. The plot takes a wider scope.
Interesting in this respect, the concept of industrial feudalism , corporations are the real capital, whose inhabitants are called citizens, but shareholders . Life in these funds is the most aseptic you might think. All of this to annul individuality. The company first.
In such a situation, could not miss a good deal of social struggle. I will admit to a weakness for these things, so I liked this place. Curious
also the religious aspect of the novel. Tecnolgia religion and come together in a very unusual mix. Angels mechanical cult of mortification of the flesh in favor of the sacred metal. Original, no rain on this.
Yet despite all these interesting ideas, I find myself appreciating more the first part, the episodes, that focuses on trivial events of an insignificant town. Of course I'm strange. Or maybe your preference is due to the fact that I myself am an insignificant inhabitant of an insignificant, tiny town.

forgot. Honorable mention to the man who can kill with satire and sarcasm. Read and believe.