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Morning Star: reviews and notes scattered meeting pending

Pending that Bolger, or at least some of them have finished reading the Morning Star and / or have formed an opinion on Wu Ming 4 answers "imaging" to its reviewers. Among them, are cited Saverio Simonelli, that we all know ( his review here), and RS Blackswift ( here), in turn author - or should I say the authors - the delicious noir Monochrome , who personally advice. Among the other reviews scattered around the network, including that of Andrea Fannini and Giuseppe Genna . Also essential interview the author on yerba mate. Finally, keep an eye on, as James rightly reminded us of the good, the debate around the essay New Italian Epic .
Stay tuned.

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Report 11/05/2008

... and after long lamented the absence, they return also reports monthly.

Present: Shelidon & Tafkal, Dawid & Donatella (bruised), Nymeria
-inclusive last minute: Tarabas

The meeting opened with a story from our friends from Verona, the Rohirrim : he told me how good Dèorwine e-mail, Friday, May 16 at 21 the group will organize the Library Mondadori Via Verdi 50, of Mantua at that, a nice presentation meeting. Subject of the initiative, the presentation of the book The Music of Lingalad - from Tolkien to the Secrets of Nature of Donato Zoppo (ed. Bastogi ). An exciting new piece in the already rich Italian publishing. It felt really miss him. Store

good news, we went to brief on the situation Nymeria Net Tolkien Festival, bringing to his attention some recent e-mail discussion group dall'apposito. [snip to which I refer to the mailing-list]
Having sent special greetings to Frodo, and which equally dense bolgericità the Bolger Bolger responded with a lovely text from Angera, the gay forum has gone to make some proposals for further initiatives, for which reference to guide the picnic, and mailing-list, next to e-mail to agree.
We have also been running a bit 'copy that the householder has given man the honor of his company, Morning Star Wu Ming 4. Why, you ask. The reason is clear from the cover flap: "Oxford, 1919. The First World War has just ended and a host of young veterans back on the shelves at university. The shadows of the dead comrades populate their nights, the academic routine has no answers to offer the horror experienced at the front. Overnight, the austere quiet of the college is disturbed by the arrival of TE Lawrence, the legendary "Lawrence of Arabia." Party as an archaeologist from Oxford and became inspired the Arab Revolt against the Turks, the man of action now has a new assignment: to write the memoir of his business. While the memories come to life, the saga of 'Lord Dynamite "alternates with the story of three survivors of the massacre: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, a philologist and writer of short stories, Clive Staples Lewis, a student of letters that the war has had the gift of a double life, Robert Graves, poet who tries in vain to free her verses from the nightmare of the trenches. The meeting with Lawrence will forever change their lives, will force everyone to confront their own ghosts and will be the new home of memorable stories. "
is planning a review of the book, if not more d ' one. In the meantime I'd like to know what you think our reader Journal of Wu Ming, the 'Ubi Mario , and our favorite reviewer, Fritz Tegularius. If you're listening, make a sign.

eviscerated these and other cool topics, having stopped to tell the breadwinner of the cultural ferment that reigns on other channels Tolkien, the group moved to the usual Grom ice cream and the usual Feltrinelli, to dissolve the assembly and taken back home the pain Donatella. How was the other initiatives of the weekend? Wood is burned right? And the concert football? Tell told told.

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hasten hasten Hasten. The ensemble Lilium Aeris , and it is an honor to welcome among our ranks and distinguished members, Sunday, May 11 (day of the rally also Bolger) at 21 held that in football, and more specifically at the Abbey of Arlate, a concert of medieval music .
is what it is by the mouth of the newsletter group:

"Dear friends,
we are pleased to invite you to the next concert of the ensemble Lilium Aeris
to be held May 11 at the Abbey of Arlate, Calco (
province of Lecco). In
this page you will find some information about which
participate.
This will be a concert focusing on music from the twelfth or thirteenth century and
will include songs from the new album of medieval music to which we are working
well as music of the troubadour repertoire. "

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chez Le déjeuner sur l'herbe: lost in a year after Fagnana



It was not the homecoming we had planned, was not the initiative that we had hoped, there was the turnout that we had expected, the organization was far from impeccable. Yet we had fun. Hey, you remember anything?

As announced on several occasions in meetings and mailing-list vis-à-vis , yesterday some Bolger went on a picnic Fagnana memorial and a small discussion on possible future initiatives. Here is the guide of bucolic fun day.

Present: Shelidon & Tafkal, Donatella & Dawid, Paul & Andrea
Agenda: Fagnana lunch in front of, next to svacco Fagnana, proposals and dissertations on initiatives past, present and future, wild game of Munchkin.
Menu: pasta salad with tuna cooked by Dawid in a way that was not bnene Dawid, rustic tart that Dawid did not like, crushed Dawid who deemed it inappropriate for consistency, bread and cold cuts (which is not Dawid is pronounced), blueberry pie, cherry.

After briefed those present on the issue III Festival and developments of Tolkien Net, the group bolgericissima launched into a discussion on a range of short-term projects, more or less feasible. Referring to the mailing list for the display of some of these projects, here are some suggestions for outings and meetings for the next month:

• Saturday 10 and Sunday, May 11: Book Fair of Turin : . As announced by Alberto in mailing-list, the weekend of the regular meeting Bolger is the book fair in Turin. As pointed out by Albert, if you would be the case to go Saturday. But there you go? I'm not sure I care.
• Sunday, May 11: Palio di Legnano : as always warmly announced Tarabas in mailing-list, the Sunday of the rally in that the Palio di Legnano of the districts. And I'm reasonably sure that I do not care (but if the initiative collecting signatures, we can think of a rally outside the city Bolger);
• Sunday, May 18 the FAI organizes the Monastery of Torba (province of Varese) staging "A day in the history ", "a troupe of traveling players to tell visitors, between reality and fantasy, the stories of those who lived in this place now more than a thousand years ago: The head, which tells of from square to square his wanderings in search of glory, the Mother Superior, who complains to the excessive a novice, confined against his will in the walls of the convent, the Legionnaires, who awaits the arrival of unnecessarily frightening and dangerous invaders of the Empire, and finally the simple peasant, which marks the time of life with slowly changing seasons. " ;
• Sunday, May 25 at Villa Della Porta Cocoon (Casalzuigno, always in the Varese) always FAI organizes theater Stories ", an initiative linked to the puppets (and some also noted that if we are interested we could also avoid the kind of climb up to Varese and go to see the real the glue, sometimes, even the
• FAI organizes Sunday, May 25 the Castello della Manta (in Cuneo) initiative Frescoes on the scene, with guided tours to the park and medieval festivals, hunting scenes and more;
• to Monday 2 June, a Royal Palace , stationed on the show futurist Balla (to the delight of Elderion) Bolger about which some have expressed interest: it is not my thing, but even here, where the initiative is riscuotesse accessions can think of a cultural trip Bolger.

I remind you that, even this year, will most likely repeat the Gardaland trip to Bolger, almost surely and certainly after May 12 week: the Bolger and who are interested in bigiare work / school / college to give a voice.

end of the day:

• to Dawid is never anything good;
• you need to stop giving us the hole;
• we're not used to being outdoors;
• none of us are allergic to pollen of poplars;
• we need a picnic basket for Bolger;
• noob to the Munchkin to be stopped regardless, no matter what seems to be trailing, because he always ends up winning.

In the images, in order from top:

• the Bolger Bolgare lounging while trying to awaken their senses numbed ;
• the Bolger eat their meal on the blankets Bolger, Bolger
• the launch into singing interpretations (or would do if only Lilium Aeris present had taken a shred of instrument)
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The Hobbit - The Inevitable Return of ...

back from four days of little rest, but also a nice déjeuner sur l'herbe Bolger in Cascina Fagnana one year after the terrible events , with renewed energy I find in a box set of news cinematographic happy (oh yeah?) propose here. The more informed you are already aware of the news, the less well informed fregherà probably nothing, but it is possible that some ingenuotto back from Foggia do not yet have heard, so here is the series of news (thanks to my friend Julian I reported this article help catch up with all the news).


Guillermo del Toro, now confirmed by the director of the film of The Hobbit, issued April 25 an exclusive interview to TheOneRing.Net . In the interview, the director of Pan's Labyrinth first announced its intention to be heard several times on the tag-board Forum and, secondly, he complains that Bolger does not have one. Then ended their grievances to the now obsolete blog of the Milan group, moved on to discuss some aspects of his poetry and applications of these principles to the transposition of the book by Tolkien.
What shines a greater extent from the interview, spiegabilissimo in terms of marketing, I find it a desire for continuity with the work of Peter Jackson , beginning with the desire not to embark in the direction of the film unless the legal issues between the former director and New Line had not been resolved. Del Toro announces continuity with regard to location yet - New Zealand - and regarding use of the same: "the location can be improved by technology, of course, digital or not. What I want to avoid, however, is to recreate the natural environments in digital graphics : it is not something I enjoy doing. The film is basically a travel film, I think you should use the location as possible. " To a large extent, this is - at least in words - to make a cube that Peter Jackson has done, that is largely an "assembly" on several floors of existing landscapes. "The essential elements for keeping continuity are on track, "he said when asked about the future use or otherwise of special effects Weta Digital. The confirmation of many members of the same cast and the staff is further evidence of a desire to build a true "prequel" to the Jackson movie, instead of a stand-alone product: confirmed Andy Serkis, Ian McKellen , Howard Shore, John Howe, Gino Acevedo (the supervisor at Weta trick), Richard Taylor (creative supervisor maquette, monsters and all that jazz ) and, apparently, even Alan Lee. And Del Toro a nice reassurance, in the same interview about the plot a story that would be independent: the autonomy of a product should be something else and I would have preferred to Hobbit entirely different interpretation of Tolkien subcreation than that given by Jackson, I do not feel very satisfied after reading this. Not if the differences, at least according to Del Toro, are attributable to a chromatic scale "more golden" and less use of computer graphics in the creation of monsters.

Now, that thing about responding to a question on notorious "second film" , what should pursue chronologically between Lo Hobbit e la trilogia.
«You know, I traveled to New Zealand just a little while ago, and one of the main reasons for going was to sit down and talk about the second film. The Hobbit , the book, is really one self-contained film, so for the second movie we sat down and worked it out. When we did this we got really excited because this second film is not a ‘tag on’, it’s not ‘filler’, it’s an integral part of telling the story of those 50 years of history lost in the narrative. There will be certain things that we will see from the first movie but from a different point of view, but it will feel like a volume, in the 5 volumes of the entire story. It will not feel like a bridge, I’ve hearing it Been Called 'a bridge film', it's not, it's an integral chapter of the story, and I think we're all on the Same Page. "
Fear, eh?

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program Sunday

Given the high number of accessions to the proposal, the meeting will be held on Sunday in ordinary extraordinary form for an afternoon that will annoy the culture in various forms.
We will start with an interference at the Banquet used books in Piazza Diaz , led by our Founding Father Tarabas, then go to lunch and move towards Palazzo Reale in Piazza Duomo : here, the Bolger will be introduced by deception at an exhibition and let go to all the comments that may arise from the combined action between the householder's guide and inspiration of the moment. Do not pay, the Bolger then moves to an action of food and wine prior to disturbance, presumably in the direction of an ice cream shop or the like, and then devote himself body and soul to the disorder of the Ninth Muse. Conclude with a dinner.

summarize the program's cost:

• 11.30 am, Piazza Diaz - visit the stalls of the book used,
• at 15.30, Dome Square - meeting in front of Royal Palace for the exhibition of women's art ;
• time and place to be determined to be defined - film (guess what? to be announced);
• at the end of the film - dinner.

remember that anyone can join at any time of day, whether it be animal, vegetable or mineral.

Here, finally, a description from the site of the exhibition and video of the response. They are generally not inclined to appreciate the "reverse discrimination" to which work should be interesting only because it operates regardless of a woman. However, this particular show (apart from the critical path) they told me good things, both as regards the setting that as regards the selection of works. And if you lack the critical part - which I think can read the presentation below - do not doubt that your householder knows a couple of tasty anecdotes with which to rejoice the visit. All that anyone has ever said about the painting and that probably would not have even wanted to know.

"Certainly in no other age," he was able to write Giorgio Vasari in his Lives , "what hath been better able to know that in our, where women have bought very large letters." The exhibition therefore could not take that right from the beginning Renaissance, when, in Italy and Europe, the case of a woman artist was no longer, as in the Middle Ages, an isolated phenomenon.

Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana are some of the first Italian artist active in the sixteenth century.

mythical figure, for he has received very old and blind, the gift of a visit by Anton van Dyck , Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1535-1625), Cremonese, specialized, like her sisters, especially in portrait and nell'autoritratto, introducing a theme that will, in the biographies of artists, a special importance and a precise meaning, destined to become one of the main areas of women's production to this day. "Dama de honor de la Reyna" of Spain, Anguissola, of which we expose two of the major works (Self-portrait at the easel Chess game and ) was the first woman to enjoy the support of European monarchs.

Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), its almost the same age in Bologna, in turn, became official portrait painter of the noble families of the city. The daughter of one of the leading Mannerist Bolognese very active in Rome in mid-sixteenth century, Lavinia was formed at the school of his father, inspired by an eclectic models that connected to the Tuscan-Roman and the first hints of Parma that new spirit that would feed the "reform" of the Carracci .

was very common that the artists were daughters, sisters and wives of artists.
is the case of Marietta Robust (C.1550-1590), daughter of Tintoretto , known as Tintoretto, with his bright this portrait of Uffizi Gallery, which nods to his musical education, in accordance with the rules of educational time . But it is the Roman

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654) to have played a key role in the affirmation of the woman artist, not only because it was a great painter, but also because she was inspired, in the seventies of last century, a new interest in feminist and social nature, on the whole world of women in the arts. The daughter of Orazio Gentileschi, Caravaggio, the first time, endured violence by Agostino Tassi, a painter refined, and denounced him. The proceedings of the trial for the rape is one of the first documents of this type and explains the dark charm that, by joining one of his paintings, became a timeless heroine. He continued to paint scenes where blood gutter purple and left some of the most amazing images of Judith, the biblical heroine. Judith, Susanna, Bathsheba become the favorite subjects of Artemisia and seventeenth-century artists, who chose to represent very exceptional women in the history of classical and biblical stories, femmes fortes where they identified their own destiny.

Sirani Elizabeth (1638-1665), daughter a painter, a pupil of Guido Reni , Giovanni Andrea Sirani , had a completely opposite fate to that of Artemisia. Devoted only to his art, he lived only twenty-seven, working tirelessly, but died suddenly, and there was talk of poisoning. He entered into legend: she was a woman, was a painter, was the daughter of a painter. Death Young added an aura to his figure, and the suspected poisoning turned the whole thing in yellow. In the eighteenth century

the stage of women art opens to receive outstanding products, such as Italy's Rosalba (1675-1757) specialized refined the technique represented here by a beautiful pastel portrait and a Portrait of a man who was active in the major courts of Europe, from Paris to Vienna and the Swiss Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1897), cultured interpreter of early neoclassicism still imbued with the Rococo, wonderfully represented in the two works on display, and Erminia Immortality.

With ' nineteenth s'infoltiscono the ranks here so Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) sister of Edouard Manet and star of' Impressionism and its battles, specializing in the performance of domestic and intimate issues, and the American Mary Cassatt (1845 - 1926) discovered by Degas, and he introduced into the Impressionist.

Suzanne Valadon (1867-1938), mother of Maurice Utrillo , he was intelligent balance between the two centuries, much to anticipate many of the Fauves, or cubist visions. In the same year saw the tormented life of Camille Claudel (1864-1943) most of the nineteenth century sculptor, whose life was marked by the relationship with his master Auguste Rodin . The show features the famous portrait of the young student performed the master, and a bronze depicting La Valse . Great sculptor, powerful craft, a tireless worker, was the only woman of the atelier of Rodin, who could cut its marble - a task by men. At the same time is very sensitive and delicate interpretation of a measure that declined the most modern model Rodinia in the gradient of the curves and decorative motifs: stentorian tone down the monumental and the teacher, to find strength even in a smaller sculpture.

This leads to the twentieth century, through the work of elegant Elisabeth Chaplin (1890-1982), artist born French but Italian culture, which we expose two masterpieces from the Gallery of Modern Art of Palazzo Pitti , the first avant-garde and English Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), the protagonist, with her sister Virginia Woolf , an extraordinarily lively movement of the century England.

German as Gabriele Münter (1877-1962), Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938), Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) and Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), present with a large group of works, the protagonists lived by the cosmopolitan atmosphere of Germany's first expressionism competing with the Italian women first launched in the enthusiasm of the media futurism .

Meteors discordant , Tamara de Lempicka (1902-1980) and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) with works not only disconcerting, but also with their biographies. Authors of the highest individuality, were able to draw lines between the unique and independent of the current century. The twentieth century

opens the complexity of contemporary submitting entries scattered, no longer sorted, nor nation, nor of trends, such as Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985), an undisputed star of experimentalism to always' avant-garde.

accompanies the exhibition catalog Motta publisher.

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New graphics and a good handful of interesting articles for the magazine's most important Tolkien Society. Very interesting especially the editorial, signed by none other than Tom Shippey, who deserves to be translated and brought up these screens because it focuses so sharp and precise - as always - on criticism of Tolkien and how certain topics are inflated to the detriment of others. Sound familiar?
In any case, here the index:

• Guest Editorial by Tom Shippey, "An Encyclopedia of Ignorance" Letters to
• the Editor : "Please, No - Not the Comfy Chair", two responces to Gandalf as a torturer ;
• Reviews : David Doughan on Tolkien Studies IV - "You get what you pay for"; Henry Gee on the Beowulf film - "Beowulf, the real story"; Laura Marples on The Lord of Rings musical - "The Wonderbra of Lothlòrien"; Pat Reynolds on Explore Fairy Traditions by Jeremy Harte and The Golden Compass film - "Journey into Faërie" and "Northern Venture"; Mike Foster on The Children of Hùrin - "A Morbid Malignant Masterpiece"; John Damon on The Keys to Middle-Earth by Lee and Solopova - "Medieval Manoeuvres"; Maggie Burns on Roots and Branches by Tom Shippey - "In the matter of roots".
• Commentary : David Doughan on Oxbridge women - "Women, Oxford and Tolkien"; Chad Chisholm on the Choices of Master Frodo - "Demons, Choices, and Grace in The Lord of the Rings "; Bob Blackham on Tolkien's Birmingham; Maggie Burns on John Ronald's schooldays; Christine Larsen on the changing faces of Varda - "(V)Arda Married - The Evolution of the Queen of the Stars".
• Fiction : White Annays by Lynn Forest-Hill; Mayan Wayfinding by Brenda Cooper; Beyond the Sea of \u200b\u200bNo Return by Gareth Owens Caradoc.
• Well, I'm Back : Cecilia Dart-Thornton on Word Magic.

Last but not least, a familiar name in the next issue: Welcome Raffaella on Tolkien's Mountain.

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# 45 Understanding the Lord of the Rings

Understanding The Lord of the Rings - The Best of Tolkien Criticism
edited by A. Rose Zimbardo and Neil D. Isaacs
# Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (May 24, 2004)
# Hardcover: 304 pages
# ISBN-10: 061842251X
# ISBN-13: 978-0618422517

be a valuable indication of the increasingly precious Claudio Testi, we take opportunity to publish some information about this collection of essays as well as some comments by Cla (which of course thank you for your permission).

The book, as the subtitle, is an anthology of some of the basic texts of criticism of Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings in particular. 'Nuff said and this is an index:

• CS Lewis, "The dethronement of power" (1955) - "the friend of JRRT affects all (or almost) the essential themes of the work, in particular: a) 'extreme realism b) the false idea that there
  good and evil are clearly distinct (eg Boromir), but as it is true that the well does not change with fear
  c) the fact that at the level of "structure" there is
  ALL TdM in war, in contrast to the daring of 2 small
  Hobbit in Mordor. Lewis also wonders why it is necessary to invent a
  fantastic way to talk about the real answers, because the way
  real heroes of myth and fact, despite the familiarity of things hidden;
• Edmund Fuller, "The Lord of the hobbits "(1961);
• WH Auden," The Quest Hero "(1961) - 'article about the hero's quest," in which "the author reveals how a fantasy world in some way corresponds to an objectification the inner world '
• Patricia Meyers Sparks, "Power and Meaning in the LOTR" (1959) - "shows how JRRT longer pay the Lewis and Williams, as his hero (ie Frodo) fights and loses, while the other triumph;
• Rose A. Zimbardo, "Moral Vision in the LOTR" (1968);
• Marion Zimmer Bradley-, "Men, Halflings and worship heroes" (1963) - 'Article
  crucial for what concerns the theme of love in the LOTR' ;
• RJ Reilly, "Tolkien and fairy stories" (1963) - the relationship between Tolkien and Coleridge;
• JS Ryan, "Folktale, Fairy Tale, and creation of story" (1977) - "interesting article that shows how much the LOTR is influenced by the rate of JRRT
  on Beowulf, and Coleridge ';
• Verlyn Flieger , "Frodo and Aragorn: The Concept of Hero" (1977) - "focuses on
  differences and relations between two types of hero (Epic /" normal ") embodied by
  Aragorn and Frodo;
• Paul Kocher, "Middle-Earth, an imaginary word?" - "Very interesting
  chapter excerpt from Master of Middle Earth volume ", forthcoming in Italy;
• Patrick Grant, "Tolkien: Archetype and world" (1963) - "reading the work of Jungian JRRT '
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• Basney, "Myth, History and time in the Lord of the Rings" (1977) - read the LOTR '2-structures, myth (static) and history (dynamic);
• Jane Chance , "LOTR: Tolkien's epic" - "understood extracted from Tolkien's art '
• Tom Shippey ," Another Road to ME: Jackson's movie Trilogy "-" essay by Shippey especially for the volume. "

For those interested in the book, I highly recommend taking a look here .

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Groundhog Day - help us to decide


Given the great success of the initiative of the New Year Bolger, the family returned to you on these new channels with an existential question. Please help us consolidate the Customs before the Customs defeat you.

February 2 - Cui prodest?
For the date in question, the Bolger will celebrate the day of
marmot, further institutionalizing another traditional festival
Bolger.
The question that arises is the following:

What is Groundhog Day?

	A typical traditional festival Lombard, whose purpose is to remember the days when the Celts, to defend the envy Varangians, the Byzantines and the Sunnis, they built the city of Milan well protected by defensive walls on which they built the ring of 90/91, the serviceable devoted themselves, not just the weather made it possible again. So to celebrate the resumption of work, you free a groundhog on the ring, and the chase was done by Ben Hur (purposely kept alive under vacuum) on board of a Roman chariot: if Ben Hur took the marmot, the kitchen and gave fed to the poorest, but if the woodchuck could escape, then run away even Ben Hur, and everyone started chasing him, especially PumaGiaguaro, said "the cute". Ben Hur did not like this game a lot. Not even the groundhog. All the others were strangely excited. Especially the Sunnis.
	These festive traditional North-American, observed for the first time in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1887. It has its origins as a pagan festival in Northern Europe and the British Isles, or as a "cross-quarter day" exactly halfway between winter solstice and spring equinox. During this day, there will be a refuge for a woodchuck, if this show and can not see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will end soon, but if it sees its shadow because it's a beautiful day, be afraid and will return to race in its burrow, and winter will continue for another six weeks. The tradition is also associated with the festival of light and Candlemas Christian. If you vote this version, you're not Bolger.
	little / Sometimes.
	An ethno-cultural festival, also called "Spacehog Day". As well documented, with a marmot astronaut helmet (worn for protective purposes) was used to make pancakes for the whole family Bolger. At a time when the cracks were blown up, a gesture required according to tradition, two things could happen: the cracks could end up on the visor of the marmot, which was clear indication of a dark time, you do not even see a crack in the palm of your nose, and therefore equally clear prediction of the approaching winter escape, or the cracks could end up on the back of the marmot, which splashed into the air dall'ustione fourth degree, wearing this cute cape fluttering crepe, cooked hair and burnt flesh, giving rise to ' adorable image of a marmot Bolger astronaut who flies with the superman cape, hence the name "Spacehog day." In both cases, eventually took the cracks and was served in pastry. Otherwise the first two, instead taking the groundhog and it was running along the ring [...] The oldest prints that illustrate this practice goes back to 1913 when the famous pastry Bolger, managed by the family, began to use Marmot to make crepes for sale to the public. Some time later, the cake was invented that supplanted the market for crepes in Milan, but in the meantime had spread to France, where he lost the use of marmot. In the current revival, the Bolger tend to gather on that day by dressing according to the protagonists of historical events, according to traditional customs such as the marmot, astronaut, superman, or cracks, to dance the giocajouer.
	puss away Rain rain, / I do not wet the ground.
	Bolger is a celebration of tradition, during the Bolger as Grandpa tells Bolgerini when the people of Bolger had to cross the Po Valley, a place full of inaccessible swamps, fog, and cows, and marmots were scarce so much, to the point, indicating a lucky person, not saying "born with the shirt "but" born with the groundhog. " So Bolger prayed in search of a claim, in this wilderness where you could only eat rice seasoned with grit, until the Lord sent them from heaven Marmot: Marmot rained every day, from 12 to 20 ( the first was from 6 to 14, but Bolger is not never woke up so early, so that everything was filled with stacked marmots, and was not a pretty sight, so that the timetable was moved forward 6 hours), except Sundays meeting the family, the day he ate roasted chestnuts, or roasted and eaten hot marmots, later replaced by chestnut due to an insurgency vegan.
	A place where the stone age has given way to that of iron, because of the more obvious comfort in that the latter can obviously offer.
	A meeting of family members characterized by transhumance, who invited himself to the house of another (innocent people who did not know and that Bolger had not done anything wrong to anyone) to make casino and annoying as usual, hence the saying "transhumance as a marmot, but said in an unusually and inexplicably pejorative sense. In the same circumstance, when you are angry with someone that day, he is told, "but it 'to try to bypass the groundhog." Usually, the landlord is saying it.

go to the results

Survey by Quibble

glad I take this opportunity to remind the results of the survey on Bolger Year to date: the

• ethno-cultural festival leads with 36% of votes
• 's Day Tradition Bolger follows with 21% and five votes of posting
• a third place tie is a normal family gathering and a place where the stone age has given way to that iron, with 15% of the votes
• chases in the backline typical traditional festival in Milan, with 12% and only a vote of posting.

I remind you that there is time to vote until 2012.

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Michele Mari, "Verderame"


The cover of "Verderame" (Einaudi 2007) is an old picture of Karel Thole - an old cover of Urania (I say this for the fans of Michael Mari (*))
" Verderame "is a short novel pseudoautobiografico. It takes place in the country house of the grandparents of Michael Mari (Mari pseudo Michele, the better), must be transformed to the narrative by the author and his love for a certain kind of amazing. It takes place in 1969, since then, both the protagonist, Michelin, which the author, Michele Mari, 13 years old.
least one other story by Michele Mari takes place in the same space, "Eurydice had a dog"; But the grandparents' house has a completely different aspect, in that story, they are different narrative needs. The grandparents' house is located at birth ("Verderame"), or to Scalna (in "Eurydice"). Both names, as I understand it, do not exist in Varese, and are almost anagrams of each other.
[I do not think this style will hold dry / easy for all post-AG]

I'm not doing the fleas to the data contained in the autobiographical novel, the fact is that the transformation of the facts through a conscious use of the imagination ( literary, visionary, children) is one of the central points of " Verderame, as well as a leitmotif of the work of Mari.

The story told in " Verderame " is in fact the survey research of the past thirteen Michele Felice, 60 year old farmer, handyman's grandparents' house, semi-literate and lonely, who is losing his memory.
The Felice, a perfect example of Betis benevolent with its "monstrous" (it's a big man with an ugly scar and a large birthmark on his face, and with impunity handling poisonous and beautiful crystals of verdigris for the screws), provides clues Michelino product that already works to help him find the things in his memory fade away (vanish or turn into fantastic belief, bordering on dementia).
In a sense, "Verderame " is a thriller, as noted by Stefano Giovanardi (I think) on the Republic a week ago.
The progressive revelation of Felix are true to the fantasy of sorcery Michelino, already madly in love with the worlds of Stevenson, Melville, Hoffmann, Poe. And also the source of these revelations - the "monster" Happy - and the language with which they are told - a Lombard dialect rural, narrow but understandable - to give those secrets unveiled a further aura of myth.

Michelin is also the narrator of " Verderame," but it often emerges as the voice adult who remembers and recounts the events, namely the pseudo Michele Mari. In one of these points the true storyteller speaks of " my stubbornness to stay young and never grow up, I want it now let alone at age thirteen and a half ... "
It is in this dual identity and the latent patologicità the cornerstone upon which to be set " Verderame "but the two doubles that are perceived in the narrative voice is not the 13 year old and the pseudo Michelino Michele Mari adult, but the child-adult and imaginative dreamer and his alter ego which he developed with rational logic and concreteness his investigation by looking to discern what is real and what is fantastic in the words of Felix.

This duality between imagination and reality recurs in other works of Mari: it is found in several types of "All the iron Eiffel Tower", starting with the main character, Walter Benjamin, is the source of conflict in adolescent Giacomo Leopardi " I came full of anxiety to gaze " - that leads to a conflict " monstrous and fantastic disease, lycanthropy, is embodied, that duality in the characters of Captain Torquemada, immobilized by gangrene, and Second, I mention, cruelly and stupidly materialistic, and even in " Swallows on wire " another pseudo Michele Mari narrator has two faces, one of which is marked by a morbid, pathological jealousy and visionary. In
" Verderame " the explicit double figures are more of one: the same Felice itself at the same time the farmer and the concrete and pragmatic "madman" who has built a world populated by terrifying entity (the Great Rabbit, the voices of the French buried in the garden, the "snails French "than those sent to spy Felix, chthonic presences in the basement). For Felix, also, there are people who have a double who is dormant and buried one of those people is the grandfather of Michelin, which has twice replaced the "grandfather of the first" for years, but also el Michelin confesses Felix has a double "dead" that could at one time or another take over and replace the Michelino who is a friend of Felix.

This topos of Doppelgänger (in respect of which lacks Michelino not remember the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers ") is accompanied, in the books of Mari, than the disease: Felice has a degenerative mental illness, as was said, even the characters from other works of Mari that I have cited all of the diseases, real or fantastic. And in "Eurydice had a dog," the story unfolds on the change marked by illness and hospitalization of Flora: Michele, both linked to its neighbor and his dog Taboo, you decide never to visit her in hospital, almost afraid to see broken the spell which saw in rural and Flora in her home country, until Flora died and Taboo there is no news: and the guilt of the protagonist is a boulder.

Returning to " Verderame and reflect, in common with other works of Mari, it should be noted that the 13 year old Michelino is the only character, including those fought in the duality between reality and imagination, living in perfect balance in the two records, without disease, without conflict. Recalling (Goya) that " the sleep of reason produces monsters " for the boy avid reader of novels, those monsters are very beautiful and seductive, as if for him could tip the aphorism: the monsters are the reason to dream.
Maybe it is in this sense that the pseudo Michele Mari wants to remain a child.

last record for anagrams: in addition to (l) Nasca / Scalna, in " Verderame " there is a passage where the narrator thinks of the mother of Felice ("the man of verdigris ) completely erased from the memories of his son: "... verdigris, sea green, real mother, real shit ... . If there are others, of anagrams, I have not found.

(Ah, I liked the book very much.)

(*) See "The covers of Urania," in "You, bloody children"

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Gaddis, "Agape Agape" The ruler of Jevons

That : the sense of individual work of art in mass-market culture

reread my review of a few years ago (the book's posthumous William Gaddis, "Agape , agape " , still not translated into Italian) I realize that as yet contains stimulating ideas (the book, not transposed). It seems to me that even the words of Gaddis foreshadow the use of the web for literature and art still not met. I realize finally that he completely forgot what I had thought when I wrote the rece valid, that therefore propose again here.

Overtime, the last text of William Gaddis out a few years after the death of (Occurred at the end of 1998), by its express will.
is a monologue of about 90 pages in which a terminally ill writer of pulmonary emphysema (as Gaddis) tries to summarize and put together a text that has worked for decades, a text that was to be a history of mechanical player piano in the U.S. as an emblem the massification of artistic creation and destruction.

The plant and autobiographical self is all too evident from the start: Gaddis really picked up on that material for at least 40 years, an enormous amount of material to work that he decided to turn into a short novel, " Agape, agape ", indeed. In this choice
- As well as building self - is contained in part the meaning of the text and the thesis that supports: the renunciation of writing a text for life exemplifies the fact succumb single artist amassed in front of the technological society, and yet this waiver is not a defeat, as is clear from the last pages of text.

The protagonist of " Agape, agape " complaint then the killing of the artist as a result of technology, standardization of taste, of democracy: a thesis undoubtedly elitist and reactionary, and certainly not new (Eliot, Pound, Jünger , Zumthor move on ropes like, to say the first that come to mente):
" ...because that's what it's about, that's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look..."
E ancora: "...where individual is lost, the unique is lost, where authenticity is lost not just authenticity but the whole concept of authenticity, that love for the beautiful creation before it's created that that, (...) That natural merging of created life in this creation in love that transcends it, a celebration of the love that created it they called agape , that love feast in the early church, yes .

The apocalyptic-elitist argument that art can only meet the standardized ' entertainment and technology has allowed this (Gaddis cites several authors, even when Flaubert says, "The only dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity of the bourgeoisie ") is radical and new, in fact - much less acceptable.

But the meaning of the text of Gaddis, IMHO, is not that.

His quote Tolstoy ( The Kreutzer Sonata ), Melville (Moby Dick ), Bernhard ( The unsuccessful , real inspiring model of Agape, agape, so that Gaddis writes in his notes that it seems that Bernhard had stolen his ideas even before he had), du Maurier (Trilby ), Huizinga, Freud etc. no need to argue that thesis, but to show the similarities between different minds in different times and brotherhood ( · ga'pe , in the context) between these individuals that the result is still possible of artistic creation - and the engine can still result, even today, of artistic creation.

"... they'd say I'm afraid of the death of the elite Because It Means the death of me of course I can not really blame Them, I've been wrong about everything in my life it's all Been fraud and fiction, let everybody down except my daughters ... "
Gaddis speaks of himself, really. And the game in the final pages of the narrative self vanishes and is the author speaking directly to the reader, no longer play or irony (perhaps this, too, came the need to impose some years of waiting, after his death, Before publishing the text).

Some verses of Michelangelo I (present in all the works of Gaddis) this explicit autobiographical reference: " O God, O God, O God / Who hath taken away from myself upon me would be more at / O more than I could, what can I do? O God, O God .. . The writer
old and sick, before the drafting of a work that has to give up writing, tip attention to that "himself he could do more," the possibilities of an artist as a young man frustrated by the mass-market technology. Frustrated why? Maybe for having sought the consent and immortality in an age where this is impossible without self-denial, of course ("What immortality if today there is a new generation every 4 days? ," says Gaddis) . The defeat

individual (the losing party or the writer Friedrich of "Trilby " Svengali, but also Gaddis writes that " My first book has become my enemy ") is therefore the result of too much ambition and self-centered especially misguided: not the mass-market can benefit from the work created by "himself that he can do more", but the author and, above all other men with a feeling akin to his. In this sense the work of art without compromise still makes sense. A thesis
elitist to the end, no doubt, but that takes credibility as a 'confession' individual (for more on his deathbed).
addition to this, we must not forget to say " Agape, agape " is a beautiful book.