Monday, September 13, 2010

Military Alphabet Tango

one step at a time

... metamorphosis of the book: no more text information, but information message, social gaming lounge, tone on the train and metro, small complaint about us and transparency of our curiosity, shot in the stomach of someone standing in front

the book, this system object, fashion, this extra touch that we look more clothes, because it also sets the tone for the beggar, is inaugurating a game symbolic, where our identity, our passions, our tastes do their discreet appearance, without asking too much, but also offering a bait to talk to us

shopping for a book to sell, in addition to information, including the symbolism that the paper printed and well bound, alas, plastic, offers as a metaphor for us in a game a bit 'lighter life, where the book is no longer a brick but to tie that mark rinviante referrals that books bought by other connections between their culture is also

this game: its grid is not only between the ideas, but also between men betrayed by their books, in that ' misunderstanding rather than give us a new opportunity to come together, even go, even coming from far away ...


(Umberto Galimberti, IlSole24Ore, 06.11.1988, taken from Romano Montroni, bookseller for the event, Marsilio, p.273)

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Lab One : Diffusion And Osmosis Answers

a new beginning

I got a book of L'Aquila, thanks to the libraries reached the point where in August have been promoting this initiative. At the end of the game ... 31.

I wanted to give maps of my dreams , certainly the most interesting novel I've read lately: the original structure, with diagrams, maps and notes in the margins, in the exciting events and characters, ( vaguely fairy in going forward and back, but left it to the freedom of the reader to ... now probably), the main one being a boy of 12 years, used to classify and map every aspect of her life and the world around him, who wins a prestigious prize for this and runs away from home, a country of the American West to go to Washington, where he expects the fame and eternal glory, but will have to deal with thousands of unexpected discoveries.

Unfortunately they had not and then I chose Catherine. Diary of a father in the storm , I have not read , but the story deserves to be known, I think.

Since two weeks ago I was in the capital of Abruzzo, find a friend who works there from November last year, it seemed the right contribution, certain small, passionate about books as me ..