the white queen
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Achilles stops eating. Job curses the day he was born. Tristan loses himself, and Catherine lets herself die of grief.They are all suffering, yet none of them says: Hey! I’m depressed. Depression, as we understand it today, is a modern diagnostic category, but literature has always told us stories of men and women who stop…
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There are people who seem to live in the past.People who find comfort in the pages of a history book, in the silence of a library, or among the shelves of an archive. People who ask nothing more of life than the chance to cover their hands in dust and immerse themselves in moments long…
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We only have one life. Or at least, we are conscious of living only one life at a time.We do not know whether we have been here before. We do not know how many times we have returned, nor how many times we may return again. What we do know is that we are alive…
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Abbiamo una sola vita. O perlomeno, siamo coscienti di viverne una sola alla volta.Non sappiamo se siamo già stati qui prima. Non sappiamo quante volte siamo tornati, né quante volte torneremo ancora. Quello che sappiamo è che siamo vivi adesso, e che questa è l’unica esistenza di cui abbiamo memoria.Eppure, a volte, accade qualcosa di…
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I’ve always had a problem with myself, and with everything around me. I can never stop wondering how things might have turned out if they had taken a different direction from the one they actually did. To be clear, it’s not like I spend every day, every hour, imagining all the different ways my life,…
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There is a figure that keeps resurfacing in books, discussions, astrology, and modern reinterpretations of history. Her name is Lilith, and she seems to change face every time someone tells her story. Now… a clarification is necessary right away, because over these thousands of years an incredible number of legends have been built around Lilith.…
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C’è una figura che spesso torna fuori nei libri, nelle discussioni, nell’astrologia e nelle riletture moderne della storia. Il suo nome è Lilith e sembra cambiare volto ogni volta che qualcuno la racconta. Ora… qui bisogna fare subito una premessa, perché in tutti questi millenni di vita su Lilith si sono costruite una quantità di…
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And if I told you that they did, how would you react?Yes, it was a harsh era… austere… so much so that perhaps someone needed to get high… or perhaps not.Maybe drugs, as we understand them today, were not meant to get people “high” at all… but let’s take this one step at a time.…
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E se vi dicessi che nel Medioevo si drogavano, voi come la prendereste?Eh, era un’epoca dura quella… austera… tanto che forse qualcuno aveva bisogno di sballarsi… o forse no. Forse le droghe, così come le intendiamo noi, non servivano di certo a sballare… ma proviamo a fare un passo alla volta. Le droghe esistevano, eccome…
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You probably think that swearing is a modern invention. That profanity belongs to us, the enlightened, irreverent present, and that in the Middle Ages, for instance, not only was it impossible, but it was actually quite likely that God would strike you down from the sky and set you on fire. Well, no. In the…
Beyond Death 