January 2012
Primo Levi:
« Se comprendere è impossibile, conoscere è necessario »
(Primo Levi, dall’appendice dell’edizione scolastica del 1976 di Se questo è un uomo)
GENERAL MOTORS INSURGENCY PISTOL, 1942
‘The FP-45 Liberator was designed for the United States Army in 1942 by General Motors. It was originally intended as an insurgency weapon to be mass dropped behind enemy lines to resistance fighters in occupied territory. A million were assembled. It was believed that if vast quantities of these weapons could be delivered into Axis occupied territory,...
COMMERCE STREET, NEW YORK, 1880-2011
‘I live on a street in New York that has, surprisingly, not changed all that much since the 1840s. The bend in the street makes it very easy to block and use as a location shoot for movies and TV, so I’ve been able to capture the street in many incarnations going back to the 1880, mostly via Hollywood’
- Simon...
At heart I am a warrior.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is. Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist. Written in 1888 and not published until 1908
http://www.lexido.com/EBOOK_TEXTS/ECCE_HOMO_.aspx?S=2&WSD_HL=276&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#WSD_HL
