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“Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(Russian author & dissident in US (1918 – )

There’s a quite thought provoking article at the Herald Tribune on the subject of a Swedish book titled “Is the Swede a Human Being?” (“Ar svensken manniska?“). The book title is as incendiary as the article is old (a tad), but it tries to answer some questions that after some time brew on the mind of people with eyes open and average modicum of interest on Swedishness and its peculiarities.

Take a peek here.

One of my top ten favorite movies. L’Avventura, from Michelangelo Antonioni.

“Nothing appears as it should in a world where nothing is certain. The only thing certain is the existence of a secret violence that makes everything uncertain.”

(Lucretius)