"the truth is a view conditioned by time, location, interests, and strive to take the snare is more absurd than to catch the wind. "
I'd like to pay tribute to a great writer, a journalist who guiltily I discovered only recently and gradually I started to appreciate, undermine the misleading image that I had caught her by the media but I'm afraid not to do it justice, because such a figure complex and elusive deserves mention a completely different ...
"anything is only partly true, partially false, and the mix right and wrong, and respects those who may disappoint those who can move you despise."
... I see pictures of her follow-up of American troops in Vietnam, see the interview armed with a recorder while the mighty of the earth, I see the tears of human weakness, I see the polemic discussion with his father, I see it in Mexico City mowed by a burst of gunfire, I see interviewed by Pietro Nenni and Willy Brandt, I see at Cape Kennedy with astronauts exchanged jokes, I see questions about the faith and the meaning of life and death, I see a child running in a Florence gutted by war, I see it rolling partisan dodge the bombs, I see teaching to love life, I see her in exile in New York, I see her frowning front of existential questions, fighting for the values \u200b\u200bin which believe, to get angry about the stupidity of power ... I see it, or maybe just a guess, because he was very reserved, or so it seemed to intuit, because where words weigh like stones do not need the image, because the pen is the most evil of the sword, and a protagonism excessive risk to divert more of that focus.
"the world is not only to manufacture cheese, chocolate, watches. You will be proud to live the miracle of being born, and rebel to the privileges, injustices, to slavery. "
E 'four years is dead, and some ignorant you are sure to rejoice, some will dull fundamentalist party, but I'm sorry, because even if you can not agree with his ideas is also not true that you can not recognize a unique richness of expression, freedom of thought and frankly a result of a passionate life of research, a profound conviction that it is also self-awareness and the world. This is not to say that has not hesitated, that does not constantly questioned, that did not seek a confrontation, but had gained a certain vision of the world that do not necessarily coincide with the common, but in which he believed deeply in the world because he had lived, because the war had suffered first and then sought, because it included the mechanisms of power, because of story was a direct witness. Maybe that's why I like her, because she lived all by himself, intensely, in rejecting the easiest option, try going to the front, direct contact, the reality of events, the truth, getting his hands dirty living dangerously, colliding with the power to understand.
"I'm here to understand men, what you think and what to look for a man who kills another man, who in turn kill it. I'm here to prove something to believe: that the war is pointless and silly, the most brutal evidence of racial idiocy of the Earth. I am here to explain how hypocritical the world is enhanced when a surgeon replaces a heart with another heart and then accept that thousands of young creatures, his heart in place, go and die like cows to slaughter for the flag. And 'since I was in the world I break the soul with the flag, country, on behalf of these sublime nonsense requires me to kill, be killed, and nobody has yet said why kill for robbery is a sin, why did you kill uniform is glorious. "
E ' was a woman who knew how to live alongside the big story of the protagonists: the defining moment of the adventure of man in space was more than a year alongside the astronauts in the crisis India-Pakistan has sought to understand the reasons of ' a meeting with both sides Ali Butto and Indira Gandhi, has addressed the Palestinian question by interviewing Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat and Hussein of Jordan, has experienced the atrocities of the Vietnam War and explain the dynamics in the words of Henry Kissinger, Nguyen Van Thieu and General Giap, he followed his companion in the resistance movement against the government of the colonels, has documented the student uprising in Mexico miraculously escaped death, he participated the Gulf War alongside the Allies ...
"because we come to war?" I could say because I believe in my profession, my job in the appearance of morality. It would be an answer, and basically it is. I could tell because I want to explain the war to those who do not know . It would be another answer, and basically it is. But the ultimate reason is a selfish reason: they are at war because I want to understand it. It is always attracted to things or people who do not understand. "
in this' Optical image I have of her is that of a person that documents and questions, questions us, prompting us to understand, to get an idea, an opinion, because maybe there is something worst ignorance. E 'should be interpreted in this sense that his interviews, his articles, his books are a tool to understand, or so it was for me, because in his writings I have taken more than can be found in history books because next to the exposure of the facts there is an ongoing question that should give us, the readers, to ask questions that perhaps we would never have thought of.
"What good is born to die what is it? Need to be men rather than trees or fish, you need to find the right because the right exists, it must be done if there exist, so the important thing is not to die, to die from the right. "
I hope you have insinuated a doubt, helping you to understand, having led to discover a woman, a writer, a journalist who has been much talked about but which has perhaps not read. Thank you Oriana. y
I'd like to pay tribute to a great writer, a journalist who guiltily I discovered only recently and gradually I started to appreciate, undermine the misleading image that I had caught her by the media but I'm afraid not to do it justice, because such a figure complex and elusive deserves mention a completely different ...
"anything is only partly true, partially false, and the mix right and wrong, and respects those who may disappoint those who can move you despise."
... I see pictures of her follow-up of American troops in Vietnam, see the interview armed with a recorder while the mighty of the earth, I see the tears of human weakness, I see the polemic discussion with his father, I see it in Mexico City mowed by a burst of gunfire, I see interviewed by Pietro Nenni and Willy Brandt, I see at Cape Kennedy with astronauts exchanged jokes, I see questions about the faith and the meaning of life and death, I see a child running in a Florence gutted by war, I see it rolling partisan dodge the bombs, I see teaching to love life, I see her in exile in New York, I see her frowning front of existential questions, fighting for the values \u200b\u200bin which believe, to get angry about the stupidity of power ... I see it, or maybe just a guess, because he was very reserved, or so it seemed to intuit, because where words weigh like stones do not need the image, because the pen is the most evil of the sword, and a protagonism excessive risk to divert more of that focus.
"the world is not only to manufacture cheese, chocolate, watches. You will be proud to live the miracle of being born, and rebel to the privileges, injustices, to slavery. "
E 'four years is dead, and some ignorant you are sure to rejoice, some will dull fundamentalist party, but I'm sorry, because even if you can not agree with his ideas is also not true that you can not recognize a unique richness of expression, freedom of thought and frankly a result of a passionate life of research, a profound conviction that it is also self-awareness and the world. This is not to say that has not hesitated, that does not constantly questioned, that did not seek a confrontation, but had gained a certain vision of the world that do not necessarily coincide with the common, but in which he believed deeply in the world because he had lived, because the war had suffered first and then sought, because it included the mechanisms of power, because of story was a direct witness. Maybe that's why I like her, because she lived all by himself, intensely, in rejecting the easiest option, try going to the front, direct contact, the reality of events, the truth, getting his hands dirty living dangerously, colliding with the power to understand.
"I'm here to understand men, what you think and what to look for a man who kills another man, who in turn kill it. I'm here to prove something to believe: that the war is pointless and silly, the most brutal evidence of racial idiocy of the Earth. I am here to explain how hypocritical the world is enhanced when a surgeon replaces a heart with another heart and then accept that thousands of young creatures, his heart in place, go and die like cows to slaughter for the flag. And 'since I was in the world I break the soul with the flag, country, on behalf of these sublime nonsense requires me to kill, be killed, and nobody has yet said why kill for robbery is a sin, why did you kill uniform is glorious. "
E ' was a woman who knew how to live alongside the big story of the protagonists: the defining moment of the adventure of man in space was more than a year alongside the astronauts in the crisis India-Pakistan has sought to understand the reasons of ' a meeting with both sides Ali Butto and Indira Gandhi, has addressed the Palestinian question by interviewing Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat and Hussein of Jordan, has experienced the atrocities of the Vietnam War and explain the dynamics in the words of Henry Kissinger, Nguyen Van Thieu and General Giap, he followed his companion in the resistance movement against the government of the colonels, has documented the student uprising in Mexico miraculously escaped death, he participated the Gulf War alongside the Allies ...
"because we come to war?" I could say because I believe in my profession, my job in the appearance of morality. It would be an answer, and basically it is. I could tell because I want to explain the war to those who do not know . It would be another answer, and basically it is. But the ultimate reason is a selfish reason: they are at war because I want to understand it. It is always attracted to things or people who do not understand. "
in this' Optical image I have of her is that of a person that documents and questions, questions us, prompting us to understand, to get an idea, an opinion, because maybe there is something worst ignorance. E 'should be interpreted in this sense that his interviews, his articles, his books are a tool to understand, or so it was for me, because in his writings I have taken more than can be found in history books because next to the exposure of the facts there is an ongoing question that should give us, the readers, to ask questions that perhaps we would never have thought of.
"What good is born to die what is it? Need to be men rather than trees or fish, you need to find the right because the right exists, it must be done if there exist, so the important thing is not to die, to die from the right. "
I hope you have insinuated a doubt, helping you to understand, having led to discover a woman, a writer, a journalist who has been much talked about but which has perhaps not read. Thank you Oriana. y
"doubt is the quality you most admire in man, said Karl Marx. And I say, too. On that we agree, me and him. Even on something else, maybe. But , of course, on that. "
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