Platonic Diversions

The Museum of Broken Relationships does exist

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SILVIA PIO  A few weeks before the wedding, my best friend’s daughter decided to break up with her boyfriend, with whom she had been sharing a flat for two years. What to do with the stuff in the flat? Furniture…

Religion

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JONATHAN SWIFT We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. (from “Thoughts on Various Subjects”)

Is Bringing Melancholy On Ourselves Useful?

Edvard Munch, Malinconia

FRANCES FAHY I was writing a piece when I realised that the song ‘The Parting Glass’ had started pecking at my brain like a robin at the window. For those who don’t know this song, it’s said to be of…

Greetings from Mondovì: Heatwave

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LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE It’s hot here, seems it’s hot most everywhere in the northern hemisphere. Local temperatures haven’t been murderous, nothing above 38 degrees (about 100 Fahrenheit), nothing like reports of 45-plus on Sardegna and Sicily. But uncomfortably warm, the…

Rewriting Calvino

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GABRIELLA MONGARDI. Abstract: an article of Gabriella Mongardi about the city of Mondovì, compared to the “Invisible Cities” of Italo Calvino.     Illustrations by Lorenzo Barberis: Le città nascoste Le città continue Le città e i segni