have to start from Ithaca, we must return to Ithaca
"And then we'll see how the star,
to drink whiskey at the Roxy bar ... "
Ithaca for me is like the Roxy bar, which is not much of a bar. Of course, great music, but the place is antiquated and there are always the same people.
But a trip is not really finished if you have not told the old friends of the Roxy bar. And of course the stories a bit 'flowery, exaggerating, using the verses of poems learned in school, important phrases, old songs. So you at the Roxy bar.
Likewise Ithaca is not great, it also says in Telemachus' Odyssey "Nessun'isola is good pei wagons or rich meadows
Poggiana many of the sea: Ithaca least of all!"
So why this desire to return to Ithaca?
read again the last verses of the beautiful poetry of Cavafy:
"Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage
without her you would not put
on the road so that 'else do you expect?
And if you find her poor, Ithaca you will be disappointed.
Done wise now, with so much experience on
you already have understood what Ithaca mean. "
Yeah, Itaca mean what he wants?
idea I would have there: Ithaca is common sense.
Common sense is that from which we must leave, is what you leave to start any real research.
The good the great Einstein said: "All science is nothing more than a refinement of thinking."
So we need to go away from Ithaca, and if you stay in Ithaca're not anywhere, you do not know nothing, you got the story.
It's like Dante's Ulysses says:
"You were not made to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge."
must rise above the common sense, do not stay in the condition of the horrific beasts of which Vico speaks, we must lift our eyes and look at the sky.
"The tree of heaven full of stars nottazzurri wet fruit." ̶ as it is written in ' Joyce's Ulysses.
In any case, however, to Ithaca, we must also return. Otherwise you risk getting lost in who knows what heights, or depths (which is the same); coll'ulteriore risk of autism and sinking in melancholy. As happened in Ugo Foscolo - remember?:
"No more, never will touch the sacred shores
where the little boy lay my body, my
Zakynthos, which mirrors the wave you
of greek Mar ... "
(and Zakynthos, it should be remembered, is the island closest to Ithaca).
must return to Ithaca, with the caveat, however, that in the meantime, the island could be completely changed. As if the Roxy bar had changed management.
Blessed is the old Ulysses returns after twenty years and, at least apparently, Ithaca is the way it was when he had left. Try to do the same today: how many new residences, many restaurants that the last time there were not?
TS Eliot (Four quartets ):
"... The End of All Our Exploring
Will be to arrive Where We Started
And know the place for the first time."
["... the end of all our exploring will be to reach
whence we departed
and know the place for the first time. "]
Ithaca But perhaps it is not changed, perhaps we change us, meanwhile, and Ithaca is what binds us to ourselves that we were and that we are not.
But this has little importance to Ithaca to find ourselves with just a few details, apparently trivial, as the flavors that our poor old migrants in the letters reminded of their exile life and work.
Ithaca lies in small things.
And what are the small ways that I dedicate the epic Ulysses to the poor, who left Ithaca with their fixed idea in mind to return.
'No' if miga 'to Fadiga,
No' if gnanca 'in distans,
more than anything else if mancansa
de baracocoli.
No 'if miga P'a bad luck,
no' if gnanca 'a palanca,
more than anything else if mancansa
de caparosoli.
Dear mama, te saludo,
daggers in a basal tuti those,
that Treporti tornaremo,
maybe dead, maybe dead. "
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