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One Thousand Years of Solitude
on Salvatore Satta
on Salvatore Satta
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terms
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aerie
(en)
(noun) the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop / (noun) a brood of birds of prey / (noun) an elevated often secluded dwelling, structure, or position
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My wife and I never made it to that famed aerie
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My wife and I never made it to that famed aerie
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marmoreal
(en)
(adjective) of, relating to, or suggestive of marble or a marble statue especially in coldness or aloofness
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somnambular
(en)
to walk or perform another act while asleep or in a sleeplike condition
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sclerotic, somnambular epilogue to its ancient ways
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sclerotic, somnambular epilogue to its ancient ways
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phantasmagoric
(en)
(noun) an exhibition of optical effects and illusions / (noun) a constantly shifting complex succession of things seen or imagined / (noun) a scene that constantly changes / (noun) a bizarre or fantastic combination, collection, or assemblage
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There is not the least doubt that Pietro Catte in the abstract has no reality, any more than any other man on the face of the earth. But the fact remains that he was born and that he died, as those irrefutable certificates prove. And this endows him with reality in actual fact, because birth and death are the two moments at which the infinite becomes finite; and the infinite can have no being except through the finite. Pietro Catte attempted to escape from reality by hanging himself on that tree at Biscollai, but his was a vain hope, because one cannot erase one's own birth. This is why I say that Pietro Catte, like all the hapless characters in this story, is important, and ought to be interesting to everyone: if he does not exist, then none of us exist.
a quote by Salvatore Satta
There is not the least doubt that Pietro Catte in the abstract has no reality, any more than any other man on the face of the earth. But the fact remains that he was born and that he died, as those irrefutable certificates prove. And this endows him with reality in actual fact, because birth and death are the two moments at which the infinite becomes finite; and the infinite can have no being except through the finite. Pietro Catte attempted to escape from reality by hanging himself on that tree at Biscollai, but his was a vain hope, because one cannot erase one's own birth. This is why I say that Pietro Catte, like all the hapless characters in this story, is important, and ought to be interesting to everyone: if he does not exist, then none of us exist.
a quote by Salvatore Satta
vergers
(en)
a person, usually a layperson, who assists in the ordering of religious services, particularly in Anglican churches
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"[...] take part in the life of the spirit as vergers or sacristans"
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"[...] take part in the life of the spirit as vergers or sacristans"
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sacristans
(en)
(noun) a person in charge of the sacristy (a room in a church where a priest prepares for a service, and where ceremonial equipment are kept)
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"[...] take part in the life of the spirit as vergers or sacristans"
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"[...] take part in the life of the spirit as vergers or sacristans"
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pandects
(en)
(noun) a complete code of the laws of a country or system of law / (noun) a treatise covering an entire subject
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Old books, obsolete pandects, wormholed commentaries
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Old books, obsolete pandects, wormholed commentaries
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cosmogony
(en)
(noun) a theory of the origin of the universe / (noun) the creation or origin of the world or universe
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preclassical Greek and Mediterranean cosmogony
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preclassical Greek and Mediterranean cosmogony
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imbroglio
(en)
an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation
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