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Analogies between quotations
The first quotation is "Le regole dell'attrazione le cercano tutti. Ma sono le regole della distrazione quelle più interessanti e non le cerca nessuno". In my opinion, the rules of attraction represent the human being's search for expedients that allow him to take the path of least resistance. On the contrary, the rules of distraction may be the answers to the questions that man should ask himself when he does not succeed in doing something. On the whole, the quotation denounces the human being's superficial: he is just interested in reaching his goals and he hardly ever puts himself to test and tries to provide an explanation for his failures.
The second quotation is "Il senso della misura è incommensurabile, in questa modernità". When I read it, I immediately thought about Modernism and relativism: it seems as if universal parameters did not exist and everyone placed his own value on things.
The third quotation is "Il pudore è un'intermittenza dello stile". It seems to me as if modesty were a limit to style and free expression and affected the human being's behavior according to the context.
The fourth quotation is "I ricordi indietreggiano sempre: come fa il tempo quando lo va a cercare. Poi quando li metti con le spalle al muro sanno raccontarti tutto". It reminded me of the unconscious and psychoanalysis: appointments allow patients to live the memories they apparently forgot (repression) again, so that they can get the answers they looked for.
The fifth quotation is "Ma del pericolo dell'anti-letteratura si è accorto qualcuno? E non è altrettanto grave?". It seems as if the speaking voice made the reader reflect on the importance of discussion, writing and debate, since the rejection of writing, thinking and reflecting on something may be dangerous.
The last quotation sounds like an invective since it directly appeals to the reader with questions. The other ones sound like aphorisms since they are short and full with rhetorical figures: you can note a contrast in the first and in the second quotation (attraction vs distraction; measure vs immeasurable) and the use of the language of sense impression (sight) in the third one (intermittence) and personification in the fourth one (memories moving back).
Moreover, from the point of view of the content, the quotations are linked by the theme of research: the search for rules in the first one, that for measure in the second one, that for style, obstructed by modesty, in the third one and that of time and memories in the fourth one. The fifth one hints at the negative effects of the non-research.
The first quotation is "Le regole dell'attrazione le cercano tutti. Ma sono le regole della distrazione quelle più interessanti e non le cerca nessuno". In my opinion, the rules of attraction represent the human being's search for expedients that allow him to take the path of least resistance. On the contrary, the rules of distraction may be the answers to the questions that man should ask himself when he does not succeed in doing something. On the whole, the quotation denounces the human being's superficial: he is just interested in reaching his goals and he hardly ever puts himself to test and tries to provide an explanation for his failures.
The second quotation is "Il senso della misura è incommensurabile, in questa modernità". When I read it, I immediately thought about Modernism and relativism: it seems as if universal parameters did not exist and everyone placed his own value on things.
The third quotation is "Il pudore è un'intermittenza dello stile". It seems to me as if modesty were a limit to style and free expression and affected the human being's behavior according to the context.
The fourth quotation is "I ricordi indietreggiano sempre: come fa il tempo quando lo va a cercare. Poi quando li metti con le spalle al muro sanno raccontarti tutto". It reminded me of the unconscious and psychoanalysis: appointments allow patients to live the memories they apparently forgot (repression) again, so that they can get the answers they looked for.
The fifth quotation is "Ma del pericolo dell'anti-letteratura si è accorto qualcuno? E non è altrettanto grave?". It seems as if the speaking voice made the reader reflect on the importance of discussion, writing and debate, since the rejection of writing, thinking and reflecting on something may be dangerous.
The last quotation sounds like an invective since it directly appeals to the reader with questions. The other ones sound like aphorisms since they are short and full with rhetorical figures: you can note a contrast in the first and in the second quotation (attraction vs distraction; measure vs immeasurable) and the use of the language of sense impression (sight) in the third one (intermittence) and personification in the fourth one (memories moving back).
Moreover, from the point of view of the content, the quotations are linked by the theme of research: the search for rules in the first one, that for measure in the second one, that for style, obstructed by modesty, in the third one and that of time and memories in the fourth one. The fifth one hints at the negative effects of the non-research.