Professor Al Marra, a man of boundless culture.
Why the void that left us so much.
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I remember, and for that I feel rich.
In 2004 I went to Spoleto on the occasion of a reading from the Divine Comedy (the fifth canto of Purgatorio, indescribable emotion). Pietro Biondi of the narrator. Gabriel Marra comment.
On that occasion I took the professor an excerpt of my dissertation, with a dedication to him.
I wrote "Captain my captain," to quote Whitman.
"How sweet," he said. "You remember ..."
Curious, was the first time in twenty-five years gave me of you ...
To him, high school teacher shy and thoughtful, but great as a few, I have the good part of what they are and the good part of what I know.
Perhaps because, beyond the actual value of his teaching, which is also invaluable, which also has instilled in many of us love the word written, what remains for me, and that will stay with me forever, is that it has absorbed between one word and another curiosity.
Here.
curiosity.
That is a requirement,
like breathing, such as eating,
which is meant to dig in to see inside,
change point of view to see better.
That is, ultimately, free thinking.
Thank you, Professor.
thanks Infinite times.
[...] Well knowest thou how the air is gathered
THAT 'wet water vapor which he returns
soon as it rises where the' cold grasp it.
came that evil will, which seeks ill
with the 'intellect, and moved the mist and' the wind
for the power that nature gave her.
Then the valley as' the day was spent,
Pratomagno to the great yoke covered
of fog, and 'the heaven above intent,
ensure that' the pregnant air water changed;
the rain fell, and 'gullies came
her what the earth did not endure;
as the rivers and large it was agreed,
ver' real time the river Quick
you ruin, that nothing held. [...]
Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy (Purgatorio, V, 109-123)
In 2004 I went to Spoleto on the occasion of a reading from the Divine Comedy (the fifth canto of Purgatorio, indescribable emotion). Pietro Biondi of the narrator. Gabriel Marra comment.
On that occasion I took the professor an excerpt of my dissertation, with a dedication to him.
I wrote "Captain my captain," to quote Whitman.
"How sweet," he said. "You remember ..."
Curious, was the first time in twenty-five years gave me of you ...
To him, high school teacher shy and thoughtful, but great as a few, I have the good part of what they are and the good part of what I know.
Perhaps because, beyond the actual value of his teaching, which is also invaluable, which also has instilled in many of us love the word written, what remains for me, and that will stay with me forever, is that it has absorbed between one word and another curiosity.
Here.
curiosity.
That is a requirement,
like breathing, such as eating,
which is meant to dig in to see inside,
change point of view to see better.
That is, ultimately, free thinking.
Thank you, Professor.
thanks Infinite times.
[...] Well knowest thou how the air is gathered
THAT 'wet water vapor which he returns
soon as it rises where the' cold grasp it.
came that evil will, which seeks ill
with the 'intellect, and moved the mist and' the wind
for the power that nature gave her.
Then the valley as' the day was spent,
Pratomagno to the great yoke covered
of fog, and 'the heaven above intent,
ensure that' the pregnant air water changed;
the rain fell, and 'gullies came
her what the earth did not endure;
as the rivers and large it was agreed,
ver' real time the river Quick
you ruin, that nothing held. [...]
Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy (Purgatorio, V, 109-123)
