Landscapes are repetitions... . Only landscapes that don't exist and books I'll never read aren't tedious.
Fernando Pessoa, Livro do Desassossego
I have related elsewhere how I took
On 13th June, 1940, Leone Ginzburg—writer, editor, translator, anti-fascist—arrived in the remote village of Pizzoli in the mountains of the Abruzzi, and took up residence.
That day he wrote to his