Posted by: Danilo Sarra
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I would like to tell you the story of Santo who, after attending the elementary schools, the middle and high ones with good results, moved to the university with excellent results. He was an university professor for a lifetime. He wakes up in the morning. He washes himself. He dresses. He has breakfast. He leaves the house. He takes the car. He travels along the highway. He arrives at the University. He places his personal belongings in the study. He teaches. He dines. He teaches again in the afternoon. He sits in his office. He smokes a cigarette. He comes back at home. He eats. He reads. He sleeps: these are the days of Santo; always the same, never a surprise. As a result, programmatically accumulating a small part of his considerable salary, he builds an enjoyable residence in the country where he decides to live to spend his retirement years. Due to the clean and healthy bucolic climate, Santo realizes that his life has been constantly subjected to monotony; he has not fully lived his life: he did not appreciate the beauty of nature that surrounds him, the extraordinary nature of the foreign people; especially he did not enjoy ... [continues »]
Written on saturday april 8, 1989

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Posted by: Danilo Sarra
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This story was told (and written) by Giacomo Giuliani, a neighbor of my father who lived traveling without a stable home.
Giacomo died at the age of 54 years, ending up under the heavy wheels of a truck.
Nature didn't kill him, that he loved and lived fully, but the man himself.

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