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  • Tbh as a kid and even know a lot of the fascination behind the job as writer was all the freedom you get. How mundane you can be while creating something that will resonate even 50-100 years after you passed. You can write everywhere, while you enjoy life and travel to your favourite places and just chainsmoke cigs and binge drink alcohol. (This is the idea i had of a writer, damn you Hemingway) Having said that, i would love to write something that makes other feel like i feel when i read some good books. The feeling that reading that book in that precise moment is the best thing i could do with my life.

    But to write something that isn’t complete and utter shit like a lot of books i see, the first thing you have to be is: very cultured and you have to master the language in which you’ll write. In order to get to that point the only thing you can do is educate yourself and read, so as of now i try to read both because i enjoy it and because i feel like i need to get a good vocabulary and idea on how to express a coherent tought that isn’t the most cliché thing you’ve read in your life.







  • Well, you are not wrong. But if you think about it it’s still a pretty significant percentage considering Canada is one ocean distant from Europe, and has always had historically relations, economically and politically with the USA, obviously given the fact they share their only border with them. So in my opinion the number gets more weight, maybe. Probably some years ago it was much lower, or they didnt asked themselves the question at all.


  • Two books that made me cry at the end and helped me shape my idea of war and what really is for the common men are “Il sergente nella neve” (the sargent in the snow) by Mario Rigoni Stern, which is about the retreat of the Armir (italian army in Russia) after the second Don offensive by the Red Army from the point of view of Stern, as they started the endless march back to Italy on foot, with the Red Army biting their asses. Almost 80.000 between dead and missing. Amazing piece of literature and yet another reason to despise fascism; and All quiet on the western front, which doesnt need many explanations.

    Absolute chills everytime i think about those books and the images of tragedy and hopelessness they shaped so vividly in my mind.










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    1 month ago

    “this cigarette i deserved. one every now and then i can handle without starting to crave a packet again, i was diligent not smoking for 4 years, and i feel i need a break from the hardship of life” i say to myself watching me spiraling back to the addiction and craving a pack of cigs


  • A lot of contries other than Iran are filled with religious extremists, including the USA themselves, but you dont see trump striking any of those countries. Again, USA is supplying arms to Israel, that they use to strike civilians to claim a land that is theirs according to a religious book. That alone in your view should be enough to strike both USA and Israel. Religion extremism, terrorism and mysoginism and such are a plague in a lot of countriest, but the USA hit the one that is the biggest threat to thei closest ally. This is just politics, classic imperialist american politics. Nothing more nothing less. And i repeat, im not a fan of Iran either. its just that we cant revert to an international scenery dominated by brute force imo.