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NON-DEMOCRATIC DWARF TALES
Andrea Francavilla’s short stories are dwarfed in terms of length but the author’s ability to evoke situations and contexts in the space of a few words by building characters through their dialogues immediately emerges.
The short stories are not democratic, how would you personally interpret this definition?
MY BAR, FAMILY, HEALTH
My bar, family, health … this is the recipe that Anna Possi gives us as an example of a centenarian.
Yes: tireless Anna in front of the espresso machine at the Bar Centrale in Nebbiuno on the occasion of her 100th birthday declared:
I don’t want anything, I already have everything. My bar, my family, my health, my brain is fine… What counts is being among people, loneliness hurts.
What can I say! First of all, best wishes also from Keep Calm & Drink Coffee, and then sincere congratulations for the message that is certainly worth sharing.
Being among people.
Do you agree with Anna?
Do you also think that being among people is what counts?
HUNTING THE BOGEYMAN
Undoubtedly a striking title: ‘the bogeyman’ is a figure we often learn about from childhood.
As we grow up, we learn that in reality who we have to fear is not an imaginary figure, however dark and gloomy he may be.
What could be the personification of the boogeyman in your opinion?
CAFÉ RACER
Café Racer: two words that encapsulate a world.
It is difficult to give a precise description, but the origin of the term is sure and takes us to England at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s.
In particular, the Café that gave rise to this definition is the Ace Café built on London’s North Circular Road to cater to a clientele of travellers.
The catalysts for bikers were the location, the 24-hour non-stop opening and the fact that the café was the place to listen to rock and roll.
DIRTY COFFEE
Dirty coffee literally the result of the brewing that is going crazy is indeed a dirty coffee.
But it is not the coffee that gets dirty, on the contrary: the coffee dirties the milk.
You need cold milk and coffee, the milk must be very cold while the coffee must be very hot because it is precisely the contrast between the temperatures that creates the Dirty coffee effect.
NIRVANA UNPLUGGED
Magic, atmosphere, white flowers, candles, drapes and soft lights, like metaphorical arms that welcome us into an immersion of music and sensations, simplicity and depth at the same time, where everything else is stripped away, the whole world is outside, where all that counts is the lightness of a faint breath destined to vanish but which in reality can only remain engraved in the memory forever.
Extreme vulnerability and yet disruptive power.
