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Non-required Reading

{Letture Facoltative} "As a bit old-fashioned, I believe that reading is the most beautiful pastime ever devised by humanity. Homo ludens dances, sings, produces gestures full of meaning, assumes poses, dresses, feasts and celebrates elaborate I do not want to underestimate the importance of such pastimes - without it, human life would flow with an unimaginable monotony and perhaps go into disarray. However, these are group actions on which hovers, more or less perceptible, that certain smell of military training. collective. With a book in hand, Homo ludens is free. At least as far as he is allowed to be. He sets the rules of the game, obeying only his own curiosity. He is allowed to read both intelligent books, come on which to learn something, both silly books, because even from those it is possible to obtain information. or to have a giggle where it is not expected, or to linger unexpectedly on words that he will then remember for a lifetime. Finally, he is free - no other pas...