Here was the endlessly mute placidity of nature, indifferent to the great city; here was the desert beneath these streets, around these streets, waiting for the city to die, to cover it with timeless sand once more. There came over me a terrifying understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness. Then men seemed brave to me, and I was proud to be numbered among them. All the evil of the world seemed not evil at all, but inevitable and good and part of that endless struggle to keep the desert down.
A Camilla, con amore Arturo Arturo Bandini e il suo creatore John Fante possono apparire dei folli patentati, dei terroni americani insopportabili, degli esaltati ubriaconi e con seri problemi con le donne. Ma Dio mio, che uomini! Qual è il vostro Bandini preferito? Io sono indecisa fra "Aspetta primavera, Bandini" e il capolavoro "Chiedi alla polvere". @einaudieditore #johnfante #arturobandini #letteraturaamericana #aspettaprimaverabandini #sognidibunkerhill #chiediallapolvere #lastradaperlosangeles #italoamericano #read #reading #toscana #vacanzeitaliane #summer #america #askthedust #leggereclassici #leggere #picofbook #bookalcoholic #book #libribelli #libri #ticonsigliounlibro https://www.instagram.com/p/CD6t3eZqz1Y/?igshid=1iqxip5wvm329
... all of us were here for a little while, and then we were somewhere else; we were not alive at all; we approached living, but we never achieved it. We are going to die. Everybody was going to die. Even you, Arturo, even you must die.
“So an evening comes, and want to do with it, my soul so cool from the bath of words, my fee to solid upon the earth, and what are the others doing, the rest of the people of the world?” Ask The Dust. John Fante. . . . . #askthedust #johnfante #lawriters #literature #charkesbukowski #bibliophile #booksaremylife #bookstagram #booklover #losangeles #california https://www.instagram.com/p/CBo2hxBJVtK/?igshid=gtlghspfhnrw