V.Sly and composed, he accepts loneliness and duty, an underrated sign. He knows it and smiles with the ironic flicker in his eyes and that aplomb, solid screen of emotions. The Virgin knows that she is the son of the sigh that closes the summerto possess the gestures in packing, pressing the still damp costumes into the suitcase. And to be the last look at the beach before leavingthe look on the rough arms of the lifeguards, satisfied to close the last umbrellas.
The sign of the Virgin in a mosaic in the Galleria Umberto I in Naples. (Photo by: BSIP / Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The Virgin says goodbye to summer
It is a sign resigned to the pallor of duty that follows the tan of summer relaxation. Virgo has the awareness that everything passes. It is the subtle bitterness of Carlo FrutteroLucentini’s alter ego, “you have to look at life a piece at a time, never all together, otherwise you get discouraged and stop living“.
Trained since he was a boy to be familiar with depth, to be able to resurface like a dolphin jumping agile over words. And the sense of existence is all there. Where “one piece at a time” becomes attitude and philosophy of life. Step by step we also reach the words of another wonderful Virgin, Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan poet who in silence writes: “A confession: loneliness has stopped hurting me”. He moves this statement, because chi belongs to this earth sign knows that loneliness is the necessary condition to stay in the world but also the highest price to pay.
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