The White Lily Dipped In The Aether (eBook, ePUB)
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Andrea is eighty-two years old and he has an incomplete life behind him, when he goes through the gate of the House of the Roses, the distinguished and cold nursing home where his niece has left him. He would have wanted to rebel, to avoid that subtle torture, the alienating sense of useless wait for an end now inevitable but, like a loyal soldier from an army now defeated, he did not want or could not say no. He is welcomed by monstrous-looking peers with yellow and spotted skin and with eyes and a mouth reduced to dark cavities: tired, aged faces, bent under the burden of years and life. The...
Andrea is eighty-two years old and he has an incomplete life behind him, when he goes through the gate of the House of the Roses, the distinguished and cold nursing home where his niece has left him. He would have wanted to rebel, to avoid that subtle torture, the alienating sense of useless wait for an end now inevitable but, like a loyal soldier from an army now defeated, he did not want or could not say no. He is welcomed by monstrous-looking peers with yellow and spotted skin and with eyes and a mouth reduced to dark cavities: tired, aged faces, bent under the burden of years and life. The solitude of lots of past afternoons, the ghosts meticulously collected during years of daily defeats, the pain that slowly turns into bitterness assault him. He seeks relief in that God he has always loved, respected and never understood, but, in the face of the eternal impermanence of existence, all his certainties seem to waver. In Torquato, a terminally-ill patient, who faces his suffering with a smile on his lips, he sees that clear and unshakable faith that he has chased so much, without ever truly being able to reach it, to make it his own and to taste it fully. Days pass slowly and little by little Andrea gets to know his misfortune companions: the gentle and reasonable Ubaldo, the confrontational Professor, the seemingly sharp and haughty Adelina, the inflexible Ermanno, the irreproachable Leandro, the skinny and schizophrenic Galileo. Crazy, unpredictable, desperate but at the same time very human protagonists of the eternal tragedy and the many-sided comedy of all our endless, earthly days. Like a pond where cyclically life is recreated, that unstable and very fragile microcosm is populated with apparently lost feelings: Andrea finds again joy and dejection, faith and blasphemy, selfishness and friendship and perhaps even love… Finally he has neither bonds nor chains, no rule or convention to respect: a meaningless existence, a permanent job to preserve, an improbable future to build are only a yellowed memory, worn by time. His past, present and future are kept in a single endless moment, the hornet flapping its wings that, against all the laws of nature, insists on flying in the hot lights of sunset before night wraps it in its mortal embrace.
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