Just wanted to specify, Martin, Robin, David
1. that I did not mean to write "rifle", but blister, breath of wind,
whirling of air (how do you say in English when the wind blows and puff the
little birds flying in the sky and the dry leafs just dissolve...) It was
one of my "occasional" mispells. Where do you see the brutality in this
gentle image of you al flying little little birds in the wind. ???
2. That you whould not take me seriously when I mock English men. I love
England and English people. I am still amazed when I walk in the street how
much they really look like those characters in Chaucer. It is amazingly
actual, his work. I do like Englsih people and I love being in England.
OPtherwise I would be in Italy or somewhere else, no?
3. One does need to look up in dictionaries to find the origins of terms
and their usage. One cannot rely on the sole current use that one might
have distortedly learned. Sometimes, when one gets into the habit of going
and checking ind ictionaries, one finds out amazing revelations. I find it
the most charming daily practise. I sometimes sit and read the dictionaries
as news papers, try to memorize the succession of terms in alphabetical
order, even, so, if put under interrogation I can always tell what is the
newt word after, say, "stupid".
4. If you did go and look in the dictionary, you would have easly
understood that "stupid" could by no mean, even in the present usage that
you do, be used as an aggective for poetry. Potery being an intellectual
faculty, while stupidity being a lack of intellicence and stupid someone
lacking it, a puerile person.
5.Basta. Enough. I have finished my apology of dictionaries. I could start
a defence of literary theory, but I have to start working at my monography
on Fortini, now, so, have a nice day.
agg. [sec. XIV; dal lat. stupĭdus, da stupēre, stupire]. 1) Lett., in
preda a stupore, attonito, sbalordito: “io stava / s. tutto” (Dante). Ant.,
intorpidito. 2) Poco dotato intellettualmente; che intende e apprende con
difficoltà e lentezza; ottuso, tonto: mi sembra un po' s.; per estens.,
sciocco, puerile: quant'è s. tuo cugino!; iperb., malaccorto, ingenuo: sei
stato s. a fidarti; anche come sm. (f. -a): l'arroganza degli stupidi. Di
cose, che esprime o rivela stupidità; una s. ostinazione.
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