Dearest colleagues from all over the world,
although this forum is ordinarily devoted to amiable discussions on our
preferred profession, evidently these days are not what we would normally
define 'ordinary'.
Ordinarily, we would plunge into our work, research, pursuit, more or less
together with our own struggles, worries, sometimes problems and tangible
apprehensions, mostly coming from our private life.
Sometimes, though, public life is inimaginably much more enormous than daily
worries. To this end, I would express my humblest and warmest human vicinity to
our American colleagues, while reminding the rest of us that what we have so
tragically witnessed could and can virtually happen next door. From where I
write (Italy), geography puts a severe limit in the phisical perception of this
tragedy, and this is particularly striking because, down in the streets of my
city, it looks as if nothing really happened, as if what happened is either too
far or happened to somebody else (which is materially true - this time). But on
the media, terror and death are at work, and the difference between 'inside the
truth' and 'outside in my daily truth' is so brutal..
With warmest regards,
Umberto
Fracassi
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