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ab's avatar

Morbido means soft in Italian, not that far from morbid in English.

So I will try to confuse everyone with an optimist version.

« The old is dying and the new cannot be born yet: in this interregnum there was still a great deal of softness »

M. E. Rothwell's avatar

Étienne this is top tier work

Étienne Fortier-Dubois's avatar

Wow high praise! Thanks!

Adina Dragu's avatar

I absolutely loved this piece, my book-worm nature was completely satisfied with your detective-type investigation 🙂.

Artischoke's avatar

Interesting! The quote, old dying, new being born, interregnum of monsters really does seem fitting for Gramscis time, when the old world order violently ended. There WERE big scary monsters out back then.

Étienne Fortier-Dubois's avatar

Yeah he was held in prison by the literal Fascists, I can understand why he thought there were morbid phenomena happening around him!