English scratches and Italian notes written by Carlo Perassi
I didn’t find the reference but it seems that Plutarch once wrote that the main difference between boys and men is the deep desolation a man feels immediately after a moment of ecstasy. It’s ages since I was a boy and being aware of it doesn’t help anyhow.
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Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for
Why do we need to do a campfire at night?
Perphaps this is not the right question: a better question would be “Why do we want to have a campfire at night?”. We don’t live in the wilderness anymore and, nowadays, using a campfire at night to keep beasts away is a very unusual need. Anyhow, our paleolithic ancestor still holds a place in our, let me say, deep thoughts brain area. The surface of this planet hosts many billions of humans, not just one hundred thousand as it did during that era but, sadly, the way we approach the world has not changed that much.
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One big difference between a monkey and a human is in their intelligence so every time it’s definitely sad to realize that the average project manager is driven to believe that giving a good manual to a monkey (written by a human of course) could help the hairy animal to fill its gap.
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