29-07-2013, 01:59 PM
Albert Rossi Wrote:A professor of Old French I knew years ago, who was a young boy in Poland during the war, once told this anecdote. Being so young and not knowing much about the real significance of the events he was witnessing, but with the glories of Roman history placed in his head from the schoolroom, saw one day a column of Italian tanks on their way through his town as they headed to the Russian front. Inspired to greet them with what little Italian he could muster, he yelled out, "Vittoria o morte!" [Victory or Death]. To which, a soldier riding on the turret of the passing tank, wagging his finger at him, replied, "C'e` sempre una terza via" [There's always a third alternative.]
This expression of the essence of my people truly resonates -- and explains much.
A toast, then, to la terza via!
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene