TE19 Iberian Adventure

My Plague Diary

Larissa sends me Georges Didi-Huberman’s book “Survival of the Fireflies” from Brazil.

Pasolini used to say that fireflies were disappearing in Italy.

Wiped out by the fascist night or by the excess of spotlights, says Didi-Huberman.

The fireflies disappeared at the start of the sixties, he says. An “intense and injurious incident”, Pasolini. Three strong words in a row as if they were only one: intense, injurious and incident.

And the airy light of the fireflies disappeared because there are too many spotlights.

The spotlights that “come from the football stadiums, from TV studios etc.”, says Didi-Huberman.

These “fierce mechanical eyes”, Pasolini, cancel out the light of the fireflies.

In France, 152 possible cases of Kawasaki disease in children.

In Germany, more than 20,000 healthcare professionals have contracted coronavirus.

In 2020, there are fireflies in the interior and in the fields.

I’m receiving information about that for this diary.

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