TE19 Iberian Adventure

Gonçalo M. Tavares

I’m still on the Didi-Huberman book.

“I would give the whole of Montedison for a firefly,” says Pasolini.

Montedison, one of the big Italian firms. We can keep saying it.

I’d swap a factory for a firefly.

A machine for two rocks able to make a spark.

Also yesterday: Wuhan has forbidden consumption of wild animals for five years.

For five years, wild animals can relax.

Perhaps at the end of those five years the wild animals will be tame and then can be legally eaten.

A tame thing is that which gets eaten without so much as a peep.

Human hunger, that’s something that is never tamed.

Unlike wild horses, some wolves and several jackals.

Horses are tamed by the strength of a strong fist and a rope. With repetition and sometimes by kicking.

But you cannot tame your stomach, which is a wild thing.

There is no rope, kick or repeated fasting that can domesticate it. 138