Trafika Europe 11 - Swiss Delights

Uncertain Manifesto 3

On 3 July 1940 in Cesare Pavese notes in The Business of Living: “All these stories of revolutions, this longing to watch historic events unfold, these monumental attitudes are the result of our being saturated with historicism and that’s why, habituated as we are to treating centuries like pages in a book, we believe we hear the clarion of the future each time a donkey brays.”

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