Diaper Punished For A Year

reflexive middle class: Final Note to the unpublished book 'A pocket Italy. Essay on the sagacious smallness of officials'. 2001.

I was going to put in This Blog only pages that seemed most interesting. But in rereading, realizing that there was so much to cut and fix, I was taken by the desire to make a general pruning. So that the entire text of the book was reduced to 29 chapters, which on paper would take up, yes and no, forty pages. I was surprised by the ease and, dare I say, the confidence with which I was able to cut sentences and pages to which it seemed to be fond. Without the computer may not have had the courage to destroy a book, in which, budding writer, I'd put everything . But the Internet, with its elusiveness and universality, with much reduced my pride of authorship and paper, I hope, an indulgence that I might have to myself.

The term 'wise smallness' of the subtitle is taken from a prose of great controversy Louis Russo (1892-1961).