The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. ~Italo Calvino
Commonplace book of a teacher, poet, and counselor.
GIOVANNI DI PAOLO
St Stephen Suckled by a Doe
1450
Tempera on wood
San Stefano alla Lizza, Siena
I think the doe should’ve been elevated to sainthood for putting up with this.
was um himmels willen passiert hier?