Back home in Brussels, started reading “Italian Ways” by Tim Parks, and can’t help mentioning this statement: “In every aspect of Italian life, one of the key characteristics to get to grips with is that this is a nation at ease with the distance between ideal and real. They are beyond what we call hypocrisy. Quite simply they do not register the contradiction between rhetoric and behaviour. It’s an enviable mindset.”
Once again, I fully subscribe to the analysis.
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