Immediately a monument on the site of the burning of books in Rome. By Luca Monti
We believed that Fahrenheit 451 was just a novel about a dystopian future and instead reality surpasses fantasy once again. A monument to the recent burning of books in the historic stall of the Professor, born Alberto Maccaroni, could arise in Piazzale Flaminio, in Rome.
This is the idea of the artist Hypnos, a longtime friend of the professor and his client for over 40 years. The burning of books and the destruction of libraries were rather common practices in the past, often caused by war, censorship or more simply by the need to delete information or ideas that were dangerous for the historical context in which they were implemented. This event that happened recently in the very central piazzale Flaminio, a probable stunt of bored kids, is instead the measure of current times, where to read a good book you prefer to play keyboard lions on your smart phone. For Hypnos, aka Gilberto Di Benedetto, books are reflected thoughts or seeds of wisdom waiting to germinate in the minds of those who through reading want to make the thought reflected in the book come alive.
The artist said in a note: burning a book is an act that in the past led to the burning of men. I ask the mayor to support this idea that I would like to share with all my friends, artists and intellectuals and members of civil society who, thanks to the professor, have nourished their creativity with culture. I would therefore like to set up a support committee for this initiative with them.
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