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Il Gavia è un mostro, il Gavia è meraviglioso.

Franco Cacciatori

The Mano Fico (fig hand, properly, ‘mano fica’) is an ancient obscene gesture, and is also one of the better known protective gestures against the eye. The thumb and fist gesture is an ancient representation of sexual union. The name is from the Italian word for the female vulva, fica,meaning fig (and also the origin of a well-known English obscenity).
The fig was associated by the Romans with female fertility and eroticism; the fruit was sacred to Bacchus. The gesture is used against the evil eye in the belief that an obscenity serves as a distraction to evil, even that demons are so repelled by the notion of sex and reproduction that they flee at the sign,

Symbol Dictionary

Don’t hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.

Epictetus

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.

I am learning
to be patient

The dark side of life came through too – illness, fear trauma… people like those at the Berlin Love Parade going out to enjoy themselves, and this horrible tragedy befalling them. The human spirit seems to surpass that though, and in the film there’s a sense of redemption – a sense that once you face the dark side of life you can actually get on and enjoy it.

Kevin McDonald

To illustrate the various reasons why Julie Taymor was fired from “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark,” we turn, once again, to a pie chart.

We tend to think of pasta like potatoes but it has never been viewed as a bland staple. It’s been associated with prestige - people used to buy votes with pasta.

It is said that we are all three different people: the person we think we are (the one we have invented), the person other people think we are (the impression we make) and the person we think other people think we are (the one we fret about).

Stephen Bayley