“...in the catastrophic light”. Around the Bell Meridian by Gianni Turchetta

Florence, September 2018. The librarian of the Marucelliana places the volume on a lectern and walks away discreetly. Erasures, single words, rewritings swarm over the lines. I look. I just look, if I touch, everything disappears. I stayed on those first verses for a long time. Similar to his Book but different. different. The title written in smaller characters than the text: “Sentimental Cinema”, “The Mystical Night of Love and Pain”. Then, fo…