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| CITAZIONE (gloria_ita @ 30/10/2014, 18:03) CITAZIONE Dobbiamo cogliere delle metafore acquatiche? “I took a break, and I went off to do something,” he says of the period after 9. “People say, ‘What did you do?’ Erm, let’s say” – a mammoth pause – “let’s say I was a lover of the sea. And I …” – another pause – “ I was a sea swimmer, that’s what I was doing. I went off to do a free-diving course, I learned how to scuba dive, I also learned sailing, I also learned surfing.” Diving, sailing: these seem like precisely the kind of activities with which you might idle away your time were you a rock star on sabbatical with plenty of money (9’s sales were something of a disappointment compared with his 2002 debut O, which went quadruple platinum in the UK alone). I start to ask him when he got interested in watersports and he frowns. “No, I was actually using that as a metaphor for … brain courses. Courses on the brain. I did all kinds of things. Scuba diving in the brain, free-diving in the brain, swimming, sailing, surfing in the brain: I did all these things. I realised I was completely fascinated by human beings and how easy it was to go from a feeling of exultation or elation to a spiralling into depression. And so I went and studied. I wanted to learn what it was that was triggering these really extreme irrational behaviours. I wanted to learn how to … not control it, but at least understand it.”    Damiano non delude mai... |
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