Boh

Boh was an article written by Pagliozzo and first published on the PagliaSite on September 29, 2012.

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''Darkness... malice of misfortune... I know you... and for a while I want to indulge the unbridled spirit of your torment. I will be able to imitate what the sun does, which allows the vile noxious clouds to obscure it from the world... and then return each time, breaking through the mists of vapors that seemed to suffocate it. If it were a holiday all year round, playing would be as dull as working. But when the holiday comes infrequently, it comes all the more desired, because nothing is more welcome than rare events.''

''Dark times... I know you... and for a while I want to indulge the unbridled spirit of your torment. However, here I will imitate what the sun does, which allows the vile noxious clouds to obscure it from the world, so, when it pleases him to be himself again, being desired, he will arouse greater admiration, breaking through the mists of vapors that seemed to suffocate him.'' ''If it were a holiday all year round, playing would be as dull as working. But when the holiday comes infrequently, it comes all the more desired, because nothing is more welcome than rare events.'' ''So when I shake off this debauchery, and pay the debt I never promised, how much better than my word I will be, I will falsify people's expectations. And as the shiny metal stands out on a dark background, my repentance, sparkling on my fault, will appear all the more precious and will attract more glances than a conduct that has no background on which to stand out. I will transgress to make an art of transgression, and when people think less of it, I will make up for wasted time.''

''After all, isn't this exactly what men are always fascinated by these apocalyptic-millennial beliefs? What was it like in the year 1000, in 2000, in?, Whenever the end of the world was prophesied.''