Personal irrelevancies and historical problems of infinite echo are pursued.

Reading note

Uno zinzino di Zen

by Giovanni Mariotti — read in May 2026

In the little Zen, personal irrelevancies and historical problems of infinite echo are pursued. We start with the song of the chimney sweep, we arrive at the crusade of children who will never reach Jerusalem. We traverse cinema with black-and-white stars, where the film harmonizes with the swirls of cigarette smoke and we arrive in Albania, where we find the birthplace of Homer: New Ilium, more real than the original, which replicated, mirrored the ancient exploits to feed the boy's fervent imagination.

Giovanni Mariotti was unknown to me. It was a pleasant discovery. A bit of light daring to risk the abyss of my ignorance.

Thank you again to Franco Maria Ricci and the streets of his labyrinths.