imagined communities

  • Umbilical cord

    My favorite scene in (one of) my favorite movie, Cinema Paradiso, goes on as follows: After leaving his hometown of Giancaldo in Sicily for 30 years, Salvatore di Vita returned home and went to his old home. Her mother was knitting and she heard the doorbell, she said, “that’s Toto. I know it.” She immediately…

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