Too much of a sensitive loner to be a Fascist
January 14, 2025 12:38 AM   Subscribe

Acquiescing to the way the world works is one of the temptations of being a journalist, and in Italy, for nearly a generation, the way the world worked had been Fascist. If it was now to be democratic instead, then so much the better. Journalism also taught Buzzati—when he wasn’t dealing with naval battles—the value of precise, concrete writing. from A Man Out of Time [Harper's; ungated]. posted by chavenet (4 comments total) 12 users marked this as a favorite
 


There are posts whose authorship I can determine without even looking.
posted by Lemkin at 6:53 AM on January 14 [2 favorites]


MetaFilter (or maybe just me): Too much of a sensitive loner to be a Fascist
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A nun preaching to ants in a brain.
posted by ovvl at 6:22 PM on January 14 [1 favorite]


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