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Eugenio Montale – ‘History’.
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History doesn’t wind / like an unbroken / link chain.
In any case / many links don’t hold.
History has no / before and no after, / nothing in it simmers / on a low heat.
History isn’t made / by those who contemplate it, or by those who ignore it. / History does not progress, it digs in its heels, / it detests the gradual, doesn’t advance /nor regress, it simply changes track and direction / and has no timetable.
History doesn’t justify / nor does it blame, / history is not intrinsic / because it is external.
History offers neither kindness nor cruelty. / History doesn’t teach / anything that concerns us.
Ad knowing this doesn’t help to / make it more true or more just.
History isn’t the / great leveller people say it is.
It leaves underpasses, crypts, holes / and hiding-places. There are survivors.
History is also benevolent: it destroys / as much as it can: overdoing it, certainly /
Would be better, but history is short / of news, it doesn’t carry out all its vendettas.
History scrapes the bottom / like a torn dragnet / and more than one fish escapes.
Sometimes you meet the ectoplasm / of an escapee, and he doesn’t seem particularly happy.
He doesn’t know he is outside, nobody told him. / While the others in the bag think / they’re freer than him.
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 Alfa triumphs in Japan
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 Alfa Romeo, the 52nd star
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 Alfa 8C
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 Spider is Alfa Romeo’
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