"[About the relationship with Sicily] As far as I am aware—and I can only answer for this, not for so-called unconscious things, which I do not presume to investigate—I have no “relationships,” it is rather the extension of my skin [...] I have written something about Sicily. But as for living here, I must say that I feel at home, I have an immediate connection. As a boy, I lived in Lentini, where I was born—there were no gardens to replace the small boarding houses—my father was a pharmacist, my uncle was a lawyer and owned some land in the countryside, where we would go from time to time. It was a very rich land, where archaeological finds were later made, and so I found myself playing with bones — those of the Greeks, the Graeculi, of all those who had lived there or had passed through (you can find this in one of my short poems...); well, I felt at home, I feel at home there."
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Quoted in ‘’Il pessimismo osé di Manlio Sgalambro‘’, ‘'PsychiatryOnline.it’', March 4, 2013.
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Manlio Sgalambro
Manlio Sgalambro (9 December 1924 – 6 March 2014) was an Italian philosopher, writer, and poet.
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