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Page 3 of today’s edition of Il Foglio, a national Italian daily. Truly strange and wonderful to go to a newsstand in Italy and buy this newspaper and read about oneself … or rather (because I don’t read Italian), to know that one’s ideas are being given so much prominent attention in somebody else’s country. […]

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Page 3 of today’s edition of Il Foglio, a national Italian daily. Truly strange and wonderful to go to a newsstand in Italy and buy this newspaper and read about oneself … or rather (because I don’t read Italian), to know that one’s ideas are being given so much prominent attention in somebody else’s country. Thanks to the reporter Mattia Ferrarese for his interest in my work.

(I think the headline is a clever pun on a line from the Italian national anthem, “Siam pronti alla morte” — “We are ready to die.” The literal translation of the headline is, “We are ready to cut,” or “to break with.”)

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