Human Nature

They says that it's common for women to try to change their men's nature.
But what do men try instead to do with their women's nature? To make them domestic and indulgent?

John Donne

No man is an island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;

I'll pencil it!

I have always thought that one of the best thing about speaking English rather than Italian, is that English has shorter words, sentences, periods.

I.e. I'll pencil it on my diary (7 words, in total 21 letters)

In Italian?
--- Lo scriverò con il lapis sulla mia agenda (8 words, in total 35 letters!!!).

And I'm not sure that the Italian sentence conveys the wide range of meaning of the English one.

Last but not least, I do love the stress given to "I", the self-person that English always show.

I'll pencil it (the stress is strongly based on the subject, the object comes later).

Lo scriverò (the object of the sentence comes first and the subject is not stressed).

My Grand-grand-mother Gina

My Grand-grand-mother Gina had been a baby sitter, a "balia" as they would say, for the Prince Chigi's son and daughter.
She left her three young children with her husband and her older daughter, Clelia (my grand-mother), and lived in Rome for the greatest part of the year.
Tuscan young women were said to be great and strong women, good for raising children.

Prince Chigi's son and daughter one day came and visited my grand-grand-mother Gina, when I was a baby. She was very old.
I remember only two shadows and long legs walking and the excitement in the neighborohood that two famous princes would came in our house.

People from My Past: My Grand-grand-mother Gina

My grand-grand mother Gina was born in 1889.

She was already 80 years-old, when I was born.

I remember she had a beautiful round face, a nice smile and a strong personality, hidden under a mild and childish attitude in life.

She had a big kitchen, with a huge fireplace and everything she cooked, always smelled of ash.

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Cruel are the Times

.... I dare not speak much further,
But cruel are the times, when we are traitors
And do not know ourselves; when we hold rumour
From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,
But float upon a wild and violent sea,
Each way and none...

"Macbeth", William Shakespeare
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Macbeth

Macbeth's tragedy is that of a good, brave and honourable man turned into the personification of evil by the workings of unreasonable ambition.

Macbeth is overwhelmed by a triple alliance: the witches' prophecies, his own ambitions and those of Lady Macbeth.

Lady Macbeth:

"... yet do I fear thy nature,

it is too full o'th' milk of human kindness

to catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great,

art not without ambition, but without

the illness should attend it..."

atto I, scena V

Lady Macbeth and Iago are personifications of the evil. While Iago is pure evil, since he acts without a reason, lady Macbeth acts under the strength of her love for his husband.

Is there a difference, in the end, in the evil they cause?