Sunday, April 4, 2010

11 Mo With Cold And Vomiting

Wine and Truth

"The motto of the ancients never lied,"

warns Giovanni Verga in Malavoglia

and really is the old motto: In vino veritas

:

Alcaeus, greek poet, a member of archaic lyric :
"In wine the truth '

Zenobio, Centuria IV, prov. 5:
"In wine the truth '

Dionegiano, Centuria IV, prov. 81:
"The truth is in wine"

Pliny, Natural History:
"The truth is in wine."

This saying belongs to the large group of proverbs "warning" namely, that warns of things to do or, more cynically, those from which to learn to say or do to others what you do not want to say or do.
The wine, therefore, as portentous and infallible "truth machine", half of which pale in front of the sophisticated methods used by the most ruthless secret police and not by the CIA to the KGB, the Gestapo.
In the literature there are examples of the wine used as a catalyst for truth, to say what he said he would not be sober. Of course this is not necessary instrument of truth against, for example, how naive of the Renzo Manzoni, but in these cases acts as an accelerator and amplifier.
Therefore they should deprive ourselves of this precious nectar in order to avoid revealing truths that can harm us, but it would be a shame.
Men's unwise, I would then give wise counsel:



drink moderately in order to avoid

"tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth"

and much more wisely, do this (not mine) suggestion:

The lie ever, the truth is not all (1).

To follow this principle must maintain full possession of his mental faculties, fully lucid, raggiungilibe by not drinking or rather, through the well and drink little.

But it would use the proverb to educate, but to deceive, as it would give reason to Verga, which implicitly defines the living world as a world of lies. (2) Regardless of the consequences
strive then to say whether not the whole truth, a goal impossible for us, at least some truth in full, with nothing to hide, so that transit through the world of truth, memory Verga, takes place in the least traumatic way possible. To remain in the atmosphere
Easter - Happy Easter relatives, friends, readers near and far - is the case that "what is truly good and just" make an effort to say, without the help of wine or a small (I recommend small) push it more and more often the truth, why in the world the truth emerges because it is not granted, and then hide it without any human merit, and we would do well, we are temporarily living in consider the truth a victory, the more sought after than achieved with difficulty and pain.

CIN! CIN! ... without exaggeration

(1) Gino Benzoni, The troubles of Culture, Milan, Feltrinelli, 1978
(2) defines die Verga, "pass into the world of truth"