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Jan 292012

“The Art of Living”

Only while alive, Rossi, in this life, can we find meaning. When we are the architects of our own lives, we feel involved in something wonderful: we are living and writing our own history, we are the protagonists of ourselves. Our life is not fiction, not fantasy, but reality. We own the characters of our lives. This then, is the art of living. We write and produce our own novel according to our own will: the most wonderful novel ever written!

What could be better than our lives? The experience leads us from one adventure to another, from one discovery to the next: we grow from the base and coarse to the fine and refined: human beings. One is not born human, humanity needs to be conquered. When we are the manufacturers of our destiny, it all begins to makes sense and we are committed, we find strength and zeal, we are filled with desire and joy to do, to exist, to live. Be sure, Rossi, that no one can deny you of your fantastic and wondrous right to experience. Be the master and the servant of your own life!

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Jan 292012

Thoughts of Orace Guglielmini

The brutal question: what do we seek in life?

The simple answer: Meaning. Fundamental meaning for all our actions.

Without meaning in our lives, we are like a vehicle without fuel. Clear enough? Well then, it is meaning which we seek. How? Where? Briefly, along five paths.

On the first of which, one learns about the physical world, this path is an easy one to follow. One begins with the origin of the universe, the big bang, and goes on to learn about all that has occurred since. Easy enough, no?

The second path way leads to the study of man, his physical, cultural, institutional and political evolution. Again, simple enough, it is a matter of a little bit of history, nothing more.

On the third path, once the physical and historical world is understood, then we are almost immediately emancipated, already giving an individual some meaning to life possible from acquiring only a basic and complete knowledge of the planet we live on.

The fourth path is that of salvation, which is achieved, and only done so, with proper effort from one’s brain, the dominant muscle of the body, because no one, if he wants to be a worthy son of the universe and a worthy citizen of the planet, can live and die with someone else’s contrived truth.

The fifth and final path, is the art of living. The art of living is the point where you have arrived, and life is nothing if not art, so enjoy it my dear reader. Life, that amazing, wondrous thing!

Translated from the Italian by franc sgambelluri, canadian

Italian author looks for English publisher

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Dec 192011

I am Francis. I was born in 1942 in South Italy. At nine I started to work. At sixteen I left South Italy. From sixteen to thirty I worked and studied. At thirty I found my first decent job: I was employed as a guide in a travelling agency in Paris. From then on my life changed; from then on my life was my “life”.

In Melbourne, Australia, in the Seventies, I opened a school: European school of languages. Towards the end of the Seventies, I sold it.

Again travelling and studying. I’ve got three diploms, two from universities and one from a college. I wrote four novels, three collections of short stories, Orazio Guglielmini’s will: four books, and an essay: For a perennial philosophy. Actually I hold a course in the “art of living” at the University of Biella.

I am looking for a publisher.