There are dialogues, written in memorable books, that leave their mark on us and settle in our memory; mysteriously, they return to our thoughts like sparks from a fire.
In Leonardo Sciascia’s novel The Day of the Owl (Il giorno della civetta), the mafioso don Mariano Arena, addressing Captain Bellodi of the Carabinieri, says: “Truth is at the bottom of a well: you look into a well and see the sun or the moon; but if you throw yourself in, there is no longer sun or moon, there is the truth.”1
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