My digital talk story

Although the present volume is divided into separate stories, in the mind of the author, they are part of a single narrative, a story of the psyche, it might be called, and its everenewed relationship with the world.

The purpose of this narrative is also to bring out, among the many experiences that are here described, what seems beautiful, clear and desirable.

This way of writing aspires to a condition such as that presented by Henry James in his recently republished essay dedicated to the story of Kipling entitled Soldiers Three. According to the American writer, Kipling understands that his telling stories offer countless occasions, the opportunity to touch life in a thosand different places, each of which is an example and an illustration of it.

INDEX

- Introduction

- Block of East Asia

1. The city of Taipei
2. A different voltage
3. A passage to Jhiben
4. The Chinese characters for electricity and for the brain, were to be seen everywhere in Taipei
5. Landscape painting and digital painting

- American Block

1. The databases in the American high school
2. The computers in Paolo's classroom
3. Paninaro
4. The son's escape

- Block of the ancient printers

1. Printers
2. William Caxton
3. John Baskerville printed one of the best-known editions of Milton's Paradise Lost
4. William Blake: poet, painter, engraver, printer, bookseller, exhibitor
5. Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press
6. An extraordinary sequence of roads

Block of the Temple to Diana Email

1. Temple to Diana Email
2. To be able to publish
3. Drawing the logo of the snake
4. The lost iPhones
5. Faces
6. In conversation with Prof. Mary Wilkins
7. Translation
8. The errors of the compute and those of the algorithms
9. Better to write with a pencil
10. Terrible mistakes
11. The streched ligament
12. A thesis based on the analysis of one of Ha Jin's Novels
13. Santuccio and the "Promise of Turkey"
14. The inventor of the Mouse

Block of the literary texts

1. A blocked thirst for knowledge
2. Shakespeare's texts
3. The tomb of Edmund Shakespeare
4. Painter Titian Vecellio at the National Gallery
5. The Archives of Blake's poetry, O Rose thou art sick

Block of the missionaries

1. The book of the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher and the obstinacy of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci in China

Block of analytical mathematics

1. Dots instead of commas in analytical math

Block of Cornwall

1. The beach of Polperro
2. The wreck at the sailing boat race
3. Glastonbury Abbey
4. "East Coker"

Block of dreams

1. I am trying to digitize the dream of the night of September 11
2. Chronicle of Washington on the following day
3. Overall interpretation of the dream
4. Another dream
5. My Digital Talk Story is not a novel
6. The trunk of the pine tree cut in half

Block of the cities and places

1. Trieste
2. Oslo
3. Leiden
4. The island of Cyprus
5. My favourite places in Sardinia
6. Ardara, the capital of the Judjedom of Logudoro

Block of email corrispondence

1. Frecciargento (Silver Arrow)
2. "Little greeting" at Chiavari on August 2013

Block of VideoPoetry, Infographics and considerations on the latest iPhone5

1. VideoPoetry
2. Infographics: the map favored by Lincoln
3. Daniele, you ask me what I think of my latest iPhone5

Continuation of the Block of the cities and places

1. Lugano

Block of handouts

1. Parts of a trilingual Italian, English, Chinese handout, sent to my Italian Master students on October 11, 2013

Final chapter