A Quantum Diaries Survivor

I am lying in my bed right now, typing a few words on my laptop before taking a nap. It’s been a very stressful couple of days.

Besides dealing with organizational issues concerning the civil ceremony we had today to commemorate my father, yesterday was spent correcting Mia’s thesis, which she had to deliver today. I went to bed at 2AM last night because of that… Feeling guilty for not staying up for a while longer, while Mia was still working after 48 hours awake.

Today I woke up early. I left for S.Michele, where my father was kept, to give him a last salute. Then the grave was closed, and we left for Ca’ Foscari, the main building of the Venice university. There, we had a long ceremony. Very nice words were spent by the Major of Venice, Massimo Cacciari, who happens to be a man of culture (professor of Aesthetics at the IUAV) and a friend of my father. There followed a salute from Paolo Puppa, director of the department of letters. Finally, a former collaborator of my father and now professor of modern history, Mario Isnenghi, gave a long and thoughtful speech on the early years of my father as a journalist and a catholic thinking with his own brain, something that caused a schism from the italian church in the sixties.

We buried Wladimiro at noon, back in the island of S.Michele. After that, we had a very pleasant lunch with Wladimiro’s best friend, Raffaele Levorato. Now, I just need to sleep. Tonight, Italy is playing Germany for the soccer world cup… I do not care much, but I will have guests at my home to watch the game…