You are “killing” an entire city with a thousand-year history. A murder of forgotten books where the blood is certainly there, even if you can’t see it. It is scattered in all the streets, in all of them. But do you realize that the transfer of the immense cultural heritage of the State Archives from Messina to Catania, even if defined as “temporary”, is a real scandal?
Any person who holds a public role in Messina, at all levels, has the duty to take an interest in a fundamental issue that cannot go unnoticed. There is no room for sloth if you really want to preserve the memory of a people, the people of Messina. That it exists – or at least we hope it exists, and certainly this story doesn’t prove it that much -, even if it was wounded and broken by the 1908 earthquake.
The affair of the Reading Cabinet, which we dealt with some time ago, another “container” of inestimable value with thousands of publications that risked being dispersed and dismembered, constitutes “overwhelming proof”. Of what? Of the fact that when we think about solving problems a solution is found, with the then rector Salvatore Cuzzocrea who came to the rescue and purchased the entire assets with the University. Corpus which will be exhibited as soon as possible, if we are not mistaken, in the splendid premises of the Bank of Italy.
And the equally classic “it doesn’t belong to me” that we hear repeated by someone in the secret rooms of politics and institutions, delegated to solve problems, not to leave them in a bain-marie, to let them settle, then no one will intervene, is not worth the classic damn. Then there is the interminable, incomparable silence of director Pistone, which is quite shocking. But we can still intervene. Don’t “kill” this city for the umpteenth time.
