Dal Bronx a Phoenix: LA LONTANANZA Di Nick Shay in Underworld DI DON DELILLO

Abstract

I've always been a country of one. There's a certain distance in my makeup, a measured separation like my old's man, I guess, that I've worked at times to reduce, or thought of working, or said the hell with it.

I like to tell my wife. I say to my wife. I tell her not to give up on me. I tell her there's an Italian word, or a Latin word, that explains everything. Then I tell her the word.

She says, What does this explain? And she answers, Nothing.

The word that explains nothing in this case is lontananza. Distance or remoteness, sure.