Il Sistema Periodico Primo Levi -

Here’s a post for you, inspired by Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table .

One of the most heartbreaking lines comes from the story Cerium (about making lighters in the camp to trade for bread): “I am a centaur, a hybrid of two species: one is flesh and blood, the other is matter and spirit.” Because Levi shows that science and humanity are not opposites. That understanding matter is a way of understanding suffering. That the elements don’t judge—they simply are , and so must we. il sistema periodico primo levi

“It is the job of the young to break old taboos, and of the old to put them back together.” Here’s a post for you, inspired by Primo