And our immemorial rites are in Time what the dwelling is in Space. For it is well that the years should not seem to wear us away and disperse us like a handful of sand; rather they should fulfill us. It is meet that Time should be a building-up.
via: Vasco Brondi, Una cosa spirituale (Einaudi, 2025), chapter Ritualità
Info & reflection: ritual as the architecture of time. It turns the flow into a building.
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- Una cosa spirituale. Non fare niente, altre forme d'arte — In the Ritualità chapter Brondi uses Saint-Exupéry: rites build time the way a house builds space, against the model of the machine that is always on