le penne altrui

May 8th 2008 / Now, 15 years after the rehabilitation began, it is very obvious that Mussolini's mystique still survives. You can buy endless magazines about him in the little newsagent-boutiques. In Predappio, his home town, there is a cottage industry selling Mussolini busts and fascist paraphernalia. The mausoleum there is a place of pilgrimage and there is always a queue of pilgrims. The graffiti adorning the walls of many Italian cities will be a Celtic (encircled) cross, the contemporary equivalent of the swastika. The new mayor of Rome allegedly wears one around his neck. // taken from Tobias Jones on the implications of Silvio Berlusconi's return to power | World news | The Guardian / it was one of the phrases