Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

To be converted you have to destroy your past destroy your history. You have to stamp on it you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist it doesn't matter.'

Rome - the city of visible history where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Recently I was in Bernalda my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.