“Naples is a very superstitious place. Southern Italians are very warm, honest
people, they distrust the north, the industrialists. And living in the
shadow of Vesuvius, the fact it could erupt any second while people seem to
build higher and higher up the mountain, they also have this attitude to life that’s ‘enjoy it while it
lasts’.
If it erupts, so be it. Enjoy what you’ve got.
They’re not
afraid of celebrating life and death and acknowledging it, like we are in
Britain. Where again, in order to subscribe to this happy lifestyle you can’t
really deal with death. Death is old people’s homes and funeral parlours,
wills and testaments. You can’t celebrate it, you can’t acknowledge it.
Whereas
in Italy it’s the opposite. It’s not tribal, but there’s more honour and
love and dignity with regard to getting old. It’s a more honest way of living.”
Robert Del Naja,
in Jack Magazine, while touring in Naples, Sept. 2003
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