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Martino Lupini & Marvin LogiCorgi
Tragicomedy is a comedy project by:
the corgi Marvin
President of LogiBo (Logic in Bologna)
Instagrammer @logi_corgi
Youtuber @LogiCorgi
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the mathematician Martino Lupini
Marvin's social media manager
Mental Disease Advocate
Member Honoris Causa of Neuro Logic
the Association of Neurodivergent Logicians
Tutti si voltarono a guardar Franti.
E quell’infame sorrise.
Anyone who laughs is wicked only in the eyes of those who believe in what is being laughed at.
But to laugh—and to give laughter its full force—the person laughing must accept and believe, if only parenthetically, in what they are laughing at; they must laugh from within, so to speak, otherwise their laughter has no value.
Laughing at the moustache curler today is child’s play; laugh at the custom of shaving, and then we’ll talk.
Whoever laughs must therefore be the child of a particular situation, accepting it completely, almost loving it, and then, like a mischievous child, thumbing their nose at it
Umberto Eco, Elogio di Franti
Set against the existence of these Social Conventions stands the Nonconformist. The true Nonconformist is the one who exposes the Social Conventions for what they are—for their hypocrisy.
Without intending to, the book Cuore offers us a model of nonconformity in Franti: the Naughty Boy.
“Franti is afraid of nothing; he laughs in the Teacher’s face, steals whenever he can, denies everything with a blank, glazed expression, is always quarreling with someone, brings large pins to school to prick the children sitting next to him, tears the buttons off his own jacket, and tears them off other children’s clothes as well.”
He tries to perform exemplary acts that will challenge this School, where he has already been condemned from the outset as a Naughty Boy. There can therefore be no salvation for him:
“Franti hates school, hates his classmates, hates the teacher. The teacher sometimes pretends not to notice his mischief, and Franti behaves even worse; he tried treating him kindly, and Franti mocked him; he said terrible things to him, and Franti covered his face as though he were crying—AND HE WAS LAUGHING.”
Naturally, Franti—and, more generally, anyone who does not conform to society—is punished. And so is Franti: they stage a sham trial against him, in which Enrico’s sister comes home and says that she has witnessed something horrible and is still frightened by it. What happened? It eventually emerges that Franti pulled the braids of Stardi’s little sister—mere childish mischief.
The Headmaster expels him, claiming that he had a knife in his hand. But we later see the family and the neighborhood Franti came from: he lived in extreme poverty and was therefore constantly left to fend for himself in the streets. He is expelled, and then we are told that he will be sentenced to life imprisonment; halfway through the book, he even disappears altogether—he is eliminated.
Umberto Eco, "Babau" (1970)
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