E poi io non ho mica l’ironia di Effe, la cultura di Gonio o di Gilgamesh, la leggerezza di Mitì, l’acutezza di X§ (e mo’ basta, che se faccio l’elenco di tutte le qualità che mi mancano, facciamo notte ed entro in depressione).

In una apposita terrina, avrete lasciato a macerare la vostra “inezia” nei buoni sentimenti (o, a piacere, nel cinismo), e siete quindi pronti ad incorporarla nel com-post-o appena preparato.

Nel frattempo, il vostro blog avrà raggiunto la temperatura adatta, e siete pronti ad inserire il post. Aprite con cura la finestra di inserimento, copiate il testo, inviate e…

Il post è pronto ad essere consumato (e/o commentato).

Fin qui la ricetta, e va bene.

Ma... visto che gli ingredienti non li ho, io... che faccio?

Stamattina ho letto un post di sphera che partiva con una premessa: l’ammissione di essere miope.

Sono miope anch’io… tanto che qualcuno, dopo aver saputo quante diottrie mi mancano, ha concluso dicendo che, più che un riccio, sono una “talpa corazzata”.
Evvabbè.
Gli occhiali mi accompagnano da quando avevo nove anni, ma per fortuna dai 18 anni in poi la miopia ha smesso di aumentare, e le diottrie rimangono costanti. Con l’età, anzi, questo dovrebbe essermi d’aiuto, compensando l’inevitabile presbiopia senile.

In realtà le letture mattutine – a questa si è affiancato un racconto di Effe – mi hanno fatto pensare a quante volte il nostro sguardo vaga su cose e persone senza in realtà vederle.

Chi mi conosce sa quanto io tenga al “segreto della volpe” nel Piccolo Principe: “Non si vede bene che col cuore, l’essenziale è invisibile agli occhi”.

E spesso i nostri occhi sono ciechi, o forniti di adeguati (e a noi invisibili) paraocchi che delimitano la visione più di un paio di occhiali.
Perché in fondo gli occhiali non impediscono la visione al di fuori del fuoco, ma ci consentono un quadro più netto solo di piccole porzioni di realtà alla volta. Le altre, a seconda del disturbo alla vista, rimangono sfocate o addirittura sdoppiate, e a poco a poco l’occhio si abitua a non superare i “limiti”, anche se niente lo impedisce.
Si abitua a tutto, l’occhio, anche a leggere di volata pezzi di parole per il suo intero (ricorderete tutti la famosa mail dello “studio di Cambridge” dove solo l’inizio e la fine delle parole era corretta, ma l’occhio mandava al cervello la giusta informazione). Non fa domande, non dubita – se non in rarissimi casi – di ciò che vede.

Ma vede realmente?

Proprio così, un vede  corsivo, che va al di là dello sguardo casuale, che va nel profondo dell’oggetto visto, si sofferma, ne segue i contorni e lo identifica.
No, spesso ci limitiamo a vedere solo ciò che non ci disturba, lasciando ai margini del nostro sguardo, come un elemento del paesaggio o uno sfondo, il resto.
Accade più spesso di quanto pensiamo, e finiamo con lasciare nelle visioni marginali buona parte della realtà che ci circonda, come fosse “altro” da noi, mentre contribuiamo a crearla

Di questo (ma non solo) si parla nel racconto  che fa parte della monografia “Margini” su sacripante! n.5. La stessa impressione (occhi che svicolano, mani che non toccano. E sorrisi che non trovano compagnia) ho tratto dalla lettura di un racconto  di Shemale.

“C’è tutto un mondo intorno” (e non sono solo le parole di una canzone) di cui non ci rendiamo conto, che ci passa accanto senza che ne siamo consapevoli, sia che questa mancanza di attenzione sia voluta, sia che, invece, sia una semplice abitudine a uno sguardo ristretto.

Eppure… ci sarebbero molte cose da dire.
Però, quando sono tornata a leggere il post di Sphera per prenderne il link, tra i commenti ho trovato questo, che mi sembra una buona base di partenza:
ma se è proprio ai margini che si nascondono le verità.
Non per niente le cose vere le si può cogliere solo di sottecchi, come di sfuggita, in un angolo della nostra vita e della visuale; se giriamo sguardo e volto nella loro direzione, non si vedono già più. (Effe)

E quindi… non fare, forse, dei vecchi margini un nuovo centro, ma spingere lo sguardo fuori dai “soliti  occhiali”.
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