Journal of a Lockdown, 12 April 2020

Piazza d’Italia con cavallo by Giorgio de Chirico, who lived through the Spanish flu pandemic Traditionally Black Saturday is the scariest day in the Catholic calendar—adults shushing children by saying “Patay ang Diyos!” (“God is dead,” and they weren’t quoting Voltaire). On this bleak day I figured I might as well have that dark night […]