Black hat and checked scarf, gloves with half fingers uncovered: How are you?
FabioFazio asks him on Che tempo che fa and it seems like the most difficult question.
''The most honest answer is I'm fine, on the other hand I wouldn't be here.
Then I'm someone who spent the summer in a hospital in San Raffele, you leave behind beautiful pieces of yourself.
When you leave you have pieces to recover, you're uphill.
I had to brush my teeth and I was so weak that I couldn't do it except by moving my head, and I wondered if I would ever get out.
I'm doing great now.
It's a long road that I haven't finished yet, there's a relentless slowness."
Alessandro Baricco says this on his first television appearance after the long illness that forced him to leave the scene which he announced on social media.
While he tonight reveals that he got married in December.
''He is the master, it is the body, how many beautiful and ugly things he tells in life.
Panic attacks, which is a genius body thing.
You don't want to tell yourself that you're not good in the world and he tells you that''.
With my body ''we experienced crazy moments together''.
Why the choice to communicate the illness on social media?
''It was a practical choice, you have to say that you're not well and they have to understand it.
Social media wasn't there before.
This happened to me twice, and it was very helpful.
I discovered that there are a lot of people who love me.
That wave of true affection.
He had given meaning to their lives and they were missing a teacher with whom they had an intimacy.
I had an unpleasant past, I wasn't used to the world loving me.
It was a powerful experience.
The fact that the illnesses of celebrities have become delicious news leaves me a little dumbfounded.
There a vicious circle began, too many people tell details, it generates a fear effect.
I don't know if we're giving the right message.
My disease is an anomaly, one in a hundred thousand gets it.
Keep calm''.
Fear?
''We sell it a lot, and that's one of the things we get wrong.
Fear has to do with desire, you stop desiring and start being afraid.
It is desire that destroys fear."
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