Il 'filo' del destino: una prospettiva ermeneutica

Two mythical tales deal with the spinning: the Er's story (Plato, Republic book X) and the vicissitudes of Theseus and Ariadne (Plutarch, Ovid, Catullus). In Plato the spinning represents the activity of the Fates and the yarn is the life; it is remarkable the necessity operating in every life (i.e. yarn). The universe is an immense spindle and the yarn depends from its circular movement. Obviously the texture itself depends from the yarn, in a connection similar to that we can recover in the politics or in the mechanism of language, too. Like a yarn, the logical necessity implacably conducts us from the premises of a syllogism to the inevitable conclusion. During his life, the man has a (logical?) yarn to follow, just like Theseus who can leave the labyrinth thanks to Ariadne's yarn. The woman turns the spindle, the woman helps the man researching the safety; but every event belongs to the fate and the interlacement of causes is what has been spun from the eternity. Nevertheless the man have to come back there where all began.