IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES ...

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These are the opening lines of Charles Dickens's 'A Tale of two Cities', a novel set during the French and the Industrial revolution. They helped our students of 5A and 5B ginnasio to reflect upon the actual situation. This is the result:

It is the best of times, it is the worst of times;

It is the age of freedom, it is the age of confinement; 

It is the epoch of true, it is the epoch of fake;

We are living our spring of hope, we are living our winter of despair;

We have everything before us and we have nothing before us;

It is the period of ignorance, it is the period of good sense;

It is the season of strength, it is the season of weakness; 

It is the time of understanding, it is the time of rejection;

 It is the time of fullness, it is the time of emptiness; 

In short this is a period which everybody insists on its being received, 

for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

V A Ginn.

V B Ginn.