"So I spread my wings to fly more and more daring works towards the desired goal, but the harsh reality was soon to pull me down to earth. For me home to study, my father had spent all his little ways: it was right that I began to think of myself. I will not say of moral anguish suffered by me at that time. An attempt to become an assistant at the Observatory of Torino (then occupied by only plana, vecchiocadente) was immediately dismissed. The same happened in other similar attempts to enter, somehow, in the University; The seats were all occupied. I felt in myself that I could not succeed as an engineer nor an architect nor practical, nor as a businessman: I fell into a black melancholy and began to doubt myself. "
by: GV Schiaparelli autobiographical letter to Onorato Roux, 1910
Credits: Library of the Observatory. Image Credits
: Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA), Y. Chu (UIUC) et al. NASA - APOD from the July 4, 2003 .
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