“I am a force of the Past. Only in tradition is my love”, the words spoken by Orson Welles in Ricotta, are very possibly Pasolini’s most oft-quoted line, yet a few verses later in the same Poetry in the Shape of a Rose he also proclaims himself to be “more modern than any modern person”. This is but one of the many antinomies (or “synecoses” as his friend-cum-foe Fortini called them) embodied in Pasolini’s work, but it is the one that we need to question most deeply if we truly wish to try to get to know that work above and beyond the legend embodied by its author. We may discover that aside from all prophetic mythology, there is  at least as much “future” as there is “past” in the work. That is why it still speaks to us to this day.

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