http://www.italyisfalling.com and I'm riding it upside down Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:33:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Quel che tu vuoi dire in fine, dillo da principio. -- proverbio italiano I don't see very far across london. We roam the streets in a truck which I still have to learn to drive -- on that funny side of everything-- and they're always the same streets. They have plane trees, ... http://www.italyisfalling.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.italyisfalling.com%2Fi-dont-see-very-far-across%2F&seed_title=I+don%27t+see+very+far+across I popoli settentrionali meno caldi nelle illusioni, sono anche meno freddi nel disinganno. -- Giacomo Leopardi, Discorso sopra lo stato presente dei costumi degli Italiani I had that known feeling again this morning, same as yesterday. I woke up and wondered where I was, in which bed I was. I might be wrong ... http://www.italyisfalling.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.italyisfalling.com%2Fskies-of-a-day%2F&seed_title=skies+of+a+day La domanda è rosso fuoco e la risposta è blu. -- Paolo Conte Without any emotion I get the old Fiat truck out of the garden gates, thru the village and across hills and fields, down the slopes, up the slopes, in line at the stop and behind the tractor and on. ... http://www.italyisfalling.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.italyisfalling.com%2Fquadri-di-provincia-due%2F&seed_title=without+any+emotion The expanse of stones of the Nure is white under the sun. I squint and the young willows and poplars of the riverbed stretch out in the glow. That's where the valley gets narrower, and all the houses on the hills are there. I think that I am bored and ... http://www.italyisfalling.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.italyisfalling.com%2Fquadri-di-provincia-uno%2F&seed_title=the+expanse+of+stones You put on a bishop's robe and miter, he pondered, and walk around in that, and people bow and genuflect and like that, and try to kiss your ring, if not your ass, and pretty soon you're a bishop. So to speak. What is identity? he asked himself. Where does ... http://www.italyisfalling.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.italyisfalling.com%2Fsfiga-and-a-castle%2F&seed_title=sfiga+and+a+castle Once again I find myself staying in a residence hotel, this time in a small village that we can call Oil Bridge, some ten kilometers south of a city on the river Po we can call Pleasance. I have no evidence that the city is living up to its name, ... http://www.italyisfalling.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.italyisfalling.com%2Fi-got-blisters-on-me-fingers%2F&seed_title=I+got+blisters+on+me+fingers It's raining. At moments very hard and thundering. I look out on the terrace, all the creatures look healthy but they could do without the rain. Fallen flower petals draw light shapes on the terracotta tiles. Spraying sulfur yesterday was really useless I reckon. My new employer does not want ... http://www.italyisfalling.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.italyisfalling.com%2Frain-minus-job-plus-rant-equals-post%2F&seed_title=rain+minus+job+plus+rant+equals+post I have a feeling my heart is beating too fast or too hard. When I stop and take notice, I feel it right there pounding in my chest and I wait for the feeling to go away. I can't sleep very well. Too much imagination I guess. Like many italians ... http://www.italyisfalling.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.italyisfalling.com%2Fpromises-unkept%2F&seed_title=promises+unkept Akram takes us once again to his favourite places. We follow. What else there is to do? We are desperate for things to happen. I like it when we go to the café where Juda works. Juda’s a beautiful person to look at. I decided that her eyes are uncommonly ... http://www.italyisfalling.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.italyisfalling.com%2Fakram-takes-us-once-again%2F&seed_title=Akram+takes+us+once+again -- Boy I so wish they let us work tomorrow. -- Yeah, me too. I don’t think they will though. -- Why not? I mean. C’mon. -- They finally realized they needed our proposal yesterday. Now they have it. Who knows how long it can take before they fuck know what to do ... http://www.italyisfalling.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.italyisfalling.com%2Fconversation-of-two%2F&seed_title=conversation+of+two Every so often in the scorching night fireworks go off. It’s the third night this is happening. Faraway parties in the outskirts of the vast capital, where the big farms and the gardens of the elite are. Birthdays of daughters born in May. Celebrations of business deals. We’ve been in ... http://www.italyisfalling.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.italyisfalling.com%2Fevery-so-often-in-the-scorching-night%2F&seed_title=Every+so+often+in+the+scorching+night The smoke finally exhales from the cabin when we halt at the checkpoint. The guard emerges from the white and black shed, unarmed, exchanging salutes with the driver in the mute night, and we pull away, with the bright lights steady on. Our driver seems unresponsive to the pleading flashes ... http://www.italyisfalling.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.italyisfalling.com%2Fthe-shmari-is-then-an-old-friend%2F&seed_title=The+shmari+is+then+an+old+friend For trite the phrase might seem, I am writing it anyway --tonight in the hotel, last hours of unemployment -- the suq was like a dream, I thought I was imagining it, my fellow gardener in his twenties, never been souther than Bologna, eyes wide felt he was like in ... http://www.italyisfalling.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.italyisfalling.com%2F792%2F&seed_title=For+trite+the+phrase Lontano lontano oltre Milano oltre i gasometri oltre i manometri oltre i chilometri e i binari del tram Lontano lontano molto lontano oltre l'acqua corrente e l'elettricità -- Paolo Conte Actually, running water and electricity do exist here. Concrete, and sand and sea and pines and oleanders too. I saw two dromedaries tied to a fence just outside of the airport. ... http://www.italyisfalling.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.italyisfalling.com%2Ffrom-behind-the-ghibli-curtain%2F&seed_title=from+behind+the+ghibli+curtain You know how it is with me baby You know I just can't stand myself And it takes a whole lot of medicine darling for me to pretend that I'm somebody else. Joliet Jake Blues, Guilty From the terrace where I am standing I can see the whole beach... you can't tell from here but ... http://www.italyisfalling.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.italyisfalling.com%2Fof-unnamed-kings-and-lands-and-seas%2F&seed_title=of+unnamed+kings+and+lands+and+seas