439> Viconcrete poetree + seedy arkhives «not books but 3D spaces where any sensorial experience finds a suitable abode» | |
25 June | from Monte Verità drove us along lago maggiore molto traffico coming against us try to find autostrada can see it overhead but as usual nowhere to axess sines lead u in circuls hit traffick in Milano il pezzo of driving between Bologna + Firenze = hell on wheels stopped in Orvieto for lunch w/ a vista of the striped cathedral: > decided to enter Rome from the SE come sempre that adage about all roads lead to Rome totally bullshit stopped @ the parco acquedotto which in 3 years in Rome never saw just never got around to it diffrent perspectiv when u have a car @ yur disposal > checked into hotel Prisca @ base of Aventino (where dwells Romulus's nemesis Remus) ran along Tiber south (route #3)(north chocked full of trashy summer beer tents) ate in Testaccio all the hip places booked but the lowkey places better comunque cacio e pepe e ciccoria e buffalo mozz mmmmm 26 June > still probly spent more time this yr so far in Rome than «home» in NYC when last we here we thawt purhaps the last time @ least for a while now 2 months later pretty certin oggi è nostro ultimo giorno a Roma so did a little giro around visiting old haunts grnds where we stomped even found a few stradas never had we travelled down from where we sleep up the Aventino to Santa Sabina + down to Circo Massimo had coffee @ FAO where our better-½ had a meeting so continued us solo on up to Chiesa di San Gregorio al Celio thru Villa Celimontana to S Stefano Rotondo (some new how to kill xtians murals since last we went now restored) oh + just me + sum strange experimental singer messing around w/ echo machines (good acoustics) we presume for a wedding seems a popular place to have them (last time we visited the bride + groom + their entourage showed up on Harleys) sorta morbid backdrop no? > then over to Domus Aurea (witch still we havent seen inside but only open sat/sun) past the Quirinale (overheard 1 tourist telling another that the pope slept there didnt have the heart to correct them) thru the Spanish Steps area but skipping the major monuments thru piazza Popolo stopped @ Ara Pacis to see wat xhibit ma niente in particolare tho 100s of Ferraris parked out front staging for sum sort of takeover of Roman streets > then looped home along the river stopped for another capuccino in 1 of our faves Bar Peru then said ciao to Giordano Bruno (whose name seems to pop in everything we read lately) in Campo d'Fiori then across Ponte Sisto thru Trastevere visto our old produce vendor Bruno @ the marketo we used to fare spesa @ most every day for 3 yrs the same sanpietrini inklings of nostalgia starting to form ma forse not enough time has passed ± the more places u go the less nostalgia u feel cuz every 1 blends into 1 another also stopped in Chiesa di San Francesco a Ripa to see the ecstatic beatification of Ludovica Albertoni then back across thru Testaccio had cacio e pepe at Felice J came back + then we walked up to Monte Verde had apperitivos at our old friends then ate sea urchin spaghetti @ Gensola even stopped @ our other fave place Da Teo see other friends another last hoorah this the final 1 for real this time? 27 June> last run in Rome @ least for a while up Aventino nod to Remus down around Circo Massimo across Isola Tiberina nodding again to where Romulus + Remus became born/found floating + suckled to life by she-wolf down along the Tiber + back to Testaccio picked up better-½ @ FAO hit the road bumper to bumper traffic getting out of Rome cuz of sum Roman holiday what shd've taken 1 hour took 3 after that fast along the coast this time then inland at Parma to Milan in time for dinner in Rho actually town/suburb NW of Milan 28 June> Rho > woke up worked out took train to the World Expo Milan this year 2015 focused on food rite up our better-½'s alley seduti in fila for over an hour waiting to go in all to wait in more lines to get into each pavilion organized by country went strait to Japan but line già 1:20 long standing in hot sole all so stupido hit us sum of the smaller xhibits w/o filas no 1 gives a shit about Africa ± countries che non hanno abbastanza money to build fancy structures w/ gimmicky flair + bells + whistles every1 missing the whole pt to educate ppl about food ate sum decent Jordanian then bad + expensive Mexican (after waiting in line only to aspettare in subsequent holding areas looking at dumb vids) all of it seeming like promotional travel videos for the country w/ a slight emphasis on the cuisine sumtimes not even if u want to summarize the experience as a whole felt like travelling to every country in nel mondo going no further than the airport giftshops w/ all the cliché kitschy knickknacks di quel paese on display architected all fancy but makeshifty (what the hell they gonna do w/ all this stuff afterwords? cazzo rifiuti) + even worse surrounded by annoying + pushy Italian famiglies w/ bratty kids really no reason to leave home u cd have a website dear Inurnet that contains all this info + snazzy multimedia displays w/o having all these idiot humanos to interact with next world fair shd take place online tho the meatspace awe of the UN pavilion 0 made it all worthwhile + no crowd (not gimmicky enough ± ppl dont gives a shit about UN/feeding the planet just free takeaways) u walk into this massive archival library sort of façade w/ all these drawers like a giant seedbank symbolizing a repository of knowledge thawt cool they emphasized that + intresting movies about typical life goatherds + whatnot > worth quoting the description of the above Delminian archive that of corse no 1 bothers to read:
> trained back to Rho came across sum sort of street performance fair tightrope walkers + peepole on stilts + fire-breathing dragons all sorts of unexpected strangeness 29 June > Malpensa airport > woke up early returned car ridiculous double-security thanks to US homeland security + of corse we get singled out cuz we travel so lite they think we terrorists cuz we dont check bags just a little daypack now sitting in lounge w/ US waterpolo team bunch of blonde cornfed Neanderthals knuckles hanging to the ground «do they have flies here?» 1 asks «just nuke everything in the microwave» says another + overheard another saying in regards to the airport security «the Swiss really know how to do their shit» ummm wrong country we in Italy + the flight read Vico (see below) + watched Ex Machina (silly + contrived) + going thru US customs get flagged again «that's all u brought?» they aks over + over guess it dont help that we wear a commie hat got rerouted follow the yellow line to holding area not as evasive as that inquisition in Dublin when they held up our connecting plane an hour on our account but still further interrogated by homeland security why does this keep happening to us we have global entry even if they kept tabs on us they'd know we travel a lot as harmless peaceful creatures of this planet but hey @ least the day b4 supreme court voted 5-4 proud to = American + married @ least for a day now back stateside for the rest of the summer > cont reading New Science by Giambattista Vico on the plane the book that informed the 4-ply framework for Finnegans Wake tho actually Vico gives 3 reoccurring cycles to civilizations (that he in turn derived from Egyptians or maybe the Greeks) 1. divine 2. heroic 3. human mostly he talks about Greeks + Romans (himself from Naples) but also Jews pagans Egyptians etc a guidebook w/ everything u need to know about the human condition talks a lot about auguring + Romulus + Remus + tutto riguarda sempre nel ruolo del linguaggio the clues etymology gives us how language evolves w/ each stage (1. mute ± wordless ± hieroglyphic 2. heroic (poetic) symbolic language (using similes metaphors images descriptions of nature etc) 3. human civilized or epistolary language mostly what we forced to read now agreed upon grammar + conventions for defining laws + science + the bizness of everyday life also parla di giants (barbarians) + the flood (the «starting points of Greek history» all presented in a series of #ed axioms come questo:
> tho in Italian of corso (we reading lazily in traduzione unlike Joyce who we imagine lo leggere in originale) intresting tho to read in Italy + when reading about the savage big footed giants surrounded by huge US waterpolo jocks (+ us wearing our «I EXIST» yeti shirt) strangely these savage giants descended from Noah in a sorta reverse evolution (as a consequence of abandoning family structure) to Africa Asia + Middle East stead of converging other way around altro axiom struck a cord w/ us:
> like wierd that we say «ears of corn» rite? also this axiom:
> drilling down all sorts of intresting eatmelogical anticdotes whats in a nome? name itself = nature = definition = 1s right to something (in Roman law) = law (to the Greeks) always thawt it strange leggere = to read in Italian + legge = law + his bit about verbs fascinating:
> + also how word order inverting (qualcosa che xperimentato w/ in The Becoming + ancora now in A Raft Manifest) like how Native Americans + Germans roll arose cuz of difficulty of completing sentences like better to dice «home we go» backwordass rather than «we go home» shd put destination 1° no? wat makes cense to us tho Vico thinks the Greeks clever cuz they didnt invert noun-verb order Romans sumwhere between Greeks + Germans
> this = as far as we got roughly ½-way
+ now home sweet home |
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