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« Reply #90 on: 10:26:24, 08-10-2008 » |
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There were a number of men in that entry who had similar tattoos, and I was close to one during the prize giving at the end. It looked as though it had been inked on and they were all the same sort of shape.
But I wasn't complaining.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #91 on: 10:55:29, 08-10-2008 » |
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I feel more than usual that I am missing out by viewing this thread at work, where the pictures are blocked ....  |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #92 on: 13:49:43, 08-10-2008 » |
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I can't help thinking that Ulysses looks as if he is rather enjoying being tied up, half-naked, at the mercy of all those sirens. I shall, forever, be writing and re-writing the rest of the story in my head... |
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #93 on: 13:57:11, 08-10-2008 » |
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He was certainly camping it up like crazy fully entering into the spirit of the thing, kitty.
And down at the YMCA, too.
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« Reply #94 on: 13:57:52, 08-10-2008 » |
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Shouldn't all this be on the Ulysses thread?
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #95 on: 14:01:41, 08-10-2008 » |
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Shouldn't all this be on the Ulysses thread?
I think it says a lot more about early C21 provincial Italy than it does about early C20 Dublin |
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« Reply #96 on: 14:03:51, 08-10-2008 » |
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I can't help thinking that Ulysses looks as if he is rather enjoying being tied up, half-naked, at the mercy of all those sirens. I shall, forever, be writing and re-writing the rest of the story in my head... Isn't this a picture from the Little Mermaid section from the Main Street Parade on Disneyland's Gay Day?  |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #97 on: 14:40:48, 08-10-2008 » |
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Shouldn't all this be on the Ulysses thread?
I think it says a lot more about early C21 provincial Italy than it does about early C20 Dublin But the comparisons are surely instructive. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #98 on: 15:14:03, 09-10-2008 » |
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And throughout the procession, people were coming along offering the audience samples of grapes or wine in plastic cups from a jug |
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« Reply #99 on: 13:14:27, 10-10-2008 » |
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And to bring this to a close, as the procession itself did, there was Il complesso bandistico e majorettes Ezzelino da Romano. Here are the majorettes   I have never seen drum majorettes before or realised the extensive amount of adolescent tanned feamale flesh their outfits can reveal. I expect American majorettes would have been a year or so older, and appeared amazingly wholesome. By comparison these girls were probably on average 15. And I somehow sensed they were subtly sending the whole thing up. But I feel that about a lot of Italian life. |
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« Reply #100 on: 13:21:40, 10-10-2008 » |
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The other stereotypically Italian thing about the majorettes were that the pictures above show them with immense style, flair and panache, but almost no group coordination. Finally came the band. I thought of brassbandmaestro as I took this last picture  That's all from me. |
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« Reply #101 on: 13:28:26, 10-10-2008 » |
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Don Basilio, have I missed them or are you not going to post any pictures of Italian Churches?
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #102 on: 13:34:59, 10-10-2008 » |
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It was the German churches that were stunning, and I've put both the gems here. I'll put a few on the Churches thread in due course.
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« Reply #103 on: 15:55:00, 10-10-2008 » |
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The other stereotypically Italian thing about the majorettes were that the pictures above show them with immense style, flair and panache, but almost no group coordination. Hahaha. Quite true!! Don't tell time 2! (He was furious at The Minotaur about the ROH chorus's lack of coordination.) |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #104 on: 16:01:47, 10-10-2008 » |
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When in Rome a few years ago, we happened on the Italian version of the changing of the guard at the president's palace. The Italian Marines did rather seem to flounce rather than march. And we were rather amused by the clarinetist in the miltary band that was to play for the ceremony. Whislt waiting around beforehand he was stood there with clarinet in one hand, cigarette in the other, sunglasses perched on the top of his head, stood next to his officer, who wasn't batting an eyelid.
There was also random bloke in street asking question of fmale police officer who finished off by walking for some distance down the street arm-in-arm with her - couldn't quite see a British bobby going along with that somehow.
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