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Carriage Returner

~ Slow Travel, Quick Scripts

Carriage Returner

Monthly Archives: September 2018

There’s a Dog in That Shot, Trust Me

22 Saturday Sep 2018

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And a horse in the name of the movie house.
Yet what they screened last night was human,

All too human. Eating and drinking, even
Copulating and thieving: a full two hours.

A remarkable look at a rag-tag “family,”
None of whom (?) are related precisely.

Un Affare di Famiglia as translated here.
I have no idea what it is in giapponese.

There’s an app for that, it just dawns on me.
Manbiki kazoku, it seems, means relentlessly.

A far cry from “Shoplifters,” the English title.
Apt enough, so far as it goes, to cover the plot.

When it comes to the States, be sure to catch it.
Camera work alone will insure that you watch it.

A Hard Job to Fill

22 Saturday Sep 2018

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Weekends, I have learned, have earned a special place in the hearts of Spoletini.
So it is no wonder that Umberto is finding it hard to find Ginevra’s replacement.

To wait on all sixteen of the tables at Osteria del Trivio is really tough on a girl,
Especially when the place is open six days a week, all the party nights included.

Time will tell what, if anything, comes of the interviews Umberto so far has held.
But more and more with the way Italian youth look at life, it’s a hard job to fill.

Instead of Launching a Thousand Words

21 Friday Sep 2018

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Four Thousand Tons of Prosciutto

21 Friday Sep 2018

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Or somewhere there abouts, once you take into account the metric conversion
Along with the subtle difference in translation between “a fourth” and “fourfold.”
That’s what we almost carried home from the market before we received foreign
Aid from a kind Italian diplomat who kept downplaying his command of English.

A Dash Up the Hill by Jack and Jill

20 Thursday Sep 2018

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To fetch a pail of vino.
& don’t forget the olio.
When the rain fell down,
Their shoots wouldn’t open,
Leaving them both in a long
Long free fall just hoping.

All That Jazz This Morning

20 Thursday Sep 2018

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I missed the best part and also mis-framed the whole shot of the Corso.
Aside from that, it looks now as if I might have exceeded the file length.

So return to the title, a crucial element in the compound of my blog posts.
Imagine the sightline from a balcony, an iPhone video recording the sound.

Saving U the Spade Work

20 Thursday Sep 2018

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Our story begins in rubble. La Basilica di San Benedetto di Norcia was destroyed by a second set of earthquakes, after our fall trip in 2016. It held one fresco of note, the Resurrection of Lazarus (1560), painted by Michelangelo Carducci.

What’s been discovered, during the removal of the debris inside the building, is an earlier fresco, depicting an “Enthroned Madonna with Child and Angels,” that is apparently “of refined execution by a skilled, but as yet unidentified, artist.”

They are set to restore the work. Under the scientific direction of the Institute for Conservation and Restoration, the plan entails “a superficial cleaning of the fresco with [some] partial consolidation and painting of the pictorial surface.”

I am amazed to think it could be done, just as I am curious to learn more about the way that frescoes go lost in a building or the plaster crumbles away in bits, water its enemy I suppose. In any case, I here draw a line in the sands of time.

Homework

20 Thursday Sep 2018

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Especially when we’re not sitting outside, observing the people parade,
A copy of Corriere dell’Umbria or its attractive fellow in the tabloid trade

Will put us to work on our Italian lessons. Rebecca, more advanced than I am,
Need only use a pony for a word or two; whereas I put the piece on my iPhone.


Always after our parting, like today, I take it home to plod my way through it.
Tying sentence by sentence, most of them rather long, into Google Translate.

Apart from the virtual keyboard that amazingly escaped my attention hitherto,
I’m taken back to the Norcia-Castelluccio trip we arranged long ago with Carlo.

Sitting Still

20 Thursday Sep 2018

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Stay in the same spot,
Thoreau wisely wrote,
And each face of the town
Will show itself by turns.

An Acute Sense
Of Time and Place

Over and Over, The Thunder Rolls

19 Wednesday Sep 2018

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No one who stepped out at noon had any reason to expect the thunder roll.
Yet before we had returned from lunch the darkening sky had taken its toll.

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