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La Feltrinelli
Nov. 10th, 2011 09:52 amuses spray bottles for Balsamic Vinegar instead of the normal bottles. Like hairspray!
I had a dream last night. The big bad wolf gave me a tetris game, final level, and it wasn't just tetris - it was furniture. But the blocks appeared first as tetris and then turned into furniture. And then I played again and it was no longer furniture, it was words and sentences. Like a crossword. But halfway through I realized I was doing it wrong, because I had like a 48-square long tetris piece, and I suddenly realized that the original tetris piece was not one letter per square, it had one word or words per square. And then I said, "Oh no! I am doing it wrong!" to the person beside me, but when I went back I realized that I had already condensed it to be words per square, although I hadn't condensed it quite right... I had divided some compound word into two squares, and it was one square in the original. Twice I woke up and saw Kevin and the first time I didn't really understand who he was, and the third time I woke up and told him my dream.
Vatican City and the Sistine Chapel are amazing. I tried to take pictures, and then gave up. The pictures looked like all the pictures I had ever seen of Michelangelo's art, of which I've seen plenty. They were nothing special. We were in a place that could only be done justice by the naked eye.
In other news, I'm halfway through 1Q84. I'm on a utopia/dystopia binge, after my mini-Jane Austen fest of Emma and Pride and Prejudice. So far I've finished 1984, Brave New World, and only started this one out of vague interest in its connections to 1984, but now I can't put it down! Who would've thought I'd read so much more than I do at home, now that I'm in a country that speaks no English?
(I picked up on the 1Q84 pun - Senkyuu(Q)hachijuuyon instead of senkyuuhakuhachijuuyon - and it makes me sad that so many readers in this world will miss out on the untranslatable.)
I had a dream last night. The big bad wolf gave me a tetris game, final level, and it wasn't just tetris - it was furniture. But the blocks appeared first as tetris and then turned into furniture. And then I played again and it was no longer furniture, it was words and sentences. Like a crossword. But halfway through I realized I was doing it wrong, because I had like a 48-square long tetris piece, and I suddenly realized that the original tetris piece was not one letter per square, it had one word or words per square. And then I said, "Oh no! I am doing it wrong!" to the person beside me, but when I went back I realized that I had already condensed it to be words per square, although I hadn't condensed it quite right... I had divided some compound word into two squares, and it was one square in the original. Twice I woke up and saw Kevin and the first time I didn't really understand who he was, and the third time I woke up and told him my dream.
Vatican City and the Sistine Chapel are amazing. I tried to take pictures, and then gave up. The pictures looked like all the pictures I had ever seen of Michelangelo's art, of which I've seen plenty. They were nothing special. We were in a place that could only be done justice by the naked eye.
In other news, I'm halfway through 1Q84. I'm on a utopia/dystopia binge, after my mini-Jane Austen fest of Emma and Pride and Prejudice. So far I've finished 1984, Brave New World, and only started this one out of vague interest in its connections to 1984, but now I can't put it down! Who would've thought I'd read so much more than I do at home, now that I'm in a country that speaks no English?
(I picked up on the 1Q84 pun - Senkyuu(Q)hachijuuyon instead of senkyuuhakuhachijuuyon - and it makes me sad that so many readers in this world will miss out on the untranslatable.)
