November 24, 2005

Roman Bodies

"Rome reminds me of a man who lives by exhibiting to travellers his grandmother's corpse." (James Joyce, as quoted by John Seabrook in an old New Yorker). As opposed to, say, an America -- or California -- that often seems hell-bent on living by being able to exhibit its grandchildrens' corpses...

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