Monthly Archives: June 2007

Betwixt technology?

Posted on June 19, 2007 by robhunt510

A vision of Venice to come perhaps? Oh, god. There I was saying technology could bring us together. This from the Sydney Morning Herald: “PICTURE this. You’re one of France’s best-known living conceptual artists. You are 51 and visiting Berlin. … Continue reading →

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The Discrete Charm of the Vercellese

Posted on June 19, 2007 by robhunt510

In Vercelli, a secret jewel of Lombardy, Ferrari is a quite good Renaissance painter and Casanova runs the hardware store. “You are like a land no one has ever mentioned before,” Pavese wrote of the place and from the first … Continue reading →

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Nobel Laureate on "Europe"

Posted on June 19, 2007 by robhunt510

From a new German-based magazine. I may be reaching for harsh words, but I feel no need to apologise. It is my conviction that the moment for gravity, in the most literal sense, has arrived. When there is a need … Continue reading →

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The Stereophonics do the Italian Job

Posted on June 19, 2007 by robhunt510

Oh, the joy of Repetitions

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Turin and three writers

Posted on June 19, 2007 by robhunt510

“We don’t remember days; we remember moments.” Notebooks of Ceare Pavese, (28.7.1940) Twenty years ago the chemist, memoirist, short story writer, novelist, essayist, Primo Levi committed suicide in Turin, the place of his birth. His account of the year he … Continue reading →

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Vercelli: Tom Finds the Fork

Posted on June 19, 2007 by robhunt510

Any town with newspaper cuttings of Hannah Arendt and James Bond in a shop window has to be good, and Vercelli is. “I rod from Sian at about foure of the clocke in the morning, the fourteenth day of June … Continue reading →

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Milan Fur update

Posted on June 18, 2007 by robhunt510

“Flights going in and coming out of Milan’s Linate airport were suspended for three hours Sunday so staff and volunteers could catch hares and rabbits, which have proliferated to such a degree that they’ve caused problems with takeoffs, landings and … Continue reading →

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Found on the Memory Stick

Posted on June 18, 2007 by robhunt510

I am in places where churches are full, such as Vercelli today: this was in Nevers. Perhaps it features in the next Dan Brown.

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Jewels e Jim

Posted on June 18, 2007 by robhunt510

The Associazione Culturale Azimut is about promoting new art; I stumble across its latest show, “The Joy of Repetition” in the Piazza de Città. In fact I am returning from a forlorn and ‘mournful’ visit to the ‘multi-ethnic’ hot spots … Continue reading →

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Turin

Posted on June 18, 2007 by robhunt510

Olympics 2006, but not a tourist mecca yet My observations of Turin. “I am sory I can speake so little of so flourishing and beautifull a citie. For during that little time that I was in the citie, I found … Continue reading →

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