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About robhunt510

Writer, artist

Oh Venice, city of Angels

Posted on August 8, 2007 by robhunt510

Diesel jeans just in case you wondered, are Italian, the owner is from Padua. And is he not happy with the prices in Venice either “Mr Rosso (52), who comes from nearby Padua, said that they had enjoyed the orchestra … Continue reading →

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There are supposed to be pictures today

Posted on August 7, 2007 by robhunt510

but Padua’s cafes are tough. Perhaps all the nice abstract Paduas will come tomorrow with Giotto..and God via Dawkins My observations of Padua …”It hath five market places that are continually exceeding well furnished with manner of necessary things. Many … Continue reading →

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Stardust Memories

Posted on August 6, 2007 by robhunt510

Five hundred and sixteen years ago, at the same time that the University of Padua was enriched by the arrival to the Chair of Mathematics of one Galileo Galilei, a man who would be one of the most controversial and … Continue reading →

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At least Two Stories; One Man

Posted on August 6, 2007 by robhunt510

Ok: back to the get-go, shirt in sweat-mode. In the next dew days I’m going to try and define the Betwixt, and Tom’s modest contribution, in the context of Padua, Venice & Verona while I enter the serious tourist life … Continue reading →

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Betwixt Venice

Posted on August 1, 2007 by robhunt510

“This is a fabulous, extraordinary madhouse. Beams of light shoot down from Baroque ceilings on the masses of earnest morons flinging their money down the drain…” Noel Coward’s diaries, 1954 “I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a … Continue reading →

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Here we go, again: Betwixt Brown

Posted on August 1, 2007 by robhunt510

During a press conference in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, July 25, Slavisa Pesci, an Italian amateur scholar, claimed that the Da Vinci Last Supper contains, when we look hard enough, a composite picture of a figure clutching what appears to be … Continue reading →

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Travelling Lite

Posted on August 1, 2007 by robhunt510

I’m going to try and find the report, which doesn’t yet appear to be online. “The reputation of Britons abroad as hapless yobs has been confirmed in a report which exposes the number of holidaymakers who get into trouble overseas. … Continue reading →

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An interesting new forgetting from Croatian writer Dubravka Ugrei

Posted on July 31, 2007 by robhunt510

who believes: ‘the entire eastern European culture of the communist era’ has been forgotten according to NZZ online “The best part of this vibrant culture resulted from the rejection of communism, from critical thinking, from subversion. … Sadly, all that … Continue reading →

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L’ avventura

Posted on July 31, 2007 by robhunt510

Michelangelo Antonini died today aged 94. He was one of the greats of European cinema. I think his best work sat betwixt cinema and art. This is a short extract from one of his greatest: I hope it works a … Continue reading →

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Too much

Posted on July 31, 2007 by robhunt510

It is hard, this travel and thinking; uprooted means new experience, but new experience often leads to a realization of how little one knows, or can know – or discover without a library or a university, a circle of people … Continue reading →

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