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I noticed last night walking home from the university that the roasted chestnut sellers are back out on the streets… despite the fact that it’s still very warm in Palermo (28° yesterday).
I know it’s October, but I don’t think they have taken the effects of climate change into account!
Do you have chestnut sellers in the street where you live? What time of year,if so?
As my mom asked for some light reading, I managed to get her a copy of one of my all time favorites, “Don Camillo and Peppone” by Giovannino Guareschi. These are a series of books (which consist of short stories) about the hotheaded small village priest Don Camillo Tarocci and his frenemy, communist town mayor Giuseppe Bottazzi (Peppone). Although they fight and bicker like an old married couple, they both have the best interests of the town people in mind, and one can see that they secretly admire one another. Their dynamic is one of my favorites: rivals who take one another very seriously and will fight about everything, but when it really matters, and if one is in trouble, the other is always there for him. The books were very popular in Italy (maybe Luca knows them) but I am not sure if they are popular elsewhere. They haven’t been printed in Turkey in years. I highly recommend them.
When I read it years ago, I enjoyed this book a lot. I reread a bit of it yesterday, and I think I ship Camillo and Peppone a little. I have been reading too much fanfic maybe, lol. But the tension is so palpable.
Do you have any favorite dynamics between fictional characters? Any examples?
I’ve always been a night owl, that’s true, but now I have to pace myself. As a result of staying at home, I got into the habit of going to bed at 2 a.m. at the earliest, but now that university classes have started again, I have to impose a more normal schedule on myself, since I have to get up at 7.30 a.m., which is not easy for me.
Coworker of mine was on a trip to the U.S and brought back a massive bag of Halloween chocolates that include the following.
* Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
* Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins (basically the above but shaped like a pumpkin)
* KitKats
* Hershey’s chocolate bar
* Rolo
* Whoppers
2 days later:
* Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups : All gone. I thought Europeans don’t like peanut butter.
* Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins (basically the above but shaped like a pumpkin) : All gone. I thought Europeans don’t like peanut butter.
* KitKats : About 80% gone.
* Hershey’s chocolates : About 90% gone. I thought Europeans complained that it tastes like vomit.
* Rolo : About 60% gone. This is interesting because I love Rolo and thought it’d be a hit.
* Whoppers : About 10% gone. I guess people don’t like these at all.
The temperatures here have dropped enough that it’s again the season for my favourite game “Is the laundry still humid or is it just cold?”.
Recently I found out that something I do to check, which is to press it against my lips, is a really common thing people do, and it always tickles me when our monkey brains somehow converge and we find similar answers to our problems. Humans are so cute.
A while ago I was reading this book called The Structure of Atonal Music, which explains musical set theory. It’s used to analyse atonal or really serial music, and it’s quite similar to set theory in mathematics. In other words, that shit was super math heavy. And I got lubenter approbatur from maths in school…
Now I’m reading this work that tries to establish some theory to spectral music, and tadaa, it’s just more mathematics. And I thought post-modernism was supposed to be the rejection of modernism. Luckily it’s a lot simpler mathematics compared to set theory. And I feel like there is more in common with more ”traditional” music theory too.
I hope I’m around to see where music moves to next. I’ve become almost obsessed about the idea of the concept of art expanding. If you look through the history of art you see those moments, those propositions, that changed what art is. The dream is to make such a proposition, but it would be nice to just witness it too. I’m not sure I have yet.