I’m not happy to hear about that hammering but honestly, it is a wonderful reminder that anything, even something as annoying (and mysterious) as non-stop hammering, can serve to crystallize and even deepen what we think and write about. No hammering here but I will be thinking about your ideas for actions while I’m on my daily walk around a city where there are reminders every day that poverty is everywhere.
I love how you connect Ferrante's novels to what's happening in your own town and our current world. I have watched Episode One, and I do like the new casting. I read the novels all in one gulp some years ago now, so I am hoping that distance will keep the watching experience fresh. The reading experience was so immersive, but there's nothing quite like seeing the locations—so much crushing poverty and an immovable patriarchy. If you watch the series The Lying Life of Adults, you see the same city of Naples in the 1980s where not enough has really changed. Women's spirits still be crushed. My Italian tutor tells me that Naples is still a very different world from Rome and further north.
I could listen to you all day. :)
I’m not happy to hear about that hammering but honestly, it is a wonderful reminder that anything, even something as annoying (and mysterious) as non-stop hammering, can serve to crystallize and even deepen what we think and write about. No hammering here but I will be thinking about your ideas for actions while I’m on my daily walk around a city where there are reminders every day that poverty is everywhere.
I love how you connect Ferrante's novels to what's happening in your own town and our current world. I have watched Episode One, and I do like the new casting. I read the novels all in one gulp some years ago now, so I am hoping that distance will keep the watching experience fresh. The reading experience was so immersive, but there's nothing quite like seeing the locations—so much crushing poverty and an immovable patriarchy. If you watch the series The Lying Life of Adults, you see the same city of Naples in the 1980s where not enough has really changed. Women's spirits still be crushed. My Italian tutor tells me that Naples is still a very different world from Rome and further north.
Thank you for this stack and it’s so good to see your writing on Sunday morning again